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American Idol contestant to be booted tonight without singing a note

Jermaine Jones will reportedly get kicked off tonight’s (March 14) episode of “American Idol” before even singing a note, thanks to several warrants out for his arrest and violent crimes he allegedly hid from producers by giving a fake name to police.

Zap2it spoke with him yesterday (March 13) before an alleged on-camera confrontation about his covered-up crimes, and he sounded optimistic about his performance.

“I feel pretty good after last week. I’m thrilled with my song choice this week,” he tells us of the tune he picked, which falls in line with this week’s theme of ‘songs from the year you were born.’ “I think it really suits my voice better than any song I’ve sung thus far, so I’m feeling pretty good.

Jones gave no indication that he knew he’d be leaving the show, and seemed happy to perform on the Top 12 show. After the TMZ story broke, Jones tweeted on his official “Idol”-sanctioned Twitter account, “Awww I will no longer b on the show.” The tweet was quickly deleted — along with the entire account, giving credence to the story, although FOX has not commented on the matter.

I haven’t watched the show in years, but clearly things have devolved a bit since the days of Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood.

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Wealthy GOP voters like Mitt Romney best

Among individuals making more than $100,000, Mitt Romney regularly wins more votes than his competitors.  The wealthy really like Mitt Romney.  The less fortunate?  Not so much.

In Alabama, Romney took home 36% of top earners, which is 5 points more than Santorum, and 11 points more than Newt Gingrich.

The story was much the same in Mississippi, where the former Massachusetts governor won votes from 34% of individuals who reported incomes above $100,000. Santorum won among voters making between $50,000 and $100,000, while Gingrich had his best showing with those making less than $50,000.

The contrast is even more striking in states like Michigan and Ohio, where Romney did well enough to win the primaries.

In his home state of Michigan, Romney won 48% of primary voters making more than $100,000. Santorum was second with 34%.

In Georgia, where every candidate in the field was trounced by Gingrich, Romney still won among voters making more than $200,000 (Gingrich won when the limit was extended down to $100,000.)
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New Pew Poll shows Romney leading nationally but losing to Obama

A new Pew Research poll shows that Romney is, again, the favorite nationally among Republicans and GOP-leaning independents for the nomination, leading Rick Santorum 33 to 24 percent in a poll that was in the field through Sunday.

A month ago, Santorum and Romney were in a statistical tie, with the former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania slightly ahead.

However, a large percentage of voters surveyed by Pew, 59 percent, see Romney losing to President Obama.

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Jake Gyllenhaal in new music video by The Shoes

Very violent, but well made I think.

From Spinner.com:

The dark visual is half slasher sendup, half ‘American Psycho,’ (in fact, Bret Easton Ellis tweeted to say that he “really really likes” the video earlier today), a far cry from Gyllenhaal’s recent turn in ‘Prince of Persia,’ or his last video role, playing tennis with Joe Jonas in Vampire Weekend’s visual for ‘Giving Up the Gun.’

“Jake Gyllenhaal and I had been talking about working together on something, and I got sent ‘Time To Dance’ by The Shoes, who are my favorite band, so I wanted to bring Jake in on that,” explained ‘Time to Dance’ director Daniel Wolfe, in an interview with Spinner/RPM. “I pitched the idea to him, and he liked it, which was great.”

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From GLAAD – Commentator Accountability Project

The GLAAD Commentator Accountability Project (CAP) aims to put critical information about frequent anti-gay interviewees into the hands of newsrooms, editors, hosts and reporters.

Journalists or producers who are on deadline often don’t have the time to dig into the histories of a commentator. Audiences need to be aware that when they’re not talking to the mainstream media, these voices are comparing the LGBT people to Nazi Germany, predicting that equal treatment of LGBT people will lead to the total collapse of society, and even making accusations of satanic influence.

The Commentator Accountability Project is bringing all of these statements to light, while calling attention to the sentiments behind them. We will show that the commentators who are most often asked to opine on issues like marriage equality or non-discrimination protections do not accurately represent the “other side” of those issues. They represent nothing but extreme animus towards the entire LGBT community.

Have you seen these anti-LGBT voices in your local media? Let GLAAD know today.

Below are just 9 of the many anti-LGBT leaders.  Click here for more info and a full list.

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