Urgent New Post- "America's Got Talent Fraud!"

Yes it's been ages since I posted to my blog. Mea Culpa. However I had to post this in the hopes to pass this around.
I believe America's got talent is NOT a true reality TV show!!! They have fabricated drama by way of "contestant tragedies" in the final episodes. The guy who calls himself "Ivan the Urban Action Figure" was either paid to take a dive or perpetrated a fraud on the producers. I'm leaning to the former. To add gravitas to their mediocre "Selection Process" episode, Ivan supposedly fell and and knocked himself unconscious.
But in watching the fall, myself and other circus veterans cry Bullshit. The fall he took is called a toothpick. It is a back fall where you roll up onto your head and keep your body stiff (arms at your sides), you pause at the top and then flop over to your stomach. Ivan does it beautifully.

When he dives into the chairs, at no time does he hit his head. He uses his hands and forearms to move chairs and break his fall as he rotates to his back. And with what's left of his forward momentum, he rolls up into a textbook example of a toothpick. The show claims that during this dangerous stunt he was knocked unconscious. If he was out cold, he wouldn't have rolled over to his back while falling through the chairs to set up the toothpick. The stiff-as-a-board landing that follows is just icing on the fake.

It's bad enough that the media ghouls they have judging the contest insult hardworking entertainers by pretending that a fat Hispanic drag queen or a Bollywood lipsynch hack are worth a million bucks and a leading spot in a show. Equally as bad is that all they are doing is lining it up so that Simon Cowell gets a new recording artist.

Now they insult the performers further to think that they have to fabricate drama, as if their real-life struggles aren't interesting enough. It works for the Olympics.

I believe fraud number two for the night was the singer who had to go back to his cruise ship to perform or his boss would fire him. Firstly, the dressing room he was in was empty and clean. Not possible. If it were a working dressing room there would be makeup boxes, costume pieces, pictures of family tucked into the mirrors, in short, evidence that there were people who used that room for the show on the boat. Second, if you are a singer on a cruise ship, you don't run around during the day in what looks like a ship's porter uniform. And third, if he left that day and the boat had pulled out, how did the TV crew get there? Once more I cry Bullshit.

I have friends and acquaintances who have appeared on this show. Do I think they should headline a show? Just one out of the five, and even then I have reservations. Do I think that they are all hardworking professionals who deserve respect and not to be insulted by those responsible for the show. A resounding yes. Their stories on how they got to where they were are just as interesting and drama filled as any scripted crap they can come up with.

The unfortunate thing is that my regular readership is about three. I need to find a way to get this out. Any Ideas?

To view the fall for yourself, here's the Youtube link.