After singing “Little Sparrow” on last night’s American Idol, the newly shorn David Cook complained of heart palpitations and was subsequently taken to the hospital mid-show. Cook is “doing fine” after treatment for high blood pressure and is currently recuperating at the compound where Fox keeps all of the talent show’s remaining contestants. (Did this news break during the post-show voting period on the West Coast? Because that would really swing the sympathy vote.) [People]
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David Cook Takes A Post-Performance Hospital Trip
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Does anyone remember the statistic that emerged during election polls in 2000 that said a sizable minority of the people voting for George W. Bush were doing so out of belated guilt about his father? I.e., if you felt bad the H.W. was tossed out for Bill Clinton in ‘92 — maybe you even voted for Clinton — and you were wistful for the pre-culture-wars age of Bush I’s presidency, you voted for his clearly mentally inferior son as a kind of recompense.
I bring all this up because I’m convinced it’s what’s happening on Idol to David Cook, and why — heart palpitations or no — he could win it all. As we often joke ’round these parts, Cook is clearly the “son of Daughtry,” and anyone who feels bad about Chris D.’s untimely ouster two seasons ago might well be trying to rectify the vote in a “rocker’s” favor this time around.
I know this is not an innovative theory on my part, but I just wanted to make the Bush I-Bush II connection because I think it sheds light on the (spurious) way some people vote.
@Chris Molanphy: You really think people voted for W because they felt sorry for H?
So David Cook is the one that the pregnancy rumors were about? Didn’t see that coming.
Elliott Yamin didn’t go the distance with sympathy votes, and he was deaf in one ear and wears an insulin pump, so I kinda doubt this will have too much of an impact.
Wait. Contestants reaching their 30’s, and ones with high blood pressure? Now I have to audition this year!