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By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyDear Crystal, Win, girl, win! Single momma; soul sister; street child. Crystal Bowersox, you've won me over. For the first time in nine seasons, I'm an "American Idol" fan, and it's all because of you. Before you, I'd never turned on the program, never cared if starmaker Simon Cowell stayed or left the show, never knew if he was grumpy or nice. Never watched Paula Abdul, never noticed she was gone. (Though, if I'm honest, I do love Ellen. Of course.) I got to know Kelly Clarkson when she had hit songs, not when she sang for Fox's live audiences. I never called in. I knew Ryan Seacrest ...
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By David Knowles - Politics DailyConsider the brief journalistic career of Damon Weaver, a fifth-grader at Florida's Kathryn E. Cunningham Canal Point Elementary. Since joining his school's television station (KEC TV), he has covered the presidential election of '08 (eventually landing an interview with Joe Biden), attended the inauguration, and then gone on to snag airtime with the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Colin Powell, Paula Abdul, Norah O'Donnell, David Gregory, Caroline Kennedy, Meghan Kelly, Dwayne Wade, L.L. Cool J, Jordan Sparks and Major Garrett. His high-profile interviews have been so noteworthy that Weaver himself ...
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By Helena Andrews - Politics DailyPaula Abdul isn't coming back on "American Idol," but there's absolutely no way that judge Kara "One-Season Wonder" DioGuardi can pull an Eve Harrington in this case. (Harrington, you will recall, was the ambitious, back-stabbing understudy in the classic 1950 Hollywood film "All About Eve." ...
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