american idol...exposed

Alright...so the comments from my last post warrant me spilling the little bit of knowledge I have obtained about American Idol. Okay, so it's not a big spill. Here are some obvious ones to start off:
There is no affair between Paula and any contestants.
Simon really is that rude in person.
Randy uses the word "dawg" an obscene number of times in regular conversation.
There is no such term as "pitchy" in any musical dictionary.

Here is what I learned that turned me off from the show.
From what I have come to understand the judges are given prompts on who to praise and who to slam from week to week despite performances. Also, they pretty much sold Carrie Underwood to be the best thing for country music since Garth Brooks, but she doesn't even like country....she's a total poser! (If someone singing country could be called a poser.) She just allowed American Idol to mold her into whatever they wanted her to be in order to win the show and continue to get positive feedback from the judges. I couldn't watch her after that. She has no originality and no style of her own...she is merely a pretty packaged product of premeditated production (that enough p's for you?). And now she has a record deal! I acknowledge that she can sing, but I predict that her star will burn out quite quickly (maybe even as fast as Justin Guarini from season 1!).
So sadly I will refrain from watching American Idol in the future unless I'm really bored, or being paid to watch it, or being held hostage and made to watch it, or if aliens implacted a satellite in my brain while I'm sleeping that recieves only American Idol commercials. We'll see which happens first.