It's Disgusting to ALWAYS hate Simon Cowell

"The man you love to hate" probably loves most of his notoriety. As Liberace used to say, "I'm crying all the way to the bank."

Is it a surprise that he's a master manipulator? A jaded showman? Someone who is well aware of the mediocre taste of the British public and exploits it?

On BGT, at least, he's right more often than anyone else. He also hasn't been as "brutally honest" in the past few years as he used to be...unless he does it for effect. This year, for example, he called a halt to some obnoxious showbiz brat's rotten rendition of a Broadway song. The crowd groaned and roared disapproval...the girl continued with the shitty song, and won an ovation. Did Simon plan all this? Probably.

What he didn't plan on, was backlash over giving money to Israeli soldiers. War is hell, and a boost from such an unlikely source had to have cheered them up. Getting money is always nice, but from some British guy whose main preoccupation has been foisting karaoke assholes onto the pop charts via "American Idol?" Very unexpected (unless you know his lady friend is Jewish).

Naturally the Muslim psychos of the world would want to decapitate him. And showing him the pictures of dead babies that the Palestinian scum used as shields...that's standard practice among anti-semites. It's also common for anything that happens in Israel to knee-jerk into persecution of Jews anywhere in the world. There's been a huge rise in attacks, desecrations, hate speech and all the rest of the Nazi shit, because Israel is defending itself. If Israel doesn't behave like Woody Allen, and double over in fright, and say "I give up," and leave the area, then it's open season on Jews everywhere.

Ironically if Israel was a Muslim nation, people would be cheering them. "Sure, they're firing back. What do you expect? They also don't like cartoons. They don't like any insult to their religion. They had every reason to destroy the World Trade Towers. All they want is to be left alone and since nobody is leaving them alone, they can be homicidal, threaten the world, and do anything in the name of wonderful Islam..."

Right? We accept that Muslims are savage maniacs who decapitate people right on camera and howl about it. We accept that Muslims blow up innocent people so they can get goats in heaven. We accept that Muslims are bloodthirsty and crazed and want uranium and plutonium and everything else so they can blow up the whole world just to praise Allah. But if Israel retaliates for three innocent kids being killed, and forcefully puts a beating on the terrorist groups behind it...oooh, ooh, BAD JEWS! BAD JEWS!

So now Cowell, at least for a few months, will have to live with death threats from those peaceful Muslims. He'll have to worry that they'll kidnap his child and kill it. He'll have to worry that a suicide bomber will run up to him and his wife screaming ba-la-lalal-lalala-la allah-allah-allah before the big KABOOM.

And for what? For giving a little money to Israeli soldiers to be used not for weapons, but for comfort?

The scapegoating of Jews continues, and you'd have to go back to Nazi Germany in the 40's to find a worse time of absolutely insane and overt anti-semitism.

Simon also is fielding a snarky bit of snot-flinging from his ex-manager, who was hissing something about "knowing" that Simon is or was gay. This is hardly a major point and almost doesn't deserve mention at all, except that he's fighting that, too. He's basically saying, "All right, whispering little shit, come out with it, name the guy I supposedly had sex with, have him step up and tell his story and supply the witnesses and the photos. Or shut the fuck up and slink away."

Rightly, Cowell's pissed off because he has a reputation for candor and keeping a secret is not his style. So he's calling his ex-manager out. People are not 100% lousy (although Bieber and Viley Virus and Kardashian come damn close, and Putin is 99.9%) and it's disgusting when the approach to most anyone, even Cowell, is "paint it black...black as night...black as coal." Cowell did a good thing by giving some money to a Jewish charity. He did a reasonable thing in not sticking a dick in his mouth just because it's become fashionable.

Now, as to the next irritating boy band he signs, the next ugly and actually mediocre female pop singer he finds, the next time he wears one of those fucking too-small t-shirts...