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Enormous Money (Simon offered $144 mil a year to stay on 'Idol')
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| 6/30/2009
| MAXINE SHEN
Posted on 06/30/2009 7:23:57 AM PDT by rock_lobsta
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Nobody's worth that much...
To: rock_lobsta
Hope the whole channel goes bankrupt if this is true.
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posted on
06/30/2009 7:24:37 AM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
To: silent_jonny; retrokitten; Miss Didi
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posted on
06/30/2009 7:24:40 AM PDT
by
rock_lobsta
(Atypical Crustacean)
To: rock_lobsta
Whatever they are paying Paula, is way much.
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posted on
06/30/2009 7:25:12 AM PDT
by
VicVega
(Join Jihad, get captured by the US and resettled in the best places in the world. I love the USA)
To: rock_lobsta
We need more people to be like Simon Cowell. It is nice to see someone actually earn their money for once and not get a taxpayer bailout.
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posted on
06/30/2009 7:26:20 AM PDT
by
pnh102
(Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
To: pnh102
Huh?
I can only assume you forgot your /sarc tag.
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posted on
06/30/2009 7:26:56 AM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
To: rock_lobsta
the left attacks executive salaries but not entertainment.
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posted on
06/30/2009 7:28:22 AM PDT
by
ken21
(i am not voting for a rino-progressive.)
To: rock_lobsta
I disagree, I don’t think the show would be worth watching if it wasn’t for him. I just love his personality. I think he is lovable in a tough kind of way. I love his comments too. He says it like it is. Sometimes he gets a little mean, it’s true, but it just makes the show that much more entertaining.
To: rock_lobsta
do you have any idea what kind of money that show generates? it was his idea, his baby. that's like saying bill gates doesn't deserve his money.
if the market will support it, he should get it.
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posted on
06/30/2009 7:28:35 AM PDT
by
thefactor
(yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
To: rock_lobsta
Obama needs to look into this.
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posted on
06/30/2009 7:28:39 AM PDT
by
tx_eggman
(Clinton was our first black President ... Obama is our first French President.)
To: rock_lobsta
I don't know -- American Idol without Simon's caustic comments? I don't think it would work, or be as big..
He adds a touch of realism and quite frankly, many people just tune in to watch Simon verbally destroy a person.
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posted on
06/30/2009 7:30:47 AM PDT
by
Cronos
(Ceterum censeo, Mecca et Medina delendae sunt + Jindal 2K12)
To: Red in Blue PA
Nope. I mean it. I see nothing wrong with private parties coming to a mutual agreement over a trade for money for services.
And I do like Simon's style. We'd be a better world if more people who do indeed suck at something were told that they do.
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posted on
06/30/2009 7:31:52 AM PDT
by
pnh102
(Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
To: rock_lobsta
Worth every penny. American Idol makes 900 million a year. 114 million is justified as Simon is a big part of the show. Good for Simon...Disgusting how FREEPERS are crying about this. I guess they agree with the Democrats about having a cap on pay and bonus’...Bunch a liberals around Free Republic Lately. IT IS COMPLETELY DISGUSTING!!!
To: rock_lobsta
Nobody's worth that much...Though I agree he's not worth it, a person is worth what someone is willing to pay
I say good for him.
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posted on
06/30/2009 7:36:04 AM PDT
by
Las Vegas Ron
(zer0 is doing to capitalism what Kennedy did to health care)
To: pnh102
We'd be a better world if more people who do indeed suck at something were told that they do.
I'm sure they could find 10,000,000 people willing to do it for 1/100th that amount.
This is simply idiotic.
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posted on
06/30/2009 7:36:50 AM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
To: rock_lobsta
Nobody's worth that much... Yes and no.
Yes because if he can get it he is worth it. That's free market Capitalism at work.
OTOH if you watch American Idol you know that it is at best 50% show and 50% commercials. That ratio is way too favorable to the commercials side for me but not, apparently, for the American Sheeple. As long as people are willing to put up with that level of commercialization of entertainment then there is going to be $100,000,000/year salaries available for a few, or at least one, TV superstar.
Personally I TIVO the show, fast forward through all the commercials (except those cute Progressive.com ads and the Geico gecko) and then fast forward through 90% of the performances listening only to my favs and Simon's comments about them. Takes about 10 minutes per show.
To: napscoordinator
you do realise that you pay his salary right?
any GM, crysler, or other company that received bailout money is spending part of that money on advertising on this show, which is paying his salary.
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posted on
06/30/2009 7:48:48 AM PDT
by
absolootezer0
(thank God for Chicago: makes Detroit look wholesome by comparison.)
To: napscoordinator
Lighten up, Francis.
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posted on
06/30/2009 8:01:24 AM PDT
by
rock_lobsta
(Atypical Crustacean)
To: rock_lobsta
A CEO responsible for thousands of jobs, and billions in revenue must have his salary government controlled, but a ball player or an actor is free to make as much as possible without fear of recrimination by the press and the Democrats...
ARE WE LIVING IN BIZZARRO WORLD NOW????
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posted on
06/30/2009 8:06:15 AM PDT
by
tcrlaf
("Hope" is the most Evil of all Evils"-Neitzsche)
To: VicVega
Whatever they are paying Paula, is way much.It's not so much as what they pay Paula - rather, it's what they're supplying Paula...
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posted on
06/30/2009 8:15:18 AM PDT
by
rock_lobsta
(Atypical Crustacean)
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