[NormsRevenge]

What? Perez Hilton wasn't willing to do it?

[Tarpon]

bye bye ...

[Steelfish]

They just lost a viewer! Its time when this lesbian pervert who insults conservatives at every turn get called on the mat and viewers tune off.

[caver]

Great! We get to watch a queer judge that will judge over queer contestants.

[Mr. Jazzy]

Hahahaha!

Ellen Degenerate onboard!!!

My prayers have been answered. Mrs. Jazzy says “Buh-bye” to American Idol!!!

[smalltownslick]

Wow! Talk about dumb.

[Always Right]

Wow....WORST CHOICE EVER....will KILL their ratings....

[marron]

I don’t know the back story but I believe they’ve made a bad trade.

This won’t go over as well as they hope.

I realize people made fun of Abdul but she had a way of softening some of the harsher criticism, which the show needed.

[bert]

Something is very queer about that choice

Don’t they realize Adam lost?

[ari-freedom]

We'll miss you

[kingu]

Worst possible choice. I'll watch the auditions, and then stop watching when she comes on board, as I think that’ll be the strongest possible message to Fox, and I hope others will do the same.

I mean, picking someone who has no connection to the music industry, isn't a successful solo singer, and someone who has an incredible habit of shooting her mouth off in interviews... We've watched our last full season of Idol.

[vetvetdoug]

Trading a crazy Californian for a queer bitter Texan....bad deal...I’ll take Paula any day.

[John123]

Ellen DeGeneres is dancing her way onto "American Idol

That's fishy...

[PureSolace]

What does Ellen know about music?

[Drango]

She can ask all the gals if the rug matches the drapes....

[VeniVidiVici]

You’re freaking kidding me. I caught a bit of her on “So You Think You Can Dance” and her inane prattling was a distraction. It was like listening to fingernails on a blackboard.

[Diago]

We’ll no longer watch.

[Reddy]

What?? Oh yeah, they picked Ellen Degenerate because she has so much musical experience. /sarc

[ReagansShinyHair]

I’d have the same objections about most other comedians. I don’t care about her being gay, but I don’t want to listen to her trying to be funny when she’s talking to the contestants. Her style of comedy can be really funny sometimes, but not in this setting. I just don’t see her playing well against Simon, or either of the worthless judges on there who never say anything interesting. I don’t see what Ellen has to do with music, either. The whole thing makes as much sense as Paula wanting to be a daytime talk show host.

Also, I can’t see her being less expensive than Paula. Hasn’t her daytime show been at least sort of successful?

[kimoajax]

If that is true they can kiss this viewer and fan goodbye.

[stillonaroll]

It is disgusting that Fox Network would place an outspoken degenerate onto a program viewed by many children. Yes, celebrities should not be role models to youth, but they are nonetheless.

Yes, Hollywood is rife with amoral human scum, but they could at least have selected someone un-afflicted by the mental illness that is homosexuality. (It was indeed formally classified by the medical establishment as a mental illness until about a generation ago.)

The Mrs. and I were, at times, loyal viewers of the mindless but fun American Idol show. We are now--adamantly--former viewers.