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First there were Clay Aiken’s Claymates. Then there was Taylor Hicks’ Soul Patrol. Now, meet the Fanjayas: But be warned, some of them are not the fans you might expect. Over the past several weeks, millions of viewers have cast their precious “Idol” votes not for those largely considered to be most talented, but for 17-year-old Sanjaya Malakar. It’s a trend that has prompted threats from the show’s creator and judge Simon Cowell, who said he will quit if Sanjaya Malakar wins the competition.
Sanjaya is a 17 year old Indian-American kid on American Idol. He was pretty good during his audition, but that was apparently the only song he really knew how to sing well and he’s been singing very badly ever since. But because of campaigns by the Internet site Votefortheworst.com and the King of All Media himself, Howard Stern, decided to press a campaign to get mass votes for “American Idol” contestant Sanjaya Malakar, he gets enough votes to stay on the show and America gets entertained each week by some horrible singing and the shocked faces of the judges as he is saved from elimination and a better singer gets booted from the show.

It’s kinda embarrassing topic for me and I am not proud to admit that I have favorites and least favorites, but without question the Idol contestant that is getting the most amount publicity these days is Sanjaya Malakar.
Malakar has even been endorsed by radio show host Howard Stern, who’s confessed he’d like to see Malakar win because he’s the least talented of this year’s finalists. “It’s a flexing of the grassroots muscle,” said Meyrowitz, a professor of media studies in the Department of Communications. “It represents a use of this new power and an awareness of what it will actually work for,” Meyrowitz said. “You want a candidate on or off ??American Idol;’ you can do it.”

Every new Idol season, Terza and others pick one contestant that they think is bad and urge everyone to call in and vote for that contestant, for the sole purpose of keeping someone bad in the running. They deliberately skew the “Idol” call-in vote, keeping people in the running long after it was expected that they would be voted off the show.
After Sanjaya got another VFTW-related reprieve last week, Della Terza received 1,000 e-mails the next day. Many were nasty — enough that he prefers not to be too specific about where he lives. “I get so many creepy e-mails from people,” he says. “They’re like, ‘I’m gonna hunt you down and kill you.’
“People take this show so seriously. It’s just a cheesy entertainment-reality show.”
VoteForTheWorst is serious to a point, Della Terza says. “But we don’t care that much. If Sanjaya is to go home next week, oh, well. We’ll move on to someone else,” he says.

Race and Idol have shared a complicated relationship for a long time now whether it was Frenchie getting kicked off while Barba got to stay or Ruben Stoddard beating out Clay Aiken with the alleged backing of Oprah. But it is beyond ridiculous to say that there is a BPO pact to vote for him. It isn’t just paranoid, it’s insulting.
Please stop voting for Sanjaya, he’s obviously not interested in winning, and it makes American Idol painful to watch with him in it past the auditions.