No Sympathy For Susan Boyle

Hey Ben, how sorry do you feel for people who knowingly go someplace very dangerous and then end up being kidnapped or unjustly charged with a crime? One could argue those people also knew what they were gambling with, correct?

ben hoffman, you fucking rule!!!! screw susan boyle and the idiots who are giving you guff on this site.

you are the funniest shit ever.

A waste of time. Maybe Ben should get a cat and stay home watching BGT on TV.

So someone give you a voice and you choose to use it in a completely unoriginal way, to do what so many other people have already done...bash this woman who has a beautiful voice and has gone through so much just because of people like YOU. This isn't entertainment, it's not news...it's lame. It's been done. I agree that celebrities know what they're getting themselves into...Susan Boyle was no celebrity, she was just a woman who had enough confidence to finally put herself out there. It's a predictable disgrace that so many have disregarded that fact. Use your voice for something important in this crazy downfall we're all trying to make it through. If you want to make people laugh at undeserving peoples expenses...thats your prerogative...but just so you know...it's not doing much for your name (whatever it is).

Apparently anything I say is subject to scrutiny. How about this one? Is it benign enough for you?

This serves to demonstrate why "infomania" is My LEAST favorite part of current...

very funny and true.

I am stunned at the comments in this thread. Is this a 1st Amendment issue? Or is the negative reaction about taste? Because if it is the latter reason, then I am pretty sure the aforementioned reason trumps it ...

Nevertheless, it is incredibly interesting how so many people have come to the "defense" of Ms. Boyle.

I am intrigued by the fact that people are defending someone that inserted herself into the Public Arena. How is this not going to happen in a society with a free-and-open media? Is the expectation that Boyle's apparent depression/anxiety should be an off-limits topic for discussion? And for comedians?

I really want someone to answer this, so please, please help me out! (I'll be keeping one eye on this page all day ... )

Oh, and where is the criticism of the producers of Britain's Got Talent? They sent an emotionally-unstable person up on stage to sell tea and crumpets.

If I cared about Boyle one iota, which I don't, that's where I'd be focusing my wrath. But that's just little ole me ...

Cheers!

Who is this angry little fellow? And who ever suggested I should feel sorry for Susan Boyle? If you want to criticize the 'media' there about a thousand topics of greater significance to do it about than a talent contest.
If you were a spokesman for my generation, I'd lie about my age.

Ms. Boyle is a lot better than cousin BOBO and the dancing chimp circus that won. I have never seen a group of hoodrats yet that did not think they could dance or sing. I bet next season they will have a group on to toss a bassetball through a hoop for us...OMG what talent the Brits have!!!Somebody call 10 Downing street ...we have to have a national holiday for this lot right away.

I think his name is Mick or Mork. Haha. Ben you kill me.

lol, my bf made a good point - the second place people get to take other contracts, but the winners are exclusive to the toolbox show?

Don't get me wrong, I love Editors, I work with them everyday. That's not the point in this discussion. His editorial is sorry, lacks insight, pretends to be humerous and fails. Im just sayin'.

I think Ben is just using an extreme way to say that Susan Boyle is another distraction in the media from our more important predicaments.

LOL you really know how to attract trolls Ben.

this is so lame. insensitive and juvenile. i didn't even watch all of it. complete boo hiss from me Ben Hoffman.

I bet you if I said something about this guys mother he wouldn't like it.

Wow, this rant has really riled some people. I don't really understand this whole Susan Boyle hysteria myself. She has a very lovely voice, but truth be told there are many out there like her. It was nice that she got some time in the limelight though, I hope it was overall a positive experience and that she can get out before it gets too negative.

But seriously this rant wasn't so much about Susan Boyle as it was about the narrative the media has created around her. The media has spun this story into a pity fest, and it's a bit silly. So she didn't win? Big flippin' deal, she came in second AND got way more publicity than the group who won. She won the fame game and really that's all these types of reality tv shows are about anyway.

Wow, I can't believe so many people hate free speech...amazing.

Don't mean to sound mushy but thanks Tones Testament for speaking like you have a heart in you. Seems like that's getting more and more rare.

So I get your rhetoric but man even with the reason you gave it doesn't mean you should be that jealous! Susan Boyle is like 9999 years old give her one final break before she dies.....
Anywho I thought she sang great unlike William Hong and I should know, I saw him sing live and he was of course horrible at American Idol....
I hope she is OK..... I do feel sympathy for her because she can actually sing......Another reason is for the sympathy is that she never got a chance since she was to ugly or something (which appearance shouldn't matter however in our society it does "sex sells" or a sad story)
I never really watched BGT except Susan Boyle segment and man the look on everyone's face after she sang it was priceless almost like she slap everyone with doo doo... She got the last laugh!

Also, even thou she get to be a multimillion because she got talent... and you don't so you have to spoil other people's thunder......
AHHAH that last part was useless why include it if you didn't even know who won..... Dance crew are so last year i think I should know since I live in irvine and all everyone does here is dance.... I think ABDC was overrate it should have been an underground thing...

I'm not hating on free speech, I'm doing it right now but I like the opposition. There is always a ying and a yang right right? Where's the fun if no one comments.....

If you went crazy after someone started stalking your every move because you became famous for doing currenttv, which is unlikely, you would want some pity. Its quite sad, really, that most people who liked this clip would not help you. Because just like you said you chose to "try" to become famous.

Oh god I loved the part about how she could have just stayed at home watching herself on tv.

I was amused.

I, though, didn't know she had a cat let alone its name. But annoying someone just because the are popular on youtube around the world is just wrong no matter how it's justified.

The faster you rise that faster people trash you and try to bring you down. The lack of compassion in the world is appalling.

This tirade just goes to show how many angry, spoiled, mouthy children there are in the world. God help us all.

Preach it brotha! Celebrities have chosen their fate.

It wouldn't be an editorial without people at the other end ripping their hairs out in anger.

Bravo. I literally lol'd. That's rare.

It's just the dude's opinion...He's allowed his as much as you are yours.

Susan Boyle and the almost 24 hr media coverage of her was yet one more distraction of the public by the msm (main stream media).

The economy is in the toilet, the pharmaceutical corps and chemical corps have a free pass to kill us, the WAR is not over in Iraq or Afghanistan, healthcare limps along, education in America produces some of the most shallow, illiterates in the world; but Susan Boyle is an average woman who can SING! Well, thank the gods for that one!!! That's gonna save my family from living in a box and having to pick though garbage cans for dinner!

Now the poor woman is in a psyche ward. I guess it's back to botox speciman no. 48's failed love triangle or, perhaps, yet another "reality" show entity being billed as a "star" (ie Brett Michael's house of white trash, America's next top botox specimen, "I Have 8 Children Through No Fault of My Own and NOw I'm on the TV").

These people in the media chatter have no discernable talent, no reason for being on TV and are a waste of the public's attention.

Ms. Boyle, at least, has talent. But she was just the flavor of the week and obviously is not stable enough to hold up an entire career. In a way, can you blame her for not wanting to? Look at the garbage they promote as talent and expect her to behave in the same way!!!!

Hoffman you are so pathetic it hurts! Only a company like Current should hire you. Walmart wouldn't touch your ass with a 7 ft pole. You have zero: humor, You have: Huge Ego, and to boot, you actually look a bit like Susan Boyle's cousin Mildorf Boyle. Get a life, go back to school and start taking your meds as prescribed. Have mom read the directions for you.

Ok like whom the Hell is this person!

Stupid! Yep Stupid and that soapbox seg. was lame. Find something interesting and worth watching. As far as I am concerned your relation to current is the same as Susan Boyle's to BHT. You should shut your "pie hole" until yo u got some worth talking about! I feel sorry for you Ben or what ever your name is.