The Internet site Votefortheworst.com has decided to press a campaign to get mass votes for “American Idol” contestant Sanjaya Malakar.
The unusual following for the singer judged as the show’s weakest contestant decided to back Malakar this season. Votefortheworst has been around since 2004, but did not gain fame until radio shock jock Howard Stern jumped on the bandwagon, the New York Daily News reported.
After Stern’s interview with Web site founder Dave Della Terza, the Sanjaya movement skyrocketed and is still constantly being picked up by Blogs, other radio shows and newspapers across the country.
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.
Source: http://www.playfuls.com/news_0006224_American_Idol_Hopeful_Sanjaya_Gets_Boost.html
I remember last year when Taylor Hicks was votefortheworst.com candidate and look at him now, an American Idol.
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