Oh ho! Let the Idol scandals continue.

Ever since there have been American Idol contestants, there have been scandals on the internets. It’s gotten some people kicked off the show, and the stories are always the endless fodder for hundreds of sites decrying the evil of American Idol.

To us, it just goes to show that everyone has that thing in their closet, or sometimes they don’t even know that thing should be in a closet.

Like this old Christmas video where current contestant Daniel Noriega looks all gay-punked out and tells us all that he hopes Santa Claus rapes our mothers.

Because Santa isn’t scary enough until he’s revealed to be a serial rapist like all the other balding fat men with big white beards (suppressing childhood memory…).Also in the news today, more false Idolatry.

This from AP:

“American Idol” contestant David Hernandez once entertained audiences by removing his clothes instead of singing tunes, a manager at a male strip club in Phoenix told The Associated Press.

The 24-year-old finalist from Glendale, Ariz., once worked as a stripper at Dick’s Cabaret, appearing fully nude and performing lap dances for the club’s “mostly male” clientele, club manager Gordy Bryan said Monday.

“He had the look and the type that people like, so he made pretty good money here,” Bryan said.

It’s not clear whether a history as a stripper could disqualify Hernandez from the competition. In 2003, finalist Frenchie Davis was dismissed because of her appearance on an adult Web site; but last year, Antonella Barba remained in the competition after racy photos of her surfaced on the Internet.

“He never renewed his licensing with the state, so he hasn’t been on my roster since then,” Bryan said.

Fox spokeswomen Jill Hudson did not immediately return telephone calls seeking comment Monday.

According to Bryan, Hernandez steadily worked at the club for three years until September 30, 2007.

We’re going to try to look past our giddiness that there appears to be some sort of official gay striper license in the state of Arizona and offer this up: Who the hell cares about this crap?

The whole premise of American Idol is that basically normal people humiliate themselves until we break one down into a soulless shell that we can elevate and destroy on our alter of fame.

Kicking people off of a show where the audience votes people off seems like an exercise in redundancy. They get rating from the same people who tell them who they want top watch. If the American public is into gay western singer/strippers, let the guy win and make an album called Assless Chaps for all we care.