PASADENA, CALIF. - Today, for the sport of it, all your theories
about American Idol will be shot down.  Theory No. 1:
TheIdoljudges are meaner than usual this year. Because Rosie
O'Donnell says so. Some media outlets, including O'Donnell on
ABC's The View, have criticized the judges for being especially
unkind, pointing specifically to Kenneth Briggs and Jonathan
Jayne, who became buddies while standing in the Seattle audition
line. They were terrible on the show and quickly dismissed,
Simon Cowell calling Briggs, who has big eyes, a "bush baby."
Later, it was reported that Jayne once participated in the
Special Olympics.  Cowell said he wasn't aware Jayne may have
been mentally challenged, and he told the press, regarding
Briggs: "I take your point — it's a singing competition and why
should I call anyone a 'bush baby?' But I don't think we should
be censors on the type of people (who participate on the show)."
Idol made celebrities out of Briggs and Jayne, who ended up last
week on Jimmy Kimmel Live. "The