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"You've made me feel very uncomfortable, because I now feel that you're all broken birds."

By Ann Althouse

Said Simon Cowell to Carly Smithson after she explained why the lyrics of the Beatles' "Blackbird" ? "take these broken wings and learn to fly" ? seemed to her to apply to her efforts to make it in the music industry. Well, we all have our interpretations. Hers may be dumb, but would that Charles Manson had viewed it as such blandly reassuring fare. But the reason I'm posting about this segment of tonight's "American Idol" is that when Simon was saying that he was pinching and twisting his own nipples and making a crazy orgasm face. Here's the best TiVo frame of Simon's moment with his body:

Look, you can see that Paula Abdul is all what the hell are you doing!

Sorry for the graininess... and horrifying grossness.

Full post as published by Althouse on March 18, 2008 (boomark / email).