The WORST miserable excuse to disgrace the name of ID.

The torture starts about a minute into the video. I can't embed it, so the best I can do is give you a link and hope you'll follow it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVIMSHimZZA



**WARNING: THIS MAY BURN YOUR EYES AND IS NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN. IF YOU ARE BLINDED OR OTHERWISE SCARRED, I URGE YOU TO TAKE LEGAL ACTION AGAINST THIS MAN.**



Now, either you have managed to survive that hideous, awful clip or you are being rushed to the hospital. (Recover soon, and God Bless.)



Now, I am not going to go on a mindless rant. I'm going to go on an organized, well-thought out rant, convientently bulleted for your benefit.



Things that are wrong on so many levels...



1. This is the same guy that attacked an Olympian runner back in Athens. Yes, he tackled an Olympian that was probably going to finish first, but in the end placed third. He was also that deranged guy waving a flag around at a NASCAR race (The Prix, perhaps? Excuse my lack of knowledge on that one.) He was on the news for all that, and, I believe, being tried for child molestion also shows up in his bad past. Don't tell me that the people who run Britain's Got Talent didn't recognize him or do a background check, because you'd be lying.



3. "I practice virtually every day, for at least half an hour." Tell that to someone who practices 2 hours every day, buddy.



2. That ridiculous outfit. Since when do we wear mustard-yellow scarfs and green knee-highs? And that skirt--no, it's not a kilt. A kilt would have been somewhat acceptable--is much too short. Did anybody notice his shoes? They're Highland dancing shoes. Not ghillies or reel shoes. Highland dancing shoes. So technically, he's defaming not one, but two types of Celtic dance.



3. "A traditional Irish dance called the Soft Jig." The soft jig isn't a traditional irish dance. In fact, I'm not even sure people even use the term "soft jig" (I could be wrong, they might use it over in Europe. Just never heard it here in the States.). Traditional Irish dances are dances like the Blackbird and the St. Patrick's Day. Whatever he was doing with his feet, it sure wasn't irish dancing, and it sure wasn't traditional.



4. His "dancing". Forgive me, but did anyone see anything that looked remotely like, say, a skip? A point? A jump? Cause I didn't. He looked like he was squashing bugs out there, and improvising on the spot. If I went into great detail about how bad it was, I'd be here for a year. Oh, and he doesn't know when to finish and falters at the end.



5. "This guy represents every folk dancer in the country." You've GOT to be kidding me. I actually cringed. Somebody should go and give Piers a good old kick to the head for me. With their hardshoes on. I agree with Simon, only there are far, far more that "a few" problems.

And the mindless crowd ate it up, without any idea of how painful it was. Why can't anybody decent ever be on any of these shows? Like Ashley Smith? Jean Butler? ANYBODY BUT HIM.
I always thought it would be cool if, you know, they had ID on Dancing With the Stars, though the Superstars of Dance with Bernadette Flynn was a step in the right direction. But with guys like this, we're taking two steps back.