Susan Boyle Finishes Second

Susan Boyle did not win on Saturday's Britain's Got Talent finale. But, even though she came in second to a 10 person dance troupe called Diversity, it's Susan Boyle who is getting the attention with the winners being mentioned deep into the articles about Susan Boyle not winning.

In other words, even though Susan Boyle lost, she won.

For her finale song Ms. Boyle sang the song that turned her into a world-wide YouTube Internet sensation, "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Miserables.

In Susan's hometown of Blackburn, Scotland, about 10 miles west of Edinburgh, the locals put up signs of support and went to viewing parties where her second place finish was greeted with shouts of "no."

Ms. Boyle took the loss well, after a week of publicity regarding how stressed out she was from all the pressure, she gave a little curtsy, shimmied her hips and walked off the stage.

I suspect this is not the last the world will hear from Susan Boyle.

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Britains Got Talent: Susan Boyle

Yesterday Rush Limbaugh mentioned watching an astonishing YouTube video of a woman named Susan Boyle singing a song from Les Miserable, last Saturday, April 11 on the UK's Britains Got Talent show. I forget what exactly Mr. Limbaugh said, but it was something about being moved and it being a lesson in not judging by appearances.

There are several YouTube videos of this amazing TV moment. All of them have video embedding disabled.

But you can go watch the video by clicking here.

When Susan walks on stage she is met with a derisive audience. And Simon Cowell. The audience laughs when Susan says her dream is to be a professional singer. When Cowell asked who she would like to emulate, Susan named a singer I've never heard of, must be a Brit. The audience laughed when Susan said who she would like to sing like.

And then Susan started singing. I won't tell you what happened then, I'll suffice to say, it was very good TV.

The Susan Boyle phenomenon has now gone global via the Internet, cable news and newspapers. The video I linked to above, in less than a week, has had almost 20 million viewings and over 100,000 comments.

Susan Boyle is 47, unemployed and said she has 2 cats and has never been kissed. I suspect that is no longer the case. I'm guessing Ms. Boyle will be flying back to LA with Simon Cowell, sometime soon, to sing on the American Idol Results Show.