People are peeved at American Idol and not just because they went and broke the heart of that one homeless kid

But because San Diego's own Carly Smithson (AKA Hennessey) made it to the Top 24 and low and behold she's a "professional singer."

From overthelimit.com:

American Idol contestant Carly Smithson had a record deal in 2001 with MCA Records under the name of Carly Hennessy. She produced a CD that only sold about 300 copies, after MCA invested a ton of money in marketing.

Yep, she may be a San Diegan, with a San Diego husband, owner of a San Diego tattoo parlor, bartender at a San Diego bar, but she also once had a record deal that went sour and therefore we should all hate her and send negative thoughts her way.

Or we should just chalk it up to American Idol and it's "controversies."

I don't care either way, if she sold 300 copies or if she's just off the farm in Kentucky. But come on, why don't people just flat out mention or ask her about it? I'm talking to you, reporters over on Sign On San Diego's Street Blog? Don't spoon feed us some kind of "just a girl making her way to the top" tell us the truth.

I'll still vote for her because she's the only one I remember out of the 24, unless you count the other professional singer who they are trying to pass off as just some guy from Australia who none of them have ever heard of before.

Bring back homeless, sporadic British accent kid.

Can we do write ins?