The FX cable channel, owned by Rupert Murdoch, plans to do an “American Idol” style show where the winner doesn’t get to perform live on the Regis show but does get to run for president, according to an AP article:

The cable channel announced on Friday the start of a series, “American Candidate,” designed to pick a TV-endorsed potential president.

“We think it’s a marriage of a tried-and-true concept, as shown by ‘American Idol,’ with a down-home political spin to it,” said Peter Liguori, FX president. “We are a nation where, quote-unquote, anybody can become president, and this is a concept that gives everyday folks a forum to express their point of view and have people respond to it.”

R.J. Cutler, the filmmaker who made “The War Room,” a documentary on the 1992 Clinton campaign, is producing the project with Jay Roach, director of the “Austin Powers” movies.

Just when you think it couldn’t get any fucking stranger.

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