Does "American Idol" take advantage of people who are clearly unfit to be onstage?

I feel so bad for some of these people that I had to stop watching it.

Not sure if you mean "unfit" as in "my singing sucks", or "unfit" meaning, "I'm grossly out of shape". I guess the answer to both is yes - and I'm not sure they are really contestants. I think most of them are just people they pay to be bad to make it funny, but the funny is wearing off for me. I love IDOL, but when the top 12 are selected. I would much prefer seeing ALL the good auditions, and just 1 or 2 blooper people. It would give it better credibility and I think others would want that too, but I'm not a producer, so I guess they know better.

the producers manipulate the show from the beginning. The judges even tell the audiences who are the contestants they have to vote for.

it reminds me of karoke which sucks. people getting on stage and looking like fools because they think they can sing

I think it's funny that some of these people actually try out thinking they can win....if they wanna go out there and make a fool out of themselves, there's people like me that will watch and laugh at them.