December 13-2013
A young woman from Massachusetts, Jennifer Grout, came in second Saturday on the Beirut TV show, “Arabs Got Talent.” She’s of Scottish and English extraction, not Arab. But she sang Arab classical music. She lost out to a Syrian dance group that performed to the tune of “Smack My Bitch Up.” Some viewers complained that an American shouldn’t be allowed on a TV show for Arabs. Others asked if her performance wasn’t more Arab than “Smack My Bitch Up.”