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From cruise-liner gigs, to cloth-eared judges, this week's X Factor winners and losers

From Smurfing comebacks to skating rappers, 10 to swerve in 2011 2011

From cruise-liner gigs, to cloth-eared judges, this week's X Factor winners and losers

From Henry Cavill to Nicki Minaj, this week's winners and losers 2011

Ironically Haley owes much of success in South Carolina to Palin's endorsement of her in the 2010 Republican primary.9.44am: On Fox News, Rick Santorum comes out swinging at Mitt Romney over Romney's cloth-eared "not very much" comment regarding his huge speaking fees:Santorum did speak out against another Romney revelation: The former Massachusetts governor said he receives "speaker's fees from time to time, but not very much."

South Carolina primary: Mitt Romney's rivals ask taxing questions 2012

However, DD Guttenplan, writing for The Guardian, finds the book "unrealiable," and thinks that "Reynolds is just cloth-eared when it comes to American culture."

A British historian takes on the U.S., Kazin takes aim at presidential histories, and more in the book reviews Mary L. Dudziak 2009

Finally, the new translations do nothing to improve much of the cloth-eared flatness of the language of the liturgy.

Training for the new translations 2009

“The world really needs to see four trainee hairdressers from Liverpool sing cloth-eared Motown songs that subsequently had movies named after them where Macaulay Culkin gets killed by a swarm of bees,” probably.

X Factor Betting Odds: Eton Road, Leona & Ben 2006

And, peace restored, Spencer Pratt can now go back to his awful Republican girlfriend and her naked best friend and get on with whatever cloth-eared, cheaply-made probably pre-rehearsed claptrap he gets up to on The Hills.

Olsen Twins Write Book That No Sensible Human Will Read 2008

So it goes without saying that Britney Spears would have to be the world's most cloth-eared nobsack to not want to listen to the advice of the almighty Dr Phil.

Dr Phil Ditches That Whole Britney Spears Episode Idea 2008

What lost this election was the cloth-eared cluelessness of George W. Bush, the timid squeamishness of John McCain, and the deep lack of interest in conservative principles among Republican primary voters.

Never Yet Melted 2008

Terrible, dull little spats which were either the height of unprofessionalism of lazily-scripted ways to keep the audience watching and voting for whatever cloth-eared dipshits were still on the show.

X Factor Betting Odds: Louis Walsh To Quit Again? 2006