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May 27, 2009

Did AT&T sway the 'American Idol' results?

The New York Times has an interesting story about the American Idol finale week. Seems a couple of AT&T representatives attended a couple of the finale parties in winner Kris Allen's home state of Arkansas and helped people cast text votes with demo phones. These votes were also free of the usual charge that text voters would pay from their own phones.

Read about the controversy here.

Posted by Sarah Kickler Kelber at 11:25 AM | | Comments (4)
Categories: American Idol
        

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Oh, here we go. It's time for the conspiracy theorist to start coming out of the woodwork. For some unknown reason, the women seemed to swoon over Adam. I know the preceding comment might sound sexist, but in my experience, every female Idol fan I encountered was gaga over Adam, and all of the men not so much.

Ever since 9:59 PM last Wednesday night, the Adamites have been yelling and screaming about how Adam was screwed. They have to have some theory to attach to their emotional let down, so now the story surfaces about "free texts." Next, it will be because the Christians voted for Kris instead of Adam, then it will be that the homephobes would not vote for Adam.

This is all sour grapes. Let it go already. Kris was the winner. Live with it.

I say let's throw out the results and start all over. I'm backing Norman Gentle this time. (Yes, I mean start completrely over.)

Whatever. Things worked out for the best anyway. I wish them both the best of luck on their careers.

They are both good guys.

I don't think I will be tuning in to next years American Idol though. Kind of lame for my taste.

Kris is a pretender to the throne - did not win honestlysince the votes were fixed. Too bad his fans really are the ones who did this to him - if they were so sure of his talent they should have just relaxed and let him win honestly - but then again maybe they knew he wouldn't. I liked Allison but too bad she left before that Gokey guy. Cheaters never win & winners never cheat - isn't that the saying ? But then again this is America, the land of the scam.

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About Sarah Kelber
Sarah Kickler Kelber, an editor in the features department since 1999, got sucked into reality TV with the first episode of MTV's The Real World in 1992. Then came Survivor and American Idol, and suddenly, the genre was everywhere. She started blogging about it for The Baltimore Sun in January 2006 and has logged more hours watching and writing about such shows as Dancing With the Stars, Big Brother and, of course, Idol, than she'd like to admit.
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