by The great Adam Lambert — seen below exchanging glee with another man in a previous moment of ecstasy — was the real winner of American Idol and AT&T have confessed their text thuggery in giving the win to Kris, Adam’s fundamentalist Christian, competitor.
LOS ANGELES — AT&T, one of the biggest corporate sponsors of “American Idol,” might have influenced the outcome of this year’s competition by providing phones for free text-messaging services and lessons in casting blocks of votes at parties organized by fans of Kris Allen, the Arkansas singer who was the winner of the show last week.
Representatives of AT&T helped fans of Mr. Allen at the two Arkansas events by providing instructions on how to send 10 or more text messages at the press of a single button, known as power texts. Power texts have an exponentially greater effect on voting than do single text messages or calls to the show’s toll-free phone lines. The efforts appear to run afoul of “American Idol” voting rules in two ways. The show broadcasts an on-screen statement at the end of each episode warning that blocks of votes cast using “technical enhancements” that unfairly influence the outcome of voting can be thrown out.
Kris needs to do the right, Christian, thing and resign as the false American Idol.
Adam Lambert deserves the win — and the rest of us are waiting for his new anointing.
In principle, of course Adam should be the winner.
In reality, of course, it doesn’t even matter who wins because the losers seem to make out better than the winners – Jennifer Hudson et al.
Gordon!
I agree the losers do better — they get less attention from the producers of the show and can more go their own way — but when embedded prejudice against one competitor over another skews the outcome… outrage is all we have left to express!