[kevkrom]

If the show is as badly rigged as the "insider" claims, he or she would have taken the evidence and run to a rival network for a big, fat payday rather than post messages to a fan board. This was just someone yanking people's chains, in my book.

That isn't to say that they don't pull a lot of tricks to push their favored contestants -- clearly they do, and have been called on it repeatedly in this thread (including the original thread). Personally, I would doubt that they monkey around with the actual vote results just from the sheer negative publicity they'd get when caught, and you know the other major networks would love to catch them doing something like that.

[misterrob]

Simon is a capitalist. If he could make a few million from Taylor then he'll do it.