[al_c]

He beat the crap out of david Cook tonite. He is real and has no phoney scruff. He has the drive and power tonite. He projected his power in all of his songs.

He's one dimensional ... a ballad boy. Nothing "idol" about him. Yeah, he's got a good voice and can sing well. But Cook is the whole package and shows much more maturity and versatility than Monchichi does.

[bert]

Cook looks like a scruffy ner do well who climed out of a dumpster after a hard night.

He sang with no drive, no projection.

I think he was intimidated.