[ifinnegan]

I remember during that season, most here felt Aiken got ripped off and that it was rigged so that Stoddard won and that any suggestion Aiken was, you know, was met with derision and hostility.

How time changes all things.

[GeronL]

I doubt that most FReeper cared one way or the other.

You mean the ones on the “idol” threads probably

[fwdude]

I remember during that season, most here felt Aiken got ripped off and that it was rigged so that Stoddard won and that any suggestion Aiken was, you know, was met with derision and hostility.

How time changes all things.

That was the only "reality" show I watched even remotely casually. And only the 2nd season. It was before "gay" trumped "black" as it is nowadays. Ruben won by a hair, but if that season's contestants had been two years later, Gay Clay would have left him in the dust. That's how much PC power they have accumulated in a short time.

[ez]

Aiken was far more talented than Reuben and I feel he was robbed by political correctness, gay or not. Quite the shame for him, too, since today PC would dictate to choose the gay over the black, instead of what happened.