I caught that too and it left a bad taste in my mouth. Truly unnecessary and cheap.
He was dealing with two young guys at a very emotional moment and Cowell's slam of both of them with that single, parting, after-the-fact comment was both unnecessary,and cheap but it was also cruel.
Well get a look at Drudge's page. It lookks like the entire competition is being called into question. Apparently the President of a rival network is calling it a modern day $64,000. question, which is exactly what I suggested earlier on in this thread.
This show was a hoax. The voting was a fraud.