AT&T helps Kris Allen win Idol?

There's nothing better than a good controversy to taint a win. Everyone (including himself) was SHOCKED last week when Kris Allen walked away with the American Idol title. He's even both blogged and said on national TV that Adam should've won it (only to come back and say America couldn't have made a bad vote.) Turns out AT&T, one of Idol's biggest sponsors, may have had a hand in giving Kris the crown.

AT&T provided phones for free text messaging at two different Kris support parties. On top of that, workers showed the partygoers how to power text -- send 10 texts/votes with the push of a button. Interestingly enough, AT&T wasn't present at any Adam support parties, and definitely didn't show any Adam voters how to power texts.

So basically, two questions can be asked out of this. 1) Did AT&T want Kris to win because they felt more comfortable advertising on a show that had him as a winner instead of Adam? and 2) Since AT&T is such a vital part of Idol's advertising income, did Idol execs strike a deal behind the scenes with AT&T to make sure Kris was named the winner because he'd be a less controversial face to market? Either way, this totally ruins Kris' win and rains on his parade. I was an Adam fan, but even I think this is total bush league bullsh*t.