"American Idol" Finale: Twist and Shouts for the Winning David

amp160Simon apologized And with that the end was clear David Cook not David Archuleta would be the next American Idol amp160All season Simon Cowell had pushed Cook toward the finale Then on the penultimate Idol episode Tuesday Cowell had given the amp8220knockoutamp8221 to Archuleta Was the switch a deliberate maneuver to garner more votes for his real favorite Cookamp160Whatever it worked With a record 975 million text and phone votes flooding in Cook a 25yearold former bartender from Missouri took the win by a 12 millionvote margin amp160The announcement of Cookamp8217s win came at the end of an excruciatingly bloated twohour finale Host Ryan Seacrest pushed the clock by reading the winneramp8217s name at exactly 10 pm ET The previous 120 minutes of Idol were jammed with amp160 An Osmondesque group number by the top 12 Idol finalists Egregious product placement for Mike Myersamp8217 awfullooking new movie The Love Guru Thirdplace finisher Syesha Mercadoamp8217s performance with Seal A numbingly boring performance by the somnambulant Jason Castro performance The final Ford ad of the season Product placement for Ford Escape Hybrids that each of the final two singers receives The top six women performing with disco relic Donna Summer which Seacrest pronounced amp8220Summersamp8221 A Carly Smithson and Michael Johns performance Who Exactlyamp8230 An appearance by latenight ABC host Jimmy Kimmel who called Idol amp8220karaokeamp8221 and said Seacrest wears amp8220Lee presson nailsamp8221 A medley of Simon Cowellamp8217s season of insults set to music A performance by the top six men with Bryan Adams Jordin Sparks hawking the American Idol Experience attraction at Walt Disney World and David Cookamp8217s performance with ZZ TopThat was just the first hour In hour two we gotamp160 Brooke White performing with rock relic Graham Nash The Jonas Brothers in an obvious lipsync performance Seacrest bringing a little old lady onstage to intro a segment featuring another round of public humiliation for the worst singers at national Idol auditions Another appearance by one of those terrible singers One Republic performing amp8220Apologizeamp8221 with David Archuleta Jordin Sparks last yearamp8217s winner emerging from obscurity as a life lesson for this yearamp8217s winner 1972 footage of soul relic Gladys Knight digitally manipulated to include Ben Stiller Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr as new Pips Carrie Underwood performing in tottering amp8220dome pumpsamp8221 The top 12 performing again with Osmondesque choreography George Michael singing an awful song about global warming that included the lyrics amp8220Do we still have timeamp8221 at a point in the show that time was running out Paula Abdul standing up and wiggling her booty to a global warming anthem Simon Cowell apologizing to Cook for not praising him sufficiently the night before and saying amp8220For the first time ever I donamp8217t really care who wins I think youamp8217ve both done terrificamp8221 Then at long last Ryan Seacrest announcing which David wonThe show ended with David Cook singing his upcoming single amp8220Time of My Lifeamp8221 the winner of the showamp8217s songwriting competition Appropriate ending to a finale that seemed to take a lifetime to get to the big moment

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