I watched the last four minutes of AMERICAN IDOL.
The winner came as no surprise (as I said, he'd been the leader for the last two months), but I was fairly disgusted with Simon Cowell. I don't for a minute believe he "recanted" his opinion a bit without some inside information. I think as one of the producers, he was tipped off as to the winner, and not wanting to appear as if he couldn't pick the right winner, tried to go back on his opinions of the night before.
His ego got the best of him, I think.