Poor Kris Allen! Wrong guy wins ‘American Idol’ over Adam Lambert

I hate being wrong. I hate it even more when you're wrong.

America, you proved yourself a bad judge of stardom.

But a good judge of talent, since Kris Allen is a talented guy. A humble guy. An amazing guy. Such a good person, that's obvious.

I've been supporting him for a while and voted (once) for him to get this far.

But the season eight winner of "American Idol"?!

Please.

Even Kris didn't seem to know how to process that. There was no elation, only confusion. He didn't know how to feel, other than to say that Adam Lambert deserved it.

Well, no argument here!

There was one star of this season and it was Adam. No question.

Adam Lambert was robbed. Pure and simple.

The Associated Press was ready to crown him.

They sent out an AP News Alert at 10:02 p.m. Wednesday night: "Adam Lambert has won the eighth season of "American Idol," beating fellow finalist Kris Allen."

They fixed it quickly to read: "CORRECTS: Kris Allen won the 8th season of "American Idol," beating finalist Adam Lambert."

How embarrassing for all of us.

Ryan Seacrest said just under 100 million votes had come in, but he never said how many were between Kris and Adam.

Last season there were 12 million between David Cook and David Archuleta.

I'm curious about how many people really hated Adam Lambert that much.

Bad call, Sneaky Silent Majority. Congratulations on getting your middle-of-the-road choice once again. Safe. Easy.

"No Boundaries" my arse. You clearly are keeping those boundaries tightly in place.

All you've done is canonize martyr Glambert -- somewhere someone is seeing his face on a piece of toast and worshipping it even more -- and making Kris Allen "The Guy Who Stole American Idol From Adam Lambert."

Kris deserved a nice quiet retreat from the limelight -- at least before the top 10 tour -- not what he's going to face now.

This is still Adam's season. Poor Kris is just the asterisk.

Other than the outcome -- the whole point of being there -- it was best finale I’ve ever seen. Amazing show.

Lionel Richie, KISS, Keith Urban, Jason Mraz, Cyndi Lauper, Queen Latifah, Carlos Santana, Steve Martin – yes, Steve Martin – Rod Stewart.

Seriously. Why couldn’t they do this well last night?

More to the point, why couldn't they do this well VOTING last night?

(I got through for Adam once, but my co-worker got through for Kris four times. I BLAME HER!)

Just under 100 million votes came in. (Compared with 97.5 million last season. They were more precise last year.) That makes the season total a record-setting 624 million votes.

What’s with the bad mics? Why do they all always have to wear white?

Carly Smithson is in San Diego with the Adam Lambert crowd. She didn’t take San Diego all the way last year, she said, but she’s hoping Adam can. Lots of “woo”-ing.

They perform “So What”? They are all in white too.

Alexis Grace! I missed her. Remember when the show was fixed and she was supposed to make it to the final four?

Jorge! Jasmine! I forgot they were even in the top 13. Why top 13, anyway?

Bartender-turned-Season 8 Idol performs “Permanent.”

This poor guy has had an emotional 2009. Great song.

He was a good Idol choice. Let’s pat ourselves on the back again for that one.

David Cook: “It’s a tough song. I think at the end of the day, I think not only to honor my brother but anybody going through something like this, you stay the course and you pull strength from everyone else.”

Right after show put performance on iTunes. All sales go to Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure (ABC2), money goes to finding a cure for cancer.

He said both Adam and Kris are great guys. “I don’t know that America can get this wrong.”

The nominees for Outstanding Male:

Will Kunick

Michael Gurr

Elijah Scarlett

Dean Anthony Bradford

Nick Mitchell/Norman Gentle

Winner: Nick Mitchell

He gives a speech. He’s wearing a sweatshirt. This is ridiculous.

“I wish I had prepared something … HIT IT!”

He has his “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going” outfit on and he does it all over again. Save me.

Lil Rounds and Queen Latifah sing “Cue the Rain.”

Nice beginning. Good to see Lil again.

Anoop Desai and Alexis Grace sing “I’m Yours” with Jason Mraz. No matter how many times I hear this song I never get tired of it. This is the kind of song I expect from Kris Allen soon.

Everyone else joins in.

Kris and Keith Urban sing “Kiss a Girl.” Both on guitars. Awesome! They are kind of similar, actually. Nicole Kidman chose well.

Top 13 girls sing “Glamorous.” Megan Joy Corkrey only has a small range.

Fergie comes out. Not sure about the dark hair. She sings “Big Girls Don’t Cry.”

Black Eyed Peas come out and perform “Boom Boom Pow.”

**Weird technical issue for 2-3 seconds**

For best attitude, nominees:

Katrina Darrell – Bikini Girl!

Alexis Cohen – Take it girl!

Tiffany Shedd

Award goes to: Katrina Darrell

Of course, she comes out in a bikini.

She kisses Ryan on the mouth.

Katrina: “He kissed back this time.”

She clearly got a boob job.

Ryan: “I was gonna ask what’s new but I think I know.”

She sings “Vision of Love” – her fight song with Kara.

Kara comes out and they sing together.

Go Kara!

Kara takes over. She can really sing!

She flips open her dress to reveal her own bikini (then quickly covers up). No boob job and tan!

They bet that she wouldn’t do that and she did, so they’re going to give a lot of money to her favorite charity.

David Cook in the audience, smiling.

Allison and Cyndi Lauper sing “Time After Time.” Wow, this is a good show. Lucky girl. Cyndi rules. She looks awesome. What is she playing? I’m musically challenged.

Kris Allen’s mom – in a racy red one-shoulder dress – said they almost forgot what’s going on since they’re having such a great time watching the show.

The Allens are very formal and polite.

Check in with Lamberts. They are an attractive, polished couple too. Dad is tall and blonde. Ryan said he must be dad because he and Adam look so much alike. (Adam is naturally a freckled kind of strawberry blonde too.)

Gokey sings “Hello.” He sits on the stairs. It’s a good song. He does a good job. Of course, David Cook rocked this last season.

Lionel Richie comes out. They sing “Just Go.” Pretty much what I wanted Gokey to do a few weeks ago. (Sorry. I should stay positive. And this is a good song.)

They sing “All Night Long.” Actually, this is the best part of the show so far. Go Gokey.

Ruben Studdard singing along from the audience. Go Ruuuuben!

Danny in his jeans. He was never that good on the show, what was he holding onto it for?

What is he wearing on his shoulders? Some kind of goth angel armor?

Sings KISS’ “Beth.” Rocks it.

KISS comes out and sings with him.

No wonder he’s dressed up. Next to them he’s tame.

Sing “Detroit Rock City” and “Rock and Roll All Nite.”

He gets the lights, the pyrotechnics, the whole thing. Arena stuff.

Whew!

Just Carlos center stage, rocking it out at 9:26 p.m.

Matt Giraud comes out and sings “Black Magic Woman.” He’s got his Justin Timberlake hat on again.

They segue into “Smooth” and the top 13 come out.

Adam changed into a black outfit with a skinny tie. Kris is still casual. Night and day, these two.

David Cook says they have a surprise.

On behalf of the Ford Motor Company, David Cook gives them keys to new 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrids.

Shameless product placement!

Megan Joy, Michael Sarver and Steve Martin. Steve Martin in banjo!

This is pretty good for her, but better for him.

Steve Martin wrote that song, “Pretty Flowers,” which is on his new album.

Ryan asks who he thinks will win.

Steve: “I know it’s a long shot, but I’m hoping I do.”

They do “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy.” All wearing “Reservoir Dogs” style suits. Nice.

Rod Stewart comes out in a checkered suit has trouble navigating the stairs. Adam tries to help.

Outstanding Female award nominees:

Chelsea Marquardt

Irene Anguelova

Dana Moreno

Tatiana Nicole Del Toro – DEAR GOD I KNOW WHO’LL BE WINNING

Winner: Tatiana. He’s telling her they have no time and they’ll give it to her after, but she rushes the stage.

She sings again.

Ryan: “Tatiana, I’m not kidding. I actually have to take a break.”

“Security” comes and takes her away. Right.

They sing “We are the Champions.”

This is a great finale song. Is that why last night was so bad. To compare to this?

Lights everywhere, the smoke machine is back. How much did this cost, I wonder?

Queen performs with them. Freddie Mercury, we miss you!

At the end, Adam says "Queen, ladies and gentlemen!" like it's his show. It is, I guess.

Simon: I would just say to both of you, and I don’t normally mean this, you were both brilliant. Unusually incredibly nice people. … And the future’s all yours.

Envelope comes out.

A new record was created with almost 100 million votes cast. (Only one by me – for Adam.)

The winner of American Idol is … Kris Allen?

Kris: Are you friggin’ serious? … It feels good, man, but Adam deserves this. I’m sorry I don’t even know what to feel right now. … I don’t even know.

What do you want to say to the people who voted for you?

He seems so flustered. Poor Kris.

The audience screamed for him, but now it’s like a deflated balloon. Weird.

I want to know how far apart the votes were.

Oh no. We have to hear “No Boundaries” again.