Delayed

President preempts 'Idol' Tuesday night

Fox may offer a lot of support to the Bush Administration, but it apparently isn't enough to keep the president from scheduling his press conference tonight in the middle of American Idol. As a result, the show's schedule has been bumped back a day; we'll see singing tomorrow night and results on Thursday.

Check out the poll at the bottom of the article, by the way. When I took it, 60% of voters thought John Stevens should be the next to go. Based on a quirk of the Idol website, however, I think it will be Jennifer Hudson, followed by Jasmine Trias. So far, two contestants in succession have been eliminated from each of the first and third rows; first, the person who is alphabetically first in that row (Leah LaBelle and Amy Adams), then the person who is alphabetically last (Matt Rogers and Camile Velasco). Wouldn't it be odd if such a strange pattern continued with the second row the next two weeks? The ultimate progression of this pattern would dictate that George Huff will face off with John Stevens in the finale...an odd prospect indeed. I guess we'll find out.