Clay Mention on MSNBC

Clay was mentioned in today's edition of Scarborough County on MSNBC. The panel debated voting practices used on American Idol and one analyst suggested that the vote between Clay and Ruben in 2003 was rigged.

From the CB's fancynails4:

They had on some guy- don't know who it was- can't see tv from this angle and also the guy who started VOTEFORTHEWORST.COM website.
The first guy said he thinks the Clay/Ruben vote was 'rigged'. He even called the FCC on it. He also had some information that Clay won the vote 60/40!!!!! (I think it could of been even bigger spread) He said people were getting busy signals when calling Clay's line when Ruben's mother got in 200 votes. IMO- that happened because Clay had so many MORE people trying to vote for him and clogged up the lines. Less people voting for Ruben; so his votes got in. That is not hard to figure out!! He even mentioned that company that was getting some of Clay's votes in error. But I don't think those were enough to make a big difference. I likened the problem with Clay's votes to trying to call Ticketmaster for tickets to someone like Billy Joel or Neil Diamond and getting a busy signal for over an hour (happened to me many times until I started buying tickets on-line and even then, I sometimes couldn't get tickets to Neil's or Billy's shows). But I think the producers knew Clay beat the pants off Ruben and they could of still called Clay the winner if they really wanted to.
(I also posted this in the TV & Movies forum - along with another mention of Clay on Rita Croby's show also on MSNBC)