LAST EDITED ON 09-02-05 AT 10:40 AM (EST)

"He's subtle about it -- "killing them with kindness" -- and other such comments suggesting that he manipulated someone into thinking they were better suited for a certain song in order to get the particular song he wanted to sing, being rude in the team player aspect of the songwriting exercise, etc, etc, etc. Now, many of those may not be "public" comments in the sense that JD is speaking to a camera only when he says how he really feels, but since this is a reality show and it's obvious comments like that will be broadcast and undoubtably hurt people's feelings when they hear what JD has been saying about them "behind their backs," it's sort of the same thing."

See, the subtle thing - I think that leaves it all open to interpretation. I think JD really set this all off with his comment about knowing the songs better than everyone else. From that moment on, I think some people hated him and looked at every action through that lens "JD must be a jerk."

You see his song writing clinic behaviour as rude but what about Marty & Jordis? Do you consider dismissing him "i don't like the way you co-write" "that's just so obvious" isn't rude? If you are going to call not getting along rude, then call it both ways. If JD had sent Marty off to write and then dissed it all, you'd be calling that manipulative, right?

I interpreted his "killing them with kindess" comment as "Oh man I've gotten off on the wrong foot and I need to bend over backwards to make up for it."

I believe it was Dave who said a couple weeks back that JD was the only one who understood what this competition was about. You notice he didn't slam JD for being manipulative and slimy. He said he as doing it right. And that's when a lot of the trash talking, ego pumping started to show up in the other contestants.