Adam Lambert and some gay activists are upset that his simulated fellatio from the AMAs got him booted from ABC’s GMA.
Complaints poured in to the ABC TV network that aired the show, and it canceled the Lambert’s appearance on its “Good Morning America” news and chat show set for Wednesday.
Yet rival network CBS put him on its “The Early Show” program, where Lambert claimed he had not intended to provoke audiences but declined to apologize, saying: “I’m not a baby-sitter. I’m a performer.”
“I admit I did get carried away, but I don’t see anything wrong with it. I do see how people got offended, and that was not my intention,” he said.
“If it had been a female pop performer doing the moves that were on the stage, I don’t think there’d be nearly as much of an outrage at all,” Lambert added. “I think it’s because I’m a gay male.”
The “Early Show” also ran video footage that blurred Lambert’s male kiss, and doing so caused the network its own problem. Gay rights groups accused CBS of hypocrisy by also playing unedited video of a kiss between Madonna and Britney Spears at 2003′s MTV Video Music Awards.
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) said the CBS decision “reinforces an unfortunate double standard that is applied to openly gay performers.”
An unfortunate double standard about what?
Let’s look at the two situations side by side.
Madonna and Britney kissed. It was in primetime, granted, but it was on a cable network that you have to pay to get. It was also, in fact, just a kiss.
Lambert, however, was on primetime network television simulating a sex act. If you notice, nothing has been mentioned by these advocates who claim oppression at the drop of a hat that he danced suggestively with other men, or that the men were dressed like cheap slaves from a dom club. The network didn’t even have a problem with that. The problem they had was the simulated blowjob and the only line that got bleeped in the entire song was “I’ma work ya ’til your totally blown.”
Are we supposed to believe that ABC is some pile of anti-gay prudes because they objected to a simulated blow-job on stage in primetime but at the same time they allowed all the other stuff that happened and all the grabbing and gyrating didn’t bother them a bit?
And are we supposed to believe that there’s some kind of double standard involved because a kiss between two women was allowed on a cable network?
Kisses aren’t the same as blowjobs, guys. I know it’s all cool to claim oppression, but honestly, I don’t see anything wrong with ABC protecting its ass here.
This is why activists just flat-out suck. They can never tell reality apart from an opportunity to jump in front of a microphone or camera to tell the world how oppressed they are.