Adam Lambert AMA Controversy Video: CBS ‘Hypocritical’ for Blurring His Kiss

adam-lambert-ama-controversy-video-cbs-hypocritical-for-blurring-his-kiss Adam Lambert AMA controversy video is below. American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert admits he got carried away with his sexually charged American Music Awards 2009 performance, but he’s offering no apology. CBS blurred the image of Lambert kissing his male guitarist, moments before showing unedited footage of Madonna and Britney Spears making out.

Adam Lambert American Music Awards (AMAs) 2009 Performance Youtube Video

CBS’ explanation: “We gave this some real thought. The Madonna image is very familiar and has appeared countless times including many times on morning television. The Adam Lambert image is a subject of great current controversy, has not been nearly as widely disseminated, and for all we know, may still lead to legal consequences.”

Adam Lambert Falls at (AMAs) 2009 American Music Awards Youtube Video & Photos

According to Huffington Post, the glam rocker from “American Idol” said on “The Early Show” that his performance would not have caused as much controversy if he weren’t openly gay. He also said there were other “adult” moments on the show that caused no outrage.

“I admit I did get carried away, but I don’t see anything wrong with it,” he said Wednesday. “I do see how people got offended and that was not my intention. My intention was to interpret the lyrics of my song and have a good time with it.”

Lambert kissed a male keyboard player and had a dancer simulate oral sex on him while performing “For Your Entertainment,” a song with a sexual edge. ABC received many complaints about the performance and that network’s morning show, “Good Morning America,” canceled Lambert’s scheduled appearance on Wednesday because it said it couldn’t trust what he would do.

“The Early Show” on CBS, perennially third in a three-network morning show race, happily gave him a platform — interviewing him and asking him to sing.

Lambert admitted he didn’t rehearse some of the more risque elements of his award show performance — a point that particularly upset ABC, which said it was taken by surprise by what he did. In the future, he said he’d try to get these issues cleared before the show.

But he noted that Lady Gaga smashed whiskey bottles during her performance, Eminem rapped about rape and Janet Jackson briefly groped a male dancer.

“Janet Jackson, crotch grab,” he said. “I haven’t heard one peep about that.”

He said that “if it had been a female pop performer doing (his) moves that were on the stage, I don’t think there would be nearly as much of an outrage.”

“I think it’s because I’m a gay male,” he added.

According to sfgate, CBS – and mainsteam television (not cable) – could do itself a favor and show the World as it is, not as CBS thinks it should be (as if anyone asked them). There’s a “straight white male ethic” at work which has a weird pecking order on television and sends this message:

1) Kissing between white men and white women is desired so we will show that to you.

2) While kissing between a white woman and another white woman isn’t really that normal or desired, straight white men love it, so we’ll show it to you.

3) A white man kissing a black woman or an Asian woman or a Latino woman is less desired than white men kissing white women, but the minorities are becoming the majority, so we’ll show that.

4) Two white guys kissing is not desirable but because there are so many gays in power in entertainment, we’ll show the scene but blur out the kiss.

5) A black man kissing a white woman is less desired because its threatening to white guys, so we won’t show that on television if we can help it; Asian woman? Sure. Latina woman? OK, but dark-skinned. But, if it’s Tiger Woods, we’ll give him a pass because he’s really good at golf. Heidi and Seal’s ok because, well, Heidi’s just plain hot.

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Adam Lambert AMA Controversy Video: CBS ‘Hypocritical’ for Blurring His Kiss

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