Should Chris Brown really be crying victim after his little incident on Good Morning America this past week?
Brown went on a rampage in his dressing room after Robin Roberts asked him some questions about his domestic violence incident with Rihanna two years ago, tearing off his shirt, and smashing a window. ABC later announced that they would not press charges.
On top of that, his performance for this week’s Dancing With The Stars, also on ABC is still on as scheduled. Good Morning America even extended an invitation back to the show to clear the air.
But where was all this hospitality when Adam Lambert kissed a male dancer on stage during a previous performance on the network back in 2009 at the AMA’s?
Following that incident, Lambert was subsequently banned from the network, with appearances on Good Morning America and Dick Clark’s Rockin’ New Years Eve being canceled as early as the morning after.
So why is tossing a chair through a window forgivable but an openly gay man kissing another man so taboo?
Thought we were past all that by now!
On top of that, the New York Post makes a great point that any non celebrity who destroyed ABC property like that would be easily arrested, escorted off the property, and not welcomed back. Also the fact that an innocent passer by could have been seriously injured by the broken glass.
Why is ABC giving Chris Brown a free pass over facing the music for a crime he committed, while Lambert gets banned from an entire network for being his non-harmful self?
Ridiculous if you ask us!
I agree. If it would have been a noncelebrity, the police would have been called. I also agree completely on how it is Chris Brown can get away with being violent, when Adam was only showing affection.
IT’S A BASIC AMERICAN CONCEPT…..SEXUALITY [ ESPECIALLY BETWEEN TWO MEN ] IS TABOO, BUT VIOLENCE IS EMBRACED. SOMEONE COULD HAVE BEEN KILLED BY THAT FALLING GLASS. SHAME ON YOU ABC
SHAME ON ABC, Adam Lambert is one of the kindest and most generous person I have ever met. He helped raise almost a million dollars in various charities and has done nothing to harm any one, where as chris Brown has demonstrated violence again and again, he trashed and destroyed ABC property and stormed out, the next day he is forgiven and gets invitation back on the show and also will be on dancing with the stars? What kind of message they are sending out to American youth? It is okay to commit violence?it is okay to beat up a women? It is okay to destroy some ones property while you are guest in their home/property? ABC you need to really apologize to Adam Lambert and invite him back, that is the only way you can redeem yourself and make things right.
You are so right Indigo. Chris Brown is selling records so it doesn’t seem to hurt him. What a terrible world we live in. We condone violence especially in the hip hop or rap industry and can’t accept gay sexuality. I won’t be watching Dancing when he is on. It’s one of my favorite shows and has many people watching. I may not watch it at all. Shame on ABC.
I work for a company of 10,000 employees, they hate ABC, WE ALL DO! SHAME ON THEM.
What we have here is a prime example of hypocrisy. ABC needs to sit back and analyze their actions. The whole violence vs. sexuality scenario is what’s on topic.
ABC needs to get their act together. Imagine….condoning the acts of a violent offender by repeatedly inviting him back. Adam Lambert didn’t get a chance. If ABC continues this blatant and selective abuse of power,they will see their viewership decline (if it already hasn’t suffered).
Enough is enough!!
If forgiveness is ABC’s motto,then ABC should apologize to Adam Lambert for their unfair treatment of him and move on! Keep Chris Brown,but extend the olive branch to Adam as well!
Fairness will not happen if they keep inviting an accused batterer back to promote his latest musical offerings.
What I’d like to know……if Chris Brown didn’t break the window……who did?
So transparent!!
I love and respect Mr. Adam Lambert: He’s an example of a talented, hard working and amazing human on many levels. SHAME ON YOU ABC!
ABC can go to Hades, I won’t watch their homophobic garbage anyway.
Amen! Thanks for the article and I agree 100%.
Adam booted but not Chris Brown…Adam Lambert did not commit a felony,did not strangle or beat any woman,did not get arrested after his performance,did not cuss or threaten any ABC employees,did not trash his dressing room,did not throw a chair through a window,did not send nude pictures of himself with his phone and has not gone insane on twitter like Chris Brown and ABC staff did not call security on Adam but they did Chris..no one went to the hospital after the AMA…Riahanna was not that lucky…
I don’t think it’s a matter of “forgiveness” with ABC, it’s about lawsuits (not pressing charges) and ratings (inviting him back).
Hasn’t anyone realized yet it was not so much the kiss…but Adam’s crotch in another guys face, while he faked oral sex. I love Adam and he is a great entertainer.. but many will always hold that aganist him, to cover their own ass and their righteousness. hmmm!
Charn you do have a point. I didn’t like the face in the crotch on the AMAs and it has taken me a long time to forgive Lambert for this. But then I remembered Janet Jackson reaching under a guy’s crotch and similating grabbing him and alot more incidents that were bad on other shows. I wish Adam had apologized for over interpreting the lyrics and practicing one thing while performing another. That is one fault. But other than that he has come a long way, supports many charities and had a great concert tour. As far as I know he doesn’t beat women or throw chairs at windows. Thanks.
Would certainly prefer a face in my crotch than a chair in my face. Double standards abound when it comes to gay men. But, please give that angry young man a break. because he certainly didn’t get any. Oh, right, he got probation while other non-celebrities would have gone to jail, for both incidents. Still don’t watch GMA, and if they ask Adam back on, I would tell them to shove it. BTW won’t be watching DWTS that night either.
Black in this country have more to say then any other races . He is going to cry that there is racism against him. And on the other hand, lets don’t forget this country is homophobic. Need I say more.
OMG! I totally forgot/disregarded that Chris Brown is black! I think you made a point here! ABC is aware about it and acts accordingly!
HEY! ABC are you listening?
Do what I did and contact ABC and GMA directly with your opinion. Looks to me like ABC will condone violent behavior even in their building in addition to having a double standard. Shame on Robin Roberts for offering an apology to this man…………
ABC! you are pathetic. 2 years later and Adam is still paying the price, come on. Did anyone see Glee last week by the way or notice Charlie Sheen kissing Jimmy Kimmel, are we getting replay after replay about those incidents, not that I have a problem with them. what I do have a problem with, is the way Adam was bashed and treated for kissing a guy. They forgive someone abusing a woman and trashing a dressing room, what a great message you’re sending out ABC to the youth of America, are you going to tell us how many complaints you got about this incident with Chris Brown, I’ll never tune in to ABC again.
Why do they not like Adam he is pleasant and he doesn’t beat a woman up….I think if they just give him a pat on the hand that is terrible…and if he is on dancing with the stars I will turn him off…..totally……
100% agree with the article and what everybody said here. I also wonder why people are still buying woman-abuser’s album. is this reallly the country that is supposed to be one of the best countries in the world? ABC, shame on you!!!
This ignorant backwards country is all about guns and religion. ABC is falling in line with all the rest of the idiots who think homosexuals will hurt them more than a violent man will. Adam has been the most patient and kind man alive with what he has had to endure for an entire year after the AMA’s. Chris couldn’t handle one interview. Who’s the better man?
I pray ABC invites Adam back and he tells them to F_ _ K off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the fact that regardless of chris brown’s actions abc still courts him is indicative of their greed and their hypocricy. we have a hallowed tradition in this country of rewarding bad behavior in the media because people will watch it. on the other hand, the juxtaposition of their actions in regard to chris vs. the over the top banishment of adam lambert after a nearly 11PM performance on a music awards show (filled with the usual assortment of sexually provocative behavior by female singers) — that comparison is stark. not to mention lambert was ACTING, as part of a performance. chris was not: unless he’s outsmarted all of us by figuring out that the biggest jerk gets the guest appearances.
I also agree with all these comments. I’m still not over how ABC has dished adam for over 2 years now, this incident with chris and how ABC is behaving just brought everything back again and I’m furious all over again. Geez- ABC- you need a new CEO for sure.
I am livid over this. I have not watched anything with Dick Clark or GMA since they shunned Lambert. Chris Brown now apparently has a #1 CD so you can imagine he’ll be everywhere. It’s perfectly ok to be a bad ass male who is violent or a gorgeous sleezy female and do explicit things on awards’ shows, but a gay man can’t. I am an older, married with children Glambert. I am considered rather conservative, but I have found that it is still a man’s world. Men can do anything (except for gay flamboyant men) and pretty women get it all. I am willing to forgive Chris Brown (he is very talented) if he gets the help he needs, apologizes and changes his behavior for good. ABC shame on you.
I will watch ABC when they put Adam Lambert on GMA or DWTS.
Adam Lambert continues to be a nice and gracious person. It would boost GMA’s credibility if they would invite him on the show after stooping to such low standards in excusing the
inexcusable tirades of Chris Brown. When I hear that you are going to have Adam Lambert as your guest on GMA, I will tune in. Until then, the remote is idle.
Seriously! These idiots are more scared of and openly gay man kissing another male onstage (and to those who don’t like kids seeing sexuality, it was past eight or nine when Adam performed that!) then someone known to be violent, being violent on their property and so much so that someone could have been injured?! What the hell!?
Adam was right when he stated most Americans are more worried about sexuality being displayed then violence. I mean, really?! REALLY?!! Sexuality is more a part of being human than violence is. Sexuality is something we all deal with at some point, and should. Violence isn’t.
Well you know, forget those networks if they don’t understand how good it would be to have Adam on their show, they’re missing out
Like many of the comments here, I am repulsed at the patronizing actions of GMA towards
Brown. The Adam Lambert snub was a knee-jerk reaction that did nothing to gain my vote as a show worth watching. Invite people who are gracious and good; not those who have the very real potential to harm.
I guess the actress formerly known as Lindsay Lohan should not have been charged with theft, and Paris for her crimes. This is a joke. One justice for the regular guy and one for CB. His butt should be in court, facing the judge, not on tv entertaining families.
Poor Adam Lambert. Whine, whine, whine. Throwing shade at someone just to get publicity. No1curr.
It is obvious by the comments that plenty of people care….Adam Lambert has not said a word about this situation. It is people who are smart enough to see the blatant double standard that are speaking up….and Chris Brown does not need anyone else to throw shade at him….he does just fine all by his little ole self…..
Adam Lambert has not commented at all on this, but we his fans have noticed the double standard yet again, Apparently Chris Brown can trash whatever he wants and hit whoever he wants and that’s OK with ABC, they’re all over him for making up, Adam kisses a man and Whoooa!! out the door and don’t come back.
I don’t think anyone should ever forget what he did to Rhianna, it’s obvious by his behaviour that he’d do it again if he ever got the chance.
Adam Lambert had NEVER commented about this. Adam is A CLASS ACT. An example of patience, generosity and grace.
@Karen,
Yeah….. poor Adam Lambert. His treatment by the ABC network was unacceptable. He should be making the fuss.,but he’s not He’s all about positive thoughts and forgiveness,however,and is probably concerned about Chris Brown. He’s not doing the whining or throwing the shade……his fans and the others who see this hypocrisy are.
I detest Chris Brown he is a woman beater and to throw such a baby fit on the show was not right…Adam Lambert took it like a man…If chris brown is on dancing with the stars that is one week I will not watch and hope a lot of others don’t…..
Shunning Lambert for almost two years for an incident that was harmless compared to the violent behavior of Chris Brown is pathetic. ABC is all about its ratings so promoting violence means nothing to them. Lambert did not harm anyone or cause damage to ones property yet he is the outcast of company because of its so call moral values. If anyone should be invited back it is Adam Lambert to promote his new Aftermath remix for the Trevor project. Oh I forgot they can’t do that because he kissed a guy and I liked it.
People at ABC are even more spineless than I thought. I would have half expected the treatment of Lambert since, oh my god, two men kissed, but I am rather surprised by the brown incident: seriously, no charges? when the guy is obviously choleric and violent.
Robin Roberts disgusts me. She has NO integrity as a journalist and no integrity as a so-called feminist. She should be ashamed of herself.
ABC disgusts me. Their homophobia is unrelenting. They punish sexuality when displayed by a homosexual male, but reward violence and female sexuality designed to please heterosexual males (Janet Jackson’s crotch grab and Rihanna’s torture porn at the same AMAs at which Lambert performed). They openly admitted at the time that they get more complaints every week about the costumes and sexuality on DWTS than they did about Lambert’s performance, but at no time do they listen to those DWTS complaints. But supposedly those 1500 complaints (out of 7 million viewers) about Lambert justified an ongoing ban. They also admitted that most of the complaints were about the kiss and cancelled Lambert’s appearance on Kimmel, but yet invited Sheen onto Kimmel where the two men kissed. And that’s okay.
And what’s worse is that our society condones violence and encourages the idolization of violent thugs and discrimination against gay sexuality.
ABC do the words bigotry and hypocrit mean anything to you, well they do the buying public.
Perhaps in this day of reality programming ABC and its affiliates have become desensitized regarding violence. Maybe they are so quick to beg Chris Brown to come back after he again exhibited anger issues because they want him to star in their next brain dead reality show. My sister was beaten by her boyfriend multiple times. They say they are going to change and they never do. Chris Brown needs help not enabling by ABC.
I think people also don’t remember that ABC has three Daytime Drama’s that had great success with the infamous Luck & Laura rape on General Hospital (for the voilence against woman); the first lesbian kiss on All My Children; then gay kissing with a gay police man (Fish) and his partner (Oliver). I don’t understand their position at all regarding Lambert.
The kiss wasn’t the problem.
So wrong. Chris should be held accountable for his actions. This is the wrong message to send the children.
I am so very disappointed with ABC and this Chris Brown incident. You banned Adam Lambert for his AMA performance and then invite Chris Brown back after his violent display and history of abuse toward women! To add insult to injury you have shock jock Mike that made such lewd and insulting remarks about Lambert on E! that GLADD got involved. It seems your goal is to insult the gay community with every move you make. ABC needs to make amends by inviting Adam Lambert back to perform at the AMAs. It is the right thing to do and imagine what the rating would be and we all know how much more important that is to this network just by the actions taken so far in this incident.
Oh ABC, please describe to me how violence and misogyny is totally more family friendly than a single gay kiss – a kiss that kids shouldn’t have been watching anyway due to the fact that it was 10 pm at night, well past the family hour?
You disgust me and I happily never turn on your programming.
well ABC just showed that violence in this country is ok–and so what if chris brown likes slapping woman around? right ABC. WOW, I would so rather see adam lambert kiss some guy than to let my kid think its ok to beat up on woman…shame on you ABC
I have not watched abc sinced they did Lambert so unfairly .I will not watch again. They need to give Adam Lambert a lot of apologies. He is a lot better singer then that wife beater Brown. Lambert can sing live better than any singer out there.
ABC is glorifying violence by apologizing to Chris Brown and inviting him back????? I just don;t understand this? How do I explain this to my teenagers? WRONG WRONG WRONG!!! What kind of country do we live in for this to take place? You punish and ban Adam Lambert who is a beautiful, loving, talented person and you accept a violent, angry, negative person like Chris Brown. This just doesn’t make sense. Please do what is right-you are making it hard for me to get my teenagers wrap their heads around this!!! ABC-you can only make this wrong a right…
Adam Lambert = Love, Peace, Positivity ( a Kiss??? So what???)
Chris Brown = Hate, Violence, Negativity (anger, smashes window, hits women-no no no)
What about untalented tramps showing way too much skin. Fake people with all their. plastic surgeries Old 40, 50, 60 ,70 year olds trying to look 20 how disgusting. At least ADAM LAMBERT is honest.
Agism is just as ugly and homophobia. If we are lucky we will all know what age 40 and up is like and hopefully all of us no matter what our age will live life to the fullest.
I guess it’s better to be black than gay.
This is a society governed by religion, violence and MONEY. This is why Chris Brown is embraced 9at the time Adam was nobody and Brown looked like the man to bring money, he he he). Brown responded (at that time) to this three concepts so ABC decided to cut Adam. At ABC, is obviously it’s more convenient to be black than gay because NOBODY CARES ABOUT QUALITY and MORAL.
The more ABC will accept jerks like Chris Brown, THE MORE WE ARE GOING TO LOVE, RESPECT AND SUPPORT ADAM because he is the symbol of TALENT, honesty, grace, generosity, devotion, and hard work.
I can’t wait for the day when all these HARD HEADED “GRUMPY OLD MEN” will be fired from ABC and will be replaced by people who understand QUALITY, NOVELTY and what a ROLE MODEL is all about.
just uneblievable!Send the message out to the children of America!” Beat the crap out of your woman and stay violent,thats cool!! Lets bann the damned fruitcake instead forever! ” ABC..shame on you…again!!!!
so charlie sheen shot one of his ex’s. held a knife to the throat of another and beat her, smashed up a hotel room …..and sleeps with girl afta girl and we praise him? yet altho wat chris brown did was unforgivable and in no way can be excused…..because the female was a celeb he has the cloud cast over him for the rest of his life? charlie sheen has been 10x worse then him, yet cuz the girls we not famous we assume its ok for him to do what he has done? and call him a hero and praise him? on top of that charlie sheen was a grown a** man, chris was 19 wen he did wat he did, no excuse, but young and naive!
No one that I know of is praising Charlie Sheen. No one is calling him a hero…..jeesh. He was fired from his job. The women he abused should bring charges against him. No one can do it for them. He is a disgrace!
Yes but Chris isn’t 19 now and he still is having a significant anger problem. ABC should not reward bad behavior.
It wasn’t about the kiss. You’re all scratching your heads because it doesn’t make sense. Ya, because it was about the whips and chains and leashes on people. It was the blowjobs and the crotch rubbing.
There were no blowjobs, Ning Hush. There was no “crotch rubbing”. Lambert briefly pulled a dancers head to the vicinity of his belly button. No one was whipped. I don’t remember seeing any chains. There were 2 male dancers on leashes, big deal. Lambert was acting out the lyrics of his song which, by the way, was not written by him. Most of these moves were performed earlier in the show by other performers. The only difference is Lambert is gay. There is a clear double standard and it is WRONG.
Oh give me a damn break. Whips and leashes, big deal. It is about Adam being GAY that that ABC didn’t like. The supposed blow jobs and crotch rubbing, come on how many WOMEN singers video’s feature this such thing? A hell of a lot, yet it is ok for them to do it and not a MALE.
DOUBLE STANDARDS AGAIN!!!
YOu and the ABC make me sick.
Well Ning Hush – that’s exactly part of the irritation for me!! ABC WAS WELL AWARE of about 98% of Lambert’s planned performance, that is EXACTLY part of the disgust for me towards their cowardly treatment of him following the AMA performance! They got a reletively small number of complaints from white middle americans (and Ning Hush, if you read those complaints when they were publically released, well, sorry to be mean, but they were so ignorantly written, they displayed a true lack of intelligence and thinking) and decided to bend to the conservative right… which is ABC’s choice, but again, nobody with a brain reading here should forget the very relevant fact that ABC was completely aware of most of Lambert’s planned out performance that evening… and what wasn’t planned and occurred on the fly, was still tame compared to what had been broadcast on that show for many years… it is a show (up until last year, 2010) with historically and traditionally risque and racy content! And I found it so funny that right after that 2009 show, Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve broadcast the very racy song “Sex Therapy” performed by Robin Thicke IMMEDIATELY following the heavly advertised tween bookings that year of Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber. Who did ABC think would be watching that broadcast?? Adults aren’t much interested in Selena Gomez and Justin Beiber – but still, Robin Thicke’s very racy “Sex Therapy” performance came on immediately following Gomez, seperated only by one quick commercial break, during the DCNYRE that year, stunning hypocrisy to me.
It is all about the old grumpy and old fashion men who are managing ABC; for them is OK to see women kissing and doing “out-of-this-world” sexy numbers because it makes them feel satisfied (I.e. It’s OK with women looking like garbage for their pleasure, they are MEN and they are entitled to such show by definition!). They also take the advantage of this society -ruled by churches and money–and the result is this: FORGET ABOUT QUALITY, AND MORALITY.
ABC, we want POSITIVE ATTITUDE, QUALITY AND MORAL VALUE. THIS IS WHY WE WILL LOVE ADAM MORE AND MORE BY THE DAY.
You have a vivid imagination honey!! Me think thee doth protest too much!! ABC knew all about the chains and leashes the the rest was just acting. You on the other hand hmmmm….
ABC you suck, you are just making violence look like it is ok. You make me sick with your double standards. So it’s NOT alright to be GAY, but it IS OK to bash a woman.
Take your heads outta your collective butt holes and get a grip on the real situation here.
Adam Lambert may have kissed a guy, but he never hit someone. Adam stands for peace, positivity and support.
Brown stands for nothing, he is just a thug.
It’s easy…BOYCOTT ABC!
Talk about double standards and bigotry, its okay to display violent behaviour and beat up on a woman, Charlie Sheen can kiss Jimmy Kimmel, lets not forget the Glee kiss last week. What are we telling the youth of the world here, you’ll be forgiven if you use violent behaviour. If Chris Browne was not a celebrity, I’m sure ABC would have pressed charges, apology or no apology. All Adam did was kiss a guy, or is it the fact that he’s openly gay, whats wrong with ABC.
I find it repulsive that ABC is enabling this kid. Chris Brown obviously has a serious problem and needs help, but allowing him to come on the show and act this way just makes him believe he can continue.
ABC’s double standard is just stupid – violence is okay and ratings are their GOD!!
Maybe because Lambert’s “controversial” actions appeared on camera and he was pretty vocal about that was what he was about and he wasn’t going to change.
Chris Brown is also a person the “accidently” let a picture of his penis get out on the internet. Does anyone really believe that?
Becuase he’s black and would cry racism, thats why.
ABC let this clown – who quite frankly with that dopey dyed har looks like someone named Butch’s prison bitch back for a few reasons – 1 he’s black and they don’t want to deal with Jesse and Al – 2 what he did was not caught on camera while Lambert had the unmitigated gaul to do his nefarious deed on live TV in the morning where impressionable mothers and grandmothers in the Midwest saw it.
And why in the name of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers is this fool doing on “Dancing with the Stars”????
And 1 thing I have noticed over the years of watching GMA is that Robin Roberts is the only one allowed to interview black celebrities – or anyone else who is black – on that show. It just seems that way to me.
If they allow Brown back on the show, I hope the employee he assaulted files charges against the company for willfully creating a hostile work environment and deliberately endangering it’s employees.