My first reaction to singer Adam Lambert's controversial appearance at the American Music Awards was 'wow, what a hot and on the edge performance.' I knew that some Americans would react with anger and disapproval at the suggestive staging of the song "For Your Entertainment" - a lively track off Lambert's newly released and well-reviewed debut album. However, rock and roll has always had an edge to it with girl on girl kisses at award shows, Prince's bare ass showing through chaps and many other examples that got comment but not censorship. Come on, it is rock and roll!

Then I watched as ABC cut the feed to the West Coast, banned it from daytime television, refused to allow "The View" to show the tape of the performance and canceled Lambert's scheduled appearance on "Good Morning America". Gee, don't remember that happening to Madonna and Britney when they locked lips or when Madonna did S/M themed numbers.  Even more amazing, Good Morning America replaced Lambert with Chris Brown.  Guess beating your girlfriend to a pulp is not as serious as two men kissing.

Along came CBS Morning Early Show to the rescue. As soon as ABC canceled, they picked up Adam in what I thought was a smart and savvy move. All was going to be well. Wrong.

They showed the clip with Adam sitting right there but blurred any images of the male to male kiss while at the very same time clearly showing the female to female clip. At this point there could be no question, the issue was simply because it was two men - no other reason. What was a fun, somewhat over the top moment at an award show was turned into blatant censorship and discrimination.

Not American media's proudest moment and a classic case for GLAAD. Thank God, we have that organization to defend us in such moments.