Reply #66: Because his talent became secondary to his "person" for many.

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Cooke might also have been baffled to see his song covered by Lambert, a 27-year-old white guy from San Diego, on Fox last week. But the producers of “American Idol” knew what they were doing. With his dyed black hair, eyeliner and black nail polish — and an Internet photographic trail of same-sex canoodling — Lambert was “widely assumed to be gay” (Entertainment Weekly), “seemingly gay” (The Times) and “flam-bam-boyantly queeny” (Rolling Stone). Another civil rights movement was in the house even if Lambert himself stopped just short of coming out (as of my deadline, anyway) in the ritualistic Ellen DeGeneres/Clay Aiken show-biz manner.
- http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/opinion/24rich.html?_r=2

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-david/adam-lambert-loses-homoph_b_206154.html
Jim DavidPosted: May 21, 2009
Adam Lambert Loses, Homophobia Wins

If the contestants had zero backstory, Lambert would have decimated the competition. Instead, Allen's Christianity, church roots and corn-fed wife were exploited, as were Lambert's musical theatre roots (i.e. his 'theatre fag' history). He didn't say a word about his sexuality, but didn't need to. For that we had the Internet, zapping anyone's private photo library to the world, so photos of Lambert swapping saliva with a guy went viral, as well as a lot of his very strange yet riveting LA cabaret performances, turning off the homophobic majority.

Yes, a majority of the country is homophobic. If it weren't, gays would have had their rights back in the 90s when the Europeans got them. We wouldn't have a majority of states with a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. We wouldn't be fighting for even rudimentary domestic partnership laws in some cities and states. We wouldn't have anti-gay imbeciles like Maggie Gallagher, Peter LaBarbera, Matt Barber or the "God Hates Fags" morons getting publicity. Yep, if American weren't homophobic, Lambert would be waving to the crowds from a convertible.

I am not stating that there aren't any true AI fans who voted despite the social issues that were introduced into a talent contest for young performers.

I am stating that social issues were wrongly introduced by the RRW who smelled a vulnerability in Lambert that had nothing to do with merit or talent and they went for blood and the media was complicit and all of that over shadowed the talent aspect of this contest on many levels, so much so, that Adam's persona was used as bait for the show in some of the intro's, and that this was ultimately cast as another "wedge issue" another "family values matter," and it tainted the proceedings.

So much so, that it became a topic in the LATimes, the NY Times, the HuffPo and numerous blogs.

If it hadn't there would be no need for the RRW to crow about this as a "moral victory."

saracat (1000+ posts) Thu May-21-09 05:03 AM
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Puke alert.There are already posts on American Idol saying A US proved it is still "Christian"