Adam Lambert Goes On "The View," Mickey Mouse Doesn't Get Violated.

He said less about homophobia, true, but he didn't let ABC off the hook entirely. Neither did Barbara. 

“Protect your children, people!” – that ironic response to Barbara Walters asking him if it bothers him how little trust the universe seems to have for him set the tone for his visit to the set of The View on Tuesday, or actually Thursday, when it finally aired after ABC censors went over the interview and the performance with a fine-tooth comb. At least he's kept a sense of humor about the whole big mess.

The ladies proved to be a welcoming, supportive group overall, and Adam Lambert proved to be a fun interview, building a case for himself about not judging him from a single performance that maybe ran away from him. He also pops off funny one liners with Joy, which proves he may have a backup career as a comic if the whole singing thing doesn’t work out.

Joy: You’re not exactly a nice Jewish boy, Adam.

Adam: I’m a little different, a little different. My Dreidel spins the other way.

I may have shot chocolate milk out of my nose at that point. Then I started coughing when Sherri tried to pin upset parents’ lack of judgment on Adam in letting their kids watch television at 11pm without previewing it, or even paying attention to the rating in the corner of the screen that said they needed to be 14 to watch.  He's not a babysitter, and he's said it many times before.

If Sherri Shepherd is the voice of wise parenting for a generation, we're all doomed.

Still, Adam handled it all with grace and humor, plugged his charity, and even dealt with Sherri admitting she might grind her (ex) husband's face into her crotch, which was truly something that shouldn’t have been on daytime television because it’s going to give me nightmares. And maybe because, oh, kids might be watching and should they really hear about Sherri's sex life? But as Adam told her, just because her kids saw it, doesn’t mean they’ll be doing it at daycare the next morning.

And I have to admire that when Elizabeth tossed her final complaint at him (one of the few that Whoopi hadn’t already slapped down days ago) namely, that all the moves, even with the women, were “aggressive” and maybe that was an issue, he looked at her blankly and simply said “Yes.” Simple acknowledgment that the performance was sexually aggressive, just like the song lyrics. As many here have pointed out, sexually aggressive does not equal violent or unwanted.

I think that simply acknowledging the conversations around the subject may be his greatest strength. He’s really stopped actively defending it, or even bringing up homophobia unless someone brings it up first. Adam seems to be taking the approach that the issues belongs to the people talking about them, and not him. If he’s going to own up to anything, it seems to be staying aware of what is appropriate for his audience, and being careful to not get caught up in the moment.

As Babs said at the end “With everything going on in the world, how important really, how scary is it what you did? It may offend some people, it may not. Does it really do a lot of harm?”

Beyond his appearance on The View, we have a column out of Boston, saying that Adam’s true crime is against the gay community, because he’s destroying our carefully constructed stereotype that we’re fashionable and classy, and he’s tired and unoriginal. The article is really written in a classic “bitter queen” tone that defeats any point it was trying to make.

But the upside to all of this, if one is to be found amongst falling sales of his album and banned performances, it’s that he may walk out of it with endorsements for his style. Crawfish Po Boy points us to this tweet from Dior Homme, surveying followers if Adam would make a great face for the brand given that’s all he ever wears.

AfterElton.com readers have observed he fills out his jeans exceptionally well.

Maybe he’s not so untouchable, or so unfashionable after all.

Adam did a brief exit interview with producers of The View I didn't know existed until the last minute, but I think it's the part where he's speaking to his fans instead of America at large.

And we'd be remiss if we didn't link you to Logo's own Adam interview for a little gay-on-gay questioning, and let you see his PopMate piece, below, where we learn a few things about Adam we may not have known.