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12/09/09
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Gays = 5%-10% of the populace at the highest reasonable estimate if one includes bisexuality. Homosexual teachers are 7x more likely to molest their students and account for 25% of pupil molestation.
Ok, carry the one and divide by stupid.
I think my head assploded.
12/09/09
Either he doesn't care that his book's subtext has become Ugandan TEXT, or he's so determined not to think about the negative side of his marketing practices that he's permanently blinkered. Which, considering the topic, is ironic.
12/09/09
What are you doing?
Love,
Jinxy
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So it feels redundant for me to say anything else.
But because I am a hypocritical ass:
I hope that this issue gets coverage from the right, because when I told my mom about it, she scoffed and mumbled something about anti-American something something propaganda something something. General Republican dismissal. So please, forward this issue to the red staters in your lives.
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It's a tragedy that this inhumane legislation has support in Uganda, and I respect that RM wants to use her show to bring awareness to this travesty of law. However, life is not an episode of Law and Order. I feel like RM was waiting for this guy to break down and confess that he is a total hack on national television, but he just fed off her antagonism, even when confronted with quotes from his own book. I'm assuming that almost all of RM's audience agrees with her, so I feel like the only thing that was accomplished with this interview was that she gave this a-hole a platform to promote himself.
This is like interviewing zealots like Rush Limbaugh or Bill O'reilly about their roles in instigating the shooting of George Tiller. These are people who will never take responsibility for their actions, and as dispicable and hateful as Cohen's book/"therapy" is, it's a waste of our time to debate people like him.
What RM seems to fail at in this interview, is to acknowledge the agency of the Ugandan people. You can find a book or a hack science to justify anything, however there isn't enough of a candid discussion of how this legislation and Ugandan politics could foster an atmosphere where it could be a real possibility that homosexual men and women could be sentenced to death. Cohen is just a piece of a far more complicated situation, and in many ways, this just came off as a futile excercise to release frustration.
12/09/09
I don't know, I thought he looked pretty bad when she got him to admit he wasn't licensed, and when he admitted he had no idea what he meant by race being a risk factor for homosexuality.
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god i hate contradictory assdouches like this.
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Rachel Maddow: Mmm.
Instant classic.
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They actually kicked him out for ethical violations involving financial arrangements with his clients in service of promoting his book. But truth, schmuth.
12/09/09
there he was telling a happily gay woman that gay is a "disease" and can be treated.
it was total double talk. he thinks there is a cure for gay? well, i can tell him with authority that there is no cure for his stupidity.
12/09/09
This man absolutely has blood on his hands. May he realize it before the violence and hatred escalate further. (Sadly, I'm not holding my breath)
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That said, his claims are dangerous and he fully deserved everything Rachel threw at him (and a lot more). He needs to get some real psychological/psychiatric help and then to get a job that doesn't permit him to encourage others to traumatize themselves or their loved ones in the way that he's traumatized himself.
12/09/09
Rachel Maddow: I'm reading it from your book, dude!
Oh, Rachel Maddow, my crush on you will never die.