Rachel Maddow: Gay Therapy Con-Artist Cohen Has 'Blood on His Hands'

[Hissyspit]

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MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show - 8 December 2009: Rachel interviews and debunks Richard Cohen.

Background is Here:

"Rachel Maddow: 'I'm Reading From Your Book, Dude"

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[racaulk]

1. That's some serious pwnage by Rachel!

I love that woman! Thank you for posting this.

K&R

[Hissyspit]

10. Minute more of segment (the intro) can be seen here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVf_11FRurk&feature=sub

[bulloney]

38. Cohen's not licensed by any accrediting organization, but he stayed at a Holiday Inn!

[Bjorn Against]

2. Wow, she really showed that asshole for what he was.

Rachel is one of the few people on television who is not afraid to confront these people head on without caving in.

K&R

[K8-EEE]

3. What a charlatan!!! Wow! n/t K&R

[StarfarerBill]

4. Bam! The homophobe and racist goes *down*!

Rachel, :yourock:

[waiting for hope]

5. Cohen is one seriously messed up individual.

He needs help. And Rachel ROCKS! :headbang: K&R

[PSzymeczek]

49. He's still gay

and lying to himself.

[waiting for hope]

50. That's the messed up part ..

Must have had parents or other close members of his family telling him it was wrong .. when are we going to live in a society that is not so screwed up in this line of thinking?

[jgraz]

6. What the hell is wrong with his mouth?

It's like his own lips can't stand to form the lies he's telling.

[Divine Discontent]

7. it looks jokerish, not being mean, I just thought that when I saw him talking right off the bat.

[donheld]

9. It's attached to a Moran

[jgraz]

11. .

:spray:

[mwb970]

18. He's got that always-smiling look.

Kind of like Sen. Leahy.

[AllyCat]

21. It's what I call the Xtian permagrin

They all seem to have it. That dazed look...

[jgraz]

22. The "you're going to hell and I"m not" shit-eating grin.

:puke:

[thereismore]

23. You got it. Exactly. I know that smile! nt

[thereismore]

24. Excellent term! Permagrin. Haha. So true. nt

[democrat0986]

8. CatRachel pwns the joker like a little...

homophobic, racist moron.

[democracy1st]

12. K & R

[Loudmxr]

13. Is that the best they can do?

I love that race thing. There are lots of homosexual Mormons. So many that they kill themselves. A lot. They are pretty much white because of that dark skinned pre creation sinned thing. I just can't figure that out: they are all white but are influenced by race. Well neither can he or else he would have EXPLAINED IT!! :smoke:

[travelingtypist]

14. I could not listen to this.

It made me hurt all over.

[ScottLand]

15. She's classic.

Can you imagine how badly a FAUX "News" hack would have handled that interview? He wouldn't have gotten a word in for all the ass-kissing.

[Sky Masterson]

16. She called him "dude"

I think i love her.
What a creepy closeted _ucker!

[mwb970]

17. Wow, what a total jerk.

This sort of madness should be exposed to the light of day at every opportunity. This guy is a world-class charlatan, joining Beck, Limbaugh, and all the rest of the right-wing goofballs. What an awful man. I'm ashamed to admit that he is an "American".

I'm an American. They are conservative extremists. There's a difference.

[olegramps]

19. Its tough making a living in this economy. Just another snake-oil peddler.

[progressoid]

20. Kudos to Rachel for dealing with that kind of stupid.

I could barely listen to two minutes of him. :puke:

[thereismore]

25. I must admit tho, he did clearly condemn the proposed law. Which is a lot more than

can be said of actual repig congressmen who also have blood on their hands.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

28. He condemned it on TV

but he knows damn well what's going on in Uganda and what a cash cow it is for him. He clearly DOES have blood on his hands.

[thereismore]

33. No doubt. nt

[dmr]

34. He really had no choice, she had his balls in a vice

imagine the public/political fallout if he hadn't.

This is why repugs won't go on her show: She's intelligent, well-informed, and won't let them control the discussion - she forces the focus.

And when she's done (and I love her for this), she does NOT apologize to make them feel better. She completes the kill.

[thereismore]

42. I can easily imagine a repuke to say "I will not comment on a proposed law in another country". He

did not do that, for which I give him some kudos.

[donquijoterocket]

39. and their c street overlords

I'd like RM to do more on the C street connection to this vile proposition, and on Bart Stupak's connection to that monastery of misfits,miscegenationists, and misogynists.She'd done some very fine sunlighting on that appalling crew in the past but they need more exposure.

[bermudat]

26. OMG!

He looks like that guy from 'Saved by the Bell.' Screech? Very disingenuous.

[supernova]

27. Could barely watch that

without raising my bp.

x(

I watched the whole thing over at the TRMS web site. He's completely clueless and then turns around and tries to sell his stupidity to others. Rachel calls him out on it and great for her!

:applause:

Yes because non-white gays are so much more terrifying... :crazy: :wtf:

[Prophet 451]

29. My Lord, this guy is scum

I mean, I've seen some weasely little maggots in my time but this guy takes the bloodworm. His "pity me" bullshit to explain why he's unlicensed by anyone is probably par-for-the-course on the right with their constant urge to nail themselves to the cross but his endless "you're being unfair" bullshit makes him the most punchable little prick I've seen in quite some time.

[ooglymoogly]

30. What is wrong with this picture?

Gays can be cured of their very nature, and or, a lot of money can be made by pretending a gay can be changed into a person he/she is not. These things are incompatible with reality.......This guy is a fraud either way you look at it. Either he is straight and never was gay but perhaps had a gay experience or thought, which is not uncommon and decided to make money off that experience by this fraudulent shpeel making him a criminally minded fraud; Or if he is gay, which I do not believe by just looking and listening to him and his sick logic, he is living a fraudulent life trying to be a person he is not...either way he is a fraud and it is hard to figure out which is the more despicable. I would go with the straight pretending he was once gay because of a gay experience or had a gay thought and that he is one fucked up individual whose whole life is a lie, making money off people who are in torment because no one chooses to be gay.

Thanx once again Rachel for exposing this evil flim flam artist.

[Deep13]

48. I found it odd that he said he's "living the dream."

It suggests that he knows changing orientation is fanciful like "dream." And that it's a dream he desperately wants to be true--but isn't.

[Chorophyll]

31. The only thing you can say in this guy's favor

is that he had the titanium-plated nads to go on Rachel's show and let her OWN him so painfully.

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[TwentyFive]

32. The worst type of criminal. Give fraudster a 'therapy session' in his JAIL CELL

Closeted gays don't go to the police...so this scumbag can take their money, abuse them, and move onto the next victim. Sad.

[Berry Cool]

35. She showed him what-for. I only wish she'd gone the extra mile

and shredded his neat little theory that people "become" gay because they are unable to form a loving relationship with their same-sex parent and this results in their desire for a loving relationship with that parent to be "perverted" into sexual desire for the same sex.

What kind of cockamamie crap is that? It is no more scientifically supported than that old "domineering mother/weak father" garbage. She should have just ripped him up one side and down the other on that. I mean, jumping on the word "race" in his book and asking him whether he really thinks people become gay because of "race" was good, but boy, she really could have shredded all his neat little "theories."

[Bette Noir]

36. Yes, but that would have taken the whole hour,

and there was breaking news in health care.

[ihavenobias]

37. K & R n/t

[ProgressOnTheMove]

40. It's getting pretty clear that religion is on a collision course to kill us all. ..

Through shocking ignorance, and people seeing it as some license to be a complete a-hole. Unless we can ... convince people to leave their extreme Churches, but even those I thought were moderate are becoming a concern now. There has to not only be a separation of church and state but church and humanity. I'll still refer to their scripture to point out their hypocrisy but other than that I'm so done with this nonsense.

It's not Christianity, Catholicism or Evangelism it's the church of a-holes completely separate from any teaching of a carpenter 200 years ago. And church of a-hoe is all we should call it.

[Tutankhamun]

44. Please do not disparage my religion.

I am a devoted Pastafarian, full of love for the Flying Spaghetti Monster and the holy greatness/noodly goodness he represents. All hail His Holiness, FSM!

RAmen

[StreetKnowledge]

41. Rachel beating the shloopy out of some ignoramus.

Nicely done as always, Rachel. :D

[Stephanie]

43. Actual photo of Cohen's therapeutic "technique"

http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2006/07/24/37



But his most controversial therapy involves “holding” or “touch” therapy, where he takes a male client onto his lap, holds him gently, and repeats affirming words to him. Cohen claims that this recreates the father-son bond in the “adult child,” which, according to the distant father/domineering mother theory which he favors, is supposed to be the key missing component in the lives of gay men. He went on to demonstrate this technique on-camera with a client identified as “Rob.”

[midnight]

45. Rachel thank you for clearing up the fact that he is not a licensed therapist...

I'm amazed at all the people doing work in professions they are not qualified to do.

[romulusnr]

46. Cohen's book on Google Books

specifically page 75 where he lists "race" as a contributing factor to homosexuality:
http://books.google.com/books?id=3jXb3gKJBaoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=gay+children+straight+parents&ei=LC8gS6HVIZTszATd29TRCg&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false

[Deep13]

47. So which races are the gay ones?

Just curious.

What a fucking con artist.

[myrna minx]

51. I do I love Rachel, let me count the ways...