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Did Daily Show appearance wipe ex-gay therapist off the map?

Here's a weird one...

It appears that one of our gay-therapy-advocate "friends" (remember: they love the sinner, but hate everything about them) has actually managed to do something stupid enough to upset the other loonies with whom he carpools to the Wonderful Land of Make Believe every morning.

A few weeks back Daily Show reporter (and stealth Canadian hottie) Jason Jones did a hilarious and incredibly bizarre interview segment with Richard Cohen, the author of Coming Out Straight (I think it's subtitled "Adventures in Self-Delusion" or something like that). In true Daily Show tradition, Jones made his guest look like a complete boob -- which in this case was like shooting fish in a barrel.

Here's the clip, in case you missed it (and what went down after)...

But apparently Cohen's dalliance in televised career suicide was even embarrassing enough to turn other ex-gay advocates against him. Mention of Cohen has apparently been stricken from the record of Parents and Friends of X-Gays (PFOX) entirely, and NARTH (whose Hitleresque leader I lovingly detailed in a previous post) has eliminated all recent or future mention of their involvement with Cohen.

This is awesome -- Cohen could be a living, breathing "tipping point". Now that the ex-gay nutters have all but openly admitted that one of their most visible speakers is loonytunes, the rest of them could topple like the self-righteous house of cards that they are. For a detailed history of the fallout, check out this blog.

Jay's picture

I love this show. And those

I love this show. And those two guys kissing were hot!

This is the Daily Show with John Stewart isn't it? Hopefully they air this episode soon on More4 in the UK! 

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nordic balance's picture

Yes

Yes it is John Stewarts Daily show, I LOVE the show!
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tjpeople's picture

That was me^

That was me^
Glenn's picture

That was Wayne Besen kissing

That was Wayne Besen kissing a guy, right?  That was surprisingly hot in a funny idiotic piece about Cohen,

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thommthomm's picture

The Daily Show

I'll love any show that maked the homophobes look like the idiots they are. I may have to start watching this show now!!!

Another show I love is Real Time With Bill Maher.

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sharkgrrrl's picture

brilliant!

saw this when it first aired and i literally spit my drink out i was laughing so hard. i love that the daily show was able to pull this off, but omgosh is this guy so oblivious that he doesn't know what the daily show IS? no matter what anyone claims regarding how editing makes you look like an ass you've got to give them something to start with and this guy's idiocy was sooo not the result of editing. they just set the stage and let this guy bury himself. so awesome.
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