{"id":185388,"date":"2011-07-12T21:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T02:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/07\/12\/ok-so-ive-been-watching-keith-and-rachel-and-ed\/"},"modified":"2011-07-12T21:41:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T02:41:00","slug":"ok-so-ive-been-watching-keith-and-rachel-and-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/07\/12\/ok-so-ive-been-watching-keith-and-rachel-and-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"OK, So I&#8217;ve Been Watching Keith, and Rachel and Ed\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And they all covered the revelation that Michelle Bachmann&#8217;s husband, psychologist Marcus Bachmann, has been taking Medicaid money, and then, in violation of regulations,<a href=\"http:\/\/powerwall.msnbc.msn.com\/politics\/marcus-bachmanns-gay-cure-1694576.story\"> has been performing &#8220;repairative therapy,&#8221; better known as pray away the gay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I understand how this might get coverage, it is after all, an interesting juxtaposition of the husband of an anti-Medicaid Congresswoman, and his use of unapproved, and actively harmful, therapy driven by nothing but an ignorant and fundamentalist reading of the bible.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not the part that surprised me.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The part that surprised me was all of them made a comment to the effect of, &#8220;He seems to know an awful lot about gay sex.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard the tapes of him, and he does seem to &#8220;mince&#8221; a bit, but it seems to me that the &#8220;nudge, nudge, wink, wink,&#8221; from the hosts bit is a bit much.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe they have heard whispers that I haven&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And they all covered the revelation that Michelle Bachmann&#8217;s husband, psychologist Marcus Bachmann, has been taking Medicaid money, and then, in violation of regulations, has been performing &#8220;repairative therapy,&#8221; better known as pray away the gay. I understand how this might get coverage, it is after all, an interesting juxtaposition of the husband of an &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1030,1064,1104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lgbtq","category-media","category-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}