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Ted Haggard's fairy godmother has whacked him with her amazing sexual-orientation-changing magic wand and by golly, he's been cured of the gayness once and for all. Sing alleluia! Praise Jesus!
DENVER - One of four ministers who oversaw three weeks of intensive counseling for the Rev. Ted Haggard said the disgraced minister emerged convinced that he is "completely heterosexual."
And I'm the goddamn Pope.

Fig. 1-A: Pope TReximus the First
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f i t z ?
Fitz!
I’m not gay. I just sleep with men.
I succumbed to the urge to “fitz”. I feel kind of dirty now. rehab time?
Arianna eviscerates Joe Klein, via Kos. a sampling:
His Holiness TRex I!
But how will the popemobile hold up under your 60ft self?
…no word on his throwing-meth-in-the-trash-can problem?
twolf1 @ 6
there’s a meth thud to his man-ness.
punaise @ 4
I’m sure you can quit any time you like, right?
He now needs to immediately contact ex rep Foley.
Maybe they could do some sort of revival.
This church-controlled audit that proclaimed RevTed “completely heterosexual” also asked that he and MrsTed leave the state and seek employment outside the church.
With friends like that….
Haggard is no longer claiming he’s a homosexual.
He’s now claiming he’s the reincarnation of Roy Cohn.
punaise @ 8
After that, we give the Puhl-itzer, and retire from commenting, as it will not get better.
And, in honor of Ted Haggard’s 110% heteroness, Dan Savage linked to this article
Oh, TRex, I was so looking forward to your take on this. Can we have a little more snark, please?
Nah, you’re right, it’s a three-month miracle. What more can you say?
I’m gonna wash that gay right outta my hair!
wasn’t brawn the tamed the beast, nor beauty, twas jesus. ted couldn’t get it up to bone jesus, so they figure he is cured.
wonder how many butts they had to use to cure him? was it a slow withdrawal? did various former fornicators help him with the cure? did they start him on meth to gauge his affliction? did they practice what they preach? did they lay on hands?
please forgive me for my attempt at humor using haggard’s hole in one poker as the article for the saxon fricative in question. and since the most famous guy named jesus, sorry, second, there was a ball player that had more going for him at the time, is dead and probably doesn’t care about why ted was boning anyone, but I digress.
what other country would believe this tripe but for….dare I say it…..
Boratistan?
punaise @
8
This is just wonderful.
Crazy Horse @ 12
hee hee: poor Ted: low hanging fruit, so to speak….
Well, gosh, don’t we all know by now that words are more important than behavior? It’s all about the rhetoric, baby.
Seeing as how she’s still with him, he’s obviously just bribed his wife to back up that he’s hetero now. He’ll probably knock her up soon just to seal the deal.
Perhaps he could come to San Francisco.
punaise is really smokin’ 2-nite
I always laugh at this kind of logic when it comes to determining someone’s sexual orientation.
The absence of a certain kind of sexual activity does not prove anything about orientation. Think of it this way: if a guy has never had sex with a girl, you don’t say that means he’s gay — you say he’s a virgin.
TeddySanFran @
11
Gee, and the Sunday school and church I attended and joined were always teaching Christ’s message of forgiveness and eternal love.
Guess the fundies edited those bits out the Gospel.
Blergh.
Arianna.
what are you smokin’, btw?
BTW, TRex, in Germany, the joke is, “Wir sind Papst” We are the pope!
punaise @ 19
refresh
Teddy,
I noticed that. That was just the saddest thing.
twolf: Didn’t you see Stephen Colbert’s explanation: “I buy meth all the time and throw it away just to keep it out of the hands of the kids!”
Give him a break– giving up guys isn’t really that hard ….
Wait, that now makes him a lesbian!
See you at the next Indigo Girls concert, Ted! Can I borrow a tampon?
Nice observation.
TRex, I hope we’ll be seeing that “image” as part of your “signature” from now on. It’s hysterical!
Beware of the ziggurat!
attn sara-don’t know if you’re in old thread or new thread—
sorry trex, o/t and epu’d from last thread, but is something that has nagged me for four years……….
epu’d=
sara @79
this hits upon something i have wondered about and don’t know if i can put it into words—-
back when we first invaded iraq-before the government was set up, when things were still crazy, museums being pillaged, etc., when we first sent negotiators over there……i heard an interview with someone who was helping ’set-up’ things there……..one of the first things talked about were trade deals, as i remember it was THE FIRST thing negotiated, it shocked me….business came first…….similar to how we control what seeds a country can import, etc., that kind of thing…….that was the first thing we did, who they could do business with and how……….i have tried to find information on this, but don’t even know where to start looking or what it is called……but it was there in the interview in black and white–she was talking off the cuff but what she said had great implications on later control of commerce and agriculture—–these are the companies you can deal with and these are the rules that you live by in order to form an agreement, was not an option for them……do you know anything about that kind of thing? has always nagged at the back of my brain, was never mentioned again anywhere that i could find…..
from your post:
For example, the Danes decided to rehabilitate their Agriculture and Food Processing sector as first priority (Butter, cheese, Beer, Chicken, Eggs and Bacon) by using loans to purchase needed farm machinery, fertilizer, and cold storage equiptment — whereas W. Germany bought from Gary Indiana giant stamping equiptment, so as to build out the Volkswagan production. Profits from trade had to be re-invested, currency value was controlled, Subsequent re-investment was also subject to approval by the Economic Ministers Commission.
(snip)
Once the first projects were selected and financed in 1948, this made US private investment in a Recovering Europe a profitable and secure proposition, and beginning in 49 and 50, private investment massively increased, though for a period of years profits could not easily be repatriated. In fact one reason the VW came to the US in the 50’s was because it was a means to repatrate profit.
(snip)
Personally I think if more ordinary Americans had just a little familarity with this history, there would be a lot less tolerance for the slap dash approach to both Afghanistan and Iraq.
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kirk murphy @ 25
Wow, his church was just sooo supportive and forgiving when this first happened . . . praying for his recovery and all that jazz.
No surprise here, either.
A contrite Ted Haggard said today that if he banged anyone outside his marriage it would be a woman relieved church leaders reported.
Mandrake @
27
true story, I think: Brigitte Bardot, when asked if she smoked after sex, replied: “I don’t know - I never checked.”
BWAHAHAHAHA
Who wants to start a pool: weeks/months before that steroid abusing meth snorting muscle queen is photo’d with her heels over her head at the tubs in whatever town they move to?
My brain works oddly. Every time I run across news on this story I can’t help but think of the H. Rider Haggard novel She and the several movie versions and sequels. Some of the films are *really* campy.
Oh - I should probably post a link to Truth Wins Out, a group who “montiors” the ex-gay whackos.
BTW Mitch McConnell is on the NewsHour lying about the Iraq Resolutions and raising strawmen right and left. Typical.
In case anyone missed *this* rather offensive “explanation” for Ted’s behavior…
punaise @ 38
:^D
punaise @
38
sounds more like Mae West to me. or Divine…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An outspoken supporter of the Iraq war on Tuesday called for a new tax to pay for its astronomical cost as Congress opened a debate on President George W. Bush’s $2.9 trillion budget plan for next year.
Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut proposed a “war on terrorism tax” at a Senate hearing during which he said the Pentagon’s $622 billion defense budget proposal for fiscal 2008 threatened to crowd out funds for domestic programs.
Renee in Ohio @ 41
Oh, yeah, the “it’s his wife’s fault” defense.
I remember that. The re-run is just as obnoxious as the first time around.
So much for that conservative meme, taking personal responsibility….
Oklahoma kiddo @ 44
I wonder how Holy Joe is going to make this sound like a genuine sacrifice without his very wealthy contributors being affected in any way by such a tax….
Haggard’s gonna go learn ta be a shrink- cause he obviously has great powers for change.
montag @ 45
What are you saying?! They are advocating responsibility. The responsibility of the wives to look like porn stars for their sorry-ass fundie husbands.
montag @ 46
Just the fact that he used the word “tax” without being followed by “cut” leaves me stunned.
Mandrake @
42
Haven’t found it yet, but Woodie Allen DID say “If you smoke after sex, you’re doing it too fast.”
Matthews, on “Hardball”, is incredulous at the Scooter ‘defense’. Perhaps Libby can get a new trial based upon inadequate representation.
And how exactly did they test Ted to verify that he is indeed a changed man? How do they audit sexual proclivity? Do you think they have some kind of very complex and insanely expensive machine they hook people up to and get a Gay/No Gay readout? Do you think they’d be interested in buying one?
by the way, Brigitte Bardot, after a stint as an animal rights activist, turned into a right-wing extrem*st xenophob*c homophob*c nut-job.
Oh, god, Tony Snow on CSPAN on that fucked-up budget proposal. [shuffles off to get waders and a bottle of Pepto]
MSNBC - KO on the Scootie Libber tapes - tonight
A clip of Bremer today also from the NewsHour. Bremer says that when he arrived in Iraq the country was in chaos. Wow, I’m glad he solved that problem.
Clothodi @ 52
Already out there. Gaydar. :)
Would it help, in bars, say, to be able to go up to a stunning supermodel and say, “Hi, I’m Ted, and the Reverend Tim Ralph - no, really, I’m not making that name up - the Reverend Tim Ralph has declared me ‘completely heterosexual.’ How about we take that out for a spin?”
Seriously, this news had the potential to give me the giggles for days, albeit with a fear that if Rev Ted moved into my neighborhood, my unendorsed heterosexuality would shrivel up next to his, you know, complete & certified brand of same.
And then I considered the nugget in the second half of the article TRex linked to: Ted & the Mrs. are going to pursue Master’s degrees in Psychology. I’d love to hear him introduce himself to prospective clients, and I wonder if he’ll carry the Right Reverend Ralph’s proclamation around on his card.
Holy Jeebus, you couldn’t make this shit up.
Clothodi @ 51
They’ll probably strip him down and lock him in a room full of gay porn with a surveillance camera.
montag @ 56
HomoMeter
Tart of tongue Arianna does it again: ;0)
I agree with Joe Klein’s assessment that there are “far more important things going on in the world” than a clarification of his position on the war in Iraq. But I can’t resist reacting to his seven-point response to my post on him:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....40570.html
Mutant Poodle @ 57
I think it’s kind of nice to see literalist fundamentalists embracing the sciences, don’t you? :)
Ted’s theme song:
“Glory, glory hole, I’ll oo ya…”
oh I am LOVIN’ that one ! Fa-buh-luss !
Last one on smoking subject:
Do you mind if I smoke? (Oscar Wilde to Sarah Bernhardt) I don’t care if you burn
off to a couple of rehearsals where I’ll”smoke ‘em” ’cause the doc let me throw away my sling. Maybe I’ll send it to ex-Rev. Haggard after he secretly sends his new address.
punaise @ 62
“Mine eyes have seen the glory of the cooooommminnng of the Lord….”
Kate O’B on Hardball. Good Christ!
Oklahoma kiddo @ 66
Is she doing an outraged Lynne Cheney routine in defense of her hubby?
montag @ 66
Whew! Both you guys.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 69
sorry, Peterr. got a little carried away there… :~)
but has anyone told The General?
behind, the eightball….
Oklahoma kiddo @ 68
I was holding back, giving punaise time to bask in the glory of that first one of his in this thread….
Those same four ministers would also like you to know that should Rev. Ted in the future be caught diddling with others of the same gender, it’s all part of the therapy and doesn’t mean anything. Oh, yeah, the same holds true for the therapists.
I think we need a little more proof of Ted’s alleged heterosexuality. Maybe something like the test that the belly dancer gave to Gregory Hines in
“History of the World”.
punaise @ 70
Not a problem - I’m more bothered by the nutjob that Renee brought up @ 41. “Rather offensive” doesn’t begin to express my contempt for such folks and their theology. :)
Having said that, if anyone around the Lake ought to have a problem with this story, it’s Pach and the other psychologists around here. Now Ted’s headed from my profession to his.
Be afraid, Pach. Be very afraid.
I can only imagine what school would be willing to accept Ted into their masters program.
montag @ 73
after being on best behavior during live-blogging threads, all that pent up wordplay was bound to emerge somewhere….
Peterr @ 76
this one?
What a riot. I love it! ;0)
Ted! Why! did! your! mom! do! that! to! you!
(see http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRA.....zn.01.html and search for “why did you do”… the original video has the gay guy whaling on a pillow with a tennis racket… very scary and VERY sad.) Ted, you have no chance, you deluded oaf. Resign and live out your life being true to yourself.
I hate being on my best behavior. I can’t get into enough trouble that way. That’s no fun atoll.
TedHaggard @ 3
Roy Cohn’s famous last words…
Someone else mentioned this somewhere on the toobz, but isn’t it pretty kinky of the wife to stay with old Ted? I mean the denial, humiliation, submission, and redemption aspects of the whole thing are just thick with sexual energy. I bet this check knows how to get off just as well as the good Reverend.
Jesus… just imagine the shit that will get stirred up in their U. of Fundy Masters in Psychology coursework.
punaise @ 77
Umm, I think Ted would be more at home at Norman Bates College.
So Ted has licked homosexuality? That is just nuts.
Olbermann has stopped by our living room.
Well, let me just say I’d do everything possible to keep Ted off my couch.
Can someone please explain to me why a debate on the Iraq war is necessary in view of polls which show Americans are way against this war?
I hear the U. of Fundy is tidally boring. Sorry, that was bad. Oh, Fundy as in fundamentalist. Sheesh. More sorry. :)
What debate?
I just have to pop in to say that I’ve pretty much spent the last hour adjusting my track lighting.
FWIW…rumor has it that TRex will have a special guest for Late Night tonight.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 87
Gotta give the congress critters some opportunity to show that they’re needed… and they seem to be proving that they aren’t….
Oklahoma kiddo @ 88
possibly because if the US Senate showed its resolve to act like a co-equal branch of the govt., the Executive Branch would have to pay attention. They can and are ignoring us, the REAL Deciders. Of course, the Senate Repubs caved because they hate America.
If a debate actually happens, how many additional American soldiers will perish in Iraq in the interim?
punaise @ 53
Oh, crap. That’s disappointing.
KO on libby tapes now on msnbc
Mandrake @ 95
almost as alarming as my inadvertent near-brush with the c-word…
oops, sorry mods, for requoting that one.
Simply put: I cannot take the Libby defense of ‘I forgot’ seriously.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 94
Are the troops in Iraq fighting to defend the freedom of Republican senators to block Democratic senators from speaking out against the war?
neurophius @ 99
Well stated.
I’m sure that the ministers want to remove all doubt about their technique. Therefore, one of them needs to volunteer to be converted to gay. Then, all of us skeptics will believe in the validity of their technique and they can convert him back. These guys are fast so the whole thing should take about a month.
I really have to wonder what Fitzgerald is thinking tonight.
RBG @
91
a) well, Halo is a major manufacturer of track lighting. just sayin’.
b) is that anything like a mystery witness?
Mandrake @ 94
I hear there’s a remake in the works, “
LoveHate is My Profession.”dannyM @ 83
Like I said earlier, he paid her off.
Clothodi @
52
http://skepdic.com/penilep.html
“The results of this study indicate that individuals who score in the homophobic range and admit negative affect toward homosexuality demonstrate significant sexual arousal to male homosexual erotic stimuli.”
I’ve long held the theory that guys who go into bars to pick fights are gay-inclined men psycho-sexually trapped in strict gender roles. They can’t face the fact they want to fuck guys, so they picks fights with them instead.
In the interest of full disclosure, I am not gay.
But my Mistress is, sometimes…
http://www.selinaraven.com/
Was Cheney a usurper? Perhaps guilty of sedition?
Olbermann tackles the ‘diaper caper’ in a moment. Talk about strange.
Rev.Ted’s miraculous “recovery” offers new hope for the tragically gay.
I wonder whether Vice President Cheney has considered sending his daughter Mary on a vacation trip to Colorado Springs?
That was great, Ty, but the one I can’t get over was about Mr. Dickerson. It was so excellent I’m giving it my top rating: ultra-super OTW. Almost the exact same thing happened to me last time I went to the DMV. I was just amazed at how you captured the way a normally sensitive person can feel so exposed and vulnerable in a place like that . It’s like my long-lost identical twin fantasy come true.
Anyway, I’m promoting you to first and only on my intensive focus list. (St*lking is such an ugly, ugly word.) I checked out your sun sign and blood type, and they’re a match.
Don’t worry though,Ty. I’m so discreet and under control, you’ll barely notice. An occasional distant glint off the binoculars. A mystery note on the windshield now and then. The rare late phone call with intense whispering and theremin solos. Some people find it life-enhancing to have that little bit of dramatic edge added to everyday life. I’m also intrigued by the possibilities of a GPS personal locator beacon. If you wore one, I’d never have to worry about where you are. I know I could hide one in your car, but that seems kind of impersonal.
Ty, I hope it makes your day to know that you met someone’s emotional needs, modest as they are. I’m looking forward to following your future work, and I’m sure you’ll never, ever disappoint me.
Your eternal abject fanboy,
Stanley Ungerforth
montag at 46:
I wonder how Holy Joe is going to make this sound like a genuine sacrifice without his very wealthy contributors being affected in any way by such a tax….
_______________________________________________
Probably going to be a tax only on people who make less than $250K.
Diapers, astronauts, attempted murder, and Ted Haggard. Is this a great country (circus)? Or what?
The TRex pope illustration only needs the label “fig. 1″ to be complete.
hilarious
Ann in AZ @ 112
Actually, I was fearing something like a payroll tax with an $80K or so cap on it, just so the little people would really feel like they were sacrificing for the war effort.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 113
And Bush is out on the stump, selling his budget as “just like a family budget.”
Yep, I read the news, oh, boy….
Hey Dem pols. What are you doing to save American GI’s from being killed in Iraq? Oh, you’re debating? Non-binding resolution? Sorry. Won’t cut it.
I can only imagine what school would be willing to accept Ted into their masters program.
I can’t believe that no one said Oral Roberts University. Was it just too obvious?
I’m getting somewhat pissed, Demos.