Maddow also asked Cohen to justify a quote from Gay Children Straight Parents in which Cohen lists a series of reasons on why children may be gay. Amongst those reasons were divorce, and race. Maddow asked how race could possibly be a factor and initially Cohen denied that was in the book. Maddow held the book up, read the page number and the list again at which point Cohen pleaded that she was reading out of context. Maddow read the preceding paragraph from the book, in which Cohen explains there are several reasons children may be gay etc etc... Cohen then challenged Maddow to read the passage following the list, and it had no pertinence to the question. Finally Cohen just came out and admitted that race has no influence on whether or not a child may be gay.

One of the most electric moments in the interview came when Maddow told Cohen that he had "blood on your hands" because his work was being used to justify the persecution of gays. It was just riveting.

The overall interview was a masterpiece by Maddow. She was completely civil as always. I remarked to my wife following the interview that they both probably got what they wanted. Cohen was able to throw in several gratuitous plugs for his work, and Maddow was able to dismantle him live on her show.

I know I've missed several very important moments of the interview which I'll wish I had remembered as I bashed out this diary, so please leave your impressions of the interview in the comments and I'll update as appropriate.

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Update: Heres a link to the MSNBC video. I'm getting html errors when I try to embed it here.

Update II: Thanks to SuperbowlXX for the embed code on the following video:

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