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There was no evidence. “Even though outing [former GOP chairman Ken Mehlman] would have encroached on his personal dignity, which would have made me uncomfortable, it would have been the right thing to do to hold someone in power accountable,” says Marc Ambinder. || Ambinder in his chat: “If I outed everyone I suspected was gay, I’d be a bad person, firstly, and very very busy, secondly.”
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