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<p>A reader writes:</p>
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<p>Your hammering on this story is simply despicable.&nbsp; Your limp justifications have no merit.&nbsp; You obviously don&#8217;t feel it now, but I hope someday you reflect back on these posts with the appropriate &#8212; significant &#8212; amount of <em>shame</em>.</p>
<p>What really, deeply distresses me is that I&#8217;ve spent the last few years vehemently defending you to my conservative and moderate friends.&nbsp; I&#8217;d always respected what I thought was your deep integrity &#8212; your willingness to view issues honestly and openly, reevaluating as circumstances changed.&nbsp; Now I see how incredibly wrong I&#8217;ve been, and I&#8217;m embarrassed that I&#8217;ve ever spoken a good word on your behalf.</p>
<p>You&#8217;re disgusting. You&#8217;ve become an ugly, horrible person.</p>
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<p>All I can say is: anyone who wanted to play safe would just wait for this to emerge, as it surely will. But I just want to know the truth about this &#8211; <em>which can be easily provided</em>. And I stand by my view that the facts as they currently stand &#8211; all from mainstream media sources &#8211; are very strange. So have at it &#8211; make me look like a fool for even bringing this up. And then we can move on. But the job of a blogger is to get facts straight. </p>
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