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It was arguably a two-day story, or one that never should have been written in the first place: Virtue czar Bill Bennett played a lot of high-stakes slots and video poker in Las Vegas and Atlantic City over the last ten years. The authors of two simultaneously published articles -- one in Newsweek, the other in The Washington Monthly -- were at pains to explain why they wrote the pieces in the first place, invading the privacy of a public figure who'd broken no laws, told the truth, and committed no obvious hypocrisy (since he'd never railed against gambling).
One argument was that Bennett had sinned, and that since Bennett speaks out against sin, he must be a ...