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Newark Mayor and wannabe Senator Cory Booker—the man who refused tell a stripper he wanted to suck her boobs—is often accused of being gay, most recently by an aid to his Republican opponent Steve Lonegan.

But on Monday's Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, Maddow "confirmed" what still doesn't matter and what so many Republicans have feared: “Also for the record, Cory’s not gay.”

[h/t Dorsey Shaw; video via MSNBC]