re: #318 Dark_Falcon

Conservatives should just be glad for this scandal. Because while CNN and MSNBC are talking about who David Petraeus fucked, they won’t be talking about how the Republican Party fucked up.

Shiny object time. Fox wants to use it to bring up Benghazi and keep people from thinking about the fact that President Obama won reelection. Who the fuck knows what CNN wants? In the last week, they’ve been pretending to be an overall news organization again and are actually covering topics not related to the President. MSNBC is too busy counter-balancing Fox to do anything else, so expect wingnuts to get all excited when MSNBC’s audience drops off as people done with election and post election coverage begin to lose interest in ‘the place for politics’…

But on Petraeus, my favorite comment comes from Wonkette…

Oh, god. Petraeus was having sex with John Allen too?

According to a senior U.S. defense official, the FBI has uncovered between 20,000 and 30,000 pages of “potentially inappropriate” emails between Allen and Jill Kelley, a 37-year-old Tampa woman whose close friendship with Petraeus ultimately led to his downfall.

Ok, so not that, at least. Turns out it’s just that Petraeus’s mistress sent threatening emails to Kelley, who was also sending 30,000 pages of emails back and forth with Allen. All the while, Petraeus is sending thousands of emails to Broadwell too, and everybody’s Blackberrys melted.

And now the FBI, somewhere, has crates of emails — crates! — between a second four-star general and a second woman. How many times do you have to write “I am in the desert and I have a boner” to fill up 30,000 pages?

The last line made me chuckle out loud.