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Caption Challenge: David Petraeus and More
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Our Endorsements: John Oliver Sounds the Bugle
* John Oliver's podcast The Bugle discusses the election results.
* This Movember, it gets fuller.
* Buzzfeed finds 45 reasons for Hillary.
* Wait, what is this "Afghanistan" place?!
* Who wants to be America's next top former state?
* General Petraeus has time to do all those little things now.
* From The Daily Princetonian: Why I Love Political Comedy.
* McSweeney's regular column about Washington D.C fades back in.
* The Me Three podcast talks to Daily Show new guy, Travon Free.
* The right to life, liberty and the pursuit of a pregnancy-free orgasm.
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Pat Robertson Absolves David Petraeus for His Sins of the Flesh
Okay, I know what you guys were thinking: What does televangelist Pat Robertson think about David Petraeus' covert extra-marital sexing-up of biographer Paula Broadwell?I think we can all breathe a sigh of relief knowing that the super-Christian 700 Club host has signed off on it…
"She is an extremely good-looking woman," Robertson said of Broadwell. "She is marathon runner, she'd run Iron Man triathlons, and so she's out running with him, and she's writing a biography. And I think the term is propinquity. And there was a lot of propinquity going on."
He then offered up this potential reasoning for Petraeus' affair: "The man's off in a foreign land and he's lonely and here's a good-looking lady throwing herself at him. He's a man."
Right! He's a man. He's just a man, cursed with a penis. Therefore, we cannot rightly blame him for folding to his totally understandable sexual urges, especially in the face of such a handsome triathlon-competing woman. It's not like it was another man with whom he wanted to commit himself for the rest of his life. It was a woman. One whom Pat Robertson finds "extremely good-looking." And he only wanted to bang her a couple times. It's not for us to judge such things.
Especially since we've all got our hand pretty full judging women for looking at porn.
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The Worst David Petraeus Commentary Quiz
The David Petraeus-General John Allen-Paula Broadwell-Jill Kelley-Shirtless FBI Wingnut sex pentagon raises many questions: Which role will Julianne Moore play in the HBO movie? Can heterosexuals continue to be trusted to serve in our nation's military and clandestine services? And perhaps most urgently, can people on the Internet resist the urge to be misogynistic twits for just one goddamned minute and enjoy the spectacle without succumbing to sexism, conspiracy mongery or general foolishness?
This quiz will help answer one of these questions. For each category, try to identify whether the statement is intended as comedy or represents un-self-aware douchebaggery…
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Tweet Roundup: Pimp My Petraeus
This Petraeus scandal is becoming a real "Who-done-her"
— Lizz Winstead (@lizzwinstead) November 13, 2012
This could be the first time in hundreds of years that two generals have crossed swords.
— Brendan McLaughlin (@btmclaughlin) November 13, 2012
Tags: CIA, David Petraeus, FBI, Lizz Winstead
