That Is Some World-Class Slut Shaming

In the wake of an affair involving a powerful man, the attempts by some people to blame the whole thing on the Jezebel he willingly slept with are inevitable. But when it’s this egregious, it’s pretty special. Let’s hear from a “senior military source“:

One day, she’s celebrating her birthday as an accomplished (if you want to use that term) author and PhD candidate, the next she’s Paula Jones. [ed. note: Paula Jones did not actually willingly engage in any sexual activity with Bill Clinton. But if he harassed her, that’s probably here fault too! Also, a woman might be accomplished, or she might have nonprocreative sexual intercourse, but certainly not both.]

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Over that time, she went from someone very likeable to a shameless self-promoting prom queen.

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You’re a 60 year-old man and an attractive woman almost half your age makes herself available to you — that would be a test for anyone. The timing of the rumors of the administration throwing him under the bus after the election is suspect, but in the end I believe she got her claws — so to speak — in him. He had enough honor to know that a cover-up is much worse than a public admission. As a result, I think he can recover and continue to be a player on the national stage, but she’s toast. Her reputation is unrecoverable, in my opinion.

In fairness, as disgracefully misogynist as that last paragraph is, it’s probably one step up the evolutionary ladder from what’s to come from NRO and Pajamas Media, where I’m sure they’ll be busy explaining that the slut conspired with Barack Obama to force the helpless Petraeus to have sex with her. Certainly can’t blame him under those circumstances.