As the World Burns: Petraeus scandal cheat-sheet and infographic

Mother Jones has a very good summary/explainer/de-WTFer up today. I've given up on trying to keep up with the story right now, it's too weird and too sprawling and there are too many sets of penises and vaginas involved.

Via Tim Dickinson at Rolling Stone. The chart is by Hilary Sargent (@lilsarg). I don't know who created it, but will add credit when I figure that out.

• [Sigmund_Jung]

  This is actually the most fun I’ve had with news since a long time!

  • [acerplatanoides]

     It’s the first time the MIC-complex has had a light on it in a long time.

• [Petzl]

  Wow, that de-WTFer chart worked like a charm. I’m completely clear of WTFs now.

  Edit: certain news organizations are going to have a problem with it however; there are no links to Benghazi.

  • [acerplatanoides]

    Reality has that covered for you.

    http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/11/12/paula-broadwell-benghazi-attack-petraeus/1699207/

    Not that ‘certain’ news organizations want that to be the connection.

• [EH]

  LOL “Not involved yet.”

• [MurasakiMadness]

  See, this is nice. Now while ADD repeatedly lures me to this story, that same condition is satisfied by an easy-to-follow visual. 

  Can we make this into a board game for when the internets cut out?

• [PaulDavisTheFirst]

  the chart is missing eric cantor and other congressional republicans, at the very least.

• [smut clyde]

  That chart is the worst map of the human brain EVAH.

• [smut clyde]

  Also missing: the Washington Post editor / ghostwriter who wrote Broadwell’s hagiography of Petraeus:
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/petraeus-ghostwriter-clueless-to-affair/2012/11/12/c1271634-2ce4-11e2-89d4-040c9330702a_story.html

• [ethicalcannibal]

  Now I feel all caught up. I was confused, but the chart made it all better. 

• [Andrew Langmead]

  The phrase “volunteer, unpaid, social liaison” does sound better than what the music business calls a “groupie”.

• [Stephanie Ingram]

  This chart was created by Hilary Sargent Ramadei, and posted on her Facebook page

• [Maj Variola]

  Just summarize: 
  Linda Tripp = Jill Kelly and the FBI
  Monica Lewinsky = Broadwell
  Clinton = Petraeus

  But the surveillance camera staring at itself is pinning my irony meter..

  Silly CIA directory shoulda used crypto…

  Maybe he can be on a talk show with Weiner, Spitzer, etc.  Called “The View with our Pants Down”

• [IronEdithKidd]

  I read the article, but I think I can boil it down even further: a lot of men with power can’t keep their dicks in their whitey-tighties.