Who could have guessed a few weeks ago that former Director of the CIA David Petraeus would be at the center of such a salacious scandal? But wait — have you noticed how Petraeus has been curiously shunted to the side in the media coverage of his affair? It’s not his mug covering the tabloids or his emails being reprinted as bold headlines. It’s almost like the Petraeus affair has become the Clinton Allegations 2.0: while Petraeus has gone into hibernation, the two women he cheated on his wife with have became the new preoccupation of empty-calorie news outlets everywhere.

The show had the opportunity to do a new take on the biggest scandal or 2012; instead, they made the same boring jokes as everyone else.

Like, oh my God guys: did you know that “All In: The Education of General David Petraeus” author Paula Broadwell was voted Homecoming Queen in high school? I bet you also heard that Jill Kelley, one of many people tangled up in this absurd soap opera, made quite an impression on her peers as a teenager. Newsflash: they’re adults today, and there’s no reason for news outlets everywhere and commenters to be spending so much time talking about how the women carried themselves as minors.

Have General Petraeus and Paula Broadwell’s on-the-job indiscretions been blown out of proportion?