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Hello and welcome to the Double X Gab Fest for Thursday, November 15th, the Petwell edition.

I'm Hannah Rosen, recording from the DC studio, and I'm joined in New York by Alison Benedict, editor of

double X. Hi, Allison. Hi, Hannah. And Noreen Malone of the New Republic. Hi, Noreen.

Hi, Hannah. Our three topics today are first is Petwell, which is the in-house slate name for the Petraeus Broadwell affair.

Second is women in the election. And the third is Fox's Megan Kelly and whether it's okay to have a girl crush on her, even though she works at Fox.

So let's start with the only thing that anybody's talking about this week, which is Paula

Broadwell and General Petraeus. As we all know, oh wait, hold on, I'm losing myself.

Oh, okay. So the Petraeus Broadwell affair has become somewhat a battle over Paula Broadwell's reputation.

We started the week with some generals being interviewed, calling her a shameless self-promoting prom queen.

And then Pat Robertson just today called her a temptress and blamed her for the whole affair.

And then we've had a series of other articles saying what a nice mom she is and how she wears Halloween costumes and also how accomplished she is. So as many sex scandals, this has turned into a fight over what kind of woman is Paula Broadwell, this woman who had an affair with General Petraeus.

So I ask you guys, what kind of woman is Paula Broadwell? No, that's not my question.

My question is, do you guys think that she has been unfairly treated, that we're in another

series of sort of sexist archetypes of the woman who had the affair? Is that what we've been seeing in the press?

Absolutely.

I don't think it's a question of her being fairly or unfairly treated, though.

I mean, it's a matter of public record now.

She is going to be discussed, but I'm sort of embarrassed for who is is calling her, you know, what was she called,

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