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" As The Real Housewives Of Centcom  continues to unspool, leave it to Tiger Beat on the Potomac to go spelunking as deeply as it can into the Gorge Of Eternal Drudgewhoring. With some comparing Jill Kelley, the Tampa socialite involved in the Petraeus scandal, to the infamous Salahis, one of the White House party crashers says: Not so fast. &amp;quot;I have seen a lot of the references, which are interesting,&amp;quot; Tareq Salahi told POLITICO. &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t see it myself.&amp;quot; OK, you may ask, having forgotten entirely who the Salahis were, because you live a rich and full life not having to know the stuff that keeps POLITICO reporters employed, what does this forgotten scandale from the early days of the first Obama administration have to do with the ancillary bone-jumping in the Petraeus affair? After all, the Salahis crashed a party, while Jill Kelley seems to have been invited to come to the White House. Ah, my friends, you are unfamiliar with the famous Beltway bullshit propulsion device known as &amp;quot;Some.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Some&amp;quot; are comparing this apple to that orange so, therefore, journamalism! And who are the Some that are specifically cited? Well, there&amp;#039;s a link from Josh Marshall&amp;#039;s joint to a story in the Tampa paper where we discover, to our horror, that many people in politics and the military engage in social climbing. (Extra points there for working Bubba The Love Sponge into the scandale narrative. I expect John McCain to be calling Bubba as a witness any day now.) And there&amp;#039;s Armstrong Williams, a former paid propagandist for the Bush administration and onetime famous conservative black person. And there&amp;#039;s Papa Salahi himself, who saw &amp;quot;some things on Twitter.&amp;quot; And that&amp;#039;s it. That&amp;#039;s the sum total of Some. But it did do something \u2014 it resurrected the phony Salahi scandale so as to link it to the current Petraeus scandale  which, I would almost guarantee, will somehow eventually link the Salahis to Benghazi. (My guess? &amp;quot;White House Always Lax on Security&amp;quot; is already at the top of the Story Ideas list on the whiteboard in Mike Allen&amp;#039;s office.) And thus are Beltway narratives born. Innkeeper, a double Prestone, and see what the faded socialites in the backroom will have. (Is it time right now to point out that POLITICO fails to mention a more compelling historical parallel? Namely, the still unexplained presence of Jeff Gannon, the cock-headed man-whore who cavorted unescorted through the Bush White House as a phony journalist? It is? Goody!) "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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