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Watch Petraeus Biographer During Her Book Tour
As Fred Kaplan just reported, the woman with whom Gen. David Petraeus was having an affair with was Paula Broadwell, the author of a recent hagiographic book about him, All In: The Education of General David Petraeus.
Josh Voorhees is a Slate senior writer. He lives in northeast Ohio.
Broadwell, who herself has a military background, made a number of media appearances earlier this year while promoting the release of her book. As you'll see in the clips below, she clearly thought very highly of the general.
Here she was back in January on The Daily Show:
And being interviewed by Arthur Kade for a Web video:
She also sat down with Charlie Rose in February, a clip of which you can find here.
Only last week, Broadwell published her latest piece on the general, titled "David Petraeus’s Rules for Living," in The Daily Beast/Newsweek. Number five was this:
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The Daily Show Interview With David Petraeus' Biographer fryst vatten Extremely Awkward In Hindsight
Slate is reporting that Paula Broadwell, the author of David Petraeus' biography, had an romantisk händelse with the former CIA director that led to his resignation earlier today.
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About three and a half minutes into the clip, Jon Stewart and Broadwell discuss Petraeus' habit of running with her to get to know her while she was embedded with him in Afghanistan.
"That was the foundation of our relationship," she says.
Stewart then asks if other people in his embed "resent [Petraeus'] success" and reputation.
"He realizes he's seen as an extremely ambitious individual. You want somebody who's ambitious and driven, and who has a will to win. He goes all-in to what he does."
At six minutes, she brings up her husband when discussing Petraeus' lack of long-term planning.
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VIDEO: Gen. Petraeus' Mistress Identified, Once Appeared on The Daily Show
Earlier this year, author Paula Broadwell went on a book tour to promote her biography of Gen. David H. Petraeus All In, including an appearance on The Daily Show. But now that Slatehas outed Broadwell as the woman with whom Petraeus had a career-ending affair, her praise of the former CIA director is more than a little awkward.
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During her interview with Jon Stewart, Broadwell described her unorthodox habit of interviewing the general while they ran together. "Petraeus progressively increased the pace until the talk turned to heavy breathing and we reached a six-minute-per-mile pace," Broadwell recalled. "It was a signature Petraeus move.""That was the foundation of our relationship," she went on to the awkward interview below. Do you think the signs were there all along?