Remember Jill Kelley?

You probably don't. She's the woman who helped set off the whole Petraeus shebang by reporting Paula Broadwell's psychotic emails, the Linda Tripp of our times I guess.

Now the NYT does this profile on her and, honestly, I couldn't get past the passage where they talk about her and her husband having an oil painting of themselves hung in their home. Who does that?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/06/us/from-petraeus-scandal-an-apostle-for-privacy.html

I have some sympathy for her privacy being invaded, but it's clear she has a massive ego.

 

Uh oh.

 

begs the question, if she was concerned with a low profile why grant an interview now?

Likely her high powered lawyers put her up to it as a shot over bow
in law suit. Love when the NYT gets used like this.

 

Does she deserve a NYT profile?

 

Public service announcement: If you're googling Ms. Kelley at work, please be sure to include the second E in her name.

 

Seems like it's all part of the narrative that her high priced attorneys and pr flacks
are creating with the NYT as a willing partner.

 

Reminds me of one of the greatest lines in "Thank You For Smoking":

"I presumed anything I said while I was inside you was off the record."

 

That was my first thought. Stay out out of my corners.

 

"Are they centaurs in this painting? No? Amateurs," A-Rod said.

 

I've known a fair number of people who have pastels of their children, and two men who commissioned oil portraits of their wives. No couples.

 

I totally thought this thread was about THAT Jill Kelly.

 

Me too. So much so that I picked this thread to be the first of the year to get deleted.