Posted on 01/19/2018 5:07:53 AM PST by Kaslin
What fools (and hypocrites) these mortals be. Two decades have passed since Linda Tripp blew the whistle on sexual hijinks in high places with her tapes of Monica Lewinsky, the young intern who described to her confidant and colleague the passionate ordeal of a sexual liaison with the president of the United States. She blew the whistle, she says, to protect her friend. Twenty years on, she's still a villain for many women who remember those times.
But history's on her side.
Tripp withdrew to a private life after the scandal, and now she comes in from the cold to reappear on a changed landscape littered with the likes of Harvey Weinstein, Matt Lauer, Kevin Spacey and Charlie Rose. She suggests that former President Bill Clinton should take his place on the pedestal of predators with current celebrities of stage, screen and politics.
"When the president gets a pass for something that egregious," she tells DailyMailTV, "he essentially gave tacit permission to all those who followed to do the same."
In the revival of memories of those dark days of revelation, Tripp emerges as the heroine before her time was ripe, who went out on a fragile limb to protect a friend who would hate her for what she was doing. "He was the leader of the free world and she was an intern, a kid, who happened to be extremely emotionally young for her age," she says of Lewinsky. "This was part of his pattern where women were a means to an end. It was almost a servicing agreement, but she romanticized it."
Although Bubba didn't lose his job, as many of the current batch of exposed alleged offenders did, one U.S. senator, Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, now says he should have. She thinks he should have resigned in shame. Now armed with fresh attitudes about sexual harassment, other women are reassessing their earlier conclusions. The reassessment should put Tripp on the side of the good angels, but she told The Weekly Standard, "It's a day late, and it's a dollar short." She wants to know what information the reassessors have today they didn't have 20 years ago. The reckoning isn't about black and white, left and right, but about right and wrong.
Anyone familiar with the record remembers hearing how Lewinsky naively asked Bubba, "is this just about sex ... or do you have some interest in trying to get to know me as a person?" The plaintive cry of the child emerges.
But she had no appeal to sympathy when The Drudge Report broke the story in January 1998 with the power of a rotten egg, or when Hillary Clinton went on the attack on NBC's "Today" show in January 1998. The accusations against her husband, Clinton said, were merely the work of a "vast right-wing media conspiracy." The abuse of a young woman by a male boss twice her age was reduced to partisan politics.
The even vaster left-wing media conspiracy joined the White House and closed ranks with the first lady and the president, as they treated Lewinsky and Bubba's "bimbo eruptions" like clay ducks in a shooting gallery. Maureen Dowd of The New York Times called the White House approach "a slander strategy." But she observed, "at least some of the veteran Clinton shooters feel a little nauseated this time around, after smearing so many women who were probably telling the truth as trashy bimbos."
One reader says writing about the Clinton scandals is "so yesterday." Why bother with a rehash of the Clintons in the White House? But news of the Clintons is never yesterday's news. Their story demonstrates over and over how power and the press create villains and heroines with exaggeration, distortion and truth rearrangement.
When Lewinsky decided to go public with her remembrance of things past four years ago in Vanity Fair, she learned how personal humiliation fits with our culture of humiliation, where gossip and half-truths take root on the internet, where nothing ever dies and instead festers on social media, giving everyone an opportunity to revel in schadenfreude.
With a 24/7 news cycle hungry for something, anything, to feed the hysteria for tales of the lowest human experience, the world in which Monica Lewinsky lived 20 years ago is revealed as the same world we live in today, only more so. The power centers are occupied by a different cast of characters, but everything is familiar.
Amazon Studios has acquired the rights for a movie to be called "Linda and Monica," to explore the intimate, confidential recorded telephone conversations about Bubba. It's coming soon to a theater near you.
“But history’s on her side. Tripp withdrew to a private life after the scandal, and now she comes in from the cold to reappear on a changed landscape littered with the likes of Harvey Weinstein, Matt Lauer, Kevin Spacey and Charlie Rose. She suggests that former President Bill Clinton should take his place on the pedestal of predators with current celebrities of stage, screen and politics.”
Do you see any indication from the enemedia that she is viewed as anything other than a “vast right-wing conspirator” - even in this current climate of gender politics? Put more simply, do you see any indication that BJ Clinton is even being associated with these other perverts that did the EXACT SAME THINGS?
Linda Tripp arguably saved Monicas life. Especially by telling her to keep the blue dress.
Thank God Linda survived. She and her husband run his charming Christmas Sleigh shop year-round in Middleburg VA.
What really disgusts me is how Monica became “the news”, rather than the context in which the story came to light. BJ Clinton was being sued by Paula Jones for sexual harassment, and Monica was subpoenaed as part of that legal proceeding - WHICH CLINTON SETTLED FOR OVER $800K.
Paula Jones was the victim of BJ Clinton; Monica was just a sideshow slut who sealed his fate (and his legacy). Even this story mentions “sexual hi jinx”; while not actually “fake news”, it became such because it was, and is, used to mask the real story.
He sure did.
“...Linda Tripp arguably saved Monicas life.....”
Spot-on.
She’d have become another Arkancide, otherwise.
I did not know that! That is cool, I hope she has been happy. I would much rather run a Christmas shop than be immersed in the swamp.
Herewith, for your edification, are the Certified Democrat Degenerates......the scum that vilify and destroy America's Judeo-Christian ethics and values in movies promoted as being "diverse, politically correct, and socially relevant."
HOLLYWOOD'S CERTIFIED DEMOCRAT DEGENERATES
FINANCED BILL CLINTON'S LEWINSKY SEX MESS
According to FEC Info, an Internet Web site (www.tray.com) that tracks federal political contributions, 176 individual donors actually contributed $10,000 or more to the lewinsky-era Clinton Legal Expense Trust fund through Dec 1999. Another 21 donors gave $10,000 in the first six months of 2000.
Thanks to Hollyood's generosity, a total of more than $2.2 million was raised in six months, which was notably more than was collected in funding during the previous four years of his presidency—combined. Hollywood producers and stars made up the bulk of the most generous givers. They included:
<><> Universal Studios tycoon Lew Wasserman and his wife, Edith, gave $60,000;
<><>DreamWorks trio Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg, $20,000 each;
<><> producer Ron Burkle and his wife, Janet, $40,000;
<><> producers Peg and Bud Yorkin, $30,000;
<><> TV producer Norman Lear, $20,000.
Entertainment celebrities and executives giving $10,000 included:
<><> singers Tony Bennett and feminist Barbra Streisand;
<><><> actors Michael Douglas and Tom Hanks;
<><> director Ron Howard; producer Gail Zappa;
<><>Black Entertainment Television founder Robert L. Johnson.
cont
<><> How did the Hollyood elite list payments to Clinton's sex defense fund on their corporate statements AND on their tax returns?
<><>How did the "DreamWorks" trio, Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg, list their 60,000 dollars to Clinton's sex defense fund?
<><>How did BET list its contribution to Clinton on its corporate statements?
<><> Did Harvey's company list these payments as "business expenses?"
The biggie is the tax element.
<><> Did donors deduct it as a “business expense”,
<><> was it included in assets, payments listed on organization balance sheets as a "liability?"
<><> Did Clinton document it as "income"?
<><> Were the donors given a tax-free certificate from the Clinton Foundation?
cont
When Bill Clinton was at the height of the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal, Hollywood was by his side, offering donations for his legal fees, and one significant donor was a man who is now going through his own sex scandal—Harvey Weinstein.
Billionaire Harvey Weinstein raised $1,422,683 for federal candidates and political entities between 1990-2016. That’s small potatoes for his 27 years of rank Democratism, sucking up to feminism and upholding so-called abortion rights as he rampaged and assaulted young women. Adds up to about $5300 a year.
Something tells me there are a lot of cash payments off-the-record being paid. (hat tip outpostinmass2) Crunching the numbers as outpost did does give us a sharper look at the political money game as played by the conniving Clintons.
Harvey also gave a bundle to the nefarious tax-exempt Clinton Foundation and perhaps to offshoots of the Clintons tax-free entities.
Did Harvey's donations to the C/F go to "do-good projects"? Or did they make a circuitous route? Maybe landing back into the Clintons eternal political scams?
Don’t forget that the Clintons had some Hollywood people teach Bill how to lie in a believable way.
Bump
The "dismissal" on Twitter is "just about a BJ".
My counter is always "multiple serious felonies".
No, Clinton is sacrosanct with the Left. Humans being humans, intellectual consistency is rarely seen.
It's partly for her book sales, but I'm beginning to believe she's "gone activist" in her golden years.
It's fracking GREAT!!! :)
Twenty years...... who’d a thunk it.
It took until October 31 for the Free Republic March for Justice on the DC Mall to loudly shout “Impeach, Impeach, Impeach!”
Eating pizza in the AIA building we assembled as FReepers
“When the president gets a pass for something that egregious,” she tells DailyMailTV, “he essentially gave tacit permission to all those who followed to do the same.” ......
Not to mention the Clinton’s celebrated his so-called “impeachment” with a lawn party immediately following the vote. Talk about no morals, he was/is the “king” of no morals.
That’s exactly my point; to so many ignorant Americans, that was a witch hunt by the vast right-wing conspiracy against a liberal Democrat - nothing else.
I wish Trump’s wife would say he was the target of a vast left-wing conspiracy; we let them use all the inflammatory speech.
Hillary can’t hurt them anymore.
Remember her Bimbo Eruption team set up for eight years in the WH with our tax dollars to destroy any woman who accused her husband?
Horndog Bill knew it was all true but he let tax dollars be spent to destroy women he victimized.
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