Posted on 10/21/2014 10:33:17 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
me is Monica Lewinsky. Though I have often been advised to change it, or asked why on earth I haven’t. But, there we are. I haven’t."
Monica Lewinsky spoke at the Forbes Magazine 30 Under 30 Summit and spoke about the affair that almost brought down the Bill Clinton administration. In her 2,500 word speech she blamed her humiliation on the Drudge Report, Internet, Ken Starr, the NY Post's Page Six, everybody except for the married President with whom she had sexual relations. From the transcript:
But back then, in 1995, we started an affair that lasted, on and off, for 2 years. And, at that time, it was my everything. That, I guess you could say, was the golden bubble part for me; the nice part. The nasty part was that it became public. Public with a vengeance.
Thanks to the Internet and a website that at the time, was scarcely known outside of Washington DC but a website we all know today: the Drudge Report, within 24 hours I became a public figure, not just in the United States but around the entire globe. As far as major news stories were concerned, this was the very first time that the traditional media was usurped by the Internet.
In 1998, as you can imagine, there was a media frenzy. Even though it was pre-Google, (that’s right, pre-Google). The World Wide Web (as we called it that back then) was already a big part of life.
Overnight, I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one. I was Patient Zero.
She continued to talk about her experience, her embarrassment, and the bad press, urging people to have compassion for people like her who are the focus of scandals, concluding with:
She continued to talk about her experience, her embarrassment, and the bad press, urging people to have compassion for people like her who are the focus of scandals, concluding with:
Actually, what we really need is a cultural revolution. Online, we’ve got a compassion deficit – an Empathy Crisis, and something tells me that matters a lot more to most of us.
Oscar Wilde wrote: “I have said that behind sorrow there is always sorrow. It were wiser still to say that behind sorrow there is always a soul. And to mock at a soul in pain is a dreadful thing."
My feelings, exactly.
While it's easy to have compassion for a person who was misled by a powerful person at the tender age of twenty-four, one would think she would have a better perspective on the scandal she was involved in by age 40. Ms. Lewinsky wasn't a victim of cyber-bullying; she was a victim of having sexual relations with a person at or near the peak of power. She became news just as Donna Rice, Elizabeth Ray, Fanne Foxe and many others had before her.
Matt Drudge didn't ruin her life just the same way that the Miami Herald did not ruin Donna Rice's life. Drudge simply reported a huge news story.
If she wants to place the blame for the personal attacks she received, Ms. Lewinsky would be better served to look toward the "Clinton Machine," whose history of destroying reputations is well-documented.
FR is offended because she didn’t mention us.
What’s she doing at an “Under 30 Summit”? She’s over 40.
PS: “Bill, I still love you, so dump that fat cow and let’s rock! You have my number - Monica”
I hate libs way of thinking. So it would have been just fine if nobody found out about this huh Monica? Oh you do remember the name Bill don’t you? He is the only reason your life was ruined.
She’s full of it. Drudge made her a name.
The way she sounds, she made poor decisions because what?... someone had a gun to her head?
NOT
She was where she wanted to BE doing what she wanted to DO!
And got caught. PERIOD Them’s the breaks, kid.
Oh please, Slick Willie ruined your life.
When it comes to women, all I can say to Bill is, “Bill, I knew Jack Kennedy, you’re no Jack Kennedy.”
The narrative is now "cyberbullying." Yep, Monica was a victim of cyberbullying and this is all old news now so it won't hurt Hillary.
It’s not strictly a progressive thing but I find a lot of progressive people find it impossible to blame themselves for any negative response to their actions. It’s pure ego.
Drudge? Monica would have been offed had it not been for the DNA on that blue dress.
Clearly, Monica has not yet learned to take responsibility for her actions. Had she simply owned up to having been young and stupid, much would have been forgiven. Her life was not ruined by Drudge, she took care of that all on her own. She made her own choices, ruinous though they were. Bill Clinton was a skunk, but he did not force her to do anything. Therefore, while we will always consider him ‘the impeached president’, Monica made her own choices and as long as she continues to come out and whine about it, blame other people for her choices, she’ll never get past this, assuming that she really wants to get past it.
I’d just like to see her take responsibility and get on with her life, own it and put paid to that sad part of her life.
Maybe ego, just so darn irritating.
I’m surprised she didn’t say linda tripp ruined her life, because the msm back then certainly thought the whole episode was tripps fault.
No, putting your lips (and cigars) where they don’t belong ruined your life
Did Matt Drudge make her do anything?
Did Matt Drudge meet her in the washroom off the Oval Office while Yassir Arafat was waiting in the Rose Garden?.............>;^{..................
Such a typical democrat.Blames someone else for her own crappy behavior. Then, she goes and demands more publicity.
Professional victims are SOOOOO yesterday.
wait, Matt Drudge shoved Bill’s pecker in her? Drudge forced her under the desk and made her swallow. Drudge held Bill’s hand as he shoved cigars inside of her? It’s Drudge’s fault her name is a punchline because of her poor decision making.
She’s working in conjunction with Hillary’s people. That is the only thing that makes sense.
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