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.
You got to give the gal some credit. She worked her way into Billy the perverts lair and clipped his cigars for him. Maybe the CIA should hire her for undercover seduction work.
Bubba’s got a thing for them Thunder Thighs!
She flatters herself when she says she started an affair.
The fact is she was just a lump of flesh for Bill and his crooked penis. An affair? What a laugh.
As far as did I tell my parents everything. I didn't have to, my parents watched me closely and gave me firm guidance.
It was the same for me, I found Free Republic through the Drudge link. I still go to the Drudge Report quite a few times a day for updates. All the headlines are there to see in one glance.
It was the same for me, I found Free Republic through the Drudge link. I still go to the Drudge Report quite a few times a day for updates. All the headlines are there to see in one glance.
Bubba’s got a thing for them Thunder Thighs!
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I don’t know, from everything I’ve heard about his sexual preferences, he makes sure all his dates have kneepads.
Freud would have made him his sole case study.
I blame Bill Clinton for being a sleaze and Hillary (or whomever lead the character assassination) for being maliciously evil. I blame her parents for not doing a better job of teaching her values. I blame her for not figuring out before she was 21 that her parents’ values were destructive. Blame Drudge for making the truth public? Nope.
Easy there. I think her parents suffered plenty, quite embarrassed. Parents will always try to defend their kids even when they're whores. As for Monica, she hasn't suffered enough as long as she won't accept responsibility for her actions, and stop blaming Drudge and others. She'll be ridiculed until the day she dies.
As long as there's one Freeper left to call her "The Humidor".
Bubba was a Chubby Chaser.
I was just reading this thread and trying to remember Mary Mahoney’s name.
It looked like, at the time, a rubout, to silence her, and some others just were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Bill and Hill never pull the trigger themselves, but others do it for them.
Vince Foster and Jerry Parks come to mind.
NO cash was taken, and no one heard shots. She and the other two employees were found in the walk-in refrigerator.
see two posts above this.
I swear ! I didnt hear it!
Well, you can read the whole thing here:
The Internet Didn't Bully You, Ms. Lewinsky -- Bill Clinton and the Democrat Party Did That
Thanks, FRiend. It all came back to me about Caity Mahoney.
Five shots, one to the back of the head. No one heard any shots. Thousands in the till untouched.
Doors locked form the outside.
Witnesses eliminated.
Definitely a hit job.
The girl who knew too much.
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