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Monica Lewinsky: The price of shame
http://www.ted.com/talks/monica_lewinsky_the_price_of_shame?utm_source=newsletter_daily&utm_campaign=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_content=image__2015-03-20 ^

Posted on 03/20/2015 6:06:30 PM PDT by TigerClaws

In 1998, says Monica Lewinsky, “I was Patient Zero of losing a personal reputation on a global scale almost instantaneously.” Today, the kind of online public shaming she went through has become a constant. In a brave talk, she takes a look at our “culture of humiliation,” in which online shame equals dollar signs — and demands a different way.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: billclinton; blog; bloggers; clinton; lewinsky; monicalewinsky
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To: Rainier1789
Recall that BJ Clinton said “I did not have sexual relations with that woman”,

He was talking about Hillary.

21 posted on 03/20/2015 6:27:48 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

Monica does not regret this incident. It’s become her ticket to fame and fortune.


22 posted on 03/20/2015 6:29:09 PM PDT by Rainier1789 (My Constitution has a 2nd and 10th Amendment)
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To: TigerClaws

She tries to say she was ‘bullied’ or ‘shamed’ by the internet.


A woman who screwed a married guy was “shamed.” How shocking!


23 posted on 03/20/2015 6:32:59 PM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: Rainier1789
Monica does not regret this incident. It’s become her ticket to fame and fortune.

Exactly.

24 posted on 03/20/2015 6:33:12 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: TigerClaws

Monica got caught up in the feminazis war on men. Here was a Democrat, a liberal, molesting his intern in the White House and when the truth came out, the feminazis did not mind it at all. That is why the Monica thing mattered - to expose the sham of feminazis.

It was only a weapon they used against their thought enemies and males with no power. We see it being repeated in the gaystopo right now.


25 posted on 03/20/2015 6:39:06 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: TigerClaws
She tries to say she was 'bullied' or 'shamed' by the internet.

We're going to hear a lot more of that, since the internet stands between the leftists and their goals.

26 posted on 03/20/2015 6:43:01 PM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: dfwgator

Always the woman’s fault, huh?


27 posted on 03/20/2015 6:43:08 PM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
If Conservatives were smart, they would put aside their outrage at the mutual immorality and simply hold her up as a poster child for Liberal hypocrisy.

I agree with you 100%, but would also add that whatever immorality she exhibited in that whole sordid affair needs to be put in the context of how much she was victimized during that time. For example, if a stripper at a night club got raped on her way home from work, should conservatives make a big deal - or ANY deal - about her lack of morals?

What happened to her is not all that different. So aside from whatever political utility we might gain by being her defenders, we should do that because it is the right thing to do.
28 posted on 03/20/2015 6:43:24 PM PDT by zencycler
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To: lonestar
Always the woman’s fault, huh?

It takes two to tango, but still, I don't see her as a 'victim.'

29 posted on 03/20/2015 6:46:44 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator
The most powerful man in the world, old enough to be her father and you don't see her as a "victim."

I see you as myopic.

30 posted on 03/20/2015 6:50:03 PM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: SaraJohnson

Are you suggesting that Monica didn’t consent?


31 posted on 03/20/2015 6:52:29 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: TigerClaws

Whatever happened to her was self-inflicted. She made bad decisions then, and it looks like she’s still doing it.


32 posted on 03/20/2015 6:53:54 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: TigerClaws

She was a stupid kid and Clinton took advantage. She may have grown up. He hasn’t.

The thing about her is that I do not think she should be presenting herself as a victim. She should take responsibility for what she did. If she were going around talking about this, she should be warning girls to keep their thongs to themselves. I would be more sympathetic if she were doing that.

Standing up and whining about cyber bullying when HER actions lead to the impeachment of a President seems a little naive, even this many years later.


33 posted on 03/20/2015 6:57:43 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (When you are inclined to to buy storage boxes, but contractor bags instead.)
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To: mass55th
Whatever happened to her was self-inflicted. She made bad decisions then, and it looks like she’s still doing it.

Meanwhile, Bill Clinton cleaned up his act and hasn't had non-sex with anybody but Hillary since Monica...turned 22.

34 posted on 03/20/2015 6:57:57 PM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: Organic Panic
" She was seduced by the world’s most powerful man. "

Seduced? Oh yeah, I forgot...Bill showed her the straps of his thong, and then seduced her.

35 posted on 03/20/2015 6:59:42 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: TigersEye

Oh man......
lol


36 posted on 03/20/2015 7:00:07 PM PDT by mowowie (`)
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To: Rides_A_Red_Horse
"A woman who screwed a married guy was “shamed.” How shocking!"

Don't forget she screwed her married college professor before Bill, and those are only two of her escapades that we know about. There may have been other married men in between.

37 posted on 03/20/2015 7:01:27 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: TigerClaws

This is prep for an MSM-funded, lib-centric crack-down on the internet and outfits like Drudge.

That means US.

They’ll come out with some really vaguely-worded law about cyber-bullying, but it will all be about crushing coverage that imposes political costs on them.

This is political.


38 posted on 03/20/2015 7:01:31 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: TigerClaws

Oh for Pete’s sake.....A stupid young intern almost ends the career of a horndog rat president, and she expected “fair” treatment? She’s lucky she didn’t join Ron Brown and Vince Foster. And the gutless wonders that did not vote to remove an obviously guilty man from office started this country on the road to tyranny. Now a rat president can literally make stuff up as he goes and he won’t get impeached.


39 posted on 03/20/2015 7:01:50 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: TigerClaws

Monica is alive today to play a victim solely because Linda Tripp begged her to save the blue dress.

Monica had at least one affair with a married man, one of her professors in college prior to servicing Bilbo.

Her mother was enthralled with the fact that her daughter was servicing Bilbo.

And I believe this whole “lecture tour” has been made possible by backing of the Clinton Foundation together some money and to create the meme that the Internet and the nasty right wingers are to blame for her troubles, thus diverting blame from the Clintons, for Hillary’s presidential run.

Linda Tripp is the only one who acted honorably in the whole affair, including the entire US Senate.


40 posted on 03/20/2015 7:07:20 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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