Posted on 06/27/2015 12:13:16 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Speaking to the some of the most creative advertising people in the world, Monica Lewinsky received a standing ovation after she recounted how she was treated after her infamous scandal with former President Bill Clinton and saying, “public shaming as a blood sport must stop.”
Ms. Lewinsky gave the Ogilvy & Inspire keynote speech Thursday at the Cannes Lions festival in France, which bills itself as the world's biggest annual awards show and festival for professionals in the creative communications industry. According to the NY Post Page Six website, the former White House intern gave a speech similar to the "TED talk" speech she gave in March (embedded below).
The former girlfriend of Hillary Clinton's husband's described herself as the “patient zero” of Internet shaming:
She told the crowd, “Like me, at 22, a few of you may also have taken wrong turns and fallen in love with the wrong person, maybe even your boss … Unlike me, though, your boss probably wasn’t the president of the United States of America.
“Not a day goes by that I am not reminded of my mistake, and I regret that mistake deeply. In 1998 after having been swept up into an improbable romance, I was then swept up into a political, legal and media maelstrom, that we had never seen before.
“This scandal was brought to you by the digital revolution … what that meant for me personally was that overnight I went from being a completely private figure, to a publicly humiliated one worldwide. I was patient zero of losing a personal reputation on a global scale almost instantaneously.”
Perhaps, it says much about the mainstream media that the former White House intern was still faces derision even though she was taken advantage of by a much older and powerful boss. And, rarely do they mention the fact that, because he lied under oath, he was the only U.S. president in history to give up his law license to avoid getting disbarred.
Lewinsky described how, once the scandal broke, Clinton supporters took to the internet an branded her as "a tart, slut, whore, bimbo, floozy and of course ‘that woman'":
"I was seen by many but truly known by few … It was hard to remember ‘that woman’ had a soul and was once unbroken. In 1998 I lost my reputation and my dignity, I lost almost everything, and I almost lost my life.”
Lewinsky went on to talk about her mission to end the type of cyber-bullying she received, adeptly framing it in advertising terms.
“But can you imagine what it is like when the brand is you personally, your likeness, your name, your history, your values, your soul. That’s what happened to me in 1998. You are looking at a woman who was publicly savaged for a decade … because of who I was branded.”
She concluded, “We can lead each other to a more compassionate, more empowered place, we can help change our behavior, we can all learn from mistakes … and we can together make a society where the sometimes distancing of technology does not remove our humanity.
“You are the creative engines that will drive forward our culture. Will you help me?”
Well.... she at least has made one contribution and that’s to the dictionary. Unfortunately for her, she does not have a common last name and I’m sure this is the one thing that her family will have problems forgiving her for.....
Sorry Monica but you take third place behind Paula Jones and Linda Tripp........Remember those ladies?
One of the best known groupies of our time. Her last name is enshrined as a colloquial term for a sexual act.
Hey Monica—I hope you gave a shout out to Linda Tripp.
Without her advice to keep the blue dress, you’d be on the Clinton body count list by now.
As I recall, Linda Tripp got more “bullied” than you.
I'm not saying ML is a Christian, but a Christian understands the concept of forgiveness following confession and usually at least attempts to have the mind of Christ and if they cannot forget, they CAN not remember
I don't know about large church families and varying denominations, but for the most part, MY little (about 120) independent fundamental Baptist community never brings up the past that God has thrown into the sea of forgetfulness, separated by east and west
Good point, your post #4. How the feminists attacked her. Just like they attacked Clinton’s actual rape victims. What do muzzies and feminists have in common? They side with the rapist against the rape victim.
Ms. Lewinsky has paid the price many times over for her misdeeds. She certainly didn’t sell the country down the river like Hillary or Nancy or Olympia or Nikki, Marie, or many other of the ‘sisterhood’ did and are doing.
Why the DC crowd threw her away like a used towel is anyone’s guess - maybe Hillary ordered it.
What happened to her has absolutely nothing to do with cyber bullying.
bttt
Leni
She is creepy. Her claim to fame is a blow job. Yuck! Double and triple yuck. Of course liberals think that deserves applause. Slimeballs.
“She told the crowd, “Like me, at 22, a few of you may also have taken wrong turns and fallen in love with the wrong person, maybe even your boss … Unlike me, though, your boss probably wasn’t the president of the United States of America.”
And unlike your “boss” any other boss would have been fired, humiliated and sued for all he was worth. But ‘ole Billy is still traveling the globe getting rich from speeches and whatever he can steal.
He should have been impeached and convicted for the sexual harassment.
But what you are missing out of this Monica, is it was your precious liberals that threw you under the bus. After all “it was only about sex”. Right?
Oh boo frickin’ hoo.
The whore would still vote for Bill or Hillary. Screw her.
The Starr report reads like Hustler magazine...not that *I* would know ;) One footnote even has a Monica admission that she tossed BJ’s salad.
If this had been a story about Clinton talking about the affair and the audience clapping, I would have addressed him.
I think you can understand that.
If Monica wasn’t out there making a living off what she did, I wouldn’t be addressing her here now.
I think you can understand that too.
yeah she’s blowing things out of proportion
For what else is she ‘Patient Zero?’ I can imagine.
bfl
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