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Letterman: ‘I Feel Bad About My Role’ In Humiliating Lewinsky
CBS ^ | 5-17-14 | unknown

Posted on 05/17/2014 3:00:54 PM PDT by windcliff

WASHINGTON (CBSDC) — David Letterman regrets the way he treated Monica Lewinsky throughout the years over her affair with then President Bill Clinton while she was a White House intern.

With retiring ABC News’ Barbara Walters as his guest on his CBS show Wednesday night, “The Late Show” host said he started to feel bad about the role he played taking shots at Lewinsky after she penned a story for Vanity Fair opening up about the affair and the troubles she had finding a job.

“Now I started to feel bad because myself and other people with shows like this made relentless jokes about the poor woman and she was a kid. She was 21, 22,” Letterman said, adding that it was a “sad human situation.”

Letterman continued: “I feel bad about my role in helping push the humiliation to the point of suffocation.”

Walters said it was time to “turn the page” on Lewinsky.

“She has been ridiculed now for all these years and she is an intelligent woman,” Walters told Letterman. “I wish her well.”

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To: windcliff
What about your staff that had to give you sex favors, beaver face?
21 posted on 05/17/2014 3:23:28 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: windcliff
Letterman: ‘I Feel Bad About My Role’ In Humiliating Lewinsky,

Thanks for sharing. DIAF, loser.

22 posted on 05/17/2014 3:24:10 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: windcliff

Letterman is a pig.


23 posted on 05/17/2014 3:24:41 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: windcliff

David Letterman isn’t particularly my favourite creature in the world, but I’m going to take him at his word. He’s making a public statement. Should he make apologies to other people? Perhaps so, but he’s making a public statement about Lewinsky, whom he probably really skewered over the years, so his apology and that realization is maybe a good start in my opinion. Lewinsky was a mixed up girl looking for love, affection, and attention in the wrong fashion with a very powerful man that didn’t have her best interest at heart. Been there, done that...just not the same circumstances and not in a public way. I hurled some stones at her, too, probably along the way. I’m thinking back, and I don’t know that she had anyone in her corner. Not women. Not men. Not left. Not right. Unless she does something EVIL (I’m talking psychopathic) in the future, I will not do that any longer. I refuse to dog pile on people any more...Obama et. al. and EVIL people being exceptions and are FAIR GAME IMO. I wish her the best in having a happy life, being a good person, and finding meaning for her life. It’s human compassion and we all need that.


24 posted on 05/17/2014 3:25:02 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: CatherineofAragon
Dried up, bucktoothed piece of garbage.

I was trying to think how to put it, and there you nailed it!

25 posted on 05/17/2014 3:25:08 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: freedomfiter2
I don't feel pity for her for what she did.

However, she had the most powerful people in the world after her who labeled her "stalker" among other such things to deflect the blame from Clinton and no help from NOW or other women's groups.

That was atrocious.

26 posted on 05/17/2014 3:26:49 PM PDT by what's up (sun)
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To: windcliff

“Walters said it was time to “turn the page” on Lewinsky”

In other words sweep it under the rug, we have Hillary running for President. What a bunch of losers.


27 posted on 05/17/2014 3:28:17 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: CatherineofAragon

Well said.


28 posted on 05/17/2014 3:28:44 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: windcliff

He’s just jealous that it wasn’t him sucking on that ‘cigar’.


29 posted on 05/17/2014 3:35:20 PM PDT by tje
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To: windcliff
Someone's regret over having humiliated Lewinsky is totally meaningless without an admission of finally being outraged that BJ Clinton avoided being removed from office by the United States Senate for perjury and obstruction of justice.

Almost everything that happened to Lewinsky, including any unjustified ridicule by Letterman, was the fault of Clinton. It is he who deserves the shame of having squandered his time in office by abusing this young woman.

I won't hold my breath waiting for someone like Letterman to see what master he was serving.

30 posted on 05/17/2014 3:35:30 PM PDT by William Tell
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To: what's up

They gave Linda Tripp real hell.


31 posted on 05/17/2014 3:39:27 PM PDT by windcliff
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To: MUDDOG

The description writes itself...ugh.


32 posted on 05/17/2014 3:48:34 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: trisham

Thanks, trisham. ;)


33 posted on 05/17/2014 3:48:56 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: CatherineofAragon

:)


34 posted on 05/17/2014 3:49:20 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: windcliff

I’m not gonna say she was not an opportunist. But BC held the keys to the Oval Office! An Immoral Ass that forgot the three most important things, God, Country, Family,~ And Defiantly had no Honor!


35 posted on 05/17/2014 3:53:44 PM PDT by DocJhn
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To: beaversmom

Nope he is all part of the plan to put this all behind us as Hillary ramps up for 2016


36 posted on 05/17/2014 3:53:49 PM PDT by al baby (Hi MomÂ…)
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To: windcliff

“I feel bad about my role in helping push the humiliation to the point of suffocation.”
++++++
You should have allowed her to come up for some air more often.


37 posted on 05/17/2014 3:54:25 PM PDT by RetSignman
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To: windcliff

They would do it again in a heartbeat to save a RAT president.


38 posted on 05/17/2014 4:01:06 PM PDT by SC_Pete
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To: William Tell

I agree with what you say. I’ve never watched Letterman and never will, and I don’t take seriously any “regret” he claims to have about the matter. He’s nothing but garbage. As for Miz Walters, the wrinkled old Methuselah should have been put out to pasture eons ago. She’s another one I’ve never watched, as I was never interested in anything she had to say. A pox on both of these losers.


39 posted on 05/17/2014 4:04:37 PM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: al baby

A 14 yr old at that time!
Talk about a war on children.


40 posted on 05/17/2014 4:06:42 PM PDT by peteyd (A dog may bite you in the ass,but it will never stab you in the back.)
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