Posted on 06/26/2004 2:33:30 AM PDT by kattracks
Hell hath no fury like an intern scorned.Monica Lewinsky broke her silence and bared her claws yesterday, branding ex-lover Bill Clinton a creep who "destroyed" her and made her feel like "an insignificant piece of dirt."
As the former President stumped for his best-selling memoir, Lewinsky fumed that he belittled their romance and never apologized for smearing her reputation during the Sexgate scandal.
"He says he was proud of the way that he defended the presidency - at my expense. In the process, he destroyed me," she said.
"I was a young girl and to hear him saying some of the things he was saying today - it's a shame."
Lewinsky said her life would have turned out much differently if she'd never met Clinton.
She imagined that she would be a forensic psychologist, a wife and a mother.
"I have spent the last several years trying so hard to move on. I've lost a lot of time."
Lewinsky, 30, refused to comment to the U.S. media when Clinton's autobiography, "My Life," was published to enormous fanfare this week.
Instead, she gave a paid interview to London's Daily Mail and Britain's ITV News, which aired the half-hour segment last night.
In her most candid remarks since the scandal that rocked the country, Lewinsky portrayed Clinton as a money-grubbing cad incapable of telling the truth.
"It's offensive," she said of his chapters about their fling. "He could easily have chosen to take a few less million dollars and just not write about it."
At various points in the two interviews she referred to him as "the creep," a "liar," a "revisionist of history" and "a wax figure - without humanity."
She seemed unable to reconcile the Bill Clinton of today with the "tender" man who called her "dear" and "baby" and gave her gifts like Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass."
"This is someone I used to be in love with?" she asked incredulously.
While she kept her mouth shut when Sen. Hillary Clinton published her memoir last year, Lewinsky said she's speaking out now to correct the account in "My Life."
She's also angry about the "60 Minutes" interview in which Clinton said he cheated on his wife with Lewinsky "for the worst possible reason - just because I could."
"I was really upset when I first heard it," she said.
"He talked about it as though I had laid it all out there for the taking. I was the buffet, and he just couldn't resist the dessert," she fumed.
"That's not how it was," she said. "This was a mutual relationship, mutual on all levels, right from the way it started and all the way through."
What's more, she claims she can prove it with tapes of messages Clinton left on her telephone answering machine and gifts he gave her, all of which she kept.
"If I was just something he used 'because he could,' why call me?" she said. "Why fake all the emotions and the looks and the tenderness?"
"He touched me first," she added.
Adding to the insult is Clinton's refusal to apologize for the way he and his protectors maligned her at the height of the scandal.
"His strategy was to debase my character," she said.
Clinton doesn't seem to appreciate the fact that she refused to wear a wire and get him on tape, even though she was threatened with prison, she said.
"How would he feel if [Chelsea] was picked up in a shopping mall as I was by the FBI, taken to a hotel room, told she couldn't call an attorney and threatened with jail for 27 years?
"How would he feel if she was trashed by the person she had the relationship with?"
Now that she and Clinton are back on the front pages, she has just one question for him: "Can't you just step up to the plate and correct the things you did that were wrong?"
Clinton's spokeswoman did not return calls.
Pain - in her own words
On Clinton's comments about their affair: "He's acting as though it was nothing more than a bug bite that got infected."
On how he treated her: "He says he was proud of the way that he defended the presidency - at my expense. In the process, he destroyed me."
On his chapter about the affair: "He could easily have chosen to take a few less million dollars and just not write about it."
On her life: "When I look at photographs of me before all this happened, I can see a happiness there that has gone. He could have made it easier on me, but at least I have the advantage of truth."
Originally published on June 26, 2004
If you haven't read it yet, Monica has tapes of her conversations with Clinton.
She still has feelings for him. She's hurt and angry right now, but all it'd take was one of those "oh, baby, I'm so sorry--will you have me back" phone calls and she'd forgive him--at least in her fantasy world.
When she has no emotion for him one way or another, she's over him. But she ain't there yet.
If Hillary divorces Bill Clinton that's the end to her political future and she knows it. There is no way that anyone in the Democrat party would support her if she divorced Slick Willie. NO WAY!
Why do you think she married someone from Arkansas? She hates this state and always has. Why do you think she stays with Bill Clinton after he has embarrassed her so many times with other women? She doesn't care in the least what he does as long as no one else finds out.
It has always been a political marriage. She had a child when she needed to be a mother for political reasons (I'm not claiming that she is Bill Clinton's child because there is not another lip that looks so much like Web Hubbell than on Chelsea Clinton). Hillary took Bill Clinton's last name when she needed to be a political "wife". Bill Clinton's mother hated Hillary as much as Hillary hated her. The whole "family" is a screwed up mess. It's all about POLITICAL POWER and MONEY.
Do an internet search on "Narcissistic Personality Disorder". Klintoon is a textbook case. I've never understood why no one in the conservative press has brought this up. The man is mentally ill. (And I'm not saying that's an excuse for his behavior.)
As endless as my contempt for The Slick One is, I thank God he wasn't removed from office. If he would have been, the lunatic, moon-barking chihuahua, Al Gore would be our president now and God help us if that were the case.
God does his good work in mysterious ways!
If the tapes are released, it'll all be a great misunderstanding, like Jennifer Flowers' tapes. Weren't those fakes from the VRWC?
If she ever wants to have a shred of personal dignity left, she should shut her mouth and stay permanently out of the public eye. Why isn't her mother or father telling her this?
I think you are 100% right!
Look up Malignant Narcissistic Personality and it is Bill Clinton 100%.
Obviously she was aware at the time that she was barely traipsing over the breathing side of Arkencide.
"If Hillary divorces Bill Clinton that's the end to her political future..."
That may be the case. She may be up a creek without a paddle either way. We shall see.
I think you are right.
What is in the news about the Clinton memoir? Lewinsky snippets- I did her "because I could", Monica's reaction, Clinton blowing up at reporter over Monica, the mind-numbing boredom of the book, the lack of policy achievements of Clinton, the sycophantic nature of the Lamestream Media.
The Legacy Building Project just needs to disband. Right now they are still digging a deeper hole.
They probably have told her to stay out of the public eye. But, at least on paper, she's an adult (emotionally, she appears to be about 13-14, still pining away for her first love). And--if MSNBC is right--she got $100K for the interview.
A gal's gotta earn a living, and it's a whole lot better than selling handbags on the internet.
So much for the Rhodes scholar and smartest guy in the world.
I've been trying to explain to a female co-worker why what Clinton did was an impeachable offense (!) The existence of these tapes certainly prove that he was blackmail bait, at least, never mind perjury and obstruction of justice.
"She imagined that she would be a forensic psychologist, a wife and a mother."
Oh brother!!!! Yeah, and Jethro Bodine wanted to be a brain surgeon!!!!!!
Poor girl....she REALLY thinks Clinton was showing REAL emotions, not just usuing her for a toy...and she REALLY thinks she is smart enough to have been a forensic psychologist....so sad....
But, if she wanted to get some practice with forensic science, she could start with stains on dresses and other body fluids on cigars.
It all comes back to me now...
I wonder why Star let her get away with NOT turning over this evidence that she obviously withheld.
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