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Fairness for Lewinsky
Washington Post ^ | 2 January 2007 | Richard Cohen

Posted on 01/02/2007 5:18:23 AM PST by shrinkermd

...She is a branded woman, not an adulterer but something even worse -- a girl toy, a trivial thing, a punch line. Yet she did what so many women at that age would do. She seduced (or so she thought) an older man. She fantasized that he would leave his wife for her. Here was her crime: She was a girl besotted. It happens even to Republicans.

But she is now a woman with a master's degree from a prestigious school and is going to be 34 come July. Her clock ticks, her life ebbs. Where is the man for her? Where is the guy brave enough, strong enough, admirable enough to take her as his wife, to suffer the slings and arrows of her outrageous fortune -- to say to the world (for it would be the entire world) that he loves this woman who will always be an asterisk in American history. I hope there is such a guy out there. It would be nice. It would be fair.

It would be nice, too, and fair, also, if Lewinsky were treated by the media as it would treat a man....

This is the year 2007, brand new and full of promise. It would be nice if my colleagues in the media would resolve to treat Monica Lewinsky as a lady, to think of her as they would themselves, to remember their own youth and the things they did and to understand that from this day forward anyone who takes a cheap shot at Lewinsky has a moral and professional obligation to look in the mirror. To proceed otherwise is to miss the joke entirely. No longer is it Monica Lewinsky. It is now the people who write about her.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: clintonlegacy; clintonperjury; conspiredwithbubba; lewinsky; lewinsly; paidtolie; time; toforgive
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FWIW for once I agree with Cohen. Strongly so.
1 posted on 01/02/2007 5:18:24 AM PST by shrinkermd
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To: shrinkermd

I could go along with it -- if she would come out and tell the truth about the sink master first and denounce him for what he did and almost did to her.


2 posted on 01/02/2007 5:21:37 AM PST by Lee'sGhost (Crom! Non-Sequitur = Pee Wee Herman.)
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To: shrinkermd

An attempt to neutralize Monicagate for '08?????


3 posted on 01/02/2007 5:22:18 AM PST by Loyal Buckeye
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To: shrinkermd
What's astounding is the level of sexism applied to her, as if the wave of the women's movement broke over a new generation of journalists and not a drop fell on any of them.

One wonders why Mr. Cohen did not recognize the very same sexism when Ol' Slick ruled the White House chicken coop.

4 posted on 01/02/2007 5:23:57 AM PST by rhombus
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To: shrinkermd
No doubt Cohen does know so many women who did what Lewinsky would do. The dems are universally without morals, honor, or integrity.

Wonder who paid to keep her out of this country for these years, and how she managed to get into such a prestigious school.

5 posted on 01/02/2007 5:24:02 AM PST by OldFriend (THE PRESS IS AN EVIL FOR WHICH THERE IS NO REMEDY)
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To: Loyal Buckeye

Did you notice the article a week or so ago about xxxlinton undergoing therapy for sex addiction? Add that to the list of clintonian rehabilitation


6 posted on 01/02/2007 5:24:03 AM PST by InvisibleChurch (Tempus Fidget - The time between the final hymn and recessional.)
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To: shrinkermd

Ladies know that giving the boss a bj on the clock is not lady-like.


7 posted on 01/02/2007 5:24:06 AM PST by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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To: Lee'sGhost

--wonder how Cohen feels about Linda Tripp???


8 posted on 01/02/2007 5:25:37 AM PST by rellimpank (-don't believe anything the MSM states about firearms or explosives--NRA Benefactor)
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To: metesky
Ladies know that giving the MARRIED boss a bj on the clock is not lady-like.
9 posted on 01/02/2007 5:25:46 AM PST by Malacoda (A day without a pi$$ed-off muslim is like a day without sunshine.)
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To: shrinkermd

When the statement was proffered ... they left ... one by one ... the older ones first.


10 posted on 01/02/2007 5:25:50 AM PST by knarf (Islamists kill each other ... News wall-to-wall, 24/7 .. don't touch that dial.)
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To: shrinkermd

Why is he even bringing this up? I smell an ulterior motive here. Monica is so 1990's


11 posted on 01/02/2007 5:26:35 AM PST by SueRae
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To: shrinkermd; All

John 8:1
But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

John 8:2
Now early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people came to Him; and He sat down and taught them.

John 8:3
Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst,

John 8:4
they said to Him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act.

John 8:5
"Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned. But what do You say?"

John 8:6
This they said, testing Him, that they might have something of which to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, as though He did not hear.

John 8:7
So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first."

John 8:8
And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground.

John 8:9
Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.

John 8:10
When Jesus had raised Himself up and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, "Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?"

John 8:11
She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said to her, "Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more."
(NKJV)


12 posted on 01/02/2007 5:26:48 AM PST by alpha-8-25-02 ("SAVED BY GRACE AND GRACE ALONE")
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To: Loyal Buckeye

"An attempt to neutralize Monicagate for '08?????"

You got it! Make it a no-no to even mention it.

By the way. What are the gator's chances?


13 posted on 01/02/2007 5:26:55 AM PST by mutley
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To: rellimpank

Monica's going to be 34? How time flies - seems like only yesterday she was crawling around the oval office on her hands and knees...


14 posted on 01/02/2007 5:27:07 AM PST by COBOL2Java ("No stronger retrograde force exists in the world" - Winston Churchill on Islam)
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To: shrinkermd

Even if they would just be as kind to Monica as they are to William the Zipper. He was the most powerful man in the world and married. She was just a stupid star struck kid.

Maria


15 posted on 01/02/2007 5:27:15 AM PST by Coldwater Creek (The TERRORIST are the ones who won the midterm elections!)
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To: shrinkermd

"Where, pray tell, is the man who is remembered just for sex? Where is the guy who is the constant joke for something he did in his sexually wanton youth? Maybe here and there some preacher, but in those cases the real subject matter is not sex but hypocrisy. Other than those, no names come to mind."

Cohen will never acknowledge how his paper and others of its ilk, redeemed Clinton and continue to do so. Of course, it was all Monica's fault.

Her parents can take pride in her courage and perseverance. Are they still alive?




16 posted on 01/02/2007 5:28:44 AM PST by sodpoodle (Despair - man's surrender. Joy - God's redemption.)
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To: metesky

I can't look at a photo of her without remembering where that mouth has been. Bill Clinton, yeech!


17 posted on 01/02/2007 5:30:02 AM PST by xJones
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To: shrinkermd
Yet she did what so many women at that age would do. She seduced (or so she thought) an older man. She fantasized that he would leave his wife for her. Here was her crime: She was a girl besotted. It happens even to Republicans.

Only is the morals-free world of Demoncrats and RINOs is this what "so many women" would be doing. I would like to think that more than a few "ladies" of more conservative persuasion would slap the guy upside the head.

18 posted on 01/02/2007 5:30:20 AM PST by ikka
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To: shrinkermd
Where, pray tell, is the man who is remembered just for sex? Where is the guy who is the constant joke

Married to a Senator? I do agree with Cohen on this tho, I think its more about getting the past out there and neutralised so that the Senator can become pres.

19 posted on 01/02/2007 5:31:10 AM PST by Kay Syrah
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To: Lee'sGhost

Monica probably has thoughts of Fort Marcy Park if she says too much. That's if she hasn't already been warned.

And anything Mr. Blue-rinse Bearded Guy has to say is always to the greater honor and glory of the Billary. This snippy little man is one of many Clintonista butt-boys at Their service.

And if Hillary wins in '08, the Binary Presidency is back. Little Richard wants to be their avatar and prophet.


20 posted on 01/02/2007 5:31:30 AM PST by elcid1970
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