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To: shrinkermd
Actually she got a Pulitzer for taking on Clinton.

LMAO... yeah, for damage-control during his impeachment.

17 posted on 04/26/2007 6:06:37 AM PDT by johnny7 ("Issue in Doubt." -Col. David Monroe Shoup, USMC 1943)
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To: johnny7
Well Johny7 you must not have read her columns. Here is an excerpt from the 23 August 1998 column:

"The 25-year-old says she is eager to get on with her life. But does she still dream that her life will include an ex-President named Bill?

I just hope she is not over at the Watergate,

flipping through designer swatches for the Clinton Presidential Library.

After the President's prime-time confession, the news media were abuzz about whether Mr. Clinton could repair his damaged relationships with his wife and daughter.

Suddenly, That Woman stamped her feet. Like the Glenn Close character in "Fatal Attraction," Monica Lewinsky issued a chilling ultimatum to the man who jilted her: I will not be ignored.

She let it be known that she was wounded that the President had failed to apologize to her and had dismissed their grand, 18-month romance, their shared passion for books and laughs, as trivial -- a mere mechanism for relieving Oval Office tension.

Mr. Clinton rejected a more contrite version of the speech written by Bob Shrum -- nicknamed the "Shoot Me" draft at the White House -- that contained an apology to "Monica Lewinsky and her family." Instead, with some brass-knuckle guidance from Hillary, he embraced his wife and daughter as "the two people I love most," while swatting Monica away as "inappropriate."

He portrayed himself, insultingly, as a passive participant in their trysts. What she called true love, he called "legally accurate."

Monica got cranky and complained about all the positive press and public sympathy heaped on her rival, Saint Hillary, while she was being portrayed as a vixen.

She had lied to protect her beloved. And she had believed, from hints he had dropped, that there might not be a Hillary in their future.

More in anger than hope, Monica returned to the grand jury and made it clear she was not simply servicing the President. The pleasuring, she insisted, contradicting his account, was mutual. Their relationship was not cheap. It was way unique. The...

19 posted on 04/26/2007 6:14:19 AM PDT by shrinkermd
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