Posted on 05/06/2014 2:03:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Is it 2016 already? If Hillary Clinton decides to run again for President, we can expect that everything old will be new again, including the Clinton White House scandals. Perhaps that’s why Monica Lewinsky has chosen now to re-emerge on her own in an interview with Vanity Fair, in order to “find a give a purpose to her past.” She accuses all sides of taking advantage of her, but particularly her boss — although perhaps not in the way one would expect:
Maintaining that her affair with Clinton was one between two consenting adults, Lewinsky writes that it was the public humiliation she suffered in the wake of the scandal that permanently altered the direction of her life: “Sure, my boss took advantage of me, but I will always remain firm on this point: it was a consensual relationship. Any ‘abuse’ came in the aftermath, when I was made a scapegoat in order to protect his powerful position. . . . The Clinton administration, the special prosecutor’s minions, the political operatives on both sides of the aisle, and the media were able to brand me. And that brand stuck, in part because it was imbued with power.”
Lewinsky claims that the September 2010 suicide of Tyler Clementi inspired her decision to come forward and assist others who have been bullied on the Internet. “[T]hanks to the Drudge Report,” she told Vanity Fair, “I was also possibly the first person whose global humiliation was driven by the Internet.” She wants to dedicate her public efforts to end “online humiliation and harassment,” which she had to endure largely in silence over the last sixteen years.
However, it’s been almost four years since Clementi’s suicide, while the prospective Clinton candidacy is just months away. Lewinsky has to know that the media will find her no matter whether she’s talking to the press and going public or not. This looks like a very smart and understandable strategy to get ahead of that curve and become a public figure on her terms this time, in contrast to what happened to her when she was barely into her twenties. It’s not as though she’d have much of a choice once Hillary decided to run. If she can help to shine some light on those who are truly bullied and harassed online while she’s at it, all the better.
Still, it should have been unnecessary. Lewinsky notes that all sides played her as a pawn in the aftermath of the exposure of her affair with Bill Clinton, but even at that stage she was a distraction rather than the main issue. The affair came to light because Ken Starr suspected that the White House had been arranging monetary gains for people who refused to cooperate with the larger probe on Whitewater, and Lewinsky had arguably gotten the same treatment. It resulted in the uncovering of Clinton’s perjury in the civil court case, but that was a sideshow too in a probe that had been focused on official abuses of power, which ended up going nowhere.
Of all the Clinton scandals to resurrect in a Hillary candidacy, the Lewinsky affair will be the most tiresome and least relevant of all. Hillary Clinton was an aggrieved party in that scandal, not a player in it. The travel-office scandal might be worth a revisit, but let’s hope that Monica Lewinsky won’t have to engage this forward strategy as a defense for very long.
So she's denying doing what everyone knows she did?
That boss would have been fired if working in a corporate atmosphere.
Actually, she’s pretty clear that she was as responsible as Slick Willy, that is was a consensual relationship. By her own account, she was a willing party.
What she can’t seem to fathom is the concept of shame. She got caught. She was awash with negative emotions and felt terrible when subjected to public humiliation.
Which is just the way it should have been.
It was wholly consensual and you talked too much sugar. Also, you gave not a rat’s tail about the adultery angle. Sometimes it is best to be quiet and just move on.
“Hillary Clinton was an aggrieved party in that scandal, not a player in it.”
Initially, perhaps. But it would seem likely that Hillary coordinated the political counter-attack. That makes her fair game.
If Algore had half of a brain he would have publicly been in favor of Clinton’s impeachment. He would have been President (unless of course he had an “accident”).
A blast from the past. President of the Sluts are Us Club.
I suspected that Lewinsky was coached thru a earphone during her testimony to Starr. Remember the hairstyle change that covered her ears?
Course I am, by nature, a suspicious type and may be full of it but I don’t think so.
I agree Lewinsky is a Hillary sideshow. The big thing for me was after lying and stonewalling for months Hillary’s law firm billng records suddenly appeared on a table outside her office. Gosh how did that get there? And the media backed that cock and bull story.
Actually, she’s pretty clear that she was as responsible as Slick Willy, that is was a consensual relationship. By her own account, she was a willing party.
Prior to Lewinsky, the radial feminists were pushing the meme that a subordinate couldn't engage in a consensual sexual relationship with a boss because of the bosses position of relative power. And that in effect any relation a boss had with an employee was rape.
Of course all that went out the window with Lewinsky's blue dress !
And THANK GOD it did!
Well, at least she didn’t say “it sucked.”
Affair,yea right, you were a BJ ,honey!
Gore would have beenn temporary. It is the principle.
“She was awash with negative emotions “
She was awashed with a little more than that. Not even sure that’s a word but you get the picture.
Besotted by the grandeur, trappings and power of her surroundings and besmirched by her own choices, as was her dress.
HF
Hillary likely had a major say in the “political counter-attack” for ALL of the bimbo eruptions.
Too bad she didn’t smear der Slickter as much as she did the ones he chased.
Repeatedly covering up for an abuser is a sick way to live. I don’t trust her judgement, at all, just for that reason alone.
Thank Senators Trent Lott and Fred Thompson exclusively for holding back and not pulling the trigger.
Are they throwing her out there to reminisce about presidential scandals and to remind us BO could emerge a victor in this debacle?
TIming is everything.
If so, Clinton could have and maybe did do things equal to or worse than BO did in BG, but BG is not going away.
it was and is, unresolved, a major international incident. it has historical and international implications that the control freaks in power cannot control
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