Posted on 10/21/2014 10:33:17 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
me is Monica Lewinsky. Though I have often been advised to change it, or asked why on earth I haven’t. But, there we are. I haven’t."
Monica Lewinsky spoke at the Forbes Magazine 30 Under 30 Summit and spoke about the affair that almost brought down the Bill Clinton administration. In her 2,500 word speech she blamed her humiliation on the Drudge Report, Internet, Ken Starr, the NY Post's Page Six, everybody except for the married President with whom she had sexual relations. From the transcript:
But back then, in 1995, we started an affair that lasted, on and off, for 2 years. And, at that time, it was my everything. That, I guess you could say, was the golden bubble part for me; the nice part. The nasty part was that it became public. Public with a vengeance.
Thanks to the Internet and a website that at the time, was scarcely known outside of Washington DC but a website we all know today: the Drudge Report, within 24 hours I became a public figure, not just in the United States but around the entire globe. As far as major news stories were concerned, this was the very first time that the traditional media was usurped by the Internet.
In 1998, as you can imagine, there was a media frenzy. Even though it was pre-Google, (that’s right, pre-Google). The World Wide Web (as we called it that back then) was already a big part of life.
Overnight, I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one. I was Patient Zero.
She continued to talk about her experience, her embarrassment, and the bad press, urging people to have compassion for people like her who are the focus of scandals, concluding with:
She continued to talk about her experience, her embarrassment, and the bad press, urging people to have compassion for people like her who are the focus of scandals, concluding with:
Actually, what we really need is a cultural revolution. Online, we’ve got a compassion deficit – an Empathy Crisis, and something tells me that matters a lot more to most of us.
Oscar Wilde wrote: “I have said that behind sorrow there is always sorrow. It were wiser still to say that behind sorrow there is always a soul. And to mock at a soul in pain is a dreadful thing."
My feelings, exactly.
While it's easy to have compassion for a person who was misled by a powerful person at the tender age of twenty-four, one would think she would have a better perspective on the scandal she was involved in by age 40. Ms. Lewinsky wasn't a victim of cyber-bullying; she was a victim of having sexual relations with a person at or near the peak of power. She became news just as Donna Rice, Elizabeth Ray, Fanne Foxe and many others had before her.
Matt Drudge didn't ruin her life just the same way that the Miami Herald did not ruin Donna Rice's life. Drudge simply reported a huge news story.
If she wants to place the blame for the personal attacks she received, Ms. Lewinsky would be better served to look toward the "Clinton Machine," whose history of destroying reputations is well-documented.
no, Monica, your crawling under the Oral Office desk “ruined your life” (although, you seem to be doing very, very well...actually...)
good one..!
Monica, without this incident, which you probably instigated, noone in the world would know who you were...except your family...Ruined your life????? gave you opportunities galore to make personal appearances, write a book...whatever!!
Love Julie London
[ She’s full of it. Drudge made her a name. ]
Drudge SAVED her from a possible Arkanicide....
I can actually see Hillary having put Monica up to this, so that the "cyberbullying" narrative could be introduced in advance of Hillary's own campaign, to be trotted out any time someone brings up Bill's foibles.
Actually Linda Tripp SAVED her life.
Yup, Also Drudge did help becasue had he not broke the story Monica might have had an accident Later on..
Monica should consider herself VERY Lucky she didn’t end up in some Park...
We all make choices in life sweetheart...some good, some bad. But don’t blame someone else for it.
Really? I thought it was reported back when, that you Monica wanted to get a job paid 6 figure annually doing absolutely nothing. All because of your special relationship with the one Clinton.
That was when you were young and dumb. Now you are just dumb.
It was sexual harassment. Clinton got away with it. If a male CEO says «you look nice» he is accused and is automatically guilty and is fired.
Matt Drudge didn’t do anything to ruin her life. Monica is the one who blew it.
ba da bing!
Hillary needs to be portrayed as the victim and forgiving "stand by your man" woman once more. Because of her handling of Benghazi, she needs people to forget about all that stuff. Look for Carville the Snake head and Stephie boy to be in on this.
This is all to soften up the image of the Beast, if that is even remotely possible, but if Cruz or whomever runs and appears to attack Hillary in a campaign, they can pull this "victim rabbitt" out of the hat once more and how dare you attach such a dedicated loving wife who was so hurt/PUKE
A deranged diva blaming Matt in the hat. The beefy beauty wants to be a body guard for Bill and Hill in the next administration. She's demonstrated that she'll take a shot for the team. Sperm-catching blue berets could be trending on twitter for the spitter? Or was that a swallower? Boxers or briefs boys want to know.
LOL!
I can see she hasn’t learned anything in all these years. She’s still blaming everyone else for her bad decisions.
Matt Drudge had a hot story that no one else would go with. He used it fair and square. Bravo to him and to all his success afterward.
I feel a bit sorry for Monica. She was old enough and experienced with stardom enough (grew up in L.A. In similar economic circumstances to me so I do know she must have had fame near her elbows before) to know that FAME HAS A HUGE NEGATIVE COST. Yet she longed for those presidential kneepads. So for that part of her infamy I hold her alone responsible. But the constant late night and media jokes, for years, was a bit too high a price to pay.
Though she is lucky she had that blue dress... It may have kept her alive.
Didn’t she tell Linda Tripp (or someone) that she had come to Washington to “earn her knee pads”?
Beat me to it. Slick Willey and You yourself were responsible for what happened.
You two EMBARRASSED this nation and defiled our most sacred office.
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