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.
The Clintons were the ones who fed negative info about her to the media, using their "Nuts and Sluts" playbook.
Blew it? Did you say that..? :-)
America's dopes, morons and booking agents will be all too glad to pay, gawk and listen to her tittilating "Inside Washington/Inside the Humidor" speeches to assorted well-heeled associations and other groups....and she'll be laughing all the way to the bank.
Leni
-— SHOT THEM ALL IN THE HEAD. -—
Wow. They should work that into the next season of “House of Cards.”
hey Al baby you could see ole Julie on Emergency on local METV station here in Los Angeles market
Don’t be surprise if they do that if I know Netfix and House of Cards
You realize it base on BRIT tv show in early 1990s with Ian Richardson right
The story was written and investigated by Michael Isakoff who was at Newsweek at the time. They spiked the story so Isakoff sent it to Drudge.
Who say internet reporters don’t have touch of chiverly in their bodies LOL!
Or Freepers LOL!
Does that mean that she has more blue dresses?
and probably being paid handsomely for it as well...
So... She had oral sex with Matt Drudge too. Sheesh... Is there any man Monica wouldn’t get on her knees for?
Drudge? Monica would have been offed had it not been for the DNA on that blue dress.
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She would have been a victim of Arkancide without Drudge and Linda Tripp.
BTW... She wasn’t 24, she was a few months short of being 21 when is all started.
Yes I did (thank you, thank you.....I'm here all week, folks.)
Yup. All she had to do is not parade that blue dress around claiming it was soiled by Clinton. And repeatedly tell others. Complaining that others spoiled her life when she confessed to Tripp and others all around her. If she destroyed the blue dress, no story. Monica to Bill: "As a young intern, how do I get ahead around here?". Bill to Monica: "Here's a head for you baby!".
Y’know, I do feel kinda sorry for the poor, dumb broad. I think we all know women who have done what she did - only not for a major politician. She made a stupid mistake and she’ll be paying for it for the rest of her life. She can’t get a decent job regardless of her education and qualifications nor can she expect a loving husband to grow old with. Frankly, I think people are too damned hard on her and should take Jesus’ admonition about throwing stones to heart.
On another facet of the same story, while I detest Bill Clinton and everything he stands for, I believe he tried to let Monica off the hook when he told the world he hadn’t had sexual relations with her. I think he was trying to cover for her and it blew up in his face. Considering that it was probably the only good thing he ever tried to do his failure was most likely due to insufficient practice.
JMO and worth about as much as any other.
Yeah, it wasn’t HER actions, oh no. It was Drudge.
Monica has out of the lime light for several years now. She went to Europe and
got a masters degree in social psychology. Now she is surfacing again with the
tales of her past. You’d think she’d get on with her life and let her past drift
into oblivion. Seems she can’t get focused.
Seven of Nine, I blame you for Obama....!
- Actually it is true in a way...
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