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Monica Lewinsky: Roger Ailes’s Dream Was My Nightmare
New York Times ^

Posted on 05/22/2017 2:06:00 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Monica Lewinsky: Roger Ailes’s Dream Was My Nightmare

By MONICA LEWINSKYMAY 22, 2017

This is not another obituary for Roger Ailes, who died last week a year after being ousted at Fox News. It is, I hope, instead an obituary for the culture he purveyed — a culture that affected me profoundly and personally.

Just two years after Rupert Murdoch appointed Mr. Ailes to head the new cable news network, my relationship with President Bill Clinton became public. Mr. Ailes, a former Republican political operative, took the story of the affair and the trial that followed and made certain his anchors hammered it ceaselessly, 24 hours a day.

It worked like magic: The story hooked viewers and made them Fox loyalists. For the past 15 years, Fox News has been the No. 1 news station; last year the network made $2.3 billion.

Some experts have noted that viewers found Fox for the first time because of the crisis. John Moody, a Fox executive editor, reflected on that period: “The Lewinsky saga put us on the news map.” As he put it in another interview: “Monica was a news channel’s dream come true.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ailes; lewinsky
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Lady, you need help..............
1 posted on 05/22/2017 2:06:00 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

I guess she really was nutty and slutty


2 posted on 05/22/2017 2:07:26 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Sub-Driver

She could have saved herself a lot of grief my keeping her mouth shut.


3 posted on 05/22/2017 2:07:45 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Sub-Driver

Ailes didn’t make her put that junk in her mouth.


4 posted on 05/22/2017 2:08:28 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: Army Air Corps

Then, and now.


5 posted on 05/22/2017 2:08:34 PM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: Sub-Driver

I can’t understand her...sounds like she has something in her mouth.


6 posted on 05/22/2017 2:08:34 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: Army Air Corps

Oh now it’s Ailes fault ..


7 posted on 05/22/2017 2:08:45 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: RightGeek

Well, she was Bill’s squeeze for a while.


8 posted on 05/22/2017 2:09:06 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Sub-Driver

9 posted on 05/22/2017 2:09:19 PM PDT by freedomlover
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Yet they are all for going after Donald Trump for “sexual misconduct” because he made off color remarks during a surreptitious recording . . .


10 posted on 05/22/2017 2:10:12 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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11 posted on 05/22/2017 2:11:01 PM PDT by freedomlover
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To: Sub-Driver

If she was smart she would keep her mouth shut. But she seems to have a problem with that.


12 posted on 05/22/2017 2:11:54 PM PDT by McGruff (The terrorists have elected to receive.)
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Yeah, you’re a dumb bitch who’s 15 minutes are up.


13 posted on 05/22/2017 2:12:54 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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Monica, all you’re doing is reviving the gossip and the smirking. You’re doing it to yourself. We don’t need to hear this. Maybe your therapist does.


14 posted on 05/22/2017 2:12:56 PM PDT by lee martell
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That trollop is no lady.


15 posted on 05/22/2017 2:14:17 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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“Relationship” “affair”
She does need a therapist.


16 posted on 05/22/2017 2:14:44 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: Sub-Driver

Pathetic. Just pathetic.


17 posted on 05/22/2017 2:15:17 PM PDT by TTFlyer
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She needs mouthwash.................Listerine Extra strength...........32 oz...........


18 posted on 05/22/2017 2:15:31 PM PDT by Red Badger (Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
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She should get a job installing carpet and tiles. She works well on her knees.


19 posted on 05/22/2017 2:15:34 PM PDT by forgotten man
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Monica, you went after a married man. You helped create the scandal.


20 posted on 05/22/2017 2:15:37 PM PDT by Jane Austen (Neo-cons are liberal Democrats who love illegal aliens and war.)
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