Posted on 05/22/2017 5:18:22 PM PDT by simpson96
Monica Lewinsky is blaming Roger Ailes — and to a lesser extent, Matt Drudge — for exploiting her relationship with President Bill Clinton so "mercilessly" that she considered suicide.
"Ailes, a former Republican political operative, took the story and the trial that followed and made certain his anchors hammered it ceaselessly," Lewinsky writes in a New York Times opinion piece published Monday.
"My family and I huddled at home, worried about my going to jail — I was the original target of Ken Starr's investigation, threatened with 27 years for having been accused of signing a false affidavit, obstructing justice, suborning perjury and other crimes — or worse, me taking my own life," Lewinsky writes. "Meantime, Mr. Ailes huddled with his employees at Fox News, dictating a lineup of talking heads to best exploit this personal and national tragedy."
Lewinsky acknowledges that Fox News wasn't the only network with wall-to-wall coverage of the president's sexual relationship with a White House intern, but she suggests the others were negatively influenced by the success Fox News was enjoying with its coverage two decades ago.
"Mr. Ailes's station may have pioneered this new style of reportage, but the other cable news channels didn't hesitate to join the race to the bottom," she writes.
Lewinsky writes that her column isn't meant as an obituary for Ailes, who died last week, one year after he was ousted at Fox News amid accusations of sexual harassment, but as "an obituary for the culture he purveyed." That culture apparently included online bullying, she suggests.
(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...
Is she on drugs?
She expected this sort of thing not to be news when it went public? Wow.
Who is targeting her now?
She was proud then. She’s proud now.
boo hoo, poor harmonica...
The Lewinski's are effed up. They blame anyone except those who are guilty.
It’s not too late Monica, jump out a window in LA and trigger the San Andreas fault while your at it
I recall the interview with her "father", who was fine with her dalliance because of the liberal Democrat cause.
It’s everyone’s fault EXCEPT for the cheating husband and the little ho.
Listen lady think about this: for all time you will be known as a felatalist of a pervert. Live with that.
Yes, I agree.
It’s like folks complaining about that lout Brown, when he was shot. What do these folks expect? Take responsibility for your actions and act responsibly.
Trayvon Martin is the same exact thing. “So unfair...”
Probably on drugs. Ailes just died, so this apparent plot to set him up for a lawsuit isn’t going to work. Has her book hit AMZ yet? we should all go give it a “fuggedaboudit” review.
OOOps, not a book. Probably because Ailes died.
Oh, but that is so unfair. LOL
You’re right.
That’s right Monica! Roger Ailes and Matt Drudge kept you from fulfilling your life’s dream! Bill would have dumped the old bat and married you, if not for those damn conservatives!
Have you apologized to Hillary yet, Monica?
BTW Monica, call Linda Tripp and thank her for saving your life.
Can she write?
Today I see her as just another in a never ending line of Beverly Hills whores.
After all this time, her big takeaway is to shoot the messenger?
What a waste of a life hers turned out to be.
“Maybe now we’ll get [fair and balanced news].” Classy way to end the column, invoking someone’s death as a boon for journalism. I almost forgot you let President Clinton use a cigar like a sexual adjunct on you.
I’m certain that in her type of worthless mind, *less* diversity in opinion concerning political analysis always results in greater “balance”. The left is simply that stupid these days.
So, I guess even whore’s can suffer from buyer’s remorse?
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