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 ...
White trash kicks dead guy
How did his Dik-tate??
It was Liberals who reviled her for playing on Bill Clinton’s weaknesses.
Will she ever learn just to keep her mouth shut?
I had some sympathy for her. Not anymore.
Some slag is looking for another 15 minutes of fame?
STHU, Monica. Your last name is a synonym for oral sex, that will have be enough for you.
Yes, her life was ruined, and Bill went on to be an admired figure. The world is insane.
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