Bill Clinton insists he doesn't owe Monica Lewinsky an apology – HE'S a victim (tr)

The Daily Mail ^ | 4 June 2018 | David Martosko

[Magnatron]

Former President Bill Clinton insisted in a weekend interview that he doesn't owe a personal apology to Monica Lewinsky, the former White House intern whose adult life has been defined by their inappropriate sexual affair and the global scrutiny that followed.

'No,' he told NBC in an interview airing Monday on the 'Today' show. 'I do not – I have never talked to her. But I did say publicly on more than one occasion that I was sorry.'

'I apologized to everybody in the world,' Clinton said, implying that was enough.

And the flustered former president, more famous for his Don Juan-like seductions than for his policy legacy, portrayed himself, not Lewinsky, as history's victim in the mass-media's retelling of the 1990s saga.

A lot of the facts have been omitted to make the story work,' he declared, 'I think partly because they're frustrated that they got all these serious allegations against the current occupant of the Oval Office and his voters don't seem to care.'

And Clinton complained in the interview that he left the presidency financially ruined because of the costs associated with the legal consequences of his actions.

[arthurus]

He does not owe Ms Lewinsky an apology. She was an eager participant.

[AmericanMermaid]

So is Killary, which is why they hate each other.

[BigEdLB]

BTW. That trmind’s me... Taylor’s cigar’s moved to Stearn’s St.

[deport]

Clinton complained in the interview that he left the presidency financially ruined

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That was his fault. He’s recouped in that he and Hillary are more than financially secure.

[frnewsjunkie]

That’s how they can live with themselves.. it’s never their fault.. they are the victims.

[Personal Responsibility]

Gah, I hate agreeing with Clinton but he’s right. He doesn’t owe her an apology. They were consenting adults.

[longfellow]

Maybe for the herpes he gave her.

[Inspectorette]

She had already had an affair with one of her college professors. Not to mention, she had bragged that she was going to Washington with her “presidential knee pads”.

[Tucker39]

Refusal to APOLOGIZE tells me he’s never truly REPENTED of it, either. Meaning that whole charade with Tony Campolo as his “spiritual mentor” was a ruse, on HIS part. Tony couldn’t help that he was dealing with a fraud.

[bigbob]

Nice job of using FR for slanderous purposes.

[kabar]

The Clintons, Comey, Brennan, Clapper, Rhodes, etc. are all out there castigating Trump. They know what is coming. It wouldn't surprise me if grand juries are already empaneled.

They are trying to get out front of the impending disclosures of investigations of the unmaskings, spying, Clinton Foundation corruption, FISA abuse etc. They want to make themselves victims of a political witch hunt by the Trump administration.

[woodbutcher1963]

“If they were so broke, how the heck did they move into the mansion in New York after the White House?”

Do you remember how they charged the Secret Service $10k/month rent for a cottage on their property. That just happened to be the same amount that their mortgage payment was on the entire property? So, basically the Federal government was paying their mortgage.

[Liz]

Linda Tripp Laughs Last at the Clintons
Townhall.com ^ | January 19, 2018 | Suzanne Fields / FR Posted by Kaslin

What fools (and hypocrites) these mortals be. Two decades have passed since Linda Tripp blew the whistle on sexual hijinks in high places with her tapes of Monica Lewinsky, the young intern who described to her confidant and colleague the passionate ordeal of a sexual liaison with the president of the United States. She blew the whistle, she says, to protect her friend. Twenty years on, she’s still a villain for many women who remember those times.

But history’s on her side.

Tripp withdrew to a private life after the scandal, and now she comes in from the cold to reappear on a changed landscape littered with the likes of Harvey Weinstein, Matt Lauer, Kevin Spacey and Charlie Rose. She suggests that former President Bill Clinton should take his place on the pedestal of predators with current celebrities of stage, screen and politics.

“When the president gets a pass for something that egregious,” she tells DailyMailTV, “he essentially gave tacit permission to all those who followed to do the same.”
In the revival of memories of those dark days of revelation, Tripp emerges as the heroine before her time was ripe, who went out on a fragile limb to protect a friend who would hate her for what she was doing. “He was the leader of the free world and she was an intern, a kid, who happened to be extremely emotionally young for her age,” she says of Lewinsky. “This was part of his pattern where women were a means to an end. It was almost a servicing agreement, but she romanticized it.”

Although Bubba didn’t lose his job, as many of the current batch of exposed alleged offenders did, one U.S. senator, Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, now says he should have. She thinks he should have resigned in shame. Now armed with fresh attitudes about sexual harassment, other women are reassessing their earlier conclusions. The reassessment should put Tripp on the side of the good angels, but she told The Weekly Standard, “It’s a day late, and it’s a dollar short.” She wants to know what information the reassesors have today they didn’t have 20 years ago. The reckoning isn’t about black and white, left and right, but about right and wrong.

Anyone familiar with the record remembers hearing how Lewinsky naively asked Bubba, “is this just about sex ... or do you have some interest in trying to get to know me as a person?” The plaintive cry of the child emerges.

But she had no appeal to sympathy when The Drudge Report broke the story in January 1998 with the power of a rotten egg, or when Hillary Clinton went on the attack on NBC’s “Today” show in January 1998. The accusations against her husband, Clinton said, were merely the work of a “vast right-wing media conspiracy.” The abuse of a young woman by a male boss twice her age was reduced to partisan politics.

The even vaster left-wing media conspiracy joined the White House and closed ranks with the first lady and the president, as they treated Lewinsky and Bubba’s “bimbo eruptions” like clay ducks in a shooting gallery. Maureen Dowd of The New York Times called the White House approach “a slander strategy.”

But she observed, “at least some of the veteran Clinton shooters feel a little nauseated this time around, after smearing so many women who were probably telling the truth as trashy bimbos.”

One reader says writing about the Clinton scandals is “so yesterday.” Why bother with a rehash of the Clintons in the White House? But news of the Clintons is never yesterday’s news. Their story demonstrates over and over how power and the press create villains and heroines with exaggeration, distortion and truth rearrangement.

When Lewinsky decided to go public with her remembrance of things past four years ago in Vanity Fair, she learned how personal humiliation fits with our culture of humiliation, where gossip and half-truths take root on the internet, where nothing ever dies and instead festers on social media, giving everyone an opportunity to revel in schadenfreude.

With a 24/7 news cycle hungry for something, anything, to feed the hysteria for tales of the lowest human experience, the world in which Monica Lewinsky lived 20 years ago is revealed as the same world we live in today, only more so.

The power centers are occupied by a different cast of characters, but everything is familiar. Amazon Studios has acquired the rights for a movie to be called “Linda and Monica,” to explore the intimate, confidential recorded telephone conversations about Bubba. It’s coming soon to a theater near you.

[Liz]

As Linda Tripp said, not only was Clinton given a pass, the Hollywood glitterati ponied up bigtime for Clinton's sex mess defense.

Herewith, for your edification, are the Certified Democrat Degenerates......the scum that vilify and destroy America's Judeo-Christian ethics and values in movies promoted as being "diverse, politically correct, and socially relevant."

HOLLYWOOD'S CERTIFIED DEMOCRAT DEGENERATES
FINANCED BILL CLINTON'S LEWINSKY SEX MESS

According to FEC Info, an Internet Web site (www.tray.com) that tracks federal political contributions, 176 individual donors actually contributed $10,000 or more to the lewinsky-era Clinton Legal Expense Trust fund through Dec 1999. Another 21 donors gave $10,000 in the first six months of 2000.

Thanks to Hollywood's generosity, a total of more than $2.2 million was raised in six months, which was notably more than was collected in funding during the previous four years of his presidency—combined. Hollywood producers and stars made up the bulk of the most generous givers. They included:

<><> Universal Studios tycoon Lew Wasserman and his wife, Edith, gave $60,000;

<><>DreamWorks trio Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg, $20,000 each;

<><> producer Ron Burkle and his wife, Janet, $40,000;

<><> producers Peg and Bud Yorkin, $30,000;

<><> TV producer Norman Lear, $20,000.

Entertainment celebrities and executives giving $10,000 included:

<><> singers Tony Bennett and feminist Barbra Streisand;

<><><> actors Michael Douglas and Tom Hanks;

<><> director Ron Howard; producer Gail Zappa;

<><>Black Entertainment Television founder Robert L. Johnson.

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<><> How did the Hollyood elite list payments to Clinton's sex defense fund on their corporate statements AND on their tax returns?

<><>How did the "DreamWorks" trio, Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg, list their 60,000 dollars to Clinton's sex defense fund?

<><>How did BET list its contribution to Clinton on its corporate statements?

<><> Did Harvey's company list these payments as "business expenses?"

The biggie is the tax element.

<><> Did donors deduct it as a “business expense”,

<><> was it included in assets, payments listed on organization balance sheets as a "liability?"

<><> Did Clinton document it as "income"?

<><> Were the donors given a tax-free certificate from the Clinton Foundation?

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[Liz]

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When Bill Clinton was at the height of the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal, Hollywood was by his side, offering donations for his legal fees, and one significant donor was a man who is now going through his own sex scandal—Harvey Weinstein.

Billionaire Harvey Weinstein raised $1,422,683 for federal candidates and political entities between 1990-2016. That’s small potatoes for his 27 years of rank Democratism, sucking up to feminism and upholding so-called abortion rights as he rampaged and assaulted young women. Adds up to about $5300 a year.

Something tells me there are a lot of cash payments off-the-record being paid. (hat tip outpostinmass2) Crunching the numbers as outpost did does give us a sharper look at the political money game as played by the conniving Clintons.

Harvey also gave a bundle to the nefarious tax-exempt Clinton Foundation and perhaps to offshoots of the Clintons tax-free entities.

Did Harvey's donations to the C/F go to "do-good projects"? Or did they make a circuitous route? Maybe landing back into the Clintons eternal political scams?

[petitfour]

What kind of work has Bill done to bring in so much money such that he is now very wealthy?

[\/\/ayne]

Clinton should apologize to the American people for getting Lewinsky employment at the Pentagon with clearance but without a background check.

[SkyDancer]

The rapist always says they’re the victim because if the woman wasn’t there it wouldn’t have happened therefor she’s at fault.

[SkyDancer]

It doesn’t matter. Each incident is a stand-alone; Clinton disgraced the Oval Office with HIS actions.

[taildragger]

Bill Bennett said the DNC sold their soul for a mess of pottage for not asking him to resign.

Look were we are at today, and what is the burnt out shell of a former great party. The DNC is Stalin-Light, the did loose their soul. Heck, they don't have room for a Joe Lieberman let along a Zel Miller or a Scoop Jackson. After Nov-18', they may wonder aimlessly as a party for the next 50 to 60 years, unless they find normalcy and rebuild from the ground up.