The Clinton Affair - A&E Limited Documentary Event - Nov 18, 9pm

A&E ^ | 11/05/18

[Libloather]

Premiering Sunday, November 18 at 9P, the comprehensive three-night documentary series "The Clinton Affair" from Academy Award® and Emmy®-winning producer Alex Gibney's Jigsaw Productions and Emmy®-winning director Blair Foster weaves together never-before-seen archival footage with exclusive new interviews to examine the biggest political scandal of a generation and its lasting influence and reverberations on our country.

[Libloather]

*Bubba's legacy. I bet *he gets a kick out of all this. Why now? Why not air this before the midterm election? Better yet, why didn't they do this two years ago? Will Hillary be watching?

[mindburglar]

When they make a movie, Danny McBride should play Clinton.

[Moonman62]

Hillary or Bill?

[Liz]

The Impeachment of Bill Clinton, (the series’ working title) will feature never-before-seen footage .......
with Clinton’s sexual-misconduct accusers Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey, and Juanita Broaddrick.

In this age of Weinstein and Cosby..... Clinton abused his political power to sexually attack women..... he's a complete cad.

[SunkenCiv]

Which one? :^)

[Doogle]

Revisionism...

[Rastus]

History had a three-day Watergate event this weekend. I can’t help but think they were trying to tie it to our President in some way “because Mueller.” Why else did it need to air right at this time?

[equaviator]

“The Clinton Affair - A&E Limited Documentary Event”

“Limited”, eh? Limited in it’s scale and scope of reliable information? Limited to that which can’t yet be proven?

[kearnyirish2]

If the focus is Monica instead of the Paula Jones lawsuit into which Monica was dragged, it is just more whitewashing of the Clinton crimes. Paula Jones’ lawsuit was the reason Monica was exposed - and the media was happy to run with the Monica/girlfriend angle rather than deal with Clinton exposing himself to Paula Jones.

[ronniesgal]

i can’t believe this will be on the air. They really are done with the Clintons.

[Liz]

Another Let's Resurrect Lewinsky Saga. Truth is Monica could sprout angel wings and a halo and still be the gaga sap-happy "in love"
jerk who played the harmonica on Bill's penis. Monica stupidly blamed her fat on Linda Tripp....when Linda was the only adult in the room.

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 reassessors 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]

(HAT TIP MICHAEL KELLY)

The left firmly believes Monica Lewinsky was “just fantasizing” in her 20 hours of taped conversation in which she reportedly detailed her sexual relationship with the president and begged Linda Tripp to join her in lying about the relationship and that any gifts, correspondence, telephone calls and the 37 post-employment White House visits that may have passed between Lewinsky and the president are evidence only of a platonic relationship.

The left believes that such innocent intimate friendships are quite common between middle-aged married men and young single women, and also between presidents of the United States and White House interns.

They see nothing suspicious in the report that the president’s intimate pal, Vernon Jordan, arranged a $40,000-per-year job for Lewinsky shortly after she signed but before she filed an affidavit saying she had not had sex with the president.

Nor did they read anything significant into the fact that the ambassador to the United Nations, Bill Richardson,
visited Lewinsky at the Watergate to offer her a job.

They believe the instructions Lewinsky gave Linda Tripp informing her on how to properly perjure herself in the Willey matter “simply wrote themselves.”

The left believes, as Harvey Weinstein does, that Paula Jones is a cheap tramp who was asking for it, that Kathleen Willey is a cheap tramp who was asking for it, and that Monica Lewinsky is a cheap tramp who was asking for it.

They believe, as does Hillary, that The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, U.S. News & World Report, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, PBS and NPR are all part of a vast right-wing conspiracy to malign the saintly Clintons.

[Liz]

STROLL DOWN MEMORY LANE----Prominent attorney David Schippers became a public figure when a friend of his, Congressman Henry Hyde, asked him to be the Chief Investigative Counsel for the US House Judiciary Committee. Schippers was a lifelong Democrat but accepted and took the job in April 1998.

The Hyde Committee was holding an inquiry on whether President Bill Clinton had committed impeachable offences in his handling of the Paula Jones sexual harassment suit..... during which he committed perjury regarding his affair with then-White House Intern Monica Lewinsky. After an investigation, the committee in December 1998 voted to impeach Clinton, a decision supported by Schippers.

On December 10, 1998, Schippers said to the committee: "The President, then, has lied under oath in a civil deposition, lied under oath in a criminal grand jury. He lied to the people, he lied to his Cabinet, he lied to his top aides, and now he's lied under oath to the Congress of the United States. There's no one left to lie to."

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The Clintons were quite a pair back then.

One Clinton lies.....

"I never had sexual relations with that woman...Miss Lewinsky."

And the other Clinton swears to it.

Standing by her man (sniffle). Hillary KNEW his sexual abuse was true---
the Clintons took a secret a poll and were advised to lie as long as they could.

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VINTAGE TIME COVER The Clintons leave the WH
arm-in-arm after Bill got lewinskied. Plotting to exploit
Bill's BJ for votes, the Clintons' political apparat never faltered.
That smirk on Hillary's face tells the story.

Hillary later went on network TV all decked out in virginal pearls,
denying everything, blaming Billy's B/J on "an invention of a VRWC."

Bill later admitted to it, was impeached, and disbarred.
He had to pay Paula Jones 850,000 dollars.

[dp0622]

will feature never-before-seen footage .......
with Clinton’s sexual-misconduct accusers Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey, and Juanita Broaddrick...

Doesn’t sound like it.

Why not go all out?

It’s after elections. Dems WANT hillary and Bill out of the picture.

It will damage Bill and shilary but is far away enough from the next election to not remind voters what D’s are like.

[mewzilla]

There are a few hits for Jigsaw Productions on the FEC’s database. All to Obama. Wonder if so-called documentary this is payback.

[mewzilla]

On a related note, from April....

Discovery Orders Docu Series ‘Why We Hate’ From Steven Spielberg, Alex Gibney

[a little elbow grease]

"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."

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I hope they have perpetual constant nausea.

[Qiviut]

I believe Linda Tripp is correct in her assessment of this situation:

Linda Tripp says 'Monica Lewinsky is alive today' because she exposed Bill Clinton's affair to the public

Article dated 29 September 2016

As Hillary Clinton inches closer to the White House, Linda Tripp – who exposed Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky to the world in 1998 – crawled out of the woodwork to warn of the Clintons thirst for power.

'I say today and I will continue to say, that I believe Monica Lewinsky is alive today because of choices I made and action I took,' Tripp said in a radio interview with Breitbart's Aaron Klein.

Tripp told Klein she realized she sounded 'melodramatic,' but 'I can only say that from my perspective, I believe that she and I were at the time in danger, because nothing stands in the way of these people achieving their political ends.'

[Liz]

In lefty circles, Bill Clinton's abuse of power to subjugate women sexually is being reconsidered......
the result is he is being marginalized by the same Genitalia-Are-Us crowd who came to his defense.

Same should hold true for Hillary----with our tax dollars, the ex-First Lady set-up a Bimbo Eruption Team
in the WH that remained active for eight years. Hillary lacerated, demeaned and debased any woman who
dared to surface with stories of Bill's serial sexual abuse.

[mo]

precisely why the prosecution of the Clintons needs to go beyond a documentary simply trying to move them off the political stage