Posted on 10/31/2022 5:20:01 AM PDT by Twotone
Lucianne Goldberg died last week at the grand age of eighty-seven, and still the eponymous proprietrix of Lucianne.com, an early conservative news aggregator and one I continue to enjoy. A quarter-century ago, she became one of the most famous figures in America, as the confidante who persuaded Linda Tripp to tape her conversations with Monica Lewinsky and thus set in motion the impeachment of Bill Clinton.
I can't claim to have been a close friend, but John Podhoretz's affectionate portrait accords with my own trio of brief interactions. She was tough, and she survived the Clintonites' efforts to destroy her, as she had survived the efforts of others through the decades: At one point, she announced she would be selling by auction a letter she had in her possession from Jacqueline Kennedy to Lady Bird Johnson. After Mrs Kennedy objected, Lucianne returned the missive. Too late. The following day she learned the IRS would be auditing her. Upon first hearing this story, I was a sufficiently recent arrival and naïve enough to be shocked at the corruption that infests almost every aspect of American life. But I doubt she ever was.
For its New Year issue of 1999, The American Enterprise brought together Mrs Goldberg and yours truly with Andrew Ferguson to look back at the preceding twelve months - the Year of Monica. Much of it seems very trivial now, for we did not know we were in the last three years of America's "holiday from history". But some observations contain the seeds of hideous growths that afflict us to this day.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
STEYN: I wish there was a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, but it seems to be a one-woman show, Lucianne.
GOLDBERG: Well, no. There's also FreeRepublic.com, who for a long time were almost the only ones who supported Linda Tripp after she came forward.(emphasis added) Here was a woman whose physical appearance was being brutalized by people so politically correct that if you said something nasty about mosquitoes, they'd be on you for violating insect rights. Yet they had no qualms about calling her fat, ugly, gross, duplicitous, the most hated woman in America. Please. She's not an ax murderer.
Still remember how she behaved toward FR and Jim Robinson.
How did Lucianne behave towards Jim Robinson and FreeRepublic?
Jealously
“”He’s a mean shit,” says Goldberg of Robinson, once her partner in exposing Clinton crimes. She launched her own Web site, Lucianne.com, taking “2,000” Freepers with her, she says. “I am not anti-abortion, I am not Y2K either. I’m not a homophobe, I’m not an anti-Semite — Christ ... I have a Jewish husband ... I have four people who work for me and half of them are gay. I mean, this is ridiculous.””
Lucianne Goldberg
“once her partner…” , BS, she had a free ride here and abused it. When she began to want to call shots and found she couldn’t, she got huffy and full of herself. She was an advance man trickster hence her screen name.
May the Lord protect and keep her.
A whole pile of us left Lcom when she wouldn’t let us talk to each other. We had a series of “You People”, her contemptuous name for us, threads here on FR.
That being said, except for her unwillingness to ‘let the students talk to each other in class’ I would still be on lucianne.com to this day. She was the best.
FERGUSON: I think we're trying to explain the Clinton gang in normal categories, and usually when people are successful, we ascribe it to intelligence or cunning, but I think the source of the Clintonistas' power is shamelessness to a degree never seen in public life before. They will say anything to accomplish their ends, and that's a tremendous power. It's almost as though the chattering classes and the Republican leadership are so astonished that they're utterly disarmed by it.
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