Posted on 10/21/2014 10:33:17 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
me is Monica Lewinsky. Though I have often been advised to change it, or asked why on earth I haven’t. But, there we are. I haven’t."
Monica Lewinsky spoke at the Forbes Magazine 30 Under 30 Summit and spoke about the affair that almost brought down the Bill Clinton administration. In her 2,500 word speech she blamed her humiliation on the Drudge Report, Internet, Ken Starr, the NY Post's Page Six, everybody except for the married President with whom she had sexual relations. From the transcript:
But back then, in 1995, we started an affair that lasted, on and off, for 2 years. And, at that time, it was my everything. That, I guess you could say, was the golden bubble part for me; the nice part. The nasty part was that it became public. Public with a vengeance.
Thanks to the Internet and a website that at the time, was scarcely known outside of Washington DC but a website we all know today: the Drudge Report, within 24 hours I became a public figure, not just in the United States but around the entire globe. As far as major news stories were concerned, this was the very first time that the traditional media was usurped by the Internet.
In 1998, as you can imagine, there was a media frenzy. Even though it was pre-Google, (that’s right, pre-Google). The World Wide Web (as we called it that back then) was already a big part of life.
Overnight, I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one. I was Patient Zero.
She continued to talk about her experience, her embarrassment, and the bad press, urging people to have compassion for people like her who are the focus of scandals, concluding with:
She continued to talk about her experience, her embarrassment, and the bad press, urging people to have compassion for people like her who are the focus of scandals, concluding with:
Actually, what we really need is a cultural revolution. Online, we’ve got a compassion deficit – an Empathy Crisis, and something tells me that matters a lot more to most of us.
Oscar Wilde wrote: “I have said that behind sorrow there is always sorrow. It were wiser still to say that behind sorrow there is always a soul. And to mock at a soul in pain is a dreadful thing."
My feelings, exactly.
While it's easy to have compassion for a person who was misled by a powerful person at the tender age of twenty-four, one would think she would have a better perspective on the scandal she was involved in by age 40. Ms. Lewinsky wasn't a victim of cyber-bullying; she was a victim of having sexual relations with a person at or near the peak of power. She became news just as Donna Rice, Elizabeth Ray, Fanne Foxe and many others had before her.
Matt Drudge didn't ruin her life just the same way that the Miami Herald did not ruin Donna Rice's life. Drudge simply reported a huge news story.
If she wants to place the blame for the personal attacks she received, Ms. Lewinsky would be better served to look toward the "Clinton Machine," whose history of destroying reputations is well-documented.
It was NEVER about the sex.
Typical liberal, can’t see that she is herself to blame for going on her knees..she wasn’t forced to do so, she CHOSE to do it..what a nasty nasty piece of filth..she doesn’t realize that it was the left that mocked her the most, but hey, blame the Republicans what else is knew
Well, she’s just proof there really is a sucker born every minute.
Not being able to keep a secret ruined her life. Clinton is a scumbag, but what she did was consensual. If she didn’t brag to her friend about it, nobody would have known the difference.
What’s she complaining about?
She’s frickin famous.
A lot of people would have leveraged that and made something positive out her notoriety.
Moni:
Get down from that cross. We need the firewood. ..
You mean like throwing some hot, skinny, young chick in front of a moving train?
LOL!
Bingo
So, she is not responsible for her own whorish ways? Decisions have consequences woman.
Linda Tripp
Newsweek had the story a full month before Drudge aired it but sat on it............
If I'm not mistaken her (Tripp) "confidential" personnel files were leaked to the press and she was fired from her job............
You and Bubba ruined your life, snookums. And I doubt you were quite as private before the story broke as you think you were, or the story wouldn’t have broken in the first place.
I guess Monica Lewinsky is a leftist idiot. She refuses to take any responsibility for her actions instead choosing to blame others such as Matt Drudge.
The video shorts of her speech made me think she was doing a commercial for a Mexican bakery talking about Bimbo Tarts.
She didn’t actually say that. The headline writer is reading between the lines. You could infer from what she says that she blames Drudge for making the relationship public, but she only mentions Drudge once and in a factual manner. I doubt she really wants to give him any publicity now.
She could probably put her life back together and make a good living if she professed to have wised up and seen the light and become a conservative and prude, and then got herself a job as a right-wing talk show host.
So, tell me, Monica, how does it feel to have a sex act named after you?
What I find absolutely appalling is the fact that her father and her mother did not seem to think her dalliances with Clinton were a problem. Her parents knew why she wanted to work at the White House. Her mother lived with her at the Watergate and gave her daughter no good advice to counter her actions.
Now she is a soiled woman, begging all who will listen to consider her humanity.
Her parents should be ashamed of themselves.
Bob Dole lived on the same floor of the Watergate (next door even?) as the Lewinskys when he was running against Clinton and Monica was working at the White House.
Pretty big reason for Clinton's lover to keep quiet back at home.
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