Stanley: Shame on Monica Lewinsky

CNN ^ | October 21, 2014 | Timothy Stanley

[Bettyprob]

Shameless. There's no other word to describe Monica Lewinsky. Sixteen years after her affair with President Bill Clinton became public knowledge, she's returned to the limelight with a campaign against cyberbullying -- of which she claims to have been "patient zero."

Ignore the fact that she was patently not the primary victim in the Zippergate affair (poor Hillary Clinton was) or that any comparison with someone suffering a disease, especially at a time when people are dropping dead from Ebola, is tasteless in the extreme.

What's most depressing is that when she rejoined the public stage, she said she was inspired to speak out by the story of Tyler Clementi, a student who committed suicide after a video of him kissing another boy went up online. Young Clementi was the victim of societal homophobia as well as an invasion of his privacy, and his death makes any comparison with Lewinsky's self-imposed troubles ridiculous. Moreover, Clementi died in 2010. Lewinsky has decided to revisit his cause in 2014, suggesting that the timing may have less to do with him than it does with Hillary Clinton.

[DB]

I had forgotten about that.

And then Ron Brown with a hole in the top of his head that was ignored among a number of very odd details. If I remember correctly the plane crashed because it followed a false beacon into a mountain and then the guy who operated the beacon committed “suicide” with a rifle to the chest...

[DB]

I don’t know if the archives here go back that far but it was definitely a topic of discussion here.

[SteveH]

yikes

[KevinB]

Over all, it would appear that a massive amount of rage was directed at Ms Mahoney

According to this article it was just a robbery gone bad.

[RipSawyer]

By some accounts Lewinsky was happy to volunteer to be the,”victim of sexual harassment and a hostile work environment, preyed upon by a sexual predator who was also the most powerful man in the world.”

[RipSawyer]

Just one of many in a very long list.

[Political Junkie Too]

Many would argue that that is the pernicious nature of harassment that comes from the extreme imbalance of power between her and Clinton. Lewinsky was awed by Clinton and too young and inexperienced to recognize what she was getting into. She may have thought that she was in control and pursuing Clinton, but history has proven otherwise.

She was young, naive, used, and abused.

-PJ

[Prov1322]

In actuality, Drudge probably saved her life.

Exactly. With the Clinton record of disposing people, it is clear that Drudge and Linda Tripp prevented her from being another ClintonCorpse.

[NRA1995]

Then, as now, she should have kept her mouth shut. Dumbass bimbo!