Posted on 10/23/2014 6:16:26 AM PDT by Kaslin
Monica Lewinsky re-entered public life this week. Actually, this is the first time she volunteered to enter the spotlight. Her first foray was involuntary and embarrassing. It also was her own fault. Well, hers and President Clinton’s.
Lewinsky gave her first public speech on Monday at the Forbes “30 Under 30 Summit” celebrating young achievers. She spoke for 25 awkward minutes, but she could’ve delivered her message in half that time if she were speaking comfortably. But as stilted as the delivery was, the content was worse.
Poor, sweet, innocent Monica was exploited, abused and bullied back in 1998 when her affair with Bill Clinton was made public. And she was. But not by who she blames for her humiliation.
Lewinsky blames Matt Drudge, Ken Starr, Linda Tripp, the media in general and the Internet in specific. She blames everyone but Bill Clinton and, most importantly, herself.
In talking about when the story broke, she told the crowd, “Overnight, I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one. I was Patient Zero. The first person to have their reputation completely destroyed worldwide via the Internet.”
But Monica’s reputation wasn’t destroyed. The façade reputation she created for family, friends and co-workers, and maybe even herself, was destroyed. When the Drudge Report broke the story that Newsweek had spiked Michael Isikoff’s story of her affair, we learned a lot about Newsweek. But we also learned what kind of people Monica and—to a lesser extent since he already had a reputation for this kind of thing—Clinton were.
Monica Lewinsky was a victim in one respect only—the most powerful man on the planet saw an opportunity to use a young sycophant for his own sexual pleasure and took it. But she was a willing victim, and she was an adult.
She said, “I fell in love with my boss in a 22-year-old sort of a way.” Well, 22-year-olds are responsible for their actions; they aren’t babes in the woods. If she didn’t look at an affair with a married man who happened to be the president of the United States as something that might end badly, no matter what her emotions may have been, that’s on her. “Young and stupid” might apply to 5-year-olds who break their legs trying to jump off the garage and fly. But it does not apply to people with two decades of life under their belt.
The only people who victimized Monica Lewinsky were Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton.
She recounted the lows she went through after the news broke, the threat of prison time over committing perjury in a sworn affidavit in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case and the fear she felt at the time. But that isn’t “bullying,” as she claims; those are consequences of willfully taken actions.
It hard not to feel some degree of sympathy for Monica Lewinsky, but it’s harder still to care.
Near the close of her remarks, Monica said something that shows she doesn’t get what she was involved in doing, or just hopes you don’t.
“I don’t know which came first: the coarsening of the culture or the worsening of behavior,” she said. “Either way, what we need is a radical change in attitudes — on the Internet, mobile platforms and in the society of which they are a part. 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.”
After the Clinton/Lewinsky affair broke in 1998 the culture did change, radically. The media and the Democratic Party spent years telling us it was “only about sex,” and stigmatizing judgment on such issues. Since then, our culture has developed a new class of celebrity.
Were it not for Monica Lewinsky, the media, and the Democratic Party, we would not know the names Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian, Farrah Abraham and countless others people famous for things that would’ve mortified them prior to 1998. Are we better off as a society because of their “celebrity”?
That people would push back against that change for the worse is not only common sense, it’s a good thing.
Monica said she wants a “cultural revolution.” Well, she got one. It might not be the one she wants, but that’s the risk you run when you start something without thinking through the consequences first. Something with which she is intimately familiar.
Wrong.
Hillary was always part of the action. Bill Clinton went after the Paula Jones types... young - vulnerable - and easy to bully.
Liberal elite women - from journalists to politicians were begging to spread their legs for Clinton but he wanted the 'weak ones'... Was it a New York Times woman who offered to bring her own knee pads?
After Bill Clinton finished with them - if the woman didn't leave quietly - in the fashion of a paid street whore - both Clintons and their 'sluts and nuts' teams went after the women to destroy them and their reputations. Juanita Broadrick?
Monica wasn't the first women Bill and Hillary and 60 Minutes went after... but she was more most public.
Anyone remember their first attack on Monica? It was that she had 'emotional problems' and so did her Jewish mother. That Bill hand 'ministered' to this troubled child - and she lied about him ... Hillary backed up that stream of lies.
If it hadn't been for Linda Tripp Monica and her mother would have been the trashy laughing stock/sluts of DC.
All things considered, this was a sexually promiscuous, married man in an unimaginably powerful position and a young, 22 year old female intern. She is responsible for extremely bad judgment and irresponsibility. However, Clinton gets the major hit here for predation. I have no doubt that she was guided into this by a master corrupter.
You recall correctly.
Thus, my alluding to the sink.;)
Monica is being paid by the Clintons to talk about all of this I have said that ever since she came out..
Bingo! Follow the money — trading on her notoriety to bring in the cash.
At 40, not competent enough to be successful in the private sector, and too infamous to be employable in public or nonprofit arenas. And men won’t touch her with a 10-foot pole. (Jim Grabowski, a 10-foot Pole, said he.wouldn’t touch her, either.)
Yeah--you really gotta watch out for bodily fluid transfer.
Starr Report footnote 220:
Bill/Monica oral-ANAL sex
She had plenty of big $$$ offers to do porn. I never understood why she didn’t. The Dems are fine with it, tout it as perfectly ‘normal’ for work and her obvious morality aligns completely.
Not that I think she ‘should’ have as I don’t. I just never got why she didn’t.
Yep, she tossed Bubba’s salad.
Looking at voting statistics I'm not sure I agree,
and when did it become ok to start a sentence with "But"?
The woman’s in her forties, and apparently she still hasn’t figured out that so far as Bubba was concerned, she was no more than a semen receptacle. And that without that blue dress, she would’ve been just another piece of road-kill left behind by the “nuts-and-sluts” response team.
Monoica should run against The Beast for the democrat nomination for President in 2016.
Hillery’s only qualification is that she was close to Bill when he was president.
And from what we know, Monica was even closer.
My guess as to why she didn’t accept the porn offers is that, at the time, she and her handlers thought she had some sort of reputation that could be salvaged. Plus it would make even her sick to see her piles of naked, writhing flesh on film.
Bill complained that he didn't have enough time to himself during the day, you know too many presidential functions. The thing was Hillary was doing a lot of the work, but be that as it may. So, Hillary worked some changes into his schedule so that he had a few hours to goof around in the afternoon to where he could do what he wanted. TV, read a book, whatever.
Then Monica delivered a pizza and the rest is history.
Hillary had Bill's secretary keep visual tabs on him. So, she knew just what was going on. So, when it came out that Bill was goofing with Monica she didn't feel bad because she was betrayed - she played the hurt wife for the camera because he got caught.
Ah there, I feel much better.
Well, she complains about being lonely, but as long as she keeps yapping in public about her ill-fated “love affair” (sarc), no man is going want to attach himself to her.
Bull!
Just oral sex? Biiiig lie!
Billy da man that was sexing anything that came across his pants?
Looks like Monica did the “right” thing preserving the dress alibi to stay alive, now she has to play what she is told (interviews etc.) to stay alive and help Clintoons in their political adventures.
Monica, tell how was it, reallllly!
Dear (Not!) Prudence, won’t you come out to play?
And then, when his actions became public, unleashed his evil minions, from the FLOTUS to staff political hacks, with instructions to destroy her.
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