Posted on 06/27/2015 12:13:16 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Speaking to the some of the most creative advertising people in the world, Monica Lewinsky received a standing ovation after she recounted how she was treated after her infamous scandal with former President Bill Clinton and saying, “public shaming as a blood sport must stop.”
Ms. Lewinsky gave the Ogilvy & Inspire keynote speech Thursday at the Cannes Lions festival in France, which bills itself as the world's biggest annual awards show and festival for professionals in the creative communications industry. According to the NY Post Page Six website, the former White House intern gave a speech similar to the "TED talk" speech she gave in March (embedded below).
The former girlfriend of Hillary Clinton's husband's described herself as the “patient zero” of Internet shaming:
She told the crowd, “Like me, at 22, a few of you may also have taken wrong turns and fallen in love with the wrong person, maybe even your boss … Unlike me, though, your boss probably wasn’t the president of the United States of America.
“Not a day goes by that I am not reminded of my mistake, and I regret that mistake deeply. In 1998 after having been swept up into an improbable romance, I was then swept up into a political, legal and media maelstrom, that we had never seen before.
“This scandal was brought to you by the digital revolution … what that meant for me personally was that overnight I went from being a completely private figure, to a publicly humiliated one worldwide. I was patient zero of losing a personal reputation on a global scale almost instantaneously.”
Perhaps, it says much about the mainstream media that the former White House intern was still faces derision even though she was taken advantage of by a much older and powerful boss. And, rarely do they mention the fact that, because he lied under oath, he was the only U.S. president in history to give up his law license to avoid getting disbarred.
Lewinsky described how, once the scandal broke, Clinton supporters took to the internet an branded her as "a tart, slut, whore, bimbo, floozy and of course ‘that woman'":
"I was seen by many but truly known by few … It was hard to remember ‘that woman’ had a soul and was once unbroken. In 1998 I lost my reputation and my dignity, I lost almost everything, and I almost lost my life.”
Lewinsky went on to talk about her mission to end the type of cyber-bullying she received, adeptly framing it in advertising terms.
“But can you imagine what it is like when the brand is you personally, your likeness, your name, your history, your values, your soul. That’s what happened to me in 1998. You are looking at a woman who was publicly savaged for a decade … because of who I was branded.”
She concluded, “We can lead each other to a more compassionate, more empowered place, we can help change our behavior, we can all learn from mistakes … and we can together make a society where the sometimes distancing of technology does not remove our humanity.
“You are the creative engines that will drive forward our culture. Will you help me?”
She really missed her opportunity to market signature humidors.
Then again, she’s lucky that an Oldsmobile played no part in her adventures.
Never mind that the interwebs had existed for decades by that point.
NOPE, not buying it. She entered criminal conspiracy with Bill Clinton and others to deceive. She accepted a 6-figure salaried job in exchange for lying under oath to thwart the case of a woman who’d alleged Mr. Clinton engaged in workplace sexual harassment.
Hillary’s misogynistic ‘nuts and sluts’ defense against the womens’ charges.
She has an article in Vanity Fair about T.S. Eliot -- no, really! -- and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" which she calls "first seminal modernist poem."
Much tittering about that word "seminal."
We've been told by NOW nags that it was a consensual relationship and that those cold women who rejected Bill's unwanted advances would have to tolerate that "the first grope is free".
Of course in decades prior, those same feminazis were against the boss man hiring a pretty secretary who was willing to put out and go with him on overnight trips.
They applauded long and hard until their applause reached its climax.
I’m surprised that the magazine (was it time or newsweak that ****canned the story shortly before it would’ve gone to publication) didn’t pursue charges against Mike Drudge at the time for intellectual property theft and possible plagiarism.
She asked for what she got, but I respect her for standing up and facing the consequences instead of having spend decades now trying to sue someone or turning into a substance-abusing hot mess over it. She has conducted the rest of her adult life in a respectable way and has paid a price for her actions. That’s what conservatives believe should happen, right?
A lame Blow Job for sure! Freakin’ spitter......
She’s still a whore.
And did we tell you the name of the game, boy, We call it 'riding the gravy train'
She is a true Democrat.
She paints herself as a VICTIM first and foremost. Instead of acknowledging that she was complicit in her own actions. And, mportantly, Bill Clinton was responsible for his own actions. She did not force him.
Every young female Democrat I knew then hated her for tempting Bill into crushing on her. And thereby bringing down his presidency.
She has not matured one iota from the experience!
You were a stupid whore who’s client did not even know your name.
She needed some mints more than condoms.
ML is Jewish.
As far as I’m concerned she was a kid molested by the president.
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