Monica Lewinsky: Roger Ailes’s Dream Was My Nightmare

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Monica Lewinsky: Roger Ailes’s Dream Was My Nightmare

By MONICA LEWINSKYMAY 22, 2017

This is not another obituary for Roger Ailes, who died last week a year after being ousted at Fox News. It is, I hope, instead an obituary for the culture he purveyed — a culture that affected me profoundly and personally.

Just two years after Rupert Murdoch appointed Mr. Ailes to head the new cable news network, my relationship with President Bill Clinton became public. Mr. Ailes, a former Republican political operative, took the story of the affair and the trial that followed and made certain his anchors hammered it ceaselessly, 24 hours a day.

It worked like magic: The story hooked viewers and made them Fox loyalists. For the past 15 years, Fox News has been the No. 1 news station; last year the network made $2.3 billion.

Some experts have noted that viewers found Fox for the first time because of the crisis. John Moody, a Fox executive editor, reflected on that period: “The Lewinsky saga put us on the news map.” As he put it in another interview: “Monica was a news channel’s dream come true.”

[Dilbert San Diego]

I see what you did there. Yes she can keep her mouth shut; would have saved her a lot of grief.

[Bigg Red]

Yes, but it gets her name in the news, which she apparently enjoys.

[HarleyLady27]

...well she shouldn’t have been sucking so much then...

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Oh shut up!

[Gene Eric]

NYT is a stain on truth and decency.

[GT Vander]

She’s ignored and marginalized for 20 years, so now she’s gonna complain? That’s a special kind of stupid or desperate.

[allendale]

Sadly this woman twenty years later has zero insight about anything. The real tragedy for America is that she is not an anomaly. Many people of her generation have the same myopia and reflexively “blame “ others and project their faults not on themselves but always someone or something else. She actually believes that she and Clinton were not responsible or accountable for their actions.

[fhayek]

Monica's problem was Ailes fault like Hillary's problem was the Russian's fault.

If you don't want people to find out about your misdeeds - DON'T DO THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE.

[GnuThere]

So she thinks she’s solely responsible for the success of Fox News?
Does she happen to mention what it cost her parents to purchase her internship? So were her parents also responsible for her “nightmare”?

[originalbuckeye]

Typical Lib. It’s ALWAYS someone else’s fault!

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[LibWhacker]

Bitter, know-nothing slut. After all these years the only thing that’s changed with her is that she’s become bitter. You’d think at least she’d work on the know-nothing part.

[DoughtyOne]

Yes, FoxNews was evil, but giving the president a BJ while his wife was in the building was a fine upstanding (well maybe not) honorable thing to do.

You’d think someone like this would want everyone to forget.

Nope, she’s lip-locked onto this probing issue, and won’t let go.

[Farmer Dean]

If she had kept her mouth shut there would have been no blue dress to save her life.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Yeah, you’re a dumb bitch who’s 15 minutes are up.

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Sounds like she is making some money by bringing it back up.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

She chose to have an affair with the lesbians make pretend husband, not Roger Ailes.

[DoughtyOne]

Ailes is dead.

Who keeps bringing the issue up before the public?

Wellllll?

[Intolerant in NJ]

Yeah, it’s all Ailes’s fault......

[madprof98]

Monica Lewinsky can write whole sentences in English? Who knew?

[Tijeras_Slim]

Sucks to be you Monica.