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Monica Lewinsky: Roger Ailes’s Dream Was My Nightmare
New York Times ^

Posted on 05/22/2017 2:06:00 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ailes; lewinsky
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To: McGruff

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


21 posted on 05/22/2017 2:16:00 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: lee martell

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


22 posted on 05/22/2017 2:16:05 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: Sub-Driver

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


23 posted on 05/22/2017 2:16:11 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ( "The Force Awakens!!!"...Trump and Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Oh shut up!


24 posted on 05/22/2017 2:16:14 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them!)
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NYT is a stain on truth and decency.


25 posted on 05/22/2017 2:17:00 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Sub-Driver

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


26 posted on 05/22/2017 2:17:08 PM PDT by GT Vander (Life's priorities; God, Family, Country. Everything else is just details...)
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To: Sub-Driver

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.


27 posted on 05/22/2017 2:17:23 PM PDT by allendale
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To: Col Frank Slade
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.

28 posted on 05/22/2017 2:17:24 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: Sub-Driver

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”?


29 posted on 05/22/2017 2:17:43 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: Sub-Driver

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


30 posted on 05/22/2017 2:17:44 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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31 posted on 05/22/2017 2:18:39 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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To: Sub-Driver

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.


32 posted on 05/22/2017 2:20:29 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: Sub-Driver

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.


33 posted on 05/22/2017 2:20:33 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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To: McGruff

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


34 posted on 05/22/2017 2:21:33 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (If there's lead in the air,there's hope.)
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To: Tzimisce
Yeah, you’re a dumb bitch who’s 15 minutes are up.


Sounds like she is making some money by bringing it back up.
35 posted on 05/22/2017 2:21:51 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Is it not too late to appoint a special counsel to investigate Hillary's crimes?)
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To: Sub-Driver

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


36 posted on 05/22/2017 2:22:37 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hillary Clinton IS a felon)
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To: Sub-Driver

Ailes is dead.

Who keeps bringing the issue up before the public?

Wellllll?


37 posted on 05/22/2017 2:22:51 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Yeah, it’s all Ailes’s fault......


38 posted on 05/22/2017 2:23:35 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Sub-Driver

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


39 posted on 05/22/2017 2:26:21 PM PDT by madprof98
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To: Sub-Driver

Sucks to be you Monica.


40 posted on 05/22/2017 2:26:51 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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