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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.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ailes; lewinsky
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To: Sub-Driver

Just two years after Rupert Murdoch appointed Mr. Ailes to head the new cable news network, my relationship with President Bill Clinton became public.

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That wasn’t a relationship. She’s still delusional. She should be blaming the Clinton criminals, not Roger Ailes or anybody else.


61 posted on 05/22/2017 2:52:04 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Good thing you hung on to “the dress”.

Otherwise—you’d be stuck in some booby hatch under a ton of Haldol. (IF still Alive, that is.)


62 posted on 05/22/2017 2:52:06 PM PDT by Flintlock (The ballot box STOLEN, our soapbox taken away--the BULLET BOX is left to us.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Good thing you hung on to “the dress”.

Otherwise—you’d be stuck in some booby hatch under a ton of Haldol. (IF still Alive, that is.)


63 posted on 05/22/2017 2:52:33 PM PDT by Flintlock (The ballot box STOLEN, our soapbox taken away--the BULLET BOX is left to us.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Monica, It wasn’t Roger Ailes that saved the blue dress for evidence. You did. You did because you wanted attention. You got it so shut up.


64 posted on 05/22/2017 2:52:45 PM PDT by boycott
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To: Sub-Driver

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Harlot is as harlot does.
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65 posted on 05/22/2017 2:54:33 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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Is she still doing Jenny Craig?


66 posted on 05/22/2017 2:54:57 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: Sub-Driver

Somebody needs to ask her if it was fair to the other volunteers that she got the paying job?

The next question should be should women have to do what she did to obtain a job?


67 posted on 05/22/2017 2:57:15 PM PDT by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: jmcenanly

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>> “If it weren’t for Fox News, she would probably be found lying in fort Marcy Park, unmentioned by the media.” <<

Precisely.

Bringing out the trash to the curb on Garbage Day!


68 posted on 05/22/2017 2:57:44 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: dsrtsage

No idea whom she dates nowadays


69 posted on 05/22/2017 2:57:58 PM PDT by stormhill
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To: \/\/ayne

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Bill Clinton should have gone to jail for that.
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70 posted on 05/22/2017 2:59:15 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Sub-Driver
I once felt sorry for her. BJ Clinton took unconscionable advantage of her when she was a very naive young woman.

But now that she's reached middle age and is blaming Ailes and Fox, no more pity from me.

71 posted on 05/22/2017 3:02:31 PM PDT by shhrubbery! (NIH!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Roger Ailes didn’t make you a little fat scuzzy whore...


72 posted on 05/22/2017 3:02:32 PM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: Sub-Driver
I once felt sorry for her. BJ Clinton took unconscionable advantage of her when she was a very naive young woman.

But now that she's reached middle age and is blaming Ailes and Fox, no more pity from me.

73 posted on 05/22/2017 3:02:34 PM PDT by shhrubbery! (NIH!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Monica, you have put who and what you are on a world stage.

Ailes had nothing to do with it.

I remember my (then) toddler daughter talking about you and how you were a bad girl because you “pee-peed on the floor.”

Thank you for that, Monica.

/eyeroll


74 posted on 05/22/2017 3:04:13 PM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is Mine)
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To: Sub-Driver

That’s all we need. To be lectured to by a slutty fat chick.


75 posted on 05/22/2017 3:04:19 PM PDT by Jean2
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To: Sub-Driver

What year is she talking about?

Fox News launch, on October 7, 1996.

At launch, only 10 million households were able to watch Fox News, with none in the major media markets of New York City and Los Angeles...


76 posted on 05/22/2017 3:08:29 PM PDT by donna (There are now roughly 3,200 mosques in America, nearly three times as many as there were in 2000.)
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To: Sub-Driver

CNN was much more prominent at the the time as were the entrenched ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS and 1000’s of other newspapers around at the time.

You didn’t put Fox into the public realm. 911 did that, long after your sordid affair.

Drugs you have been taking to deal with your kneepad injuries and psychic wounds have seriously injured you further.

Your mom and dad should sue your doctors for malpractice and you should be more honest with yourself in therapy.

You might even start with step #4 of Alcoholics Anonymous and take serious inventory of yourself with sincere honesty.

But....whatever.....whore....


77 posted on 05/22/2017 3:08:58 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Sub-Driver

None of it would have happened if Monica had kept her legs shut and her mouth closed.


78 posted on 05/22/2017 3:09:30 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Jane Austen

Not only did she go after a married man, but the one to whom he was married to is responsible for quite a death list. She is very lucky to still be alive.

And even that is not a given.


79 posted on 05/22/2017 3:13:04 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Sub-Driver
That is OK Monica, what other fat chick got her name identified as meaning a blowjob?

Everyone knows what a "Lewinsky" is these days, you will live in infamy.

80 posted on 05/22/2017 3:19:08 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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