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Monica Lewinsky: Roger Ailes’s Dream Was My Nightmare
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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
Monica Lewinsky: Roger Ailes’s Dream Was My Nightmare

No, your dream was this nation's nightmare.

 

81 posted on 05/22/2017 3:35:32 PM PDT by Bronzewound (2016 GOP. A Timid Little Division Of The Democrat Party.)
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To: Bronzewound

So...I guess this means she has stopped doing what the Starr report said: Having a President lick her anus in the White House? What a subhuman creature of absolutely no value to society.


82 posted on 05/22/2017 3:50:05 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: Sub-Driver
the culture he purveyed — a culture that affected me profoundly and personally.

The culture that affected you "profoundly and personally" is that purveyed by libertine Leftist atheism, where modesty and self-respect are mocked as rigid, outdated concepts. Where sex means little more than a handshake and marriage vows mean nothing.

The irony of your self-serving, blame-shifting screed is the fact that if it were a Republican president treating an intern as an object, Fox News would not have been necessary. The story would be pounded 24/7 by the entire alphabet soup of networks.

So keep your whining to yourself. Your words reveal -- after all these years -- a soul unredeemed by introspection or remorse. Perhaps you will eventually turn away from evil. May God have mercy on you if you don't.

83 posted on 05/22/2017 3:53:47 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies Tell me where is sanity?)
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To: Feckless

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She isn’t fat, nor scuzzy, she has just lent her voice to the only path she was taught.

We have a nation full of young adults in similar shape; let’s get on with draining the swamp.


84 posted on 05/22/2017 4:32:55 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Sub-Driver
It never hurts to bring up Bill Clinton's behavior again, with an intern roughly the same age as his daughter, as if Roger Ailes was the one who victimized the poor girl.

vii) Sunday, March 31, 1996
The President fondled Ms. Lewinsky's bare breasts with his hands and mouth and fondled her genitalia directly by pulling her underwear out of the way. In addition, the President inserted a cigar into Ms. Lewinsky's vagina.(37)
37. Id. at 37-38. The President then put the cigar in his mouth and said to Ms. Lewinsky: "it tastes good." Lewinsky 7/30/98 Int. at 12-13; see also Lewinsky Depo. at 38.
35. Id. at 30-32. They engaged in oral-anal contact as well. See Lewinsky 8/26/98 Depo. at 29-33.
31. Id. at 26. As Ms. Lewinsky departed, she observed the President "manually stimulating" himself in Ms. Hernreich's office. Id. at 27.

85 posted on 05/22/2017 4:47:57 PM PDT by dead
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To: Red Badger
."She needs mouthwash.................Listerine Extra strength...........32 oz..........."

Everyone (including I assume Hillery) good ole' Bill touched with his bent member, is in Blewinski's mouth. Think about that!!!

I don't know of a mouthwash strong enough to handle that much crud/SLIME

86 posted on 05/22/2017 5:22:49 PM PDT by crazy scenario (We can't take you anywhere)
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To: Sub-Driver

Why should she be offended? She managed to make money off her book publications, lectures, and television appearances. It was only bad because Fox was doing it, which only goes to show that Fox was the only network reporting the story.


87 posted on 05/22/2017 5:27:39 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Sub-Driver

Old joke:

I heard Monica Lewensky is voting Republican. She said the Democrats left a bad taste in her mouth.


88 posted on 05/22/2017 5:36:34 PM PDT by Angels27
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To: Sub-Driver

Old joke:

I heard Monica Lewensky is voting Republican. She said the Democrats left a bad taste in her mouth.


89 posted on 05/22/2017 5:37:55 PM PDT by Angels27
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To: Sub-Driver

It wasn’t the Right that villified Lewensky, it was the Left. And, they still do to this day.


90 posted on 05/22/2017 5:39:24 PM PDT by TruthFactor (Hang em', Hang em' High.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Clinton sexually harassed and raped a young intern.

I don't see that as Ailes’ fault.

91 posted on 05/22/2017 5:42:14 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Sub-Driver

Think about this: Bill Clinton, the most powerful man on earth at the time...the man with his finger on the nuclear trigger...could only rate a no count, hefty, lame ass choking’ gagging SPITTER!!!!!


92 posted on 05/22/2017 5:59:36 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: sodpoodle
If Linda Tripp had not talked her into keeping the blue dress as evidence, Monica might have died by Arkancide in 1998. Even Monica's mother thought that the Clintons might have her killed.

During the period of Monica's affair with Bill Clinton, she got pregnant by another boyfriend but had an abortion. If she had not killed her child, he or she might be a college student right now. Monica's life might have had more meaning than just serving as a warning to others, or maybe a childless couple would have had the joy of raising her child.

Of course the kid would probably have voted for Hillary.

93 posted on 05/22/2017 6:06:28 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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94 posted on 05/23/2017 6:05:09 AM PDT by Red Badger (Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
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