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Monica Lewinsky Pens Op-Ed About Being Target of Ailes' Fox News
Hollywood Reporter ^ | 5/22/2017 | Paul Bond

Posted on 05/22/2017 5:18:22 PM PDT by simpson96

Monica Lewinsky is blaming Roger Ailes — and to a lesser extent, Matt Drudge — for exploiting her relationship with President Bill Clinton so "mercilessly" that she considered suicide.

"Ailes, a former Republican political operative, took the story and the trial that followed and made certain his anchors hammered it ceaselessly," Lewinsky writes in a New York Times opinion piece published Monday.

"My family and I huddled at home, worried about my going to jail — I was the original target of Ken Starr's investigation, threatened with 27 years for having been accused of signing a false affidavit, obstructing justice, suborning perjury and other crimes — or worse, me taking my own life," Lewinsky writes. "Meantime, Mr. Ailes huddled with his employees at Fox News, dictating a lineup of talking heads to best exploit this personal and national tragedy."

Lewinsky acknowledges that Fox News wasn't the only network with wall-to-wall coverage of the president's sexual relationship with a White House intern, but she suggests the others were negatively influenced by the success Fox News was enjoying with its coverage two decades ago.

"Mr. Ailes's station may have pioneered this new style of reportage, but the other cable news channels didn't hesitate to join the race to the bottom," she writes.

Lewinsky writes that her column isn't meant as an obituary for Ailes, who died last week, one year after he was ousted at Fox News amid accusations of sexual harassment, but as "an obituary for the culture he purveyed." That culture apparently included online bullying, she suggests.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: simpson96

This dumb adulterous slut has learned nothing. After her life has been mostly ruined, after all these years. Pathetic. And she’s trying to lecture others.


21 posted on 05/22/2017 5:36:43 PM PDT by Vision (Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid - Reagan)
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To: Vision
Monica... when you got down on your knees and (self-censored) Bill Clinton, then let him stick cigars in you, you give up all rights to blame someone else for your actions.

Are liberals ever capable of accepting responsibility?

22 posted on 05/22/2017 5:38:46 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: heterosupremacist

Yes, she should have played the harmonica instead of Bill’s.......


23 posted on 05/22/2017 5:42:04 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: simpson96

Another attention whore jumps on the “Fox Done me Wrong” band wagon. Pitiful.


24 posted on 05/22/2017 5:42:49 PM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: simpson96
I expect narcissism prevents common sense and reflection, making them miserable people.
25 posted on 05/22/2017 5:43:49 PM PDT by Vision (Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid - Reagan)
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To: simpson96

Everyone is trying to get his money before he’s in the ground.


26 posted on 05/22/2017 5:44:52 PM PDT by batterycommander (I learned my Artillery skills from the United States Marines. USNA 65)
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To: heterosupremacist

Well, at least you have the good taste not to refer
to her as Whormonica........


27 posted on 05/22/2017 5:46:09 PM PDT by Sivad (NorCal red turf)
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To: Sivad
# 27 Well, at least you have the good taste not to refer to her as Whormonica........ It WAS in poor taste, but I adopted 'Harmonica Lewinsky' from the Irish Press at the time. If the shoe fits...
28 posted on 05/22/2017 5:50:05 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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To: simpson96

Fox was the only one covering it because none of the other networks would touch it. They were all in the tank for Slick Willie.


29 posted on 05/22/2017 5:55:30 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: simpson96

The comments at the source are just BRUTAL.
I approve.


30 posted on 05/22/2017 5:57:38 PM PDT by glasseye
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To: simpson96

The only one of her family that condemned her was a grandmother in Israel, who called her a disgrace and said how glad she was that her husband wasn’t around to see it.


31 posted on 05/22/2017 5:59:17 PM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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To: simpson96

Monica should have kept her mouth shut...


32 posted on 05/22/2017 5:59:48 PM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies ('45 will be the best ever)
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To: simpson96

Monica Lewinsky: star-struck fellatrix and semen demon.
Her parents must be proud of their Hoovering offspring.


33 posted on 05/22/2017 6:02:14 PM PDT by tumblindice ("Fight for your country." Hector)
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To: simpson96

What a ditz. Would she even be alive without that publicity?


34 posted on 05/22/2017 6:02:44 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: simpson96

This is just a typical Liberal response. Always shift the blame, It’s always someone else who caused it. For sure Monica never opened her mouth, It couldn’t have been her fault.


35 posted on 05/22/2017 6:04:06 PM PDT by TermLimitsforAll (Term Limits and Walls, that's a start.)
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To: simpson96

So what is the purpose of her column?

What does she expect to accomplish by attacking Ailes?

He’s not the one who used her and tossed her aside like a soggy cigar.


36 posted on 05/22/2017 6:04:43 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Best Long Term Prepper Tactic: Beat The Muslim Takeover - Have Big Families)
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To: simpson96

Why doesn’t she blame the real media culprit: Maureen Dowd who writes for the paper Lewinsky is now writing for.


37 posted on 05/22/2017 6:05:36 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: simpson96

Monica, was it Roger Ailes who called you a stalker?


38 posted on 05/22/2017 6:06:46 PM PDT by TChad (Propagandists should not be treated like journalists.)
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To: simpson96

Lewinsky ought to thank the people who revealed the truth. Hillary was probably about to give Monica the Vince Foster suicide treatment.


39 posted on 05/22/2017 6:08:34 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. ~ Hosea 8:7)
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To: simpson96; Squantos
Words uttered by Monica Lewinsky as a White House Intern...

...after wiping her chin and singing,

"I'm a cigar box,
Short and stout,
Bend me over
and smoke comes out"

40 posted on 05/22/2017 6:09:48 PM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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