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Monica Lewinsky Featured HBO Documentary (Upset people mis-understand her)
Yahoo News ^ | January 17 | By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer

Posted on 01/17/2002 10:32:08 AM PST by Teacup

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - Four years after the start of the scandal that almost toppled a president, Monica Lewinsky says she's still trying to figure out how to live a normal life.

Fighting back tears, and laughing a little, Lewinsky appeared at a news conference Wednesday to promote an HBO documentary scheduled to debut on March 3. Called ``Monica in Black and White,'' it largely consists of her answering questions from an audience of HBO staff and college students.

Lewinsky initiated the project and was paid for her participation, but she wouldn't say how much.

The former intern said she made the film partly because she was worried other TV movies being made about her case would perpetuate inaccuracies and misconceptions.

What is the biggest misconception people have about her?

``That I sought this celebrity by seducing the president and going to the White House with an agenda and turning on him so all of this could happen, so I could enjoy it and cause trouble for this country and make millions of dollars and perpetuate my celebrity,'' she said.

``And that I'm stupid,'' she added.

Lewinsky, who designs handbags and attends classes at Columbia University in New York, wore a black leather jacket and skirt. She appeared to fight back tears when a reporter asked about former President Clinton 's moral standards.

``I'm flustered right now,'' she said. ``I'm so sorry.''

She also tried not to answer a handful of questions, including how she felt about Monica Lewinsky jokes, indicating HBO wanted to save responses for the documentary. Eventually, she said gallows humor helped her, but she doesn't like how her name has become synonymous with the scandal.

``The ones that take my last name and equate that to something a lot of people in the world do is something really cruel,'' she said.

Lewinsky lamented that there's no handbook on how to act when anonymity is lost. Asked why she doesn't try to avoid public attention, she said, ``What I learned to do - and it seemed to work - is if I went to a certain number of events and gave photographers some pictures, they didn't stand outside my house.''

``I'm really trying to do the best I can to normalize my life,'' she said.

She curtly dismissed a question about how she felt about Clinton today: ``It's all in the past and I've really just moved on.''

Most people who recognize her - maybe not journalists - are very kind, she said.

``It started with that rule in kindergarten,'' she said. ``If you don't have something nice to say, don't say it at all.''

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To: habs4ever
She doesn't like when people call a sexual act, "a Lewinsky." Unfortunatly, that's what she will always be remembered for. Certainly not her hand bags.
61 posted on 01/17/2002 4:28:03 PM PST by Teacup
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To: Teacup
SING AND MOCK THE NAME HERE
62 posted on 01/17/2002 10:40:38 PM PST by doug from upland
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To: Teacup
Called ``Monica in Black and White

If she had worn the dress it could have been called "Monica in Blue and White".

64 posted on 01/17/2002 11:26:33 PM PST by weegee
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To: Mudboy Slim
"BTW...that is funny about K-Mart."

Yea; & for Fuzzy Zoeller?
A beautiful hole-in-one; since he's not now having to scramble like Martha Stewart? :o)

Hey; was that Linda Tripp or Monica who had *someone* put a list of deceased FOBs on their chair in an office i an effort at intimidation?
Well it doesn't matter I guess; what does matter though, is that list as it stands now?
Is a very incomplete list.

I'd said (another thread) that the day would come when the Portly Pepperpot would get desperate to maintain the Limosine Liberal lifestyle she'd gotten used to while running with the NYC crowd.
Takes big bucks to run with that bunch, y'know.
I said when that day came she'd put, "The True Story" on the auction block available to the highest bidder; through sheer desperation.
And after that happened?
We should all be watching for her to have an *accident* potentially leading to dear Monica's untimely & unfortunate demise?

I meant every word because it's painfully obvious she doesn't believe her precious Sink Emporer capable of harm.

Monica Lewinsky really oughta be careful around bathtubs & showers - making sure there's skid-resistent rugs, no blow dryers, crossing streets, climbing stairs, skiing (whoa...), ~that kinda thing?

I just didn't thing she'd make her move this soon; while then again?
It takes a LOT of dough to do live like she has; & the Liberal Left was only going to pay so much, for so long.

...& especially pay to someone who's only claim-to-fame was servicing Bill Clinton?

65 posted on 01/17/2002 11:27:40 PM PST by Landru
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To: Teacup
What is the biggest misconception people have about her?

``That I sought this celebrity by seducing the president

She appears as host of Saturday Night Live and consents to a cable documentary about her.

Judith Exner never wanted to present her side of the events with a former president...

66 posted on 01/17/2002 11:29:19 PM PST by weegee
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To: Landru
"...it's painfully obvious she doesn't believe her precious Sink Emporer capable of harm."

As IGNORANT a DOLT as Monica most assuredly is, I think even she knows what a Murderous Thug her one-time SugarDaddy is...I reckon she simply believes giving good head would protect her from harm. It's worked so far...MUD

67 posted on 01/18/2002 4:27:44 AM PST by Mudboy Slim
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To: Mudboy Slim
"I reckon she simply believes giving good head would protect her from harm. It's worked so far..."

Worked so far, eh?
That remains to be seen, Mudboy.
Could be that in the, Final Act things play-out quite differently.
Might turn our that giving good head results in one losing one's head.
We've time on our side to watch & see, in any event; whereas, I really don't believe she enjoys that benefit per se.

...she no longer has the edge that kept her a head in the past? :o)

68 posted on 01/18/2002 4:48:59 AM PST by Landru
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To: Teacup
She can get dates. Except every single dates probably expects a Lewinsky, IMHO. They certainly don't expect a hand bag, LOL.

Yea, how about that actor, whats' his face, the one who got caught getting a Lewinski in the back seat of a limo. He would date her I bet.

69 posted on 01/18/2002 4:55:47 AM PST by mc5cents
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To: Teacup
What? You don't buy the "Events Occur" non-defense defense? Or that her fame/money/celebrity status aren't really a burden inflicted on her, that people like you aren't doing much to help her bear?
70 posted on 01/18/2002 4:57:47 AM PST by 185JHP
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To: Landru
"Might turn our that giving good head results in one losing one's head."

Speaking of that, anybody heard anything about Chandra Levy lately?!

"We've time on our side to watch & see, in any event; whereas, I really don't believe she enjoys that benefit per se...she no longer has the edge that kept her a head in the past?"

I never want this air-headed RAT to enjoy a single benefit from simply donning her kneepads and givin' Li'l Willard the business...Linda Tripp was/is the real hero of that entire episode, and most likely saved Monica's life. Can you just imagine how Clinton wouldda destroyed his little Semen Receptacle if Ms. Tripp hadn't advised her to retain the soiled blue dress?! She'd have ended up in a looney bin fer having those "delusions" about suckin' the POTUS and considering the typical Lib'ral's emotional insecurity, I reckon there's a good chance she'd have committed Arkancide.

FReegards...MUD

71 posted on 01/18/2002 5:14:53 AM PST by Mudboy Slim
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To: Mudboy Slim
"I never want this air-headed RAT to enjoy a single benefit from simply donning her kneepads and givin' Li'l Willard the business..."

Listen, Mud?
If by, "benefit" you mean profit financially?
Not to worry.
She's about to learn one of the most painful if not important lessons any human being ever could.
"Money" doesn't really, "buy" squat.
For many who'd lie, steal, cheat, make Faustian deals of all kind, murder, and yes, suck on the end of an embarrassingly tiny, imaciated hunk of blubber with an odd and curious obtuse Left-turn bend, too -- when they discover this little fact?
It hits 'em like a locomotive; & the ensuing explosion doesn't leave much in the wake.

" Linda Tripp was/is the real hero of that entire episode, and most likely saved Monica's life."

Yup, & Linda's as BLESSED right now as she may ever be -- as long as she's left alone, out of the sights of the demonic Lamestream media to live her life in relative normalcy.
Not that I'd know, mind you; however, I've a real strong notion Linda's been taken care of, is comfortable & safe.
A rich reward for the one individual responsible for ripping away the cloak of respectability the biggest fruad, biggest criminal enterprise our Republic has ever witnessed.
Prior to that?
A cloud of dreamy, Hollywierd-spun illusion swirled about the Monster.
No more & we've Linda to thank for that reality check, forevermore.
So, it's no wonder the forces who were responsible for the insideous chunk of fecal matter known as, "William Jefferson Clinton" came after her with everything they had?
More suprising yet, that she's managed to successfully drop off the *radar*, completely.
~Good for Linda Tripp!

"Can you just imagine how Clinton wouldda destroyed his little Semen Receptacle if Ms. Tripp hadn't advised her to retain the soiled blue dress?! She'd have ended up in a looney bin fer having those 'delusions' about suckin' the POTUS and considering the typical Lib'ral's emotional insecurity, I reckon there's a good chance she'd have committed Arkancide."

How very true.

...interestingly enough, the fates you describe have returned to haunt those who'd have directed 'em at her, eh?

72 posted on 01/18/2002 5:51:21 AM PST by Landru
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To: pubmom
Has she ever said "I was wrong, and am sorry for what I did?"

I didn't hear it either and I think that could come from just about everybody in the last administration. "I was wrong, and am sorry for what I did?" I repeated it because I almost never hear that expression from anybody . It is just not said anymore.

73 posted on 01/18/2002 6:01:50 AM PST by oyez
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To: oyez
While I was channel surfing last night, I came upon Baba Wubba saying we should cut poor Monica a break. She'd been less than right, but that she is trying to get on with her life.

Am I to believe that the students asking questions during the making of her documentary were interested only in her handbags?
What makes her believe she is so compelling that she needed to make one in the first place?

If she doesn't like all the attention, poor baby should stop attempting to crash parties, stop making documentaries, and should just sew.

Unless of course keeping herself visible is her survival strategy....

74 posted on 01/18/2002 6:20:20 AM PST by pubmom
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To: Teacup
Thanks for the ping. Monica is stupid, plain and simple.
75 posted on 01/18/2002 7:01:50 AM PST by kassie
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To: Landru
"...the fates you describe have returned to haunt those who'd have directed 'em at her, eh?"

Of whom do you speak? So far, I've yet to see those who loyally serve in Clinton's Corrupt Cadre to see the Justice they deserve...MUD

76 posted on 01/18/2002 7:15:38 AM PST by Mudboy Slim
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To: Mudboy Slim
Mud?
What I said to you isn't that tough; here, lemme try it this way.
The crap they (Clinton, Monica, Liberals-all) directed TO destroy LindaT, has & will return to get them; in one way or another as the years go on.

...geeehezzz; UV, huh. :o)

77 posted on 01/18/2002 7:19:21 AM PST by Landru
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To: pubmom
Why is it that those that have to keep themselve visable are the last peope that we really want to see?

I don't want to see Momica, Hillerey, Bill or Jehad Johnny, but their immages just keep poping up.

78 posted on 01/18/2002 7:55:35 AM PST by oyez
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To: Teacup
I'm sick of the mega-media's "resurrection cases." The scenario is always the same. Creepo liberal entertainer gets him/herself in hot water - sex and drugs usually. Media moguls step in and full speed ahead do everything to resurrect the wrong-doer's career. Drughead Robert Downey got a part on Ally McBeal the got drugged again. His latest reinvention? He is hosting the Golden Globe awards TV show. Remember Vanessa Williams - this no-talent had to resign as Miss America after explicit lesbian photos of her surfaced. She went on to fame and fortune thanks to the film-TV heads see-hear-speak-no-evil types.
79 posted on 01/18/2002 12:45:40 PM PST by Liz
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