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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If she had worn the dress it could have been called "Monica in Blue and White".
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?
``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...
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
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)
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.
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
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?
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.
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....
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
...geeehezzz; UV, huh. :o)
I don't want to see Momica, Hillerey, Bill or Jehad Johnny, but their immages just keep poping up.
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