Does anyone care about Monika Lewinsky?

[Kajun Gal]

[woodsprite]

1. No. They're just trying to keep it out in front so if Hillary runs again they can drag it out. nt

[LuvLoogie]

2. I like her. I like Bill. I like Hillary

Just one of those things.

[TheBlackAdder]

63. Same here.

[LAS14]

3. Not me. Why do you ask? nt

[Judi Lynn]

4. Good question. I wonder about that, too. n/t

[Kajun Gal]

5. Just curious as to why she's in the news after 20 yrs. Didn't care for her then either.

[USALiberal]

15. Did you care about Bill then? nt

[Kajun Gal]

47. Of course. Love me some Bill Clinton!

[thegoose]

6. Uh, no

Trying to deflect the current shithole with a mutual relationship that happened eons ago has nothing to do with the nightmare that Dumpster is inflicting on us. Focus! Focus! Dump's party and the ratings grabbing media are jacking this up, and too many are taking the bait.

[LenaBaby61]

72. THIS

I'm not going to "go crazy" 20 plus years later over a young woman who proclaimed that she was going to Washington to have affairs, and she did. One with a philandering, couldn't keep his zipper closed president, and whoever else she had an affair with. Let me say this: At 57, I can say that I've never have had an affair with a married man and believe me, I was approached many times throughout my young and older adult life by professional athletes, pols and by a ex-friend's brother who was a priest. Yes, he was a priest who took a vow of celibacy as we know priests do (That's another whole long story), and each time he propositioned me, I told him no and as I was propositioned by the others I told them NO. NEVER, not me in this lifetime, because even at 18, 19 and 20, I knew that these men were married and had children. Never ME. Never ME. As for Lewinsky & Clinton, I'm also not condemning them to HELL and damnation for what they did as consenting adults. How they made peace with what they did is up to them & the married spouses who were involved, and their higher power if they have one.

[MrsCoffee]

7. Who?

[CatMor]

8. No, I don't

[USALiberal]

9. Do you care about Bill Clinton? nt

[JustAnotherGen]

10. No

She's boring. Heard it all already.

[brush]

23. Yes, many, many, many times she's had to tell her story.

She's forty-something for God's sake.

Long past time for her to have gotten over a consensual relationship she had in her early 20s.

[JHan]

60. a zillion times this.

[mindem]

11. No

Rehash

[USALiberal]

14. Watergate was rehashed, Son of SAM rehashed, OJ Simpson rehashed, etc. Get it?

[brush]

26. This has been rehashed how many time now though. Enough already...

repugs. People don't care anymore as Bill nor Hillary won't be running again.

[USALiberal]

27. If no one cared they would not of made it. I bet it gets an audience. nt

[brush]

30. So let the deplorables eat cake/bread, whatever. I won't be watching.

[Blue_Tires]

49. Rehashing is one thing, trying to re-write the past is another...

And rehashing a 5-minute blowjob from 20 years ago when the current occupant has done a million worse things by his own boastful admission is suspect to say the least.

I also can't figure out why so many of these media morans want to act like there's some karma or unfinished punishment coming Bill's way... Were they not paying attention when he was impeached?

[USALiberal]

52. They had 9 sexual encounters. So more than one blow job. Clinton was a moron. nt

[Blue_Tires]

54. You ought to run for Senate and vote to impeach Bill if you still feel that strongly about it...

As for me, I'm keeping my crosshairs on Trump's shenanigans...

Oh, and while you're building your time machine, don't forget to go back and shoot baby Hitler in the cradle...

[USALiberal]

57. I can multi-task, Despise asshole Trump and know Clinton was an idiot! nt

[qazplm135]

12. I mean I would ask her out for coffee

She seems interesting and intelligent, but otherwise no.

[SMC22307]

13. Why are you asking? (n/t)

[mtnsnake]

68. I can't answer for the OP, but I'm guessing it's because she's been in the news all week

doing interviews about her big "tell all" show coming out this Sunday on the tube I think. Nothing like opening up old wounds and making a few extra bucks at the same time.

[Botany]

16. Why do I think that right wing money is behind this "new" multi part series on A.E.?

We really need to rid our country of these un-American shits. They are a cancer
on our country's soul.

[krawhitham]

17. I have no problem with her

[helpisontheway]

18. Mika was trying to say that Hillary should have

been more understanding towards Monica because she was so young. She said Monica did not have anyone looking after her (like a female)....What the hell ever...I’m not reaching out to a young ADULT that is sleeping with my husband. Let her parents be her soft place to fall. Yes..Bill should have known better but it is not Hillary’s job to look after her. Heck Hillary was trying to get through the scandal with her own family. She was trying to comfort her own daughter.

[Me.]

44. I Saw That

when she addressed that question to the director, the director said no. But Mika has a thing about HRC just like Mrs. Greenspan and Ruth Marcus. Mika was always saying HRC should get off her high horse.

[badhair77]

61. I turned it off when she said

that had she been HRC she would have been more compassionate toward ML because of her young age. NBC and MSNBC have been obsessed with this series on A& E.

[randr]

19. I'm glad she is doing well

I hope she makes a ton of money

[USALiberal]

22. I 100% agree with you. nt

[Raine]

40. I feel the same nt

[Vogon_Glory]

43. About The Same

I wish Monica Lewinsky a good, happy life outside of the public eye.

[R B Garr]

20. No. She is really just proving there wasn't an "affair" more

than her obsession.

[Different Drummer]

21. I really don't. Do U? n/t

[Siwsan]

24. Nope. Nada. Zilch. Zero. She is SOOOOO last millennium.

Come to think about it, I didn't care anything about her, back then, either.

[onecaliberal]

25. Nope. Willing participant.

[USALiberal]

29. Bill was an idiot needless to say. She was 22 and he should of known better. nt

[Thekaspervote]

28. No.. won't watch.. they were consenting adults. The rest who cares??!!

[elocs]

31. It's Monica Lewinsky, and no, I don't care about her.

But then I don't care about Bill Clinton either even though I voted for him twice.

[mnhtnbb]

32. No. Get a life, Monica.

[Mike Nelson]

33. I feel...

… sorry for her... this is all she's got? She keeps coming back, over and over... I turn the channel. I guess this is the easiest way to make money, but I'd fight against it... and keep fighting. Get out of the public eye.

[Hortensis]

34. I wish her well.

The Republicans put her through hell, and everyone else who won't stop kicking her around as a political football are hardly guiltless, but she's learned to stand against it and for herself.

[USALiberal]

38. Thank you!!! I feel sorry for her. 22 years old and star struck. It ruined her life. nt

[Hortensis]

65. Certainly made life extremely hard for a while and

changed it forever. In a Vanity Fair article she says at 24 Ken Starr's team threatened her with 27 years in prison if she didn't cooperate with his swiftboating/impeachment operation, also threatened her parents with prison and ruin. Brett Kavanaugh wanted to ask Clinton sexually explicit questions about Monica Lewinsky, like injecting suggestive prurience in asking if he inserted a cigar in her vagina.

In 2017 she saw Starr for the first time ever in a restaurant and introduced herself.

Ken Starr asked me several times if I was “doing O.K.” A stranger might have surmised from his tone that he had actually worried about me over the years. His demeanor, almost pastoral, was somewhere between avuncular and creepy. He kept touching my arm and elbow, which made me uncomfortable.

Understandably, I was a bit thrown. (It was also confusing for me to see “Ken Starr” as a human being. He was there, after all, with what appeared to be his family.) I finally gathered my wits about me—after an internal command of Get it together. “Though I wish I had made different choices back then,” I stammered, “I wish that you and your office had made different choices, too.” In hindsight, I later realized, I was paving the way for him to apologize. But he didn’t. He merely said, with the same inscrutable smile, “I know. It was unfortunate.”

Unfortunate.(!) Well, she certainly is living a different life. Hillary running meant being hounded by the media all over again and having to fight to get her own story out there. Yet she's choosing to live it as a very public life and even make an interesting and varied career as an activist and speaker out of it.

[USALiberal]

67. Thanks for that info! nt

[NCjack]

35. I care. She is a nicer person than golddigging Melania. nt

[meadowlander]

36. Didn't then and still don't now.

Also don't care about Trump's many affairs except to the extent that he broke the law paying them off.

[Raine]

37. Yes

I hope she's able to put the scandal behind her and get on with her life.

[samnsara]

39. its so gag me with a spoon..

...whoops... probably not a good analogy..

[USALiberal]

41. disgusting! nt

[lapucelle]

42. I hope the interviewers ask her what she thinks of Ken Starr and Linda Tripp. N/T

[srobertss]

45. I am amazed at how little I was paying attention back then....

...and found her story very riveting on the podcast Slow Burn. I was not aware of how she was ambushed by the FBI, how frantic she was to keep the story from coming out, and how betrayed she felt by Linda Tripp. Maybe I was purposely tuning it out, but I was also caregiving for my mother with Alzheimer’s. So the podcast was riveting to me. I found her much more sympathetic than I had at the time.

[struggle4progress]

46. That episode seems to have landed Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court,

a position for which his qualifications do not seem to extend much further than his perverse inquiries into how cigars can be used for sexual activity, a question which perhaps came into his mind while he was engaging in his love of beer,

[SKKY]

48. Yea, I kinda do.

I'm happy she seems to have come out the other side OK. She was very young, in over her head, and was obviously taken advantage of by a lot of people.

[WhiteTara]

50. Only that she exists on the public stage.

[kskiska]

51. She doesn't mention the guy she had an affair with at the Pentagon

Last edited Fri Nov 16, 2018, 10:12 PM - Edit history (1)

when she was moved out of the White House. In her first book in 1999 she described how she became pregnant by him and had an abortion. I guess because he wasn't famous.

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Monica Lewinsky had a secret abortion as a result of her affair with a Pentagon employee – in the midst of her scandalous fling with President Clinton, she reveals in her long-awaited book.

Lewinsky was traumatized by the experience – but taunted Clinton with stories about the other man in her life, the book says.

She never told Clinton about the abortion and had to borrow money from an aunt to pay for it.

“I wasn’t emotionally prepared for it,” Lewinsky told London’s Daily Mirror, which carries excerpts from the book and an interview with her in today’s editions.

“It was just horrible and very depressing.”

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Among other revelations appearing in Andrew Morton’s “Monica’s Story,” which goes on sale in America today:

*Lewinsky at first didn’t find Clinton attractive.

“With his big red nose and coarse, wiry-looking gray hair, he’s an old guy,” she says.

“There were tons and tons of women in the White House with crushes on him and I thought, ‘These people are just crazy. They have really bad taste in men.'”

*But during their flirtation “he undressed me with his eyes” and “we clicked at an incredible level.

“People have made it seem so demeaning for me but it wasn’t, it was exciting and the irony is that I had the first orgasm of the relationship,” Lewinsky said.

[3catwoman3]

71. Way, way, waaaaaaaaaaaay...

...TMI!!!!

[WhiskeyGrinder]

53. Yes.

[aikoaiko]

55. I care about ML. I hope she is doing well.

[redstateblues]

56. Jeez. Time to move on.

[RainCaster]

58. Jumping the Shark comes to mind

Her time came and went and I haven't seen anything positive from her for a long time. Maybe not ever.

[happy feet]

59. Nope

[JI7]

62. based on her recent appearances I don't think she regrets the affair at all

and I don't see her as a victim at all.

[mtnsnake]

69. Exactly the way I saw it, too

Especially the part where she said she put on a certain dress "hoping he would notice me this time" or something to that effect.

I don't see her as the victim either, nor do I feel sorry for her, nor do I like her. I still like Bill, though, even though he did really screw up in that one.

[badhair77]

64. So she gets to tell her story again. But I wonder

how she benefits from participating in the series or if the producers are using her just like others have in the past. What is the end goal for her.

[UTUSN]

66. Does Monica LEWINSKY care about Monica LEWINSKY? I blame Bill, I blame HER, too. #hertoo

[PufPuf23]

70. Define care?

Neither Bill nor Hillary Clinton responded as I would like at the time and the situation looks worse in hindsight.

Lewinsky may have schemed to have an affair with POTUS Clinton but Clinton should have known better and then been forthcoming. Lewinsky is not the first young woman to use her body to get something she wanted. She has no excuse but POTUS Clinton was in a position of power and should have known better.

Starr et al are scumbags.

Unfortunate hypocritic event that still undermines Democratic goals unfortunately.

Glad Lewinsky has made an OK life for herself. She is well spoken but wish she would go away now.

Bill Clinton is a light weight sexual predator compared to Trump.