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Lewinsky hits back at Clinton
The Evening Standard ^ | June 25, 2004 | Andre Paine

Posted on 06/25/2004 6:08:00 AM PDT by MadIvan

Monica Lewinsky has told of her feelings of betrayal at the version of their affair given by Bill Clinton in his new autobiography.

The former White House intern attacked Mr Clinton's "lies" over the affair, exposed in 1998, seven months after he first denied the relationship. He was impeached but was acquitted.

In his book My Life, Mr Clinton writes of the affair: "I did something for the worst possible reason - just because I could. I think that's just about the most morally indefensible reason that anybody could have for doing anything."

But tonight Ms Lewinsky says in an ITV News interview: "I don't accept that he had to completely desecrate my character, which not only affected me but my family, my friends and my future.

"[It makes] me so angry when I think about how adamant I was early on in the investigation that, no, the responsibility was equal and it was two people.

"I just think ... 'Can't you just step up and correct the things that you did that were wrong?' How hard is that?"

Ms Lewinsky, now 30 and working as a handbag designer in New York, added: "It has been so difficult because of so many of the lies he has told about me."

Monica Lewinsky: My Side Of The Story will be broadcast on ITV News at 6.30pm tonight and at 11pm on ITV1.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: lewinsky; monica; mylies; mylife; scandal; sideshowbill
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For those who are interested, you may be able to see it at ITV at 1:30 PM EST.

I personally think I've heard enough from her in just this article.

Regards, Ivan


1 posted on 06/25/2004 6:08:00 AM PDT by MadIvan
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To: lainde; Denver Ditdat; Judith Anne; Desdemona; alnick; knews_hound; faithincowboys; ...

Ping!


2 posted on 06/25/2004 6:08:45 AM PDT by MadIvan (Ronald Reagan - proof positive that one man can change the world.)
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To: MadIvan

BTTT


3 posted on 06/25/2004 6:10:07 AM PDT by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: MadIvan

Give that woman a cigar. Hmmmm!


4 posted on 06/25/2004 6:11:07 AM PDT by Piquaboy
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To: Piquaboy
Give that woman a cigar. Hmmmm!

Somehow I doubt she'd accept. ;)

Regards, Ivan

5 posted on 06/25/2004 6:12:08 AM PDT by MadIvan (Ronald Reagan - proof positive that one man can change the world.)
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To: MadIvan

I don't mean to downplay the odiousness of Slick Willie at al, but she sure does whine a lot for somebody who went to a married man's office to show him her underwear.


6 posted on 06/25/2004 6:14:38 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Pre-empt the third murder attempt: Pray for Terri Schindler-Schiavo!)
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To: Mr. Silverback
I entirely agree. She is not squeaky clean herself. Though in her defence she is not as odious as Washingtonienne (whom Clinton surely regrets not having the opportunity to hire).

Regards, Ivan

7 posted on 06/25/2004 6:17:56 AM PDT by MadIvan (Ronald Reagan - proof positive that one man can change the world.)
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To: Mr. Silverback

Yeah, I amm trying to figure out what her beef it. Did she want him to say that he did it because she was such a wonderful person, that the force of her personality and character blew him away into true love? Maybe she is just angry that she could have been anyone. Is that her beef?


8 posted on 06/25/2004 6:18:33 AM PDT by Swamp path
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To: MadIvan
What a missed chance for a unforgettable headline:

"Lewinsky bites back at Clinton"

9 posted on 06/25/2004 6:18:49 AM PDT by brbethke
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To: MadIvan
Ken Starr Got It Right! Bill Clinton Lied Under Oath!

CNN) -- In his new memoir, former U.S. President Bill Clinton says his "inappropriate" encounters with Monica Lewinsky began when she claimed they did, during the government shutdown in November 1995.

That account contradicts his August 1998 testimony before a federal grand jury that investigated the case.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/22/clinton.lewinsky/index.html

10 posted on 06/25/2004 6:20:04 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Swamp path

"Yeah, I amm trying to figure out what her beef it (sic)"

Her beef is this, she was a young woman, albeit a loose one, who really thought that the leader of the free world was interested in her for something other than playing hide the cigar and pleasuring him orally. Clinton could have said he was wrong to lead on an impressionable young woman and was sorry that her character (what was left of it) was destroyed.


11 posted on 06/25/2004 6:23:49 AM PDT by AngieGOP (I never met a woman who became a stripper because she played with Barbie dolls as a kid)
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To: Swamp path

Yes. Clinton gave her Walt Whitman's leaves of grass.


Maybe Lewinski is finally seeing him for what he is.


12 posted on 06/25/2004 6:25:17 AM PDT by fooman (Get real with Kim Jung Mentally Ill about proliferation)
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To: MadIvan
Lewinsky hits back at Clinton

Dear God, they're exchanging blows again.

13 posted on 06/25/2004 6:25:41 AM PDT by martin_fierro (KAKKATE KOI!)
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To: AngieGOP

If Monica wanted to get even, she could publish another book on the affair or at least an article to contradict these lies.


14 posted on 06/25/2004 6:26:41 AM PDT by fooman (Get real with Kim Jung Mentally Ill about proliferation)
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To: Swamp path
Monica ought to be suing Blumenthal for describing her as a stalker.

No doubt it was hitlery who sent him out to do that bit of dirty work.

15 posted on 06/25/2004 6:29:12 AM PDT by OldFriend (IF YOU CAN READ THIS, THANK A TEACHER.......AND SINCE IT'S IN ENGLISH, THANK A SOLDIER)
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To: MadIvan
"I just think ...(NO YOU DON'T) 'Can't you just step up and correct the things that you did that were wrong?' How hard is that?"

Bill Clinton? She's GOT TO BE KIDDING!

16 posted on 06/25/2004 6:32:36 AM PDT by Valin (What part of "You don't understand anything" don't you understand?)
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To: Valin

Monica discovers why character counts, film at 11.


17 posted on 06/25/2004 6:35:08 AM PDT by fooman (Get real with Kim Jung Mentally Ill about proliferation)
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To: fooman

"If Monica wanted to get even, she could publish another book on the affair or at least an article to contradict these lies."

Does anyone actually believe she would be safe after telling the WHOLE truth? I wouldn't be so sure.


18 posted on 06/25/2004 6:35:45 AM PDT by AngieGOP (I never met a woman who became a stripper because she played with Barbie dolls as a kid)
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To: Valin

Another sucker bites the dust.


19 posted on 06/25/2004 6:37:43 AM PDT by chris1 ("Make the other guy die for his country" - Gen. George S. Patton)
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To: MadIvan
'Can't you just step up and correct the things that you did that were wrong?' How hard is that?

Perhaps an infelicitous choice of words.

20 posted on 06/25/2004 6:38:37 AM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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