Posted on 06/09/2003 8:51:21 AM PDT by fishtank
WHY WHY WHY???
Why does everybody forget that the ONLY reason we EVER heard about Monica Lewinscky is because Clinton was being sued for s. harrassment?
You make an excellent point. The left has done a good job of painting the Clinton's as victims when he was, as usual, the victimizer and she was the enabler. We should always point that out, especially when people say it was simply a private matter about his private sex life. No, it was about his crude sexual harrassment of a state employee when he was governor. As you say, other than that it would be Monica who?
Great point. Another point which must not be forgotten is that Hillary and Bill were instrumental in getting sexual harassment in the workplace to be a federal tort.
I think Clinton signed into law the right which let plantiff Ms. Jones investigate his sexual history.
Agreed! This is one of my pet peeves! And I remind people of it EVERY TIME I hear the dismissive claims of the Socialists that "Clinton was impeached because he had sex with Monica Lewinsky."
In fact, I think the last time I corrected somebody on this was this past Saturday afternoon, as we stood at a table conducting a straw poll in our town during a local annual festival. (BTW, we also had on-hand a poster on a stake of Saddam and offered passersby "free whacks at Saddam" with the bottom of a shoe we provided. "Whack Saddam," BTW, was a HUGE success!)
But the real and very serious answer to your question is that people "have forgotten" because that is precisely what the majority of those in the the major media wanted to happen. They knew well that if they repeated, ad nauseum, that "Klinton was impeached because of sex" and that "The Klinton impeachment was political," the real reasons (Paula Jones/Obstruction, etc.) would, for the most part, be swept away and forgotten .
Agreed! This is one of my pet peeves! And I remind people of it EVERY TIME I hear the dismissive claims of the Socialists that "Clinton was impeached because he had sex with Monica Lewinsky."
In fact, I think the last time I corrected somebody on this was this past Saturday afternoon, as we stood at a table conducting a straw poll in our town during a local annual festival. (BTW, we also had on-hand a poster on a stake of Saddam and offered passersby "free whacks at Saddam" with the bottom of a shoe we provided. "Whack Saddam," BTW, was a HUGE success!)
But the real and very serious answer to your question is that people "have forgotten" because that is precisely what the majority of those in the the major media wanted to happen. They knew well that if they repeated, ad nauseum, that "Klinton was impeached because of sex" and that "The Klinton impeachment was political," the real reasons (Paula Jones/Obstruction, etc.) would, for the most part, be swept away and forgotten .
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