This is how the Washington Post started the Obit:
“Lucianne Goldberg, a New York literary agent and conservative provocateur who took on a Machiavelli-style role in the 1998 impeachment of President Bill Clinton by encouraging a former White House aide to secretly tape Monica Lewinsky discussing her affair with the president, died Oct. 26 at her home in Weehawken, N.J. She was 87.”
No, that’s not the summary of her life, nor is it the essence of her. Mrs. Goldberg was an entrepreneur, a radio host, an author, famously witty, a bona fide internet pioneer, a dragon lady if you like, and her historic role was in demonstrating that the establishment media were rotten to the core and the public was moving toward alternate news sources, such as what was then the Drudge Report. When the story came out about how Newsweek suppressed its own scoop about Clinton’s doings, that was a revelation about the media that had its ties to Mrs. Goldberg’s courageous act.
She also was a career woman of great accomplishments, who went from newsroom errand girl at the various Washington newspaper outlets, and part-time political operative during the Johnson and Nixon administration years, to a famed literary agent who built her own successful business, and then went on to be a popular radio host and internet pioneer through her still-popular website, Lucianne.com.
“Lucianne Goldberg, a New York literary agent and conservative provocateur who took on a Machiavelli-style role in the 1998 impeachment of President Bill Clinton by encouraging a former White House aide to secretly tape Monica Lewinsky discussing her affair with the president, died Oct. 26 at her home in Weehawken, N.J. She was 87.”
She deserves credit for that.
I think that is the major event in her life. It’s the only reason she’s a public figure.
She also copied Free Republic to make a competing web site.