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Monica Lewinsky mad at Clinton memoirs

He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.

Monica Lewinsky has been talking it up in the United Kingdom about Bill Clinton’s memoirs. (It’s not clear why the British press are taking the lead on an American story.) The quote above is from an Associated Press article about her interview with the Daily Mail. She also told the Daily Mail the following:

I really didn't expect him to go into detail about our relationship.

But if he had and he'd done it honestly, I wouldn't have minded. ... I did though at least expect him to correct the false statements he made when he was trying to protect the presidency. Instead, he talked about it as though I had laid it all out there for the taking. I was the buffet and he just couldn't resist the dessert.

That's not how it was. This was a mutual relationship, mutual on all levels, right from the way it started and all the way through. ... I don't accept that he had to completely desecrate my character.

Reuters reports that Monica Lewinsky also did a television interview that will appear today on ITV. She had a similar statement in this interview:

I really didn't expect him to talk in detail about the relationship.

But what I was hoping, and did expect was for him to acknowledge and correct the inaccurate and false statements that he, his staff and the (Democratic National Committee) made about me when they were trying to protect the presidency.

Monica Lewinsky is mad that Bill Clinton didn’t acknowledge that they had a mutual relationship. He just calls it an “inappropriate encounter” in his book.

Lewinsky also says, “In the process he destroyed me, and that was the way he was going to have to do that, to get through impeachment,” and she says, “I have spent the past several years working so hard to just move on, and to try and build a life for myself.”

My take on this is the Monica is completely justified in pointing out how Bill Clinton has lied about their relationship in order to make himself look better.

On the other hand, she should stop whining about how the whole thing destroyed her life. In fact, and this is a sad indictment of our popular culture, the incident made her. She designs handbags, she’s a spokesperson for diet company Jenny Craig, and she hosted the reality TV show Mr. Personality. She wouldn’t have done any of these things were it not for Bill Clinton. She’d just be a big nobody. And that’s big in more than one sense of the word.

posted Friday, June 25, 2004

1 Comments:

By blogdisher04:

i think that Bill Clinton should have told the truth about the relationship ,I mean he shouldn't trash her anymore than she did do. He should jsut admit his own faults even though it took two people in the act , it doesn't take only one to make it happen ,right? But i do believe without him she is nothing i mean i doubt she wuld have any offers that she has now or the fame if that didnt happen!

posted at 9/10/2004 10:46 PM