Isn’t it just amazing how it’s been 20 years since Bill Clinton got a blow-job from Monica Lewinsky? Clinton went on to stain the blue dress and the rest is history. The story about the sticky Clinton-Lewinsky sex affair wasn’t broken until Drudge Report did two years later in 1998. Today, Monica Lewinsky is still hurting from Bill Clinton and the media throwing her under the bus to protect the Democrat. She’s still the target of insults and slurs by progressives all over the place.
| Monica Lewinsky talks about sticky things and Bill Clinton |
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“That people could read the transcripts was horrific enough,” Lewinsky said in her TED talk, “but a few weeks later the audio tapes [the telephone calls Tripp secretly recorded] were aired on TV, and significant portions made available online. The public humiliation was excruciating. Life was almost unbearable.”
“I felt like every layer of my skin and my identity were ripped off of me in ’98 and ’99,” she tells me now. “It’s a skinning of sorts. You feel incredibly raw and frightened. But I also feel like the shame sticks to you like tar.”
She never attempted suicide, she says, “but I came very close”.
“You worked out how you’d do it?” I ask.
“Yes,” she says. “I think some young people don’t see suicide as an ending, but as a reset.”