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News & ArtsThursday, September 13, 2012
2012 / Books Poor Old Monica Lewinsky Wants to Tell You a Story
Posted by Paul Constant on Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 2:51 PM
I feel so sorry for Monica Lewinsky. This poor young woman—she was so young!—basically renders herself unemployable for her entire life by making her name synonymous with illicit blowjobs and a disastrous money shot. So I don't begrudge her for taking this leap:
Monica Lewinsky is shopping a top-secret book project, Page Six has exclusively learned. We’re told Lewinsky has been making the rounds with major publishers, who were all asked to sign nondisclosure agreements to take the meetings. It’s unclear who the front-runners are, but, says an insider familiar with the project, “I’m sure every major publisher was interested in hearing what she had to say.”
At least this will make Lewinsky some money. But even then, people will just pick the book up in bookstores, flip through to the sex scenes, and then set the book back down, unpurchased. Poor, poor Monica Lewinsky.
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Is it the story of a French court finding a man guilty of piracy because his wife used his internet connection to copy two Rihanna songs?
Cause i'd read that. Just let me find my pirate hat.
Cause i'd read that. Just let me find my pirate hat.
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If I were her I'd change my name. Whatever sentimental value it may have is vastly outweighed by its negative economic value. She desperately needs a clean slate and a name change is the only way to get it.
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For me, she lost the "poor" modifier once she started blabbing to Linda Tripp. Who tells someone you work with, "Hey, I'm blowing the President!"? If you're over 14, that is.
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@5 - In this day and age, it'd be damn near impossible to change your name like that. Soon as she files the paperwork, she'd be all over the "news" for trying to change her name.
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I agree with @5,
Neither she nor the former president used very good judgment. I put a little more blame on the pres... he's an incredibly smart guy and should have forseen the potential consequences better, that, and he was obviously in a position of power over an intern... still, they both made poor decisions. But she needs a chance to move on to better pastures.
Neither she nor the former president used very good judgment. I put a little more blame on the pres... he's an incredibly smart guy and should have forseen the potential consequences better, that, and he was obviously in a position of power over an intern... still, they both made poor decisions. But she needs a chance to move on to better pastures.
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Assuming #8's right and the sleezeball tabloids scan those records regularly for anyone/anything of note, maybe a semi-permanent move out of the country is in order. Australia perhaps, or at least an English speaking country in western Europe would HAVE to be a step up. Wouldn't entirely solve her problems and would surely suck to have to fly back to see your family, but might be worth it.
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@6
If you're someone who talks to friends about your sex life, you'd probably talk about blowing anyone, president or not. And I don't mean this in a snarky way--I kind of tried to avoid reading about it, but from my recollection, I don't think she was going around bragging to everyone about it--just telling someone whom she shouldn't have trusted. If anything, I'd fault her for messing around with someone she knew to be a married man.
If you're someone who talks to friends about your sex life, you'd probably talk about blowing anyone, president or not. And I don't mean this in a snarky way--I kind of tried to avoid reading about it, but from my recollection, I don't think she was going around bragging to everyone about it--just telling someone whom she shouldn't have trusted. If anything, I'd fault her for messing around with someone she knew to be a married man.
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This is a plan from the Romney campaign to discredit Bill Clinton's speech at the DNC by reminding blowjobphobic Americans of how EEEEVIL Clinton was. Ken Starr is lurking somewhere.
Wait, after all of that, Clinton was more popular due to the public not giving a shit? Maybe it's the Obama campaign doing this, to reinforce Bill-as-Victim sympathy, and . . . to remind Americans that Hilary put up with this shit, to make sure that. . . Valerie Jarrett or Ellen Warren will be the next/first woman POTUS.
OK, I'll stop now.
Wait, after all of that, Clinton was more popular due to the public not giving a shit? Maybe it's the Obama campaign doing this, to reinforce Bill-as-Victim sympathy, and . . . to remind Americans that Hilary put up with this shit, to make sure that. . . Valerie Jarrett or Ellen Warren will be the next/first woman POTUS.
OK, I'll stop now.
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The worst part is that she was just a decade or so early. If she'd given the president a hummer during the past few years, she'd have her own reality show.
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Give her a reality show, she has to be more interesting than a Kardashian. At least she's done something we all remember.
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@17
Not really but she does have name recognition.
Bill Clinton should call in a favor or two and have the witness protection people help her out with a new name, social security number and background.
Dude, it's the least you can do. Toss in a bit of cosmetic surgery and let her get on with her life.
Not really but she does have name recognition.
Bill Clinton should call in a favor or two and have the witness protection people help her out with a new name, social security number and background.
Dude, it's the least you can do. Toss in a bit of cosmetic surgery and let her get on with her life.
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Poor, poor Monica will have pocketed a multi-million dollar advance, so only the publishing house need worry about how well the book sells.
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@6: A 22-year-old who's confiding in someone who she believes has her best interests at heart? It's not unreasonable that a young intern might look to an older woman in her office for advice about her situation.
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