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| Subject: How Monica Lewinsky turned the tables on the Clintons Sat Nov 17, 2018 8:12 pm | |
| Twenty years ago, Monica Lewinsky was a punchline. Now, in the era of #MeToo and Time’s Up, she leaves people speechless. “She is a hero to young millennial women,” said a source close to Lewinsky. “I have one woman who works in my office who, when she met Monica, was practically in tears.”
After years of trying to distance herself from the image of the 22-year-old intern with the stained dress, Lewinsky is finally facing her past head-on. And she has Bill and Hillary Clinton, and their gritted-teeth refusal to shrink from the spotlight, to thank for it. “Now she’s feeling, like, ‘Wait a second. Why is the calendar and cycle of my life dictated by the cycles of the Clintons’ lives?’” David Friend, Lewinsky’s editor at Vanity Fair, told The Post. In an essay for that magazine published on Tuesday, Lewinsky, 45, proclaimed that “Bill Clinton should want to apologize” to her for the affair she now realizes was a gross abuse of power. She also ridiculed the former president’s smug response to broadcaster Dan Rather’s question in 2004, about why Clinton had relations with Lewinsky. “His reason: ‘Because I could.’ (And, yes, that’s a direct quote),” she wrote. In a March column for Vanity Fair, Lewinsky admitted that she had been naive when, in 2014, she publicly defined the relationship as “consensual.” “He was my boss,” she wrote of Clinton. “He was the most powerful man on the planet … He was, at the time, at the pinnacle of his career, while I was in my first job out of college.”
https://nypost.com/2018/11/17/monica-lewinskys-journey-from-pariah-to-patron-saint/ |
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