Bill Clinton was no stranger to scandal
and you don’t get to be president
without being tough but nothing could
have prepared Monica Lewinsky for the
firestorm now engulfing her to be in the
vortex of this media Maelstrom was quite
alarming and frightening it was in
confusing I think a lot too had to do
with the fact that I was a woman to be
called stupid and a and a bimbo and
ditzy and to be taken out of context it
was excruciating details of every aspect
of Lewinsky’s affair from showing the
president her fawn to gifts for him are
now a matter of public record
the public decides what it wants to view
and we are always entertained most by
our own interactions in life the
presidency itself had become the
Entertainer in chief and and it made it
a better story and it made him a more
exciting character to be a guy who fool
around with an intern in the Oval Office
while the public enjoys the presidential
soap opera Kenneth Starr finally gets
his man to at least talk Baga 17 1998
William Jefferson Clinton testifies in
front of a grand jury via secure video
link from the White House as a lawyer
himself what follows is a masterclass in
legal hair-splitting it depends upon
what the meaning of the word is yeah
despite overwhelming forensic evidence
and staff eyewitness testimony the
president has got a story and he’s gonna
stick to it what he said was the lied by
the mountains of evidence that we had on
the other side but the president was
continuing to deny that he had had this
sexual relationship with Miss Lewinsky
and it’s not believable
I think only narrowly survived his
interrogation that night the president
addresses the nation five seconds this
afternoon in this room I testified
before the office of Independent Counsel
and the grand jury indeed I did have a
relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was
not appropriate in fact it was wrong it
constituted a critical lapse in judgment
and a personal failure on my part for
which I am solely and completely
responsible
and you don’t get to be president
without being tough but nothing could
have prepared Monica Lewinsky for the
firestorm now engulfing her to be in the
vortex of this media Maelstrom was quite
alarming and frightening it was in
confusing I think a lot too had to do
with the fact that I was a woman to be
called stupid and a and a bimbo and
ditzy and to be taken out of context it
was excruciating details of every aspect
of Lewinsky’s affair from showing the
president her fawn to gifts for him are
now a matter of public record
the public decides what it wants to view
and we are always entertained most by
our own interactions in life the
presidency itself had become the
Entertainer in chief and and it made it
a better story and it made him a more
exciting character to be a guy who fool
around with an intern in the Oval Office
while the public enjoys the presidential
soap opera Kenneth Starr finally gets
his man to at least talk Baga 17 1998
William Jefferson Clinton testifies in
front of a grand jury via secure video
link from the White House as a lawyer
himself what follows is a masterclass in
legal hair-splitting it depends upon
what the meaning of the word is yeah
despite overwhelming forensic evidence
and staff eyewitness testimony the
president has got a story and he’s gonna
stick to it what he said was the lied by
the mountains of evidence that we had on
the other side but the president was
continuing to deny that he had had this
sexual relationship with Miss Lewinsky
and it’s not believable
I think only narrowly survived his
interrogation that night the president
addresses the nation five seconds this
afternoon in this room I testified
before the office of Independent Counsel
and the grand jury indeed I did have a
relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was
not appropriate in fact it was wrong it
constituted a critical lapse in judgment
and a personal failure on my part for
which I am solely and completely
responsible
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