I always thought that Monica was paid well to tempt Clinton.

[appleannie1]

I wonder how much she is being paid this go around? Why else would she crawl out from under her rock after all these years?

[Orrex]

1. This will go better if we can work the words "harlot" and "slattern" into the narrative.

[Nye Bevan]

6. And "brazen hussy". (nt)

[Orrex]

7. The brazen hussies are always the worst.

[misterhighwasted]

2. She'll grift as much as she can & rapidly fade into the relevant news dust bin.

She's already becoming old news after only 1 day.
Well, except for Joe Scar.

[Throd]

3. "Under her rock"?

[Shrike47]

4. It all seemed just the way things happen to me.

Conspiracies are pretty difficult to keep hidden over time; people talk.

[Enrique]

5. how can I say this without sounding harsh?

but I think this is a useless thing to discuss.

[chrisa]

8. I don't think so. Regardless, he was the master of his own demise politically.

He should have known better and controlled himself, regardless of Lewinski's intentions.

[MoonRiver]

11. What demise?

[WinkyDink]

35. Demise?! Why? Because he didn't have a third term? Because his wife might be President?!

[YarnAddict]

9. It is well-known that her family are big Dem supporters

which is how she got her WH internship in the first place. Also, her father is (or was?) a Beverly Hills doctor. Money didn't mean that much to her because she had always had plenty of it.

[giftedgirl77]

10. Who gives a shit that she gave a blowjob to Clinton?

Shit, I thought this was complete bullshit when it happened the first time & I was about 15 or 16. My dad & I used to get into arguments because he would badger my grandmother over what a terrible president she voted for over a damn blowjob.

Get over it & stop implying that she's a whore for doing it. Opportunistic maybe, whore unacceptable.

[Orrex]

14. Wait! She did what?!?

When did this happen?!?!?

[giftedgirl77]

17. Yeah I said it.

[snooper2]

19. She just blew on it?

That's not a big deal, I thought they did more than that LOL

[woolldog]

12. Honestly,

If you were going to pay someone to seduce a President would you pick her? No. You would've picked someone a lot better looking.

[Marshall III]

13. Your spin is maddening.

President Clinton behaved like a pig. Despite being president "in the people's house", he was married, her boss, and twice her age. He humiliated himself, her, his family, his supporters and this country.

Any time a relationship takes place between a boss and subservient, the boss is absolutely wrong- every time!!!!!

Not to say that Monica is or was faultless, but Clinton could have and should have avoided the affair.

All that said, her "kiss and tell" attempt to jump in to the limelight is ugly and wrong, but expected and the price of doing this sort of business.

Best to take the lumps and let it pass, but there is no conspiracy theory or rationalization that makes any of it any better.

[karynnj]

15. She was the step daughter of a major Democratic donor

I seriously doubt that anyone paid her to do anything. My own take was why did she (or anyone) think that doing something like flashing the President would not lead to being quickly and quietly shown the door for inappropriate behavior.

This is a case where no one other than Bill Clinton is responsible for the harm to his reputation and the hurt to his family and the Democratic party.

As to someone on the right paying Monica now - I doubt it. She is just continuing to seek attention and likely hopes to get money or a position out of this. To this point, Monica destroyed her own life through her actions. As a 19 year old, her likely future was that she would marry and live the life of privilege she was born to. It is sad that at 40, she is still trying to make something of her own (as well as the President's) poor taste. This is like a faded groupie still trying to trade on the biggest moment of her life.

I suspect that if it were the right, they would wait until maybe June 2016 - maybe sending her out for a book tour that summer before the Democratic convention. Imagine the lead up to the convention being filled with discussions that seemed like they were right out of 1998 when Bill Clinton confessed. (or August 2000 the weekend before a Democratic convention when there was a major TV confessional by the president or hearing in many interviews in June 2004 that Monica happened "because I could". ) Having it all come out again now, means it likely will not come out then.

[Orsino]

16. Ken Starr wouldn't have had to kidnap her if she were a paid agent. n/t

[randome]

18. Men cannot BE tempted. They sometimes ARE tempted but that's on them.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]The truth doesn’t always set you free.
Sometimes it builds a bigger cage around the one you’re already in.[/center][/font][hr]

[Nye Bevan]

20. Even by a "temptress"? (nt)

[randome]

24. A 'temptress' isn't responsible for someone's reaction.

The person without self-control is responsible. (Can't believe I entered a Monica Lewinsky thread. What was I thinking?)
[hr][font color="blue"][center]The truth doesn’t always set you free.
Sometimes it builds a bigger cage around the one you’re already in.[/center][/font][hr]

[Orrex]

22. That's a... novel interpretation of the word.

[randome]

23. 'Be' implies something being done TO you. In this context. I think.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]The truth doesn’t always set you free.
Sometimes it builds a bigger cage around the one you’re already in.[/center][/font][hr]

[Orrex]

31. Maybe, but...

It depends whether we're treating "tempted" as a verb or an adjective, and it depends also on who is assumed to have agency in the transaction.

Sort of like:
Randome was offended by Orrex's ribald limericks

versus

Orrex's ribald limericks offended randome.

Who's at the reins?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

21. And, poor, helpless, Bill wasn't strong enough to resist evil temptation by the Devil Girl.

[joeybee12]

25. I'm a fan of Bill, but even I don't think anyone had to be paid

to tempt him...

[SummerSnow]

26. signed sealed and delivered

I smell Koch brothers money.

[NCTraveler]

27. Huge Clinton fan here...

and even I am not blind enough to think she was paid or promised anything beforehand. She was living her dream. We are talking the Big Dog. No temptation needed. If it wasn't Monica, it would have been someone else. May have been.

Edit to add: Where do you get your info from. Assumptions can be drawn from what happened. Your assumptions seem to be based off something that is unknown. Many make assumptions based off of known details. Your assumption seems to be in conflict with the actual events.

[Nye Bevan]

29. No, I am certain that this was the only time he ever, ever strayed from his marriage vows.

Yes siree.

OK, sarcasm aside, yes, both JFK and he were serial adulterers. But really, who cares? They were both good presidents and I would infinitely prefer to have either of these men as president than someone like W who (AFAIK) never strayed from the marital bed.

[madokie]

28. I'll always believe that

the pukes were on a witch hunt and all they were getting for their troubles was a big ass bill so they had to do something for show.

[moriah]

30. I don't believe some of the shit I'm seeing.

No one is willing to put responsibility where it belongs -- on both their shoulders, equally.

Now she's got to either be an innocent victim or not just a "slut" but a whore as well? Because that's what you're saying, that she was paid for sex. Along with suggesting that a man can't think beyond his penis, but I'm sure others will mention that.

She's not a slut, whore, temptress, child, or victim of anything except possibly the media. She was a grown woman who was fully capable of making her own decisions, and happened to make a bad one that's haunted her the rest of her life. And that bad decision was NOT to give a man a blowjob -- it was to give a *married* man a blowjob.

[Riftaxe]

32. You think she was a hooker?

that is pretty fucking low even for DU.

[otohara]

33. So She's A Prostitute

I thought she was an Intern

More slut shaming OP

[WinkyDink]

34. Not then, but now? I'd bet on it.