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In reply to the discussion: No, Monica, you (& Bill) were not alone. I & we were there, too, "#MeToo" as it were [View all]csziggy
(34,136 posts)20. Wasn't her 'friend' Linda Tripp, whose agent was a Republican operative?
Lucianne Goldberg
In 1970, Goldberg and her friend Jeannie Sakol founded an organization called the "Pussycat League" to oppose the women's liberation movement,[11] and in 1971 she and Sakol published Purr Baby Purr, a critique of feminism.[13][14]
During the 1972 presidential campaign, she joined the press corps covering Democratic candidate George McGovern claiming to be a reporter for the Women's News Service, though she was on leave of absence from that position.[12] In fact Goldberg was being paid $1000 a week $5850 in todays dollars to spy on McGovern and those traveling with him on the campaigns planes.[11][12] When recruited, she was told U.S. President Nixon himself had approved the spying, which was to include traditional political intelligence and information on personal habits: "'They were looking for really dirty stuff,' [she] said. 'Who was sleeping with whom, what the secret service men were doing with the stewardesses, who was smoking pot on the plane that sort of thing. I was told to send it all along.'"[12] Goldberg's role as a reporter-spy came to light in the Watergate hearings that led to the resignation of Nixon.
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In the early 1990s Goldberg promoted a conspiracy theory book about the suicide death of Clinton White House aide, Vincent Foster, and several books dealing with Clinton's purported sexual infidelities including one by Arkansas State Troopers who alleged they had procured women to have sex with then-Governor Clinton.[5][19][20] None of the Clinton-themed books were ever published.[5][19] Goldberg was also the agent for former detective Mark Fuhrman's bestselling account of the O.J. Simpson trial, Murder in Brentwood.
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Goldberg met Linda Tripp in 1993 or 1994 while working on the proposal for the book on the death of Clinton aide Vince Foster.[5][19] The two women became friends, and in 1997 Goldberg advised Tripp to secretly record former White House intern, Monica Lewinsky, talking about her sexual relationship with President Bill Clinton.[8] Goldberg mistakenly advised Tripp that it was legal to record phone conversations in Maryland without the consent of the other party.[21]
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucianne_Goldberg
In 1970, Goldberg and her friend Jeannie Sakol founded an organization called the "Pussycat League" to oppose the women's liberation movement,[11] and in 1971 she and Sakol published Purr Baby Purr, a critique of feminism.[13][14]
During the 1972 presidential campaign, she joined the press corps covering Democratic candidate George McGovern claiming to be a reporter for the Women's News Service, though she was on leave of absence from that position.[12] In fact Goldberg was being paid $1000 a week $5850 in todays dollars to spy on McGovern and those traveling with him on the campaigns planes.[11][12] When recruited, she was told U.S. President Nixon himself had approved the spying, which was to include traditional political intelligence and information on personal habits: "'They were looking for really dirty stuff,' [she] said. 'Who was sleeping with whom, what the secret service men were doing with the stewardesses, who was smoking pot on the plane that sort of thing. I was told to send it all along.'"[12] Goldberg's role as a reporter-spy came to light in the Watergate hearings that led to the resignation of Nixon.
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In the early 1990s Goldberg promoted a conspiracy theory book about the suicide death of Clinton White House aide, Vincent Foster, and several books dealing with Clinton's purported sexual infidelities including one by Arkansas State Troopers who alleged they had procured women to have sex with then-Governor Clinton.[5][19][20] None of the Clinton-themed books were ever published.[5][19] Goldberg was also the agent for former detective Mark Fuhrman's bestselling account of the O.J. Simpson trial, Murder in Brentwood.
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Goldberg met Linda Tripp in 1993 or 1994 while working on the proposal for the book on the death of Clinton aide Vince Foster.[5][19] The two women became friends, and in 1997 Goldberg advised Tripp to secretly record former White House intern, Monica Lewinsky, talking about her sexual relationship with President Bill Clinton.[8] Goldberg mistakenly advised Tripp that it was legal to record phone conversations in Maryland without the consent of the other party.[21]
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucianne_Goldberg
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No, Monica, you (& Bill) were not alone. I & we were there, too, "#MeToo" as it were [View all]
UTUSN
Feb 2018
OP
Thank you, but I fully expect to be lambasted. & I still have CLINTON-KAINE bumpersticker on my car.
UTUSN
Feb 2018
#2
Didn't she once remark that she expected Bill to divorce Hillary and marry her?
3Hotdogs
Feb 2018
#3
The only person who mistreated her was the prosecutor who threatened her with 27 years in prison
pnwmom
Feb 2018
#9
The concept of inbalances of power did exist -- and most corporations had personal guidelines even
karynnj
Feb 2018
#24
They had sex...it was a bad decision for both of them...but hardly rape. She was an unpaid intern.
Demsrule86
Feb 2018
#13
At no point does Lewinsky even hint at equating her sexual experience with rape.
PdxSean
Feb 2018
#22
She wasn't an employee...and in some business such relationships are forbidden and are
Demsrule86
Feb 2018
#30
So she's equating it to sexual harassment -- even though she was the initiator. The power imbalance
pnwmom
Feb 2018
#34
Bill Clinton was impeached for your information. Lewinsky has as much credibility to speak to the
still_one
Feb 2018
#52
I made clear my "slut shaming" was equally bestowed on Bill. Both oblivious to OUR well being.
UTUSN
Feb 2018
#18
Truthfully saying that a woman initiated a sexual encounter is NOT slut shaming.
pnwmom
Feb 2018
#38
Monica had a relationship with a married man before she set her sights on Clinton.
betsuni
Feb 2018
#14
I agree. I would add that Clinton was the most powerful man in the world and could have refused
CTyankee
Feb 2018
#21
She did ask for it. In her interviews she said repeatedly that she was the one who initiated it.
pnwmom
Feb 2018
#31
She told friends she was going to have sex with Clinton before she started her job
RhodeIslandOne
Feb 2018
#45
"don't have to carry (Bill's ) water" - nailed, or anybody's who's a selfish f-up!1
UTUSN
Feb 2018
#51