Seems like when such parameters are important to a person in a situation like this, theyâd get a written agreement ahead of time. The reporter might not be legally bound to keep certain subjects off limits, but it might help prevent misunderstandings.
Kudos to Ms. Lewinsky for handling this in the proper manner.
Sheâs campaigning against bullying and showed how to react properly.
Lewinsky says her relationship with Clinton âconstituted a gross abuse of power.â
I call BS on that.
From the Starr report"
âAt one point, Ms. Lewinsky and the President talked alone in the Chief of Staffâs office. In the course of flirting with him, she raised her jacket in the back and showed him the straps of her thong underwear, which extended above her pants.â
âEn route to the restroom at about 8 p.m., she passed George Stephanopoulosâs office. The President was inside alone, and he beckoned her to enter.(151) She told him that she had a crush on him.â
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/icreport/6narritii.htm
Thatâs like giving a bottle of booze to an alcoholic.
Lewinsky is the one who abused her power.
Monica Lewinsky totally did the right thing by walking off stage from that interview in which the interviewer broke an agreed upon off limit line of questioning. What do you expect from a Far Right News outlet.
Unless itâs drawn up well in advance, and lawyers from both sides have time to vet the questions, it wouldnât really prevent anything. The whole âwhen we met the day priorâ seems to indicate there wasnât really a lot of time for written agreements.
From what I read Ms Lewinsky had already been asked the question before the interview, and she had objected to it, because it wasnât relevant for her speech about Bullying, That the interviewer asked again, on stage, was insulting and Lewinsky did the right thing.
Lewinski looks to be relevant, but asking her a question on the topic of that which makes her relevant at all, is out of boundsâŚriiiiightâŚmkayâŚ
Oh please, sheâd be a second rate secretary somewhere in DC and not up on a stage if it werenât Clinton. Deal with it.
If they only wanted her on stage to ask that question, and she told them beforehand not to ask it, they were perfectly within their rights to uninvite her and take the flak. But they apparently wanted it both ways.
Also, the question is effing stupid. Itâs a have-you-stopped-beating-your-spouse question, only asked to the (metaphorical) spouse.
Thumbs down on that.
The person you are setting up as the helpless victim was the President of the United States, a married man in his late-40s.
The Muslim theocracies use your line of thinking to justify a lot of their cruel restrictions on women.
Lewinsky is the one who abused her power.
Yeah, hard pass on that smokinâ hot take. The nicest thing I can say about the idea that an unpaid 24-year-old intern had the upper hand in a power imbalance with the President of the United States (back when that used to mean something) is that itâs thoroughly idiotic.
Iâm giving this one to that woman, Ms Lewinsky. She said Donât. The reporter Did. They probably didnât expect a walkoff. They miscalculated. When you think about it, Ms Lewinsky and Pres & Mrs Clinton have been the ones acting like sane grownups about this.
There was no victim in that scandal. There was a conniving young lady ( the one that made the knee pads joke before she went to DC ) and a lecherous older man. What they did was consensual and by Monikaâs own words planed.
For those trying to adopt the GOP phony baloney âshe was a victim of abuse of powerâ thatâs bullshit. Why did she keep the blue dress and not have it laundered? Why did she spill her guts to a known right wing hit lady more than twice her age in a bar? What 23 year goes out partying with 60 year olds? She got at least 1.5 million in a book deal and possibly as much as 12 million. If she wanted to avoid what happened all she had to do was shut up. Instead she went though every lurid detail with Ken Starr( and Kavanaugh ). No one made her do that. It was part of the plan. Sheâs made a living being âthe victimâ. And a damn good one.
Monica Lewinsky did the right thing in this situation. She has every right to stand up for herself. Her tweet was concise and helpful in understanding her point of view.
No one said Clinton was a helpless victim. He was a hound and Monika knew that. Lets cut the crap with that mess. Monika knew what she was doing and so did Clinton. There was no victim in it. They were both just gross.
Agree to talk about forum on bullying only to get bullied from the start. There is no way they didnât know what they were doing and they did not expect her to walk off. They felt they had her trapped and she proved otherwise. Thatâs an appropriate response to being bullied.
Iâm sorry â what actually is a second rate secretary â do you mean â woman?
Leave Monica aloooooooone. Seriously, why is this still news?
Monica Lewinsky said Tuesday that she stormed offstage at a Jerusalem
speaking event because of an interviewerâs âoff limitsâ question about
former President Bill Clinton.
âŚLewinsky responded: âIâm so sorry. Iâm not going to be able to do this.âShe then put down her microphone and walked offstage.
Sorry, this might be nitpicky, but Iâm confused. Did she âstormâ offstage? Did she actually describe it that way? Because ââIâm so sorry. Iâm not going to be able to do this.âShe then put down her microphone and walked offstageâ doesnât really sound like storming.
If she really did, fine. If not, then maybe Aron can just cut to the chase and falsely claim she had a hissy fit because it was her time of the month or something like that.