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Monica Lewinsky says she'll never change last name: 'I'm not ashamed'
2014-11-25
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Monica Lewinsky of White House intern fame -- and presidential mistress infamy -- told a reporter that she would never change her last name, no matter how tarnished her reputation. "No one else in the investigation had to change their name," she recently told Porter magazine, the New York Post reported. "Why should I? I use aliases at times to protect my privacy, but I'm not ashamed of who I am."
Let's try this from a different direction: is there anything that could conceivably make her feel ashamed?
In the interview, she said she spent 16 years in hiding after her sexual dalliances with former President Bill Clinton led to his impeachment over lying. And she also seemed to suggest that it was the Internet, rather than her actions, that ruined her reputation and made her post-White House life difficult.
Couldn't possibly have been anything she ate did...
Ms. Lewinsky, 41, is now an advocate against cyber-bullying, and in October at a Forbes Under 30 Summit referred to herself as "Patient zero -- the first person to have their reputation completely destroyed worldwide via the Internet."
It wuz the innernet. It wudn't me.
"For a long time, I didn't realize the implication of simple things, like looking for an apartment," she told Porter. "Now when I fill out a form I have to think, 'Will somebody go to the press with my private information?' I graduated from the London School of Economics with a master's in social psychology. I had been job-hunting with little -- really, no -- success. It was at that point that I began to realize how much damage had been done to my reputation -- what had been taken from me."
Posted by:Fred

#20  LoL - ZF
Posted by: mossomo   2014-11-25 22:23  

#19  Her line of thought is a bit hard to swallow.

HeyOhh!
Posted by: GORT   2014-11-25 20:05  

#18  She had such a sweet pair of knees!
His Willie was hard to appease:
"Relent, cicerone!
My bent pepperoni
Keeps leading me back to the sleaze!"
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2014-11-25 18:08  

#17  The holiday season can panic ya...
Who knows what to give guys for Hannukah?
Bluenoses may quarrel
But few turn down oral
Historical lectures from Monica.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2014-11-25 18:03  

#16  well that's just your opinion, man
Posted by: Frank G   2014-11-25 14:48  

#15  didn't they do a movie.. "The Big Lewinski"? or something ?
Posted by: Mercutio   2014-11-25 12:53  

#14   she looks pretty hot for 41 yo

No one in the bar is ugly at 1:16 AM

Al
Posted by: Frozen Al   2014-11-25 11:59  

#13  ZH, I think you just threw five bullseyes in one round.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2014-11-25 11:23  

#12  I laughed so hard I think I broke something.
Posted by: Gerthudion Slusoting1906   2014-11-25 11:11  

#11  Zenobia, you should be the Poet Laureate of the country, not just of Rantburg. :-D
Posted by: Barbara   2014-11-25 10:07  

#10  Zenobia, I struck speechless.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-11-25 09:09  

#9  Don't mind all her bluesy harmonica --
That woman's still proud of her moniker:
Ballet had Nijinsky,
Fellating, Lewinsky,
Who outblew the Wiener Symphoniker!
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2014-11-25 09:01  

#8  I'm ashamed for her.
Posted by: Skidmark   2014-11-25 08:32  

#7  If Monica wants to get into show business there is another Bill who can help her out.
Posted by: Airandee   2014-11-25 06:45  

#6  The moneyed elite always get a pass g(r)om.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-11-25 05:36  

#5  Glad to see you back in action Fred.
Posted by: Shipman   2014-11-25 05:35  

#4  Well, IMO, she has a point---given Clinton's skirt-chasing record, why was she singled out?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-11-25 05:14  

#3  Why should she be ashamed? Unlike most who employ this age old power tool, she was discovered and has no other identity or legacy. No husband, no children, no hope of either. The oval office is all she has. It was good for her then, and it's good for her now. It's the BJ that never stops giving. She's running with what she knows best. Call it what it is, please.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-11-25 05:14  

#2  she looks pretty hot for 41 yo
Posted by: texhooey   2014-11-25 01:16  

#1  Perhaps she should have checked to see whether there was a market for her impressive sounding degree before undertaking the course of study. That would have demonstrated forethought. Yes, it would have ... Wouldn't it have. I guess so. Hmmm
Posted by: Super Hose   2014-11-25 01:10  

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