{"id":5516,"date":"2014-05-10T03:23:21","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T03:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=5516"},"modified":"2014-05-10T03:23:21","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T03:23:21","slug":"monicas-back-now-just-go-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=5516","title":{"rendered":"Monica's back; now, just go away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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She’s back.<\/p>\n

Monica Lewinsky is now 40 and she’s written a book. She has returned to the public eye apparently to sell a few copies of her book, to make some money and to set the record straight on what happened between her and the 42nd president of the United States.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2014\/05\/the-return-of-monica-lewinsky-106507.html?hp=r16#.U22Y5FJOWt8<\/p>\n

Count me as one American who doesn’t care what she has to say.<\/p>\n

Lewinsky’s role in the impeachment of President Clinton has been covered, dissected, micro-examined and analyzed to the hilt. It’s all been revealed.<\/p>\n

She now wants to “move on,” and wants to “burn the beret and bury the blue dress.” You remember the blue dress, right? The one with the president’s, um, DNA that proved he did something naughty with the then 20-something White House intern.<\/p>\n

He had denied doing it in testimony before a federal grand jury. Yes, he told a lie under oath and that became — officially — the reason the House of Representatives impeached him. The Senate put the president on trial, but he was acquitted.<\/p>\n

The question perhaps always will remain, in my mind at least: How did a special prosecutor’s investigation into a real estate deal — which we called “Whitewater” — then involve what the president was doing after hours with a young woman?<\/p>\n

I smelled a witch hunt at the time and I believe the prosecutor, Kenneth Starr, was motivated to find something, anything<\/em>, to pin to the president. He found it when he discovered Monica Lewinsky.<\/p>\n

She’s back, telling her side of the story. She believes she was scapegoated by the president and first lady — and their allies. Fine. She’s entitled to say it.<\/p>\n

I’m already hoping she’ll now move back to private life and doing whatever she’s been doing since her moment of notoriety flamed out.<\/p>\n\n

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She’s back. Monica Lewinsky is now 40 and she’s written a book. She has returned to the public eye apparently to sell a few copies of her book, to make some money and to set the record straight on what happened between her and the 42nd president of the United States. http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2014\/05\/the-return-of-monica-lewinsky-106507.html?hp=r16#.U22Y5FJOWt8 Count me as … Continue reading Monica's back; now, just go away<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[631,1035,2139,2659,3120,5256],"class_list":["post-5516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bill-clinton","tag-clinton-impeachment","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-kenneth-starr","tag-monica-lewinsky","tag-whitewater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}