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Monica Lewinsky

Monica Lewinsky Tells the Rest

So you thought that Kenneth Starr and Linda Tripp already discovered everything you never wanted to know about Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky’s affair back in the 1990s? Think again.

Ms. Lewinsky, the woman who will forever be the intern with a stained blue dress, has decided to capitalize on her long-lived fame and sullied name. The Post reports that she got a $12 million book deal, although the publisher has not been disclosed. That’s a lot of money (especially in these days of austerity and low book advances) but apparently Ms. Lewinsky has the goods. Read More

By Philip Weiss 1/08/01 12:00am

Monica’s Talking Points Enter Realm of Mystery

As Dan Rather demonstrated when he interviewed the President on 60 Minutes II, the Clinton legacy will always be bedeviled by the blue dress. The news media sacrificed their dignity over it, and Ken Starr his future. Every 10-year-old who ever steps into the Clinton library will torture the curators there over it, causing a Read More

By Joe Conason 8/09/99 12:00am

Tripp May Bug You, but That’s No Crime

Linda Tripp’s indictment on two charges of illegal wiretapping

may have been a necessary vindication of the rule of law, as the Maryland state

prosecutor insists. But actually sending her to prison-a conviction on either

felony count carries a maximum sentence of five years-would constitute terrible

and unwarranted punishment of a woman who already is Read More

By Philip Weiss 2/15/99 12:00am

The People Who Fear Him May Know Something We Don’t; Deposition Snippets From Lindsey, Monica, Blumenthal

Ladies and gentlemen, now that the trial is coming to an end, I’d like to introduce my witnesses. I’ll stick with snippets-snippets from the Kenneth Starr grand jury (and in two cases, Paula Jones depositions) never heard before, but contained in Government documents.

The first witness is Monica Lewinsky’s mother. Remember Marcia Lewis breaking down Read More

By Joe Conason 1/25/99 12:00am

Witnesses May Help Clinton’s Defenders

Of all the arguments offered by Democrats during the impeachment of

President Bill Clinton, the weakest is their objection to calling witnesses

before the Senate. Having denounced the Republicans on the House Judiciary

Committee for failing to take direct factual testimony before they approved

the articles of impeachment, how could the Democrats seriously suggest that Read More

By Anne Roiphe 8/03/98 12:00am

Monica-Bashers’ Wider Agenda: Slapping Clinton

Did you hear? A major Chinese toy concern issued a Linda Tripp doll, but nobody bought it. The doll came equipped with its own tiny pocket tape recorder. Let Ken or Barbie or G.I. Joe try to get away with anything, and your Tripp doll will have it recorded for posterity. Now who exactly stands Read More

By Joe Conason 7/13/98 12:00am

Press Just Doesn’t Get the (Talking) Points

For months, none of the smart people in the national press figured out who had written Primary Colors , and perhaps they never would have without the assistance of Donald Foster, the Vassar College English professor who exposed Joe Klein as Anonymous. Now, amid much uninformed speculation about who composed the “talking points” at the Read More

By Philip Weiss 6/15/98 12:00am

Who Wrote Talking Points? I Say: Lindsey’s the Man

The mysterious author is the Anonymous of 1998, but this Anonymous has avoided even a fraction of Joe Klein’s scrutiny. Maybe that’s because this Anonymous never wanted a wide audience. No, this Anonymous had only one buyer in mind, and she rejected his work in January.

This Anonymous is the author of the “Talking Read More