Monica Lewinsky Scandal Back in the Spotlight in New Documentary 2/20/12 on PBS

[playahaitian]

Monica Lewinsky Scandal Back in the Spotlight in New Documentary​

The documentary airs on PBS Feb. 20-21, as part of its "American Experience" series.

A new documentary that is set to air next week on PBS will take a closer look at former President Bill Clinton and his affair with Monica Lewinsky. The new documentary shows how Clinton struggled with the decision to go public with the affair and features interviews from staffers who felt betrayed by the scandal.

The two-part (four hour) documentary will air in Britain and the United States on February 20th.

The Guardian reports that the new documentary shows that Clinton was constantly hounded by women. Clinton’s sexual appeal, and future problem, was foreshadowed during his run for Governor in Arkansas. And the problem became uncontrollable when he became President.

Paul Fray, Clinton’s former campaign manager, said:

“You got to understand that at one time there was at least 25 women per day coming through there trying to find him and I’d tell them he was out on the road. Lord it was bad. Bad, bad bad, bad bad.”​

Betsey Wright, Mr Clinton’s trusted political aide, almost convinced Clinton not to run for President due to his past affairs. Writer Gail Sheely said that Wright sat down with Clinton before he announced his bid for the presidency with some serious concerns about women. Sheely said:

“The day before the press conference he was going to announce that he was going to run, Betsey Wright, his ferociously protective campaign manager, sat him down with a list of names of women and went through one after the other. ‘How many times? Where did you meet her? How likely is she to talk?” Clinton said for each name that ‘she’ll never say anything’, but Miss Wright replied: ‘But you don’t know that!’ Miss Wright supposedly told Clinton: ‘The problem is we’re not just talking about you, we’re talking about your wife, we’re talking about your child.’ She said I don’t think you can run.’”​

But Clinton ran and eventually won the presidency in 1992. In 1998, he was embroiled in a scandal that would stain his presidency.

The Daily Mail reports that when the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke, Dick Morris, one of Clinton’s closest advisers, urged the president to tell the American public the truth. Morris said:

“I said to him that the problem that presidents have is not the sin, it’s the cover-up and you should explore just telling the American people the truth… I said let me test it, let me run a poll, so I took a poll… and I called him back and I said they will forgive the adultery, but they won’t easily forgive that you lied.”​

Clinton, however, decided to cover up the scandal for as long as he could.

Are you a fan of President Clinton? Do you think the Monica Lewinsky scandal stained his presidency? Will you be watching the new documentary on PBS?

​

 

[playahaitian]

Bill Clinton apparently struggled with whether to talk publicly about his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, as his aides were surprised, even dismayed, about his relationship with the 23-year-old.

A new documentary focusing on Clinton's life and presidency reveals that he contacted pollster Dick Morris to gauge whether he should come out with the truth when news of the affair broke.

"He said, 'Ever since I got here to the White House I've had to shut my body down sexually I mean, but I screwed up with this girl. I didn't do what they said I did, but I may have done so much that I can't prove my innocence,'" Morris recalls in the film "Clinton," which was written and directed by Barak Goodman.

"And I said to him, 'The problem that presidents have is not the sin, it's the cover up and you should explore just telling the American people the truth.' He said, 'Really, do you think I could do that?' And I said, 'Let me test it, let me run a poll.' So I took a poll and I tested popular attitudes on that and I called him back and I said, 'They will forgive the adultery, but they won't easily forgive that you lied,'" Morris says in the documentary to air on PBS next week.

Meanwhile, several of Clinton's aides were convinced he was set up.

"He's got all these enemies who are out to get him," Clinton's labor secretary, Robert Reich, said in the film. "He wouldn't be so stupid as to jeopardize his entire presidency. For what? No, that was not the Bill Clinton I knew."

Clinton first denied the affair that broke out in the news media in 1998, famously saying he "did not have sexual relations with that woman." He later admitted to oral sex with the young intern and said his relationship with Lewinsky was wrong and inappropriate.

"I am profoundly sorry for all I have done wrong in words and in deeds," he said Dec. 11 1998. "I never should have misled the country, the Congress, my friends or my family. Quite simply, I gave in to my shame."

Although his subsequent impeachment made him only the second U.S. president to be impeached, Clinton's aides say that in a way, the former president himself set up barriers that he could then leap across and he was always confident he could find his way back.

"How many second chances does any one person deserve?" his former press secretary, Dee Dee Myers, said in the film. "Clinton's view is as many second chances as a person is willing to try to take. As many times as you fail, don't you deserve the chance to redeem yourself? Isn't history loaded with people who have fallen and gotten up, fallen and gotten up and done great things?"

The documentary also details the challenges Hillary Clinton faced as first lady. Clinton was, behind the scenes, a powerful force in the White House but aides said her strengths often turned into his weaknesses.

"Voters thought that it was a zero-sum game, that for Hillary to be strong, Bill would have to be weak, and as a result the perception of Hillary's strength became a perception of Bill's weakness," Morris said.

Hillary Clinton was blamed by many for a weak turnout in the 1994 election and for the failure of the administration's health care reform plan in 1993 that failed to gain momentum.

"She was outspoken, she was smart, she was hard driving, and some people resented her," Clinton's Deputy Chief of Staff Harold Ickes said in the film. "Remember during the campaign, it was two for the price of one, well people aren't electing two for the price of one. They're electing the president."

The documentary airs on PBS Feb. 20-21, as part of its "American Experience" series.

 

[Joe Money]

This should be good!

 

[Mo-Better]

For fucking what? That horse died already.

Talk about

 

[playahaitian]

​

 

[playahaitian]

Monica Lewinsky back in spotlight with PBS' two-part 'Clinton'​

Monica Lewinsky has attempted to keep a low-profile after her role in President Bill Clinton's impeachment scandal made her name the butt of many late-night jokes. But she's likely to become a topic of discussion again when PBS airs its much anticipated two-part, four-hour documentary on the former president, titled "Clinton."

The documentary, which premieres on PBS as part of its "American Experience" series on Monday, will shed new light on Clinton's Oval Office affair with his 23-year-old intern through interviews with some of Clinton's closest advisors, some of whom are speaking publicly about the affair for the first time.

Among the former White House staffers appearing on camera are Secretary of Labor Robert Reich and Clinton's former reelection campaign manager, Dick Morris.

In the doc, Morris reveals, "When the Lewinsky scandal broke the President paged me and I returned the call. And he said, 'Ever since I got here to the White House I've had to shut my body down, sexually I mean, but I screwed up with this girl. I didn't do what they said I did, but I may have done so much that I can't prove my innocence.' "

Though she plays a huge role in the story of Bill Clinton's presidency, Lewinsky herself was not interviewed for the documentary. Producer Barak Goodman said at a Television Critics Assn. panel in January of the decision, “We felt it would tilt [the documentary] toward sensationalism.”

After the scandal, Lewinsky went through a period of alternately embracing and avoiding her celebrity. She attended the Oscars with Sir Ian McKellan, became a spokeswoman for Jenny Craig, hosted a reality show called "Mr. Personality," was a correspondent for a British news program and sold a line of handbags.

In 2005, she left the U.S. and moved to London, attending the London School of Economics and graduating with a masters in social psychology in 2006. Though she has given interviews on the subject of the Clinton affair, most notably in an HBO special titled "Monica in Black and White," she has kept an extremely low profile in recent years.

'Clinton' is the latest in a series of in-depth documentaries PBS has produced over the years focusing on the careers of U.S. presidents. For those who can't wait, PBS has made the first part of the documentary available on its website.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/bonus-video/clinton-chapter-1/

 

[Ming Fei Hong]

​

 

[playahaitian]

​

 

[streetdreamer]

Here's my take and why Hillary lost to Obama:

Nigga's working at gas stations are getting bjs. Bill Clinton is the POTUS who made 12mill jobs, he deserves a bj. When your man whom you have committed to accomplishes something great, he deserves a dozen, baby swallowing bjs. All real G's get bjs, Tiger Woods, Kobe, Will Smith, your local drug dealer and so on. If you're a woman and you dont suck dick, you will never get a real 1 percenter or a real G with the type of swagger that makes women drop draws, you'll be stuck with the weak geek of the week or some pretentious negro. All of America recognizes that Hillary is a super bitch for not sucking her man's dick when he was POTUS, he deserved it.

Now enter Michelle Obama's attack on Hillary when she said "you gotta take care of family" and nobody could understand or explain why that was an attack on Hillary but everyone knew it was an attack on Hillary somehow. Well here goes the translation: "you don't have to worry about a Monica Lewinsky type scandal on Barack because I'm gonna suck the skin off that dick on a regular basis". Everyone in America understood what she meant even though they didn't understand 100%. Democrats picked Obama because they know their party couldn't handle another issue with Bill in the white house and they know Hillary wont suck Bill's dick.

 

[playahaitian]

MONICA LEWINSKY is set to reveal shocking new secrets about her affair with ex-President BILL CLINTON in a bombshell $12 million tell-all, sources say.
​

Now 39 and still looking for love, the infamous former White House intern desperately wants vengeance on the man who sullied her name, the sources add.

“For years, Monica tried to protect Bill out of a misplaced sense of loyalty,” a close pal told The ENQUIRER. “But she no longer feels that way, and her memoir is his worst nightmare.”

Monica’s already got several publishers interested in her tell-all tale, which will reveal graphic, never-before known details of her sleazy sex trysts with Clinton.

The so-called “Zippergate” scandal exploded in 1998 when Monica told a grand jury investigating Clinton that she had nine sexual encounters with him in the Oval Office between November 1995 and March 1997.

While Monica revealed some details in her 1999 biography “Monica’s Story,” co-authored with Andrew Morton, she never got into explicit descriptions of her encounters with Clinton.

Now she’s finally set to tell all in her memoir, sources say.

DO YOU BELIEVE THIS???

&

DO YOU THINK SHE SHOULD EVEN BE ABLE TO WRITE A BOOK ABOUT HER EXPERIENCE?​

 

[Better]

If you, as Dave Chappelle said, have to be the most famous dick sucker of all times, why not be paid for it?

 

[TruDat]

Monica Lewinsky writing a book....

 

[largebillsonlyplease]

doesn't matter to bill
he's not president
we all know so it doesn't hurt his rep
she willingly did it there was no rape

he got head
skeeted

 

[Mrfreddygoodbud]

yo that had to be one of the biggest fails in history, republicans spent millions going after clinton on this dumb personal shit..

got him impeached, and he STILL more popular than ever before..

they underestimated people not being so anal and sexually repressed like most of the right wing nutters are...

 

[ljinsane]

yo that had to be one of the biggest fails in history, republicans spent millions going after clinton on this dumb personal shit..

got him impeached, and he STILL more popular than ever before..

they underestimated people not being so anal and sexually repressed like most of the right wing nutters are...

and the funny thing is he was not REALLY impeached....dude finished his term....no fucks given

 

[illdog]

 

[doe moe]

Only in AmeriKKKa

 

[AwwSchitt]

and the funny thing is he was not REALLY impeached....dude finished his term....no fucks given

Co-Sign... Dude was walking around Washington like a pimp.

 

[Built4Life]

She must be broke.

 

[Damn Right]

trying to cash in on being the country's most famous hoe twenty years ago = fail in 2012

 

[three-fifths]

sounds like the op is hatin'.

i'm not referring to the money.

 

[Africanama]

So she is basically going to tell us if she spits or swallows.


I wouldnt be surprised if she did a re-enactment film.

 

[Nemesis Prime]

Enquirer just spinning something up since Clinton is back in the news. No way she gets $12 million for a book deal about a subject no one cares about. Clinton so popular, he would still be president if we didn't have term limits...

 

[bighurt2k7]

God bless America

 

[Solomon]

I don't see the point at this stage in the game. I think Roseanne Barr offered her between 1 and 3 million to do her talk show shortly after the whole thing happened, but she declined. Now she's trying to cash in all these years later. Plus, I can't see her revealing too much that Ken Starr didn't already put in his report (which was/is free for anyone to read). The only thing that she can add is that Bill told her that he loved her and he probably convinced her that they were going to be together. But none of that is a surprise to anyone because dudes say a whole lot of shit that they don't mean when they are trying to bust a nut.

 

[playahaitian]

sounds like the op is hatin'.

i'm not referring to the money.

never that homie...

 

[sharkbait28]

Foreword by Karine Steffans

 

[water]

Foreword by Karine Steffans

Super................... head before superhead

 

[Brother Blues]

Who the cares about her being a receptacle??

WTF is this gonna be,50 Shades of Bill...

 

[Dirtylakerie]

 

[tallblacknyc]

she's better off coming out with a fleshlight molded as her face and put da presidental head edition

 

[Theo_Huxtable]

So this broad sucked a 12 million dollar dick.

Damn it really pays to be a hoe now days.​

 

[Ceenote]

So this broad sucked a 12 million dollar dick.

Damn it really pays to be a hoe now days.​

this!!!

 

[MadWun]

So this broad sucked a 12 million dollar dick.

Damn it really pays to be a hoe now days.​

Things done changed

Hoes have no shame nor respect these days

 

[woodchuck]

"Swallow The Leader"