Monica Lewinsky’s back in the news

Published May 9, 2014 4:00am ET



Monica Lewinsky is back in the news, this time complaining of her treatment by the liberal media, feminists and the Clinton Machine. In a long essay in the latest edition of Vanity Fair, Lewinsky blames all three for making her unemployable. Sorry, I’m not buying her sob story. Nearly 20 years after her stroll down the walk of shame, she’s a far less sympathetic character than she was originally.

Lewinsky claims that her affair with President Bill Clinton was entirely consensual — no sexual harassment here, she says. Nonetheless, she complains that the media frenzy that attended the public airing of what sexual antics took place in and around the Oval Office in the mid-1990s hurt her far more than it did him. Maybe.

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