Monica Lewinsky wins the internet today

[RockaFowler]

Link to tweet

?s=20

[dem4decades]

1. LOL. She's quite a woman.

[olegramps]

14. Betrayed by her friend, just like Jesus was betrayed with a kiss.

[dem4decades]

23. Linda Tripp? What a low life. How does she sleep at night?

[Crowman2009]

27. I remember when John Goodman impersonated her on SNL.

It was hilarious!

[She_Totally_Gets_It]

32. Honestly that was the funniest time in SNL history. Molly Shannon as Monica. Goodman as Tripp.

Hammond as Clinton (funny as fuck). Will Farrow as Janet Reno.

[Crowman2009]

35. I needed that season after dealing with the disaster before.

I was so hyped up when Jeneane Garafalo, Chris Elliot, Mark McKinney, and Mike McKean were part of the cast. Only to be absolutely disappointed!

[She_Totally_Gets_It]

40. Oh yeah, that's right! That season was lost on me.

[homegirl]

28. And, Monica's mother

who failed to burn the infamous little blue dress...

[dem4decades]

29. Didn't know about that. I thought it was Tripp that told her to hold on to it.

No matter what the system tortured that poor girl.

[not_the_one]

34. wasn't there some story about a scandal

involving Monica's mother and Luciano Pavarotti, with mom "saving" the evidence?....

[Marcuse]

31. She's back.

Fortune has been creative with many participants in the Clinton-Lewinsky imbroglio. Starr lieutenant Brett M. Kavanaugh is now a Supreme Court nominee. Lanny Davis, a Clinton lawyer, is now Trump-fixer Michael Cohen’s lawyer (and arguing for secret taping). Jonah Goldberg, the son of Tripp’s PR agent Lucianne Goldberg, is now a leading voice of anti-Trump conservatism. And Trump, who then called Tripp “evil personified,” has a new job, too.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/linda-tripp-metoo-icon-and-champion-of-good-government/2018/07/30/92a17c74-943e-11e8-a679-b09212fb69c2_story.html

[She_Totally_Gets_It]

33. Ain't it funny how shit comes back around. What an Alice in Wonderland world we live in.

[needledriver]

37. Nominee? If only...

[tymorial]

2. Oh man so funny

[handmade34]

3. ...

[StarfishSaver]

4. Not a fan, but

Props, girl ....

[Sleepscratch]

5. Sing a song...

A very attractive man.

[liberalmuse]

6. People who can laugh at themselves

Even after going through stuff that would break most of us have my respect.

[R. P. McMurphy]

8. I agree. nt

[Amimnoch]

9. Yep. Totally agree. -nt

[sir pball]

26. Did you see her on John Oliver?

She kind of has to laugh at herself as a coping mechanism. She's still in a far from good place.

[murielm99]

7. Is that really her tweeting that?

Good for you, Monica!

[Zambero]

10. That one was cued up brilliantly

And one could not have asked for a better taker!

[SunSeeker]

11. OMG

[rocktivity]

12. TMZ tries to help out with a weapon of mass media distraction

TMZ: ...(A) reporter tweeted, "OK, who's gonna tell him?" -- in other words, tell him he was opening himself up to oral copulation barbs...

Speaking of Lewinsky, she just signed on to Ryan Murphy's new project, "Impeachment: American Crime Story." She'll be a producer on the series. Beanie Feldstein -- Jonah Hill's sister -- is going to play Monica.

Cut the comedy, TMZ -- you know perfectly well that the reporter was referring to Pence being hypocritical in not "telling" President Twitter Tantrum that HE'S the one spending too much time on the Internet; and that Lewinsky was referring to being "unqualified" to sit in judgement of presidential misbehavior -- making the story a stealth ad for "Impeachment: American Crime Story."


rocktivity

[NightWatcher]

13. Don't get too excited, she's about to unleash another round of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/06/arts/television/american-crime-story-lewinsky-clinton.html

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Ryan Murphy’s popular television series “American Crime Story” will return for a third season that will tackle the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky scandal, FX announced on Tuesday afternoon.

Lewinsky will be a producer of the new season, which will be titled “Impeachment: American Crime Story.”

Murphy had teased the idea of a Monica Lewinsky-themed season, and last year he told The Hollywood Reporter that he would only do it with Lewinsky’s participation.

We're trying to remove trump but we'll be getting "whataboutisms" and "both sides" crap in the media.

[nolabear]

15. That whole thing creeps me out.

I don’t guess I have a right to tell her how to make her living but it doesn’t strike me as the kind of thing that does anything but keep her in the exact same rather small spot she’s inhabited since she was part of it. If there was any kind of “Here’s my wonderful life in spite of a terrible thing and I’m proud to have used it to do these things” I’d feel differently, but I don’t think this is anything like that. She seems frozen there. Maybe her only way of coping but the show feels creepy nonetheless.

[cynatnite]

16. I think I'd rather have her....

She's not a perfect person, but when I think about the types of people they could bring in that could make this potentially ten times worse I feel nauseated. How she was treated by the public and the media back then was truly horrific.

I hate the prospect of this getting dragged back out again, but unfortunately it's a part of our history. If the story is going to be told, let's cross our fingers and hope they do it right.

Besides, it's one's choice to watch it or not.

[nolabear]

18. I saw a story about who plays her, Paula Jones, etc.

What I saw didn’t give me hope. Yes, it could be done in a smart, non-prurient way. But I don’t get that feel. Could be wrong. Those things can go so badly.

No, I won’t watch.

[Silver Gaia]

38. I tend to agree. It's Ryan Murphy! He's not a right-winger, far from it.

I like that he said he wouldn't touch the story without her input. That's fair. And respectful of her, IMO.

(The rest of this isn't aimed at you, cynatnite, just at everyone in general.)

Before judging this project in a negative light, look at the shows Ryan Murphy does. If you don't know who he is, Google him or look him up on IMDb. His shows are definitely not run of the mill fare. Most (not all) are very good, and they often win Golden Globes and Emmys. This won't be some shoddy production. I'm thinking it will have a kick to it, a twist, and it sure as hell won't be geared toward anything Trumpian.

The Ryan Murphy show I'm watching right now is called Pose. It's about the transgender ballroom scene in New York in the 80s, and right now, the show is dealing with the height of the AIDS crisis. The actors aren't straight people pretending to be LBGTQ. They're real. And it's nominated for Emmys this fall.

My point is that I could think of a whole lot worse people than Ryan Murphy to be putting this together. It could actually be very good. At worst, it might be tacky, but what it won't be is heaven for right-wingers. Knowing all of this, I choose to withhold judgment until I see what he has in mind.

[NightWatcher]

17. The timing is what gets me. We're entering an election time of scandal

What better way to negate that than to show how both sides are exactly the same (sarcastic font) and that trump wasn't even this bad, see he didnt even get impeached.

[cynatnite]

19. The timing wouldn't matter unless there was a Clinton on the ballot. n/t

[nolabear]

21. There's always a Clinton on his ballot.

If he can use it to smear, shame, tie others to it, knock Democrats down, he will.

[nolabear]

20. I imagine him watching, cackling and using it as material.

[Chemisse]

24. I am so sick of how that whole episode in our history has turned into

something that is compared to child rape. Very sick of it. Monica was a victim of a treacherous friend and horrific predatory publicity, but she was not a victim of a crime.

She needs to move on with her life.

[srobertss]

30. It's disturbing

that this will be aired just before 2020 election. That feels very strange to me. Are they really just going after ratings or is there more to it?

[FiveGoodMen]

36. I'm with you.

Can't use Comey again...

[Hekate]

22. Now that is a very brave woman

[TalenaGor]

25. ROFL!!

[JI7]

39. after listening to Monica for the past few years i feel that she has no regrets about her relationsh

with bill other than it ended.