Just before the year ended,WashingtonPost article that perfectly encapsulated the ingrained sexism, stupidity and sheer spite of the Beltway establishmenttaking on its favourite target, Monica Lewinsky:
There are moments that make you question your fundamental assumptions about the world. One of them took place a few days ago, when news emerged that Monica Lewinsky had just graduated from the London School of Economics.
She did not!!
Lewinsky, 33, is known more for her audacious coquetry than for her intellectual heft, and the notion of her earning a master of science degree in social psychology at the prestigious London university is jarring, akin to finding a rip in the time-space continuum, or discovering that Kim Jong Il is a natural blond.
Even more staggering, the same bubbly gal who once described the act of flashing her thong at the president as a “small, subtle, flirtatious gesture” has now written a lofty-sounding thesis. Its title, according to Reuters: “In Search of the Impartial Juror: An Exploration of the Third Person Effect and Pre-Trial Publicity.”
Monica! We hardly knew ye!
The rest of the article is a lameoid attempt at justifying this childish sneer by Boboing some sort of pathetic social commentary out of it. It isn’t important. What is important is the view this article gives of Lewinsky:that of a stupid, sluttly little girl who cannot possible have enough brains to attend the LSE, never mind graduating. This has of course been the view the press always had of Lewinsky, portraying her either as a simple little girl caught up in a drama too big for her, the victim of Bill Clinton the Masher, or the homewrecking slut who set out to fuck herself a president.
None of them considered that actually, to become a White House intern you must have some brains, that it’s slightly different from interning at some well meaning local business, nor was any willing to admit she was actually a young woman who wanted and got a mature sexual relationshipwith a man she admired, liked and perhaps even loved. That’s just not possible in their world. The Great Unwashed for their part did see that once the details of their affair became known, but then they’ve always been more insightful than their alleged superiors inside the Beltway…
There’s also the insane jealosy of Bill Clinton, the Man they had Snubbed, of all people “bagging” a young pretty intern, something that neverhappened to any Republicans; they always had to buy their sex. It all added to Clinton’s undeserved to them popstar image, so that’s why they trashtalked and kept on trash talking Lewinsky. Look at that picture of her in the article: not very flattering, but fitting the image of “Lewinsky the dog”, the triplebagger they want us to believe she is. Reality is, quite a few of us would not mind having such an obviously intelligent, pretty young woman attracted to us…