“The view” Weighed the treatment by the media of Monica Lewinsky on the 27 -year anniversary of the Witte Huiss scandal that turned the nation upside down.
The hosts claimed that there has been a cultural movement to re -examine the role of Lewinsky as a young intern of the White House in her notorious affair with President Bill Clinton That eventually led to his accusation in 1998.
The hosts claimed that Lewinsky’s life was more damaged by the affair, while Clinton returned to his life outside the White House relatively “intact”.
Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin said she remembered that the focus of the media was negatively focused on Lewinsky.
A photo that former interns of the White House shows Monica Lewinsky that President Bill Clinton met during a position of the White House that was submitted as evidence in documents from the Starr research and released on 21 September 1998 by the House Judiciary Committee. (Getty Images)
“I remember the headlines,” she said. “It criticized her appearance, her weight.” The Lewinsky scandal, “not the man who is the person in a much greater dominant position that was also involved in the affair.”
Farah Griffin said today that people are more ready to recognize power dynamics in the affair and said that Clinton should have had “much more responsibility” than he did.
Co-host Sunny Hostin agreed that the situation had “terrible” power dynamics, and as the mother of a 22-year-old son she now sees the affair in a different light. She decided to cancel culture from preventing Lewinsky from continuing with her life.
“This is a woman who, 30 years later, is still somewhat defined by this,” she said.
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Monica Lewinsky has spoken about being bullied by the press. (AP)
“I definitely think she was a skewer,” fellow gastheer Sara Haines voted.
Haines explained how Lewinsky’s name was affected by the media and cost her the ability to form romantic relationships.
“This is not all of President Clinton, but President Clinton, between the two of them, remained intact. He continued to lead a life. He was able to restore his marriage, his family, everything that mattered,” Haines argued.
“If I think about Monica LewinskyI jump to the ‘Lewinsky scandal’, ‘she continued.
“Looking at how Lewinsky was torn apart by the morality police of that time … It all fell on her and the media was a reflection of where society was in order,” said Haines.
President Bill Clinton was dropped off during his second term of office before lying under oath and the hindering of justice. (Joyce Naltchayan/AFP via Getty images)
The affair between Lewinsky and Clinton came to light during his second term of office.
He was dropped off by the House of Representatives on December 19, 1998, for committing perjury for a large jury and hindering justice.
Co-host Joy Bear pushed back on how her co-hosts Lewinsky defended, but agreed that there has been a cultural shift since the #Metoo movement.
Behar said that Lewinsky, who was 22 was at the start of the affair, when “was not a baby” and should also have a “self -consciousness” of what she learned from the incident, 27 years later.
“When I was 22, I was married,” said Bear. “Twenty -two is not a baby.”
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Monica Lewinsky opened the podcast “Call Her Daddy” about her affair with former President Bill Clinton. (Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/Filmmagic)
The subject was offered for comments Lewinsky made during an appearance on the “Call her daddy” podcast On Wednesday.
“I think the right way to tackle such a situation would have been to say that it was no one’s business and to resign,” Lewinsky told host Alex Cooper after he had revealed that she had never been asked how the situation should have been treated. “Or to find a way to stay in the office that did not lie and not to throw a young person who is just starting the world under the bus.”
Said Lewinsky too That although she felt the behavior of Clinton worse, she was still making her own mistakes.
“Let’s acknowledge that although there were so many ways in which Bill’s behavior was more reprehensible than mine, I made mistakes,” she said.
Hanna Panreck from Fox News has contributed to this report.
