REMEMBERING LEWINSKY
One of the worst ways of "comforting" someone is by pointing out
that someone "always has it worse" than s/he does. First, neither of
them is in someone else's shoes and second, how does that help either of them
or the other person?
Arlo Guthrie pointed that out in a song where he went
through a list of bad luck cases and then asked and I'm paraphrasing, "What about that last
guy? You know the one that doesn't have anyone worse off than him? He doesn't
have any place to go!" In Lewinsky's case where could she go? The Internet
was in its "Golden Age" and the 365/7/24 news cycle made her story
known to all but the most off the grid aborigine.
That same notoriety machine
absolved Bill Clinton of all blame and turned him into a Paris Hilton/Kim
Kardashian sex icon. But it all turns on how you embrace the darkness. If
you're Hilton or Kardashian, you turn it into a crude self promotional scheme
and profit. Or you continue to take the abuse from the urinalists (read
journalists) and the in-the-know elites and press on toward a nobler end.
I
hope that it all turns out well for her and that Clinton gets his just desserts
(read a special place in Hell next to Teddy Kennedy).
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