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Monica Lewinsky walks offstage when asked about Clinton


Go, Monica!

Monica Lewinsky walks off the stage at a Jerusalem conference when asked about Bill Clinton

By Ruth Eglash
September 4

JERUSALEM — Monica Lewinsky, the former White House intern turned anti-bullying advocate, walked offstage Monday night at a conference in Jerusalem when she was asked a question relating to former president Bill Clinton.

Yonit Levi, one of Israel’s top news anchors, asked Lewinsky — who has spoken in recent years about the humiliation she endured after her affair with the former president was made public — whether she still expected a personal apology from Clinton.

“Now recently in an interview with ABC News, former president Clinton was rather irate when he was asked if he ever apologized to you personally, and he said 'I apologized publicly.' Do you still expect that apology? That personal apology?” asked Levi.

“I’m so sorry I’m not going to be able to do this,” said Lewinsky, before laying her microphone down and walking off the stage.

Later, Lewinsky, who became a household name in the late 1990s for an affair that nearly brought down Clinton's presidency, published a statement on Twitter saying that Levi had put that same question to her when they met ahead of the conference and that she had responded that it was off-limits.

“When she asked me it on stage, with blatant disregard for our agreement, it became clear to me I had been misled,” Lewinsky wrote.

She said the parameters of what would be covered in the discussion were clear — it was to focus on the subject of her speech, which talked about the perils and positives of the Internet.

A spokesman for the Israeli Channel 2 News Company, which hosted the conference in Jerusalem, said Levi had kept all the agreements she made with Lewinsky and honored her requests.

“We believe the question asked on stage was legitimate and respectful and one that certainly did not go beyond Ms. Lewinsky's requests and did not cross the line,” said news company spokesman Alon Shani.

Since the affair with Clinton nearly 20 years ago, Lewinsky has built a career speaking out against bullying, and many public figures have expressed remorse or regret at how she was treated two decades ago.

In her post on Twitter, Lewinsky apologized to the audience for ending her presentation so abruptly, writing, “I left because it is more important than ever for women to stand up for themselves and not allow others to control their narrative.”

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Re: Monica Lewinsky walks offstage when asked about Clinton


It's always interesting when people walk off a stage when someone asks a question or makes some sort of claim.

Why not simply refuse to answer the question if you don't like it? Or if somebody makes a claim you strongly disagree with tell them why you disagree?
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Why should Monica stay and argue, or explain to the interviewer she wouldn't answer? The interviewer broke their agreement. I think Monica did the right thing not to consent to be on the defensive. It will be a lesson to anyone else who wants to interview her that she's not going to talk about Bill Clinton, but about the subject she came to talk about.

Edit: Oops! I wrote this before I had read parts of her speech, which was about the public shaming she endured after the affair. See the next post.

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Here's a fuller story. It tells what was in her speech:
 
Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky abruptly left a stage in Jerusalem on Monday when asked whether she still expected an apology from former US president Bill Clinton, later saying the interviewer had backtracked on an agreement to steer clear of the issue.

“I’m sorry, I won’t be able to do this,” she said, and walked off after the first question, following a speech she gave on the perils of the internet at a conference organized by Hadashot news.

The interviewer, Hadashot News’s Yonit Levi, reached out her hand and then anxiously followed Lewinsky offstage as some of the stunned audience awkwardly clapped. The confused hosts then rushed Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid onstage to keep the event moving along.

Lewinsky later tweeted that it had been agreed before the talk that the subject was off limits and Levi had violated their agreement.

“When she asked me on stage, with blatant disregard for our agreement, it became clear to me I had been misled,” she said. “I left because it is more important than ever for women to stand up for themselves and not allow others to control their narrative.”

“I’m very sorry that this talk had to end this way,” she said.

In her speech Lewinsky spoke of the trauma of the investigation that led to Clinton’s impeachment, and which sent her spiraling into depression for a decade. She said that things were better now, but that had only happened recently.
In February Lewinsky wrote a personal essay for Vanity Fair on the 20th anniversary of the investigation into the affair, in which she admitted that she suffers from PTSD over the fallout from the investigation and publicity, and that the #MeToo movement had changed her perspective on the affair and its aftermath.

“I don’t think I would have felt so isolated if what happened in 1998 happened in 2018,” she told her Jerusalem audience. “By and large I had been alone. Publicly alone. Abandoned most by the main figure in this crisis, who knew me well and intimately.”

She also told the audience that after the news broke of her affair with Clinton: “I was shunned from almost every community which I belonged to, including my religious community. That led to some very dark times for me.”

She blamed the web for spreading news of the scandal. She claimed that her 1998 affair with Clinton was the first time the internet became a major source of news. She said that within a day she went from a private individual to a public figure who was completely humiliated.

She then focused on the power of the internet to shame people, and the responsibility each person has with every click of the mouse.

Lewinsky wrote in the March edition of “Vanity Fair” that Clinton’s sexual relationship with her “was not sexual assault,” but “constituted a gross abuse of power.”

Hadashot said later it did its utmost to abide by all agreements made with Lewinsky. “The question asked was legitimate, worthy and respectful and in no way deviated from Ms. Lewinsky’s requests,” said company spokesman Alon Shani. “We thank Ms. Lewinsky for her fascinating speech to the conference, respect her sensitivity and wish her all the best.”

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