(First in a series of short articles on the events leading up to the Bush Presidency and the ascendency of corporate control of USG)
by
Melinda Pillsbury-Foster
Vanity Fair
will publish an article by Monica Lewinsky in it's June issue.
Ripples of commentary have already begun on the now 40 year old woman
who earned a Master of Science degree in December of 2006.
For
the last eight years Monica has tried to keep her name out of the
news. Today, she is again useful to the Clintons and their corporate
sponsors.
While
the source of her notoriety titillated, consider why her emergence
matters one way or another. It doesn't, you know. This is hype,
orchestrated to impact the 2016 election.
Lewinsky
was persuaded to write the essay for Vanity Fair because her life has
been on hold. Every job she has gotten pivoted on the events from
July, 1995, when she was turning 22, to the failure to impeach Bill
Clinton by Congress on February
12, 1999.
The
Washington Post touts her return as a positive for Hillary Clinton's
run for the White House. This surge of media attention focuses on
Hillary as a secondary victim. It distracts us from what should,
finally, be asked about the Clintons. They did well for themselves.
Today Monica is still defined by the words, “cigar,” and “blue
dress.”
Some
of these questions are:
Why
was Hillary ever positioned as a victim? We learned early on she had
assisted in cover-ups of Bill's womanizing from the time he entered
politics. Hillary showed no concern for the damage done to the women
involved. Political advantage trumped telling the truth, the impact
on victims, and accountability, for Hillary.
When
the trial ended in Congress the Clintons were drained of money. Yet
by 2004 they were doing well, entering the embrace of the 1%. The
Clintons had become intimates of Bush Co., and were not speaking out
against a war which had originated in another set of carefully
orchestrated lies by Bush and his NeoCon cadre. What else was
happening while these relationships were forming?
What
might we have learned if we had demanded accountability when Bush
jovially looked under his desk for WMD? What if Saddam had not been
hurried into the silence of death?
Following
the money and connections always answers questions far more revealing
of secrets than are sexual dalliances.
The
answers are there. Don't let Monica be used as a tool of
distraction. Forget those nine incidents of sexual dalliance and
demand answers to real questions.
