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Topic: Monica Lewinsky: The Inside Story of an Epic Newsweek Scoop |
Monica Lewinsky: The Inside Story of an Epic Newsweek Scoop
Newsweek Magazine, by Michael Isikoff
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Posted By:gazela, 12/24/2012 5:01:39 PM
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| It isn’t often in this business that you’re sitting at your desk and you get a phone call from a source that causes you to nearly fall off your chair. But that’s exactly what happened in my office at Newsweek’s Washington bureau early on the afternoon of Jan. 13, 1998. “There’s a little event going on at the Ritz-Carlton in Pentagon City right now you might want to know about,” my (very plugged-in) tipster told me. Linda Tripp was having lunch with her good friend Monica Lewinsky—and Ken Starr had the whole thing wired. Starr?! Yes, my source said: I know it sounds crazy, but Starr
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Comments: I love how Isikoff tries to pretend Newsweek wasn´t trying to keep a lid on the story until Drudge scooped them and forced their hand. And he still is smug about supposedly having more and better information.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
mitzi, 12/24/2012 5:21:17 PM (No. 9082372)
I firmly believe that if Matt Drudge had not hit the enter key we would have not heard or read a word about this.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Newtsche, 12/24/2012 5:23:21 PM (No. 9082374)
I for one do not put much stock in what rodents say.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
GraniteBayTom, 12/24/2012 5:28:05 PM (No. 9082379)
This is truly hilarious. A MSM house organ, Newsweek, about to stop printing, is trying to retroactively take credit for breaking the Clinton-Lewinsky story. EVERYBODY now knows that they sat on the story for weeks until Drudge broke it publicly. It´s annoying,but also pathetic. Bye, bye Newsweek. Bye, bye Isikoff. It was not nice knowing you. I am SO glad you are now history.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
smcchk, 12/24/2012 5:29:00 PM (No. 9082381)
Trying to rewrite history, Isikoff? Drudge and Lucianne, I believe, brought the story to the American people.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Spidey, 12/24/2012 5:33:43 PM (No. 9082383)
Clinton beating the rap on this really created the template for other dems to lie,weasel and spin their way out of other messes. The MSM didn´t come on on fast and furious or Benghazi until all the culprits were were off the hook in absurd internal investigations.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Nimby, 12/24/2012 6:07:27 PM (No. 9082421)
And this jerk suppressed it alright
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
zzzghy, 12/24/2012 6:08:03 PM (No. 9082424)
Epic, schmepic.
A hillbilly and his ho; nothing mo.´
The tawdry tale has been told so many times and in so many ways it makes me sick just thinking about those two subhuman creepy-crawlies.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Patchy Groundfog, 12/24/2012 6:32:14 PM (No. 9082443)
The issue isn´t Clinton/Lewinsky as much as this: how many similar stories were spiked over the years, with 99.99% of them involving lefties?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
mozey, 12/24/2012 6:40:14 PM (No. 9082452)
Isikoff at his best, bringing us the last dying, gurgling lie of a putrid rag/mag.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Fiesta del sol, 12/24/2012 6:59:14 PM (No. 9082464)
How many stories is the media spiking about Barack Obama? The media won´t even tells about Benghazi, when we all know about that.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
janylou, 12/25/2012 12:05:25 AM (No. 9082653)
Who in Starr´s office was the tipster? Newsweek seemed more interested in finding dirt on Starr than they did about the sitting prez having an affair and lying about it.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
coldoc, 12/25/2012 3:24:06 AM (No. 9082712)
Monica lewinxki: The inside story of an epic newsweek failure. That´s better.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
anonymous, 12/25/2012 3:28:57 AM (No. 9082713)
I believe that this was the time when the new media trumped the old media.
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