I am of the opinion that Monica Lewinsky should be considered one of the great American heroes. That is if you see heroism in not lying to save your own skin and/or profit mightily. If during the Clinton impeachment brouhaha, she had said that Bill C. raped her and then pressured her to lie, she and her family would have had much better lives, right-wing sources would have rewarded her mightily and she would now have Megyn Kelly's old Fox News job with Megyn Kelly's NBC paycheck.
I believe that Ken Starr and his goons did everything short of waterboarding that lady and using cattle prods on her to get her to say words that would have led to Clinton's ouster or resignation. And I believe they themselves would have reaped similar financial rewards for accomplishing that…but Monica wouldn't say what a lot of people would have said. That's also true of Susan McDougal, who basically went to jail for refusing to implicate Clinton in the Whitewater scam. That was back when you couldn't be in the White House if you were at all involved in even one shady real estate deal in your past.
So today comes the news that Ken Starr — the man who considered it an impeachable offense to lie about an extra-marital affair — has joined the legal team to defend Donald J. Trump in his impeachment case. I was groping for the right words but as it turns out, I found the perfect ones on Twitter…
