I was listen to some guy on the radio yesterday and he thought that linda trip should have been women of the year ( the year we heard nothing but her name) more than the three that were named for blowing the whisal on the enrom scame of billions of dolars really not beging there.
I think Linda did some that should not be looked up to. I Feel that its just because he got a blow job and lied he should not have gone through that hole thing.
However the three women who did tell us what was really going on should be praised.
Did linda gain from it. the Radio said no but I recall differently.
This is in the wrong forum. It should be in IMHO or GD.
I was living in a country where I wasn’t fluent enough in the language to really follow the news closely during the impeachment mess (for which I am entirely grateful!), but I agree. As I understand it, Linda Tripp essentially squealed on her friend and her lover (their behavior was not moral, but it also wasn’t illegal, or a threat to national security), while these three women brought to light illegalities and/or incompetencies that affect us greatly.
I agree. Exposing the president for the Monica Lewinsky oral sex thing was MUCH more important than blowing the whistle on a Billion Dollar corporate swindle :rolleyes
Linda Tripp wasn’t even the one who did the “blowing.”
Seriously though, there is a huge difference between exposing corporate corruption which affects the entire economy or FBI incompetence which compromises national security, and one fucking lick-job which doesn’t hurt anybody. FUCK Linda Tripp.
CaptMurdock, I have read several of your posts and I am wondering if maybe English is not your first language. I do not mean to pick on you. I am genuinely curious.
Revealing to the public that the President lied to them about his private sex life is an entirely unnoteworthy event.
Arranging a revelation that proved that the defendant in pending litigation had perjured himself (incidentally while in a position of extreme public trust wherein he had affirmed an oath to uphold the law) may or may not be an entirely unnoteworthy event but is hardly the vast evil that it is was portrayed to be by Tripp’s attackers. Yes, the way she did it was underhanded and hurtful, but given the options, the feelings of those involved aren’t anything I’d be willing to weep over.
Sheryl Watkins was not a whistleblower. She deserves credit for noticing the problem at Enron, but she never reported it outside the company.
Linda Tripp was so viciously attacked that it’s hard to separate fact from fiction. She was accused of seeking a book eal, but she neverf did that. If she had, she could have made a fortune. She eventually lost her job.
OTOH she somehow got expensive plastic surgery. She’s an honored celebrity in some circles. Celebrity status can sometimes be uset to lead to financial reward.
I suspect based on the misspellings that, Location: Cypress equals Cyprus, which indeed means that English would not be the good Cap’n’s first language.
Linda Tripp invited confidences from a “good friend” who was upset about doing something she shouldn’t have been doing in the first place…and not getting the outcome the “friend” had hoped for. She then decided (for some reason I have never been able to fathom) that it would serve…something or other…to invite the FBI or whoever to wire tap her line so she could prove that her “friend” and her “friend’s” “lover” were doing something wrong.
She THEN proceeded to encourage her “friend” to give her all the gory details, knowing that the line was tapped. I am still uncertain how all this helped ANYONE, but then…as I said, I am still uncertain as to how this was anyone elses business ANYWAY.
I will be grateful to the day I die that MY friends love me. IMHO, if anyone deserves the “Woman of the Year” award, it is not only NOT Linda Tripp, but that if there was a “Worst Friend of the DECADE”…it would be (BIG surprise) …LINDA TRIPP!!!
