# Old tape recording from Monica Lewinsky to Bill resurfaces. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 31, 2013, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tape-recording-from-monica-lewinsky-to-bill-resurfaces/665006 "2013-07-31T18:26:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tape-recording-from-monica-lewinsky-to-bill-resurfaces/665006/41 "2013-08-01T17:15:08Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > I once saved a front-page story about dinosaurs living in contemporary Lake Michigan, written as an apparently serious article. After that, it’s hard to take _any_ of their “news” seriously. Really? The _ **National Enquirer** _? That sounds more _ **Weekly World News** _ (RIP). ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tape-recording-from-monica-lewinsky-to-bill-resurfaces/665006/42 "2013-08-01T17:16:50Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Really? The _ **National Enquirer** _? That sounds more _ **Weekly World News** _ (RIP). It is. [I don’t know if this is the exact story **Musicat** is talking about](http://weeklyworldnews.com/headlines/2614/us-navy-captures-lake-michigan-monster/), but it’s their style, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tape-recording-from-monica-lewinsky-to-bill-resurfaces/665006/43 "2013-08-01T20:31:26Z")
> [@The Great Sun Jester](#): > > I don’t take issue with the rest of your post, but this is a ridiculous and needlessly inflammatory assertion. I don’t recall hearing about any unwanted advances unless they came from Ms. Monica “presidential kneepads” Lewinsky herself. Bill was (and likely is and always has been) a philandering megalomaniac and a sub-par father/husband. But the fact angry women came out of the woodwork when it would harm him most seems to suggest he never made (or followed through with) undue perks for handling his meat. Im not sure that you understand what sexual harassment in the workplace is. Te boss is not allowed to engage in sexual activity/banter with his/her underlings.Especially in the workplace. Even if he is from your political party. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tape-recording-from-monica-lewinsky-to-bill-resurfaces/665006/44 "2013-08-01T20:49:20Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Im not sure that you understand what sexual harassment in the workplace is. Te boss is not allowed to engage in sexual activity/banter with his/her underlings.Especially in the workplace. Even if he is from your political party. Unless you are pro-abortion. Then you can even lie under oath about it. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tape-recording-from-monica-lewinsky-to-bill-resurfaces/665006/45 "2013-08-01T21:18:23Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Really? The _ **National Enquirer** _? That sounds more _ **Weekly World News** _ (RIP). There’s a difference? A difference with a distinction? > [@Marley23](#): > > [I don’t know if this is the exact story **Musicat** is talking about](http://weeklyworldnews.com/headlines/2614/us-navy-captures-lake-michigan-monster/), but it’s their style, anyway. That’s certainly the flavor, but the story that sticks in my mind is one from 20 years ago or more, before I understood that “newspapers” could create fictional “news” articles with such impunity, and before _The Onion_ took hold. I might have kept the clipping and I think I tucked it in a loosely related book. Now I just have to find the book. I have a lot of books, so don’t wait up. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tape-recording-from-monica-lewinsky-to-bill-resurfaces/665006/46 "2013-08-01T21:22:58Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > There’s a difference? A difference with a distinction? It’s understandable that they were always lumped together, but there really is a difference. Weekly World News made up crazy shit about Bat Boy (and it now exists only online); the Enquirer posts a lot of gossip with the thinnest possible basis in reality and just enough legally-defensible content to avoid losing tons of lawsuits. They occasional reports real scandalous news. They broke the story about John Edwards’ affair and child in 2008. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tape-recording-from-monica-lewinsky-to-bill-resurfaces/665006/47 "2013-08-02T03:46:25Z")
As long as she doesn’t pick Bat-Boy as her running mate she’ll be OK. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tape-recording-from-monica-lewinsky-to-bill-resurfaces/665006/48 "2013-08-02T08:25:49Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Unless you are pro-abortion. Then you can even lie under oath about it. > > Regards, > Shodan Let’s save the debate of pro/anti abortion for another thread that’s actually about it. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tape-recording-from-monica-lewinsky-to-bill-resurfaces/665006/49 "2013-08-07T12:56:03Z")
> [@The Great Sun Jester](#): > > Ad hominem (I think). Besides, Despite his personal moral shortcomings, I seem to recall Bill handing over a fiscally & diplomatically healthy nation to his successor who, apart from being a bit of a ditz seems to have had no recent skeletons in his closet. And we all know how that turned out. But that whole debate aside–Bill getting a blowjob means Hillary is vulnerable…how? > > And yeah, sorry **ElvisL1ves** , the whole Vince Foster conspiracy thing is my dirty little pleasure. Makes Hillary more interesting. Nope. It’s not an _ad hominem_. That would only make sense if Clinton were making an argument, and tried to use his sexual dalliances to prove him wrong. It’s a legitimate argument, as is your rebuttal. But I’d wonder how often that is the case. We need science to come in and see how often such behavior does in fact show bad decision making in general. The argument sure seems to be holding sway with Anthony Weiner, for example. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tape-recording-from-monica-lewinsky-to-bill-resurfaces/665006.md?page=2)