It is interesting to note that Lucianne Goldberg began her slimy career posing as a journalist on the payroll of Nixon's Committee to Re-Elect the President (aka CREEP) trying
to dig up dirt on the Democrats. What Shafer doesn't mention, however, is that Goldberg really earned her mudslinging stripes as the instigator of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. It was Goldberg who urged Linda Tripp to make secret tape recordings of her conversations with Monica Lewinsky, Tripp's co-worker. It was Goldberg who, through Tripp, convinced Lewinsky to save her semen-stained dress, and who convinced Tripp to submit her tapes to Ken Starr. Although Starr was originally appointed to investigate an obscure land deal, he was really engaged in a fishing expedition to find dirt on Bill Clinton. Thanks to former CREEPster Goldberg, he got it, and the country was treated to the spectacle of Congress impeaching a president for lying about a blowjob. Somewhere in Hell, Richard Nixon must have been smiling.

You are not a partisan,right!

You'd think some on here would have found worth in Goldberg's advice aimed at protecting Tripp - Goldberg being a longtime DC insider knew full well the slander and worse that happened to women who were inconvenient to the Clinton administration.

And on goes the narrative that that scandal was all about "lying about a blowjob" and everyone's fault except for Clinton's.

Seems to me Clinton's girlfriends were treated pretty decently. They were given meaningless jobs for which they were not qualified, but paid pretty well. They made money selling their stories to tabloids, and they made money when they hooked up with the Republican scandal machine. Of course, they were attacked by the Clinton machine when they went public, but I don't recall Clinton firing the first shot in any of those skirmishes. The Clinton Girls are all minor celebrities now, still trying to add a few seconds to their fifteen minutes of fame and enjoying the victimization limelight. They haven't died in mysterious suicides or anything like that.

I would be more sympathetic to Linda Tripp's fears of testifying in the Paula Jones lawsuit against Bill Clinton if that suit in itself was not a hatchet job funded by the right wing smear machine, later to be thrown out of court. In fact, David Brock, the author of the article in The American Spectator that became the basis for Jones' lawsuit was so ashamed of the wrongs committed by the right wing's lunatic fringe that he became an apostate, confessing to his own misdeeds while in their employ and working to expose their sins ever since.