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_______________ THE BIG BABY BY JOAN WALSH, _______________ MONICA'S NIGHTMARE BY CHARLES TAYLOR AND _______________ STARRING MONICA LEWINSKY, AS HERSELF BY LIESL SCHILLINGER (03/12/99)
	Given the number of times in the last two months you folks have talked about how media folks at, say, MSNBC, spend too much time on Monica, you've moved past even talking about Monica into an unceasing orgy of talking about talking about Monica. While this does let us all chuckle a lot at how dumb the media are, it's ultimately not that much more interesting! Could we get off the all-Monica channel? Please? When will Salon start to write features about something I don't already know more than I ever wanted to? What's new in Indonesia? When do we get another feature from Korea? Tell me something new, please! -- Dan Brown All the reviews of "Monica's Story" I have read make a point of saying that her "apology" for her affair with Clinton and its repercussions "rings hollow." Jesus! What in the world has she to apologize for? The fact is that she and the president were the major losers in this fiasco, not the American people. If we believe that President Clinton shouldn't be impeached or punished for having had what was a rather tame and consensual extramarital affair, why should Monica be made to suffer or feel guilty? To read the same sort of rubbish in Salon makes me wonder if you haven't learned the most important lesson from this debacle: What folks do in the bedroom (or office, or hall, or car ...) is nobody else's business, and if they want to make a buck doing it, it still ain't your business. The only apology I want to hear is from the press, who helped to create this "scandal" and who kept the pot boiling whenever it threatened to simmer down. -- Martin Braun Enough with Monica Lewinsky already. She gave the president a blow job. So fucking what? I was over it long ago. I suggest you get over it and get back to reporting about what's happening in the world now, or else I will switch my start-up page to the Drudge Report. -- Jordan Lowy Friday's Salon cover features a picture of Monica Lewinsky with the caption "Who is this woman?" Linked to this headline are three stories, none of which I bothered to read, because frankly, I don't care! Nor do I see why anyone else would! Is Salon really so short on serious subjects that they need to trot out Circus Monicus for another show? Stop the madness! -- J. Kremer SALON | March 17, 1999

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