Media turn on Hillary Clinton after she exempts Bill from the #MeToo movement
by Eddie Scarry
| October 17, 2018 05:00 PM
Several members of the national media turned on Hillary Clinton this week after she said in a recent interview that her husband should not have suffered the same fate as so many powerful men have under the #MeToo movement.
Hillary Clinton said Sunday on CBS that former president Bill Clinton should not have resigned in 1998 when it became public that he was having an affair with then-White House intern. “Absolutely not,†Hillary Clinton said.
Asked if there was any abuse of power by her husband with Lewinsky, who was 22 years old at the time, Hillary Clinton said there was not, because Lewinsky "was an adult.â€
But her remarks didn't fly with several reporters, and struck many as out of place in an era when dozens of male entertainment celebrities, elected officials and media figures are resigning from their positions or losing their jobs because women have accused them of sexual harassment or assault.
A Vanity Fair headline said Clinton proved “she still hasn’t learned the lessons of #MeToo.â€
The article’s author, Kenzie Bryant, wrote that, “
n that moment, Clinton took a page out of Trump’s book, deflecting attention away from herself and onto her onetime opponent.â€
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