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Slow Burn

The Clinton Impeachment | 7. Bedfellows

Slow Burn

Slate Audio

Politics, Society & Culture, History, News, Documentary

4.6 • 25.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Today it’s conventional wisdom that all feminists hypocritically turned their backs on Monica Lewinsky. In fact, the scandal provoked an intense debate within the feminist movement about sex, power, and consent. For some, it was obvious that Clinton had victimized Lewinsky and needed to be thrown overboard. For others, it was just as obvious that the scandal was part of a political war in which Clinton was the good guy. In the seventh episode of our series on Clinton’s impeachment, Leon Neyfakh excavates the arguments and ideas that divided liberals—and feminists in particular—at the height of the scandal. This episode is member-exclusive. Listen to it now by joining Slate Plus. As a member, you'll unlock full, ad-free access to Slow Burn and your other favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Slow Burn show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/slowburnplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Lisa Chase and all her friends. podcast contains explicit language.

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Lisa Chase and all her friends loved Bill Clinton from the beginning.

0:37.0

After a lot of years in the political wilderness,

0:40.0

if you were a liberal Democrat in Manhattan in 1993,

0:43.0

but Clinton was what you dreamed of, you know,

0:45.6

that kind of voluble intelligence that he had was like a,

0:49.7

that was an aphrodisiac for, I think,

0:51.9

lots of people, women and men.

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Chase spent the second half of the 1990s working as an editor at the New York Observer,

0:58.0

a small weekly newspaper known for covering Manhattan Society in columns like Sex in the City, which became an

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HBO series. Chase was a liberal in her 30s, and as a woman she always thought of

1:09.2

Bill Clinton as being on her side. A lot of feminists did because broadly speaking his policies

1:15.0

reflected the agenda of the women's movement. That's not to say all left-leaning

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