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  • noun the Monica Lewinsky scandal

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Examples

  • I defended you in Monicagate/Impeachment to the very end.

    Bill Clinton says race card allegation 'revolting strategy' 2008

  • But I will say that I think it's telling that the author starts off talking about things like Vietnam and Watergate (and … "Monicagate" -- OMG) and then immediately begins doing what cons love to do more than anything else in the world --- bitch and moan about how the world is evil because their taxes are too high, or there's too much goverment oversight (which they always seem to forget runs counter to the reason they aren't in power now) infringing upon their ability to treat the planet like a toilet and profit as much as possible from perpetual war.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • But I will say that I think it's telling that the author starts off talking about things like Vietnam and Watergate (and … "Monicagate" -- OMG) and then immediately begins doing what cons love to do more than anything else in the world --- bitch and moan about how the world is evil because their taxes are too high, or there's too much goverment oversight (which they always seem to forget runs counter to the reason they aren't in power now) infringing upon their ability to treat the planet like a toilet and profit as much as possible from perpetual war.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • But I will say that I think it's telling that the author starts off talking about things like Vietnam and Watergate (and … "Monicagate" -- OMG) and then immediately begins doing what cons love to do more than anything else in the world --- bitch and moan about how the world is evil because their taxes are too high, or there's too much goverment oversight (which they always seem to forget runs counter to the reason they aren't in power now) infringing upon their ability to treat the planet like a toilet and profit as much as possible from perpetual war.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • But I will say that I think it's telling that the author starts off talking about things like Vietnam and Watergate (and … "Monicagate" -- OMG) and then immediately begins doing what cons love to do more than anything else in the world --- bitch and moan about how the world is evil because their taxes are too high, or there's too much goverment oversight (which they always seem to forget runs counter to the reason they aren't in power now) infringing upon their ability to treat the planet like a toilet and profit as much as possible from perpetual war.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • I thought he made his bones bludgeoning Bill Clinton during "Monicagate"?

    Obama Camp On New Hillary Ad: "We Already Have A President Who Plays The Politics Of Fear" 2009

  • It was the majority of the American people who kept "Monicagate" in sensible perspective while archdeacons of capital wisdom such as David Broder worked themselves up to a fine moral lather, and it was the majority of the American people who faced reality and turned against the war in Iraq while the archdeacons frittered and fence-straddled.

    An Unforgettable Face Wolcott, James 2007

  • It was the majority of the American people who kept "Monicagate" in sensible perspective while archdeacons of capital wisdom such as David Broder worked themselves up to a fine moral lather, and it was the majority of the American people who faced reality and turned against the war in Iraq while the archdeacons frittered and fence-straddled.

    An Unforgettable Face Wolcott, James 2007

  • STARTING POINTLinda Tripp launches "Monicagate" in 1998 after she secretly records Pentagon pal Lewinsky's tales of a sexual affair with President Bill Clinton, then hands the tapes over to independent counsel Kenneth Starr.

    It’s Christmas Every Day 2007

  • I suspect that, unlike "Monicagate," this will have only one outcome: a further erosion of support for the president.

    Yep, "Gannon" is getting to be Bush's Lewinsky... Mumon 2005

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