It's been decades since former President Bill Clinton and former White House intern Monica Lewinsky's "inappropriate relationship" came to light. But it seems like ABC's "The View" host Rosie O'Donnell is still sour about Clinton's presidential misdeeds.
On Tuesday's show, the topic of discussion revolved around Lewinsky's recent emergence into the limelight regarding her role as the mistress in Clinton's late-90's extramarital affair, Breitbart reported. More specifically, remarks were exchanged among hosts about a public speech the 41-year-old made in support of a campaign against cyberbullying.
While narrating a 2002 incident, O'Donnell made her displeasure with Clinton apparent as she talked about snubbing him at a public event because she thought he emerged from the sex scandal scar-free while Lewinsky's reputation got tarnished.
"I love Monica Lewinsky and in 2002 I was opening the Mohegan Sun, and President Clinton was there. As well as Aretha Franklin and Cher. And the Secret Service came over and said President Clinton would like to speak to you, and I said I really can't right now, at the moment. And they said he really wanted to speak with me, and I said I really can't," she said.
"And I went onstage and I did a little bit about it, and I said Monica's walking around the world with the 'Scarlett Letter' A on her forehead and he's laughing his way through his life. I just didn't think it was fair," O'Donnell continued. "She wrote me a letter. And she said that I was the first public official -- public person -- that stood up for her, in 2002."
"But I think she's an amazing woman and if it was a company like GE, he would have been prosecuted, because you're not allowed to have sex with-," she said.
Co-host Whoopi Goldberg instantly corrected O'Donnell, Mediaite reported.
"He was prosecuted," she said, referring to the House Republicans who successfully led the impeachment effort against Clinton. "Didn't we? He was impeached."
But O'Donnell wasn't satisfied, claiming that a private corporation's chief executive would have suffered much more dire consequences.
"If it was a company, I think corporately, the corporation would have said, you know, you're out. You're not allowed to have sex with anyone in your line of duty. Right, your chain of command," she stated.
