April 12, 2019 - NEW YORK (JTA) — Monica Lewinsky’s beret became famous during the Bill Clinton scandal in the late 1990s. But she says she started wearing it earlier in life.

Wag the Dog is a movie about a White House that fakes going to war in Albania to bury the news of a President’s sex scandal. Exactly one month after the movie was released, the Monica Lewinsky affair was first made public.

June 11, 2015 - "Sure, my boss took advantage of me, but I will always remain firm on this point: it was a consensual relationship," she writes in Vanity Fair.

During the final weeks of a presidential race, the President is accused of sexual misconduct. To distract the public until the election, the President's adviser hires a Hollywood producer to help him stage a fake war.

December 14, 1998 - Former intern Monica Lewinsky purchases new beret, similar to that shown in her photos with Pres Clinton, from trendy Fred Segal shop in Santa Monica, Calif (S)

Lewinsky, who has become an anti-bullying activist in the decades since the scandal, treated the crowd to what she called “Monica Lewinsky Jewish trivia.”

December 25, 1997 - Two weeks prior to reelection, the United States president lands in the middle of a sex scandal. In need of outside help to quell the situation, presidential adviser Winifred Ames (Anne Heche) enlists the expertise of spin doctor Conrad Brean (Robert De Niro), who decides a distraction is the ...

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May 6, 2014 - Saying that “it’s time to burn the beret and bury the blue dress,” Monica Lewinsky is writing for the first time about her affair with Bill Clinton.

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May 6, 2014 - Breaking a decade of silence, the former White House intern writes in Vanity Fair about her affair with former President Bill Clinton

January 19, 2017 - The dark comedy about a president accused of groping a Girl Scout in the Oval Office was released just weeks before Clinton's relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky was revealed: Writer David Mamet "was trying to think of something that would never happen in real life," New Line's ...

November 5, 2021 - Dr Mark’s The Meaning in a Nutshell Barry Levinson (director), David Mamet and Hilary Henkin (writers), Wag the Dog (1997) …

The President Of The United States is found having a quick shag so a spin doctor stages a war to divert attention from the Prez's zipper. At the time of writing, Bill Clinton's (alleged) dalliance with Monica Lewinsky is practically old news as he seeks to flex his political muscles in the ...

Of course, Wag the Dog became just another shard in the media mosaic when Monica Lewinsky became suddenly Starr-crossed last January and the Clinton administration started poking Iraq in the chest.

March 31, 2022 - To promote the just-launched Kickstarter campaign for The Fractured Mirror book we’re running an entry from it on the classic show-biz political satire Wag the Dog.

July 5, 2005 - American Foreign Policy Explained by Ryan McMaken by Ryan McMaken Wag the Dog: Platinum Edition (2003) New Line Home Entertainment When it was first released in 1997, Barry Levinson’s film Wag the Dog was a hit among Conservatives. Many saw it as commentary on the Clinton administration’s ...

So, why did we invade Grenada? A terrorist bomb killed all those Marines in Beirut, the White House was taking flak, and suddenly our Marines were landing on

June 23, 2020 - Wag The Dog’s portrait of political shamelessness doesn’t look so exaggerated anymore