'No Labels' Avlon Blasts Lewinsky 'Witch Hunt' Against Bill Clinton

Matthew Balan | October 21, 2014
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[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]

John Avlon, who has modeled himself as a "no labels" moderate, acted as a liberal on Tuesday's New Day on CNN, as he gave his take on Monica Lewinsky's recent "cyberbullying" speech. Avlon praised the "so thoughtful and funny speech, and contended that "it reminds us 16 years after that constitutional crisis – that celebrity-driven scandal – the human collateral damage in that political witch hunt."

To his credit, left-leaning anchor Chris Cuomo questioned the Daily Beast editor-in-chief's labeling: "Witch hunt? How is it a witch hunt?" Avlon explained that the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal and related impeachment proceedings were "a politically-motivated investigation to de-legitimize a duly-elected president of an opposition party, and whoever was caught in that crossfire was considered collateral damage. And there was an element of shaming; of humiliation; of cyberbullying, as she said. And she was patient zero, to some extent."

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