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When Goldberg turned out to be the brains behind Linda Tripp's scheme to tape Monica Lewinsky, she didn't even try to hide. Instead she said she was coming forward to defend a friend. Tripp, she said, "is heartsick." Speaking at a frenetic news conference outside her New York City apartment, Goldberg added, "If somebody takes a hit at Linda Tripp, they will hear from me." HIT, HIT, HIT.She also expressed sympathy for Lewinsky, but her words struck many listeners as insincere, since the tapings have caused Lewinsky so much anguish.
Born Lucianne Steinberger in 1935, Goldberg grew up outside Washington, where her father worked as a government physicist. She wrote a gossip column for the local paper and worked for Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. (Of L.B.J., she told PEOPLE in 1992, "He used to twist your nipple in the elevator and think it was a sexy move.")
At some point her political allegiances changed--Goldberg's spying on behalf of the 1972 Nixon re-election effort has been widely reported--and she left politics for the more lucrative world of publishing. It was no less a shark tank: tell-all biographer Kitty Kelley, a former client, sued Goldberg in the early 1980s for fraud and other infractions in connection with Kelley's biography of Elizabeth Taylor. Although a judge overturned the fraud portion of the jury verdict against Goldberg, he awarded Kelley $41,000 in damages and costs.
During the Clinton years, Goldberg reportedly represented Dolly Kyle Browning, yet another woman alleging a Clinton affair (one debunked by critics). She also tried to get a book deal for the Arkansas state troopers who said they procured women for then Governor Clinton. Goldberg says she met Tripp in 1994 after she found an author to write a book about the death of Vincent Foster. Foster was probably murdered because he defended the Clintons and Goldbeg'seffort to control the narrative was obviosly self-serving.
Goldberg was able to move anti-Clinton propaganda from the tabloids to the mainstream news through Michael Isikoff, who helped break the Lewinsky scandal. Isikoff visited her apartment frequently, and while their private conversations will never be disclosed, she wasn't squeamish about blasting Clinton openly. "What I'm glad about is he's getting caught," she told the Washington Post. "At something. If it took this to get him, fine." If all the President's men come after her the way they've attacked Tripp, she added, "I'd be on the lawn of the White House with a deer rifle." She's prepared to weather criticism of her motives. "I can take the hits," she told CNN. "I'm a rich old lady."
Beyond rich, she is ONE CRAFTY FOX ! Despite the fact that Lucianne Goldberg and Michael Isikoff moved the Lewinsky scandal from the tabloid trash genre to the mainstream media, she lambasted Michael Isikoff through comments like, "It must be difficult to type and cover one's butt at the same time." Clearly, Isikoff was Goldberg's favorite "investigative journalist", and propagandists like Goldberg are understood, not by the propaganda they generate, but by their intentions, and they are very clear.
Needless to say, since her alliance with Nixon, she has been a virulent, Kennedy hater, and she is even responsible for corralling the forces that are responsible for the conviction of Michael Skakel -an inexcusable travesty of justice that must be reversed, for the sake of restoring credibility to the justice system.
The ludicrous claim that Michael Skakel is responsible for the murder of Martha Moxley is clearly not justifiable and it is not acceptable to anybody who is reasonable or who is concerned about the quality of justice.
The system is not perfect, mistakes are frequent, but they do not become errors until we fail to correct them.
On August 17, 2009, while the world paid tribute to the Lion in the Senate, Lucianne Goldberg's homepage highlighted the heading, Kennedy and
Chappaquiddick--in the Obits.
Isn't that interesting? Chappaquiddick was the staged accident which was supposed to claim the life of Ted Kennedy,
It looks like Lucianne Goldberg is frustrated because God proved to be bigger than she is.
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