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With Shine and Sling Blade --films about men damaged by their abusive fathers--nominated for Best Picture, and Kathryn Harrison's The Kiss moving up the best-seller list, conservatives want to tell you: We were abused too.
"It's going to be hugely beneficial for our clients," said Candace Waldron, executive director of Help for Abused Women and their Children.
Would I help her get the story out through Isikoff and Newsweek ? Long a defender of the women I knew Clinton had abused, most particularly Gennifer Flowers, I jumped at the chance to be involved.
So why doesn't anyone worry about their being abused?
According to the story, Tripp says she betrayed Monica Lewinsky to save her from being abused by President Clinton.