--- title: Joe Scarborough Defends Monica Lewinsky in Epic Morning Joe Rant description: Joe Scarborough doesn't hesitate to share his outrage over the treatment of disgraced former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. canonical: https://time.com/90697/morning-joe-monica-lewinsky/ author: Kelly Conniff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-07T15:01:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:55:15.308Z og:title: Watch This Epic Rant Defending Monica Lewinsky og:description: Joe Scarborough doesn't hesitate to share his outrage over the treatment of disgraced former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. og:url: https://time.com/90697/morning-joe-monica-lewinsky/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch This Epic Rant Defending Monica Lewinsky twitter:description: Joe Scarborough doesn't hesitate to share his outrage over the treatment of disgraced former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch This Epic Rant by a Conservative Defending Monica Lewinsky  by [Kelly Conniff](https://time.com/author/kelly-conniff/)  ## Kelly Conniff Conniff is deputy editor at TIME. May 7, 2014 3:01 PM UTC  by [Kelly Conniff](https://time.com/author/kelly-conniff/)  ## Kelly Conniff Conniff is deputy editor at TIME. May 7, 2014 3:01 PM UTC On today’s _Morning Joe_, co-host Joe Scarborough, a former Republican congressman delivered a powerful tirade about women, the media and slut shaming. Scarborough spoke out about the press’ treatment of Monica Lewinsky in the wake of her recent [Vanity Fair tell-all](http://time.com/89292/monica-lewinsky-bill-clinton-vanity-fair/) about her infamous affair with former President Bill Clinton. Scarborough condemned the power dynamic between young women and powerful men, saying that women who claim they are for women’s rights had no problem blaming Monica Lewinsky who was 22 at the time of the affair. He had particular ire for female columnists like the New York _Post’s_ [Andrea Peyser](http://nypost.com/2014/05/07/a-plea-for-self-pitying-tone-deaf-monica-lewinsky-to-go-away/) who he says are piling on Monica Lewinsky today. “For anyone who has a daughter that has anything to do with these attacks on Monica Lewinsky,” he said, “ask yourself what you would do if your daughter lived in shame and was a punch line for 18 years?” Read more of [TIME’s coverage](http://topics.time.com/monica-lewinsky/) of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/90697/morning-joe-monica-lewinsky/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/90697/morning-joe-monica-lewinsky/"},"headline":"Watch This Epic Rant by a Conservative Defending Monica Lewinsky","datePublished":"2014-05-07T15:01:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:55:15.308Z","description":"Joe Scarborough doesn't hesitate to share his outrage over the treatment of disgraced former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.","url":"https://time.com/90697/morning-joe-monica-lewinsky/","keywords":["Living","Media","Monica Lewinsky","Bill Clinton","Vanity Fair"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kelly Conniff","jobTitle":"Conniff is deputy editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/kelly-conniff/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/90697/morning-joe-monica-lewinsky/","name":"Watch This Epic Rant by a Conservative Defending Monica Lewinsky"}}]}] ```