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think it was hilarious to cast John Goodman in drag as Linda Tripp. That cheered me up. |’ ve been simultaneously depressed, scared and, strangely enough, exhilarated. As an instant celebrity, I' ve learned that everybody always sees everybody else through their own _ particular filters. Democrats, Republicans, men, women, the other interns—all perceive me subjectively. For a manufacturer of novelty items, | was simply a disembodied inspiration for the marketing of “Presidential Kneepads.” And _ for Penthouse magazine, | would only be considered their next notorious masturbation enhancer. In the eyes of the media—from NBC News to Mghtline, from TIME magazine to People, from the New York Times to the National Enquirer, from the Washington Post to Entertainment Tonight—| am purely a commodity. Naturally, | believe in the First Amendment, so I’ m against censorship. All I’ m saying is that while America is achieving adolescence publicly, the tabloids have won the war. The battleground is like an ongoing contemporary Shakespearean tragicomedy, but there is no script, there is no producer, there is no director. There is only the process of everyone’ s karma interacting. | recall HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015146