Bob Shrum: The Clintons Had Nothing to Do With Vanity Fair’s Lewinsky Interview

SHRUM: "I think Lynn Cheney is way off-base -- of course she doesn't have a scintilla of evidence -- when she suggests somehow or other that Hillary Clinton put vanity fair up to doing this to get it out of the way. I don't think it will have any impact whatsoever on Hillary Clinton if she runs and I think she will run. I think people have already factored this in and understand it. It's 17 years ago that we're now talking about when this stuff occurred going on of course into impeachment. And I think the only reason this is getting as much attention because -- I think Beth is completely right. Monica Lewinsky, for whom this I suspect this was traumatic and every right to have her say, tried several times in the past to define this. But it's been a long time. It's been ten, 15 years. So now it's getting a lot more attention."
FARROW: "And I tend to degree about the link to Hillary Clinton being overplayed. I mean, clearly this is an important part of that family's personal history. But beyond that, it's unclear how it actually links up to anything meaningful in her political reputation. I mean, this is a woman for whom the tea leaves of standing by her man, et cetera, et cetera, have been read, and read, and read again. But ultimately she is a woman who has been doing her own thing and lived through this on a private level. So we'll see if that's actually how it's taken."