Sometimes, the best education occurs outside the classroom.

The truth of this adage can be found as The College Fix editor Nathan Harden reviews reports of a student intern involved in Anthony Wiener’s mayoral campaign.

What is it about Democratic politicians and their interns?

The media has been abuzz this week with the exploits of one Olivia Nuzzi–a lowly college student who began interning for Anthony Weiner’s mayoral campaign a number of weeks ago.

Nuzzi quit the campaign and penned a tell-all story for the New York Daily News, basically trashing the campaign and the candidate, saying many staff were there simply to jockey for a connection to Hillary Clinton.

“I’m here because of Huma,” Clay Adam Wade, a junior staffer, explained to me.

The sentiment was repeated to me again by some fellow interns.

Their hope was to make a connection with Weiner’s wife, Huma Abedin, and thus forge a potential connection to her longtime boss, Hillary Clinton, to get an inside track for a campaign position if she ran for president in 2016…

Nuzzi then lowers the boom on the candidate himself, citing the recent revelations of Weiner’s ongoing sexting exploits, following the original crotch-shot scandal that led him to resign from Congress.

The question of what they are all doing there now has been on many people’s minds after the revelations last week about things everybody thought had already been fully revealed.

Who would work on a campaign like this?

When we think of an intern bringing down a politician, we can’t help but recall the Monica Lewinsky scandal, which nearly brought down Bill Clinton years ago. Of course, Anthony Weiner’s unfortunate wife, Huma Adedin, is a top aid to Hillary Clinton–so the analogies and parallels pretty much jump out and hit you in the face.

Now, word is, there’s a new Monica Lewinsky/Bill Clinton sex tape out–It’s four minutes of the 24-year-old begging the president to meet her. “I could take all my clothes off.” etc. etc. etc. “15 minutes or half an hour. Whatever you want.” etc. etc. etc.

This is sad.

But it shows that these days the power of the media allows an unknown college intern to level a powerful blow against a politician, if she has cause–and evidence.