65 Comments

1. Maggie:

Maybe the absent-minded extortionist is in on the ratings goosing scheme…

Oct 7, 2009 - 12:18 pm 2. Rich Vail:

Roger,
I haven’t watched Letterman on purpose since the early 90’s, and only watched him prior to that by accident. I didn’t think he was funny then, and I think he’s only become nastier since. I’m not at all surprised that he’s been screwing the help. He does it to prop up his ego, which must be monumental.

As for Polanski? I hope that he gets serious gaol time for his crime…

Oct 7, 2009 - 12:42 pm 3. hermie:

It’s not the adultery, it’s his using his position as the employer to engage in sexual relations with his employees. In any other business, this would result in disciplinary action against the employer, plus a slew of sexual harrassment lawsuits.

Oct 7, 2009 - 1:28 pm 4. Minerva:

Roger, hope some day very soon you will be seated at the “Red Eye” panel table or at least appear by remote.

Oct 7, 2009 - 1:33 pm 5. Roger L Simon:

Minerva, I already have:

http://www.foxnews.com/video/?playerId=videolandingpage&referralObject=3560669

Oct 7, 2009 - 3:12 pm 6. Victor Erimita:

Letterman has been phoning in his show for many years. He obviously hates doing it. And he is yet another of our contemporary “comics” who ooze contempt for everything and everyone from every pore. He exudes disdain and bordom on his show. It’s amazing anyone still watches him, in my opinion.

And now, like so many other “comics” he has become “more political.” Rehashing the same soul numbing lefty fever dreams every night. How daring and relevant, Dave. I watched the night of the confession, just to see how much he writhed (he actually appeared more at ease than he usually does.) Otherwise, I have found him unwatchable for many years. Boring, mildly disturbing, sad.

Oct 7, 2009 - 3:49 pm 7. John Moore:

Red-Eye?

It seems aimed at the nerdy adolescent. It’s fully of idiotic barely-non-pornographic jokes and adults pretending to be drunk or stoned juveniles! Gutfeld is capable of reasoned discourse – his writing shows it – but he reduces himself to a fool on that show.

The only thing good about it is a conservative viewpoint, and once a famous guest named Simon, or something like that.

Oct 7, 2009 - 6:09 pm 8. Barry Dauphin:

With respect to Letterman, the solution is simple: don’t watch him. Back in the 80s, he was hilarious and fresh. After moving to CBS, the show had its moments, but it has been moribund for a good 8-10 years now. Dave is simply smug and has long since worn out his welcome. Comedy shows need to be funny or they are unwatchable. A mediocre drama might not be great but you can tolerate watch it. But unfunny comedy is sheer torture for the viewer. Dave is not funny. He can join Bill Maher in the used-to-be-funny-until-taking-themselves-seriously category. Dave reeks of narcissism. Let the vulture pick him clean and let us move on to interesting things.

Oct 7, 2009 - 7:17 pm 9. Steve:

I didn’t know a Kindle edition of your new book Blacklisting Myself is available.

Oct 7, 2009 - 7:21 pm 10. David Thomson:

“Of course, right now the Letterman Show is hotter…”

That’s probably only temporary. I expect him to be gone in less than six months. Even many left leaning people feel awkward and uneasy about his diddling the help. One young lady had some of her school bills paid by Letterman. What other favors—or punishments occurred? He also can no longer really joke about the sexual peccadillos of others. This is really a serious liability for someone in his shoes. Try to imagine Letterman joking about Sarah Palin sometime in the near future. It would go over like the proverbial lead balloon.

Oct 7, 2009 - 8:57 pm 11. Alan Kellogg:

Hermie, #4

You were there, you saw everything that went down. You have evidence that Letterman coerced consent to sexual activity out of the women, and can produced it in a court of law. .

You can show conclusively that underlings do not engage in romancing the boss for any number of reasons. You can demonstrate that sexual activity between unequal parties is never voluntary, but the result of dominating behavior on the part of the superior party.

You can demonstrate that David Letterman used techniques and tactics employed by sexual predators. You have proof positive the women feared for their positions, feared for their jobs, feared for their reputations. You can convince a jury of your peers David Letterman engaged in sexual activity with workers and interns on his show against their will.

You do not have a verbalizing rectum.

Thank you for your participation, don’t let reality catch you on your ass as you walk out the door.

Oct 8, 2009 - 1:10 am 12. alex:

David Letterman…seriously..?

Why isnt there an article on “American Police Force” and how this Serbian company nearly took over city / County / State of Montana..?

How about the US treasury debating the sanctions on Iran…why is the US treasury debating Foreign Policy..??

How does DHS strip an Arizona Sheriff of law enforcement authority??

How about JointVision 2020, US military strategy for the next decade??

David Letterman…seriously.

Oct 8, 2009 - 2:55 am 13. carla:

Pond scum tends to accumulate on the surface. It tends not to last long, though.

ALEX: take a break. you seem to be a bit overwrought. Life’s a bitch, and then you die.

Oct 8, 2009 - 3:15 am 14. vivo:

Letterman’s show is funny and entertaining.

People should stay out of other people’s sex and private lives. Who cares who’s mating with whom? Maybe voyeurists do . . .

Self revelations are one thing; otherwise, stay out.

Oct 8, 2009 - 4:01 am 15. Locomotive Breath:

vivo obviously missed the part where the definition of sexual harassment is the boss screwing the help. Just like Bill Clinton, Letterman will get away with it because he’s a lefty.

Oct 8, 2009 - 4:19 am 16. MP51:

Alan, it appears from your name that you are NOT a woman, so please STFU. You have no idea what you are talking about, and you’re smug and nasty to boot.

This was a powerful and famous man, decades older than his prey. And even if the women did consent, they WERE prey. Any woman who is approached sexually by her boss doesn’t have to take the time to consider whether she might be fired if she resists, or be promoted if she complies. She already knows the score on a subconscious level. He’s got all the power, she’s got none. Letterman selfishly fished in his own pond for a very good reason. The circumstances were all in his favor. He’s insecure and couldn’t stand the idea of being rejected. He’s a manipulator, and a coward. He didn’t want to risk detection by fishing in the community pond. So he picked the easiest possible targets who “owed” him.

Do you think the other office personnel didn’t know what was going on? That the boss was favoring those who favored him? He created a poisonous workplace environment, and then strolled out on stage every night and took potshots at others for their sexual escapades. All for laughs, right? Dave isn’t a hypocrite and a letch. He’s just a comedian. Ha, ha.

What most angers me is the fact that he sanctimoniously sat in judgment of a teenaged girl (and her mother) who made a mistake and became pregnant, when he, as an adult in his late 50’s, knocked up his longtime girlfriend, continued to carry on at least one affair after the baby was born, and then delayed marrying the baby’s mother for another five years. What a guy. No wonder he is paid millions.

Letterman is amoral at best, immoral at worst. As far as I’m concerned, so is anyone who defends or excuses him–or implicitly condones his behavior by sitting in his audience. Hopefully, he won’t have an audience much longer.

Oct 8, 2009 - 4:22 am 17. RE:

Does anyone else remember what a class act Johnny Carson was?

To me, Johnny Carson was a excellent representative of what America once was.

And David Letterman is an excellent example of what our society has devolved into.

We now have an entire generation that does not even realize that humor does not have to come at somebody else’s expense and does not have to be mean spirited.

Nastiness and sleaze is the new norm. We have people like Letterman to thank for it.

Oct 8, 2009 - 4:27 am 18. alex:

Hello Carla, thank you for the response.

For all the soul searching on this site, there is really overwhelming amount of fluff. This Country has serious problems, none of which have anything to do with David Letterman.

China will overtake US economy in 2 decades or less, the way things are going it will be much less. Industrial capacity has been gutted over the last 25 years, high tech research has so many restrictions placed on it scientists and researchers are leaving for greener pastures taking opportunity with them. To top it all The Federal Reserve is a cesspool of Corruption and bribery and legislators are too afraid to confront them.

China see’s Business as something to nurture and allowed to flourish. USA see’s business as a tool to generate tax base. The business model China uses rewards business, not penalizing like the USA.

We have opportunity to solve real problems in this country, instead people are so obsessed with who did what we are losing an economic war being waged in front of us.

Oct 8, 2009 - 5:04 am 19. rachel peepers:

Let’s crystal ball it two years into the future.

Somebody at the water cooler pipes up, “catch the new guy doing late night talk? He reminds me of Letterman.”

OTHER PERSON:

Letterman? Wasn’t he the guy who used to…..

Oct 8, 2009 - 5:24 am 20. David Thomson:

“You can demonstrate that David Letterman used techniques and tactics employed by sexual predators.”

The fact that David Letterman allegedly paid the school bills of one woman employee he slept with places him and CBS in a very awkward situation. A jury only has to be convinced that an environment of tacit coercion existed. You can say all you want—but the odds are very high that CBS is contacting many women who worked with Letterman and offering them out of court settlements based on them signing a confidentiality agreement.

“For all the soul searching on this site, there is really overwhelming amount of fluff.”

Would you be saying the same thing if this scandal involved Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck? Somehow I doubt it.

Oct 8, 2009 - 5:25 am 21. carla:

VIVO: As usual, you just don’t get it. I don’t care if Letterman has intmate relations with sheep. He’s just a sign of the moral decay eating away at our society. Polanski can drug and sodomize a thirteen year old, Allen can bed the teenage daughter of his girlfriend, Michael Jackson can have bedroom romps with prepubescent boys, Barney Frank can allow the male hooker he picked up set up a child porn ring from his basement, Clinton can enjoy blowjobs in the Oval Offcie…….and Letterman can make jokes about betraying his wife and child….and none of this disturbs you? It’s just evidence of a healthy libido? It’s private? Well, not really because these are all very public men. And you don’t have to be a religious fanatic or prude to recognize how disgusting and destructive there behaviour is. Morality is not an option. Unless you believe that everything is acceptable and nothing is taboo. Do you? Is that what you teach your kids? Is that how you conduct your personal affairs?

Oct 8, 2009 - 5:26 am 22. MarkD:

I haven’t watched late night TV in decades. I don’t think I’ll start now.

When the news became all opinion all the time, I tuned out.

Alex is right, this is the equivalent of the old Roman Circus. Ancient Rome didn’t fare too well, but nobody reads Gibbons anymore. Well, you cannot avoid the lessons of history.

Oct 8, 2009 - 5:29 am 23. NCBob:

Letterman is a sleaze! I always assumed he was having sex with members of his staff but I assumed it was Paul Shafer and that red headed guy with the deep voice.
Is Letterman’s son safe from him?

Oct 8, 2009 - 5:33 am 24. alex:

#17 David, thank you for response;

The problem is equating fluffy stories about sex with real world problems facing the USA. If glenn Beck and rush Limbaugh want to have sex who cares…let them.

In the meantime people are playing fiddles while USA is starting to burn.

Oct 8, 2009 - 5:41 am 25. Pajamas Media » For David Letterman, Adultery Pays:

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Oct 8, 2009 - 6:03 am 26. marsouin:

As Progressives (socailists) never claim being faithful to one’s spouse as a virtue, they are releived of any accusation of hypocrisy.

Oct 8, 2009 - 6:25 am 27. Francis W. Porretto:

At least one good point has been made here: it’s inappropriate to treat sexual behavior, including one’s own dalliances (if any), as public matters. The phrase “prurient interest” comes to mind.

I have no doubt that many figures in the entertainment world have sinned more grievously than David Letterman. His problems from his recent revelations arise from three sources.

First, he was the nominal employer of several of the women he romanced. They might well have been willing and eager for his attentions; the superior / subordinate relationship casts a dark shadow over all such intimacies.

Second, he was being extorted by someone in the know. That’s a serious crime, and crimes tend to have more than one victim. In this case, our sense of the proprieties is on the list of the wounded. We’d have preferred not to know.

Third, Letterman has become notorious for nasty comments about other people’s sex lives. Sarah Palin and her daughters are only the best known cases. He’s verbally abusive about the very behavior he’s been compelled by circumstances to admit. So even if all the rest of this tawdry affair were completely dismissible, we must ask why his conscience didn’t twinge him about those foci of his “humor.”

This makes it hard for me to feel sympathy for Letterman. But I must close with an observation about discretion — what some would call hypocrisy.

Hypocrisy has been called “the tribute vice pays to virtue.” It sometimes seems to be the only offense the Left recognizes; convenient for them, since they acknowledge no standards of their own. But the flesh is weak; we’ve known this for millennia. Temptation is constant and ubiquitous, especially temptation to sexual excesses. The appropriate attitude is to promulgate a good standard in public, and demand discretion of those who violate it in private. Those whose peccadilloes become public should be expected to show contrition even if they don’t feel it, for the sake of the standard and the good that it does.

Call it hypocrisy if you like. It’s the only protection a decency standard for possibly have. We know it will be violated, possibly even more often than not. That doesn’t mean the standard itself is wrong, or that we who preach it are insincere about it. It merely means that we’re aware that the flesh is weak, and that forgiveness is sometimes required either by or from the man of humility and good will.

God promulgated a standard for human conduct. So should we. But God forgives him who begs forgiveness — and so should we.

Oct 8, 2009 - 7:01 am 28. Now and Then:

“Last week Orly Taitz. This week Glenn Beck.”

There’s a much straighter line between those two than between Polanksi Letterman. But let’s dispense with such amoral equivalency and go to the heart of the matter.

The illustrative part of the Letterman event is how he handled it. He admitted his behavior without qualification. He apologized for it without restricting his worlds to anyone who “might have been offended.” He offered how much his actions hurt various people. He was honest, contrite, and forthcoming, and did it all with a touch of self-deprecating humor. All for relationships he had BEFORE he was married.

Contrast that to “I did nothing wrong, this is just another example of women using sexual harassment to extort celebrities. I’m not going to take it. It has to stop, and it’s going to stop with me. That’’s why I’m countersuing.”

Ah, but then there were tapes of lurid phone fantasies and threats of personal and corporate retaliation should the woman ever dare to bring the matter to light, all delivered while he indulged in battery-powered anal onanism. All of it caught on tape. And all of it occurring while his PREGNANT WIFE sat at home. And so the self-righteous facade came tumbling down. He paid $8 million to keep the tapes from reaching public ears. He admitted no guilt, saying only, “I will never talk of this matter again.”

I’m a liberal. I stand by Dave. You’re conservatives, you stand by phone boy. That’s the difference between us, and it’s all the differecne I need.

Oct 8, 2009 - 7:25 am 29. vivo:

15. Locomotive Breath:

Sexual harassment is one thing, private life is another.

21. carla:

“It’s private? Well, not really because these are all very public men.”

Public men have private lives, they are nobody’s business.

Sex is a healthy endeavor, it relaxes the mind and the body, it energizes and it’s a natural function. But social taboos are too widespread. Sex can be a source of conversation, but gawking and stalking people is just sick. Media and advertisers know it: sex sells.

Oct 8, 2009 - 7:31 am 30. paul_unalaska:

I’m still confounded as to why people watch, let alone enjoy Letterman, Conan, Jay Leno and the lot.

Their blatant reading of cue cards/ teleprompters for their monologues, juvenile skits and pi*s poor attempts at off the cuff humor is so mundane and insulting for the viewer. I haven’t had cable for years, for this is part of the programming I’m ‘missing’.

Johnny Carson was the template for the late show. Today, these hacks are regurgitating his act.

Lastly, vivo. If anyone ever discussed their physical prowess with you – those are desperate conversation companions..

Oct 8, 2009 - 7:46 am 31. carla:

So, VIVO, you’re into pubescent anal rape, are you? Just a lifestyle choice. After all, who are we to judge? Or my favorite liberal retort, ‘they all do it’.

Oct 8, 2009 - 8:08 am 32. mingus:

Now & Then:

omolds tend to coalesce.

Oct 8, 2009 - 8:10 am 33. mingus:

Now & Then

Good for you. Stand by Dave. Slime molds tend to coalesce.

Oct 8, 2009 - 8:11 am 34. Brian:

The next funny thing Letterman says will be the first funny thing he says.

Oct 8, 2009 - 8:15 am 35. Now and Then:

233 mingus

Wow, took you two tries to get that one out? Perhaps you should revisit the conservative primer, “How to Argue if You’re a Retard.”

Yes, I said retard! It’s an outrage, isn’t it?

Oct 8, 2009 - 8:16 am 36. Now and Then:

21 carla,

Here’s a challenge for you . . . Can you think of any examples of our moral decay from republicans or conservatives? (Remember, Morality is not an option.)

Oct 8, 2009 - 8:19 am 37. biblio44:

“My problem with Letterman is this: I don’t find him funny.”

Oh, is THAT why you posted an article entitled “For Letterman, adultery pays”? You’re getting much to worked up about what’s really a matter of taste. Why don’t you go for a long hike on the Appalachian Trail.

Oct 8, 2009 - 8:20 am 38. carla:

now & then:

Yep. It took only a nanosec to eleicit the old ‘they all do it’ defense. Good job.

Oct 8, 2009 - 8:44 am 39. mingus:

now & then

Boy, you are fast on your feet. That was a fantastic retort. I, for one, am impressed with your rhetorical skills. Good job.

Oct 8, 2009 - 8:47 am 40. martin T:

Does anybody know if Vivo and Now 7 Then are sisters?

Oct 8, 2009 - 9:13 am 41. Fred:

Johnny Carson was a “class act”? Ask Wayne Newton.

Oct 8, 2009 - 10:18 am 42. Delia:

It’s train-wreck, rubberneck curiosity. Lookers-on are wondering what other mothball shockers are going to come traipsing out of Davey’s creaky ol’ closet.

Is that entertainment?

Meh.

Oct 8, 2009 - 10:27 am 43. Moderato:

“Johnny Carson was a class act.”
If I’m not mistaken, wasn’t the real Carson divorced three times, was a drunkard, had lots of affairs, was nasty and reclusive off the set?

Oct 8, 2009 - 10:55 am 44. Poor Citizen:

Sex harrassment and racial discrimination are two issues that remain very tough to deal with on a company/institutional/government level. Lawyers are making millions a day dealing with the problems people have being treated as human beings. At least this one has a bit of entertainment in the story. I like Dave Letterman, he is funny. Good Luck Dave and Good Luck to his sexual object lovers.

Oct 8, 2009 - 11:01 am 45. mingus:

Moderato:

Oh. I thought that was Ted Kennedy.

Oct 8, 2009 - 11:36 am 46. DaveZ:

29. vivo:

“Public men have private lives, they are nobody’s business.”

“Sex is a healthy endeavor, it relaxes the mind and the body, it energizes and it’s a natural function. But social taboos are too widespread. Sex can be a source of conversation, but gawking and stalking people is just sick. Media and advertisers know it: sex sells.”

Vivo, that would be a very interesting insight for any corporate executive fired because they were sleeping with a subordinate. The long and short of it, it is wrong, it is actionable (both by the person who is the object of their affection, as well as the other employees in the organization).

Also, I am sick of this mantra from the left that “oh, the conservatives when they do this are guilty of HYPOCRISY because they stand for something.” I guess that means means the left feels, with respect to Roman Polanski, drugging and raping a 13-year old is no big deal (move along folks, nothing to see here) so he’s certainly not a HYPOCRIT, and with respect to David Letterman, creating an hostile work environment is just fine (hey, he’s a celebrity!). The only logical conclusion you can take from this sick mantra is that the left stands for NOTHING.

Oct 8, 2009 - 12:40 pm 47. Marina:

There was an article in NYT that the channel scrapes Letterman’s confession videos from the YouTube. That actually means that the short term gain was great, but the long term one … emmm … not so much. Let’s see how his future will look like. Anyway, good that Letterman and his lib “base” are showing who they are. When the Atlas will wake up, he’ll know his enemies.

P.S. And if you disagree with me, …

Oct 8, 2009 - 12:41 pm 48. Alan Kellogg:

MP51, #16

I’m free to go out, meet people, and engage them in conversation. Sorry to hear about your situation.

I’ve heard your hateful crap before. I’ve heard it about Don Imus, I’ve heard it about George W. Bush. I’ve even heard it about Barack Obama. You have LDS; Letterman Derangement Syndrome. You are incapable of admitting two people can have a consensual sexual relationship, even when one party has a superior position over the other. As a matter of fact, they have the relationship because the underling wants to be close to the superior because that person has power. Bit of news here for you, power is an aphrodisiac.

Two women have spoken up. Both have said they liked it, they wanted it, they went out and got it. These things happen. They’ve been happening since longer before you stuck your spite oar into the water, they’ll be happening long after your sour puss becomes worm poop.

You’re not defending anybody. All you are is a sour old fuddy duddy with the charm of a dead slime mold. You hate people, you hate sex, and you hate positive human emotions. You’re Ben Stein with a rash.

Do I despise you? Like an author despises a plagiarist? Bet your sweet bippy, bubbles. You want everybody to be as petty and mean as you are, and should anyone dare to express any happiness, or any genuine interest in another as a human being, you will rise up on your hind legs, bitch forth a challenge, and rush about like a drunken rhino pursuing a gnat. In you is the greatness found in generic mystery meat. The only positive thing about you and your attitude is that you are both wonderful inspiration for insults.

Go away mad, and get your ass busted for creating a disturbance.

(Note to anyone reading this besides MP51: Yes, I’m serious. Yes, I meant it. I’m sick of whiny bitches and damn fools. BTW, what you just read is called a “flame”. Flames are supposed to burn.)

Oct 8, 2009 - 12:42 pm 49. Cybergeezer:

If he’s as impotent as his jokes, who could get excited about having sex with Letterman?
He obviously did some polling for ratings and came up with this scheme.
He’s become another politician, that’s all.

Oct 8, 2009 - 1:33 pm 50. Jim Baker:

Letterman’s ratings will be terrible in a few months unless Conan’s humor gets any dumber than it is already. Next subject, please.

Oct 8, 2009 - 1:54 pm 51. Kate Rafferty:

I worked at one of the alphabet networks and the boss propositioned me (his wife was going to be in the Hamptons all summer, v.v. convenient). I thanked him for his generous offer and respectfully declined. I was gone at the end of the cycle.

Oct 8, 2009 - 2:23 pm 52. Mike2:

Since Letterman is a Democrat he didn’t do anything wrong. He is entitled to that behavior. Besides, if it appears that there was any slight impropriety it must be Sarah Palin’s fault.

Leno’s show is awful. Who was his last guest?? Kathleen Sebelius??

Oct 8, 2009 - 2:52 pm 53. sick of the sickos:

Apparently Diamond Dave had a little secret in his secret bedroom above the studio. A recorder. A friend of a coworker of mine left this on her voicemail machine. She says it’s audio of DD with somebody on the show in the secret bedroom. I haven’t heard it, but my friend transcribed it. Wild.

“If any woman ever breathed a word I’ll make her pay so dearly that she’ll wish she’d never been born. I’ll rake her through the mud, bring up things in her life and make her so miserable that she’ll be destroyed. And besides, she wouldn’t be able to afford the lawyers I can or endure it financially for as long as I can. And nobody would believe her. It’s be her word against mine and who are they going to believe? Me or some unstable woman making outrageous accusations? They’d see her as some psycho, someone unstable.”

I guess Dave should have stalked someone besides his assistants. Everyone knows that assistant know more than the boss about what goes on around there. Talk about stupid human tricks!

Oct 8, 2009 - 3:01 pm 54. myth buster:

We don’t hate sex, we just want men to be faithful to their wives.

Oct 8, 2009 - 3:11 pm 55. Now and Then:

54. myth buster:
Dave didn’t have a wife. Perhaps you;’re thinking of Newt. Rush? McCain?( I’m just trying to help.)

Oct 8, 2009 - 3:14 pm 56. On the Marque, 10/8/09 « Marque’s Letters:

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Oct 8, 2009 - 3:22 pm 57. vivo:

31. carla:

“you’re into pubescent anal rape, are you? ”

You brought this up, someone with a dirty mind, a smearing soul and the lowest moral standards. You are pathetic.

43. Moderato:

““Johnny Carson was a class act.”
If I’m not mistaken, wasn’t the real Carson divorced three times, was a drunkard, had lots of affairs, was nasty and reclusive off the set?”

See? That’s what happens when voyeours dig into ‘class acts’. Who cares what Johnny did? He was entertaining and that’s ALL I care. For you conservatives, I can care less if your heroes Limbo, Hannity, Beck, O’Reilly, Palin, Coulter, Bush, Cheney, Reagan, Sanford et al have a piece of ass. That’s what the tabloids are for, the problem is that the msm HAS become a tabloid.

46. DaveZ:

“The long and short of it, it is wrong, it is actionable”

I never said it wasn’t wrong, but that people should keep off private lives and let them expunge their ’sins’ by themselves.

48. Alan Kellogg:

“Bit of news here for you, power is an aphrodisiac.”

The truth has been spoken. Heard of ‘groupies’, anyone?

Heard of female students chasing their teachers? I’ve seen it a lot.

49. Cybergeezer:

“If he’s as impotent as his jokes, who could get excited about having sex with Letterman?”

You don’t know women, power, money and status are aphrodisiacs, they’ll f*uck anyone there.

Heard of Catholic priests groupies?

51. Kate Rafferty:

Yes, sexual harassment is alive and well.

Oct 8, 2009 - 6:31 pm 58. steveg:

It would have much more interesting if Lefterman had admitted to his adultery the night Obama was on.

Oct 8, 2009 - 7:53 pm 59. John:

Barring some major new revelations and/or embarrassing lawsuits, Letterman survives this in large part because he’s been narrowcasting for the last five years. Just as MSNBC picks its prime-time show hosts and topics to gear to only a certain segment of the audience, Letterman’s decision to only do biting jokes about one side of the political spectrum cut his potential audience to only half of the demographic around 2004 or so. Any bump he gets from other viewers in times like this is the equivalent of people with police scanners who go driving to the scene of a horrific accident, then leave once the excitement is over.

Letterman’s already down to a core of true believers who forgive him for any tryst or crude joke, as long as the joke is at the expense of someone who deserves it in their eyes, like Willow Palin. So his numbers aren’t going to fall off much if at all from their normal level after the latest hoo-ha dies down.

In contrast, had Jay Leno done something like this, odds are it would have killed him, since it would have gone against both the persona he’s developed (Jay=nice guy/working class guy who made it big; Dave=Mean-spirited recluse), and it would have caused a big drop in his ratings, because Leno’s show draws far more from both sides of the political spectrum because he hasn’t opted to protect the politicians and public figures he likes from any monologue ridicule (Leno also doesn’t get the same fawning press because of that, so any ratings header would be major news, whereas Dave’s decade-long ratings doldrums are just taken as a given and no big deal by the critics).

Oct 8, 2009 - 9:06 pm 60. Gaffe Prices:

You’ve been found guilty; the punishment is- sex with David Letterman.

Oct 8, 2009 - 10:15 pm 61. Paul:

Letterman is fine; he never was the “Family Values” type. Yes, he probably cheated on his girlfriend now wife. But at least he does go around claiming he is Mr. “Family Values” like some of our politicians/ preachers (can you just see the grin on all “Fake News” reporters/ commentators and the Palin fringe). This has been a tough summer, for Dave, for our economy but at least he did not end up on the “Republican 2009 Summer of Love” list: Assemblyman, Michael D. Duvall (CA), Senator John Ensign (NV), Senator Paul Stanley (TN), Governor Mark Sanford (SC), Board of Ed Chair, and Kristin Maguire AKA Bridget Keeney (SC).

Oct 9, 2009 - 9:46 am 62. Jim Baker:

Now and Then,
David Letterman did and does have a wife while he did and does whatever he did and does. Explain why you defend this clown’s actions by saying that other clowns did or do it, too. Did or do you get that you stupid troll? Sheesh.

Oct 9, 2009 - 10:14 am 63. Will:

What a wealthy dippo.

Oct 10, 2009 - 4:40 am 64. oldguy:

The name of this game is favoritism for certain employees, and discrimination for others.

Oct 10, 2009 - 6:35 am 65. Now and Then:

62. Jim Baker:
Letterman got married in March. You have proof that he had an affair after that? Bring it.

Oct 10, 2009 - 8:05 am

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