Looks like Sarah Palin was right to keep her kids away from Letterman. Could her week get any better? Interesting that Letterman talked last night about protecting his family; funny how he had no concerns when it came to attacking Palin’s underage daughter.
Also, think of all the jokes that are now out the window for Letterman: no more Lewinsky jabs; John Edwards is suddenly off the table; Eliot Spitzer; Mark Sanford…
You couldn’t be more wrong about every part of your post.
He didn’t attack anybody’s underage daughter. He made jokes about who he thought was Palin’s older daughter. And then he apologised when he realised the joke was misdirected and misinterpreted.
And protecting his family from the potential misuse from a blackmailer was the right thing to do, done in an inspired way.
Disagree. He admitted the affair(s) himself. This puts him in a different position - he can still make jokes, with a self-referential slant to 'em …
Anyone else get the feeling that the affairs were only part of the blackmail plot? Why on earth would anyone blackmail a guy who had been single until earlier this year? I’m wondering if there is a sex tape out there.
Also, look at the irony. He’s admitted to having sex with his staff. He’s the head honcho so it looks like an open-and-shut case of sexual harassment. $2 million might seem like a bargain compared to the potential settlements. Not to mention how much he’ll be shelling out to Regina if she decides to leave him.
But as much as I despise Letterman, he handled this Joe Halderman guy in the way that all blackmailers should be treated. You simply go public and remove the threat.
But I have a funny feeling there is another shoe to drop in this story.
It’s been common knowledge for decades that Letterman is a major hound. He was boffing female interns, writers, and assistants left and right back as far as anyone can remember. This is hardly a surprise. If you had a vagina you were fair game.
Is this really all that surprising or scandalous?
If you would have asked me a month ago if I thought any late night talk show hosts were fooling around with any of their employees my answer would have been “Um, yeah, probably.”
High profile celebrity showbiz types actually sleeping with people they work with?!! Say it isn’t so! :rolleyes:
If it came out next week that Leno, Conan, and Carson did the same thing would you really be all that shocked?
The guy’s not a politician. He’s not a religious leader. So who gives a crap?
“Bu, bu, bu these women worked for him! That’s harassment!”
Shit, half the people I know who are married met their significant other at work. Many of them who worked for the other.
It’s not shocking at all; I’ve been hearing the rumors about Letterman for years. But if any of these women decide now to sue, and it turns out there was an “atmosphere of intimidation” at the Late Show if anyone rebuffed the boss’s advances…well, that could certainly put Letterman and CBS in an awkward position.
I don’t think he was totally kidding last night when he talked about protecting his job.
She could bag a big moose.
She could get a new telescope to use to spy on Russia.
She could get to keep the clothes.
I’m sure there are more. Now come clean, how many copies of her book have you already reserved? Make sure to save some for the rest of the hockey moms.
I was only half awake this morning while listening to the radio. I swear I heard “an employee of PBS has been arrested”. That woulda been interesting.
That woman he’s been with for 20 something years probably isn’t at all surprised and knew all about his behavior. Maybe they had an arrangement. “Let’s have a kid, Regina, and we’ll have the house in Connecticut, the ranch in Montana, and all that money - just let me have the NYC apartment and don’t ask questions about that.” I’m glad the blackmail was exposed, though Dave’s naive, bumbling, ‘mid-Western boy shocked by the big city’ schtick won’t carry the same cache when he keeps it up in the future. I don’t think anything will come of this as far as fans turning against him, Dave’s fans love him to death. Ratings won’t go down, any publicity is good publicity, and as he is a comedian, this exposure of the seamy side will blow over. Though I don’t see how he’ll be able to make fun of politicians and such in the same situation in the future unless as suggested he references his own indiscretions.
I, for one, will be quite disappointed if there isn’t more kink involved. If Letterman can’t furnish us with a cancer-ridden, hospitalized wife, some viagra in a Central American country or Argentinian/Appalachian Beaver, the least he could give us is a loufa or a falafal. I mean, com’on!
A love-child would be nice, especially if it turns out his wife is dying of cancer…and that he then desperately tried to get an underling to take the fall for him. That would be great. Or what about a prostitution ring?
If Conan becomes involved in some kind of sex scandal I would be hugely shocked. Massive gambling debts to some guy named Big Vinny, not so much.
Or a male NBC page! That would be killer!
What’s the ratio of male vs. female superiors in that group? Any females at all?
Stereotypically, a woman can’t get romantically interested in a man who works for her, unless he’s, like, the hunky copier guy.
A prostitution ring of cancer-suffering Argentinian beavers!
(The more shocking as beavers are not an indigenous species of Argentina.)
Anyone know if Letterman is in re-runs next week? That would be a very smart move.
What I can’t figure is why this guy thought he could blackmail someone in Hollywood with a mere straight sexual affair. In Hollywood, who is going to care?
Joe Halderman is the suspected suspect.
There are now rumors that Letterman boned Halderman’s live-in girlfriend.
Darn. Your run-of-the-mill lover scorned. Perhaps these rumors will be false and there will be a dead girl or live boy.
Especially a notorious bachelor…up until recently, anyway. That’s what makes me think there’s much more to this than we’ve heard about so far.
Maybe Letterman had a decades-long affair with his own mother…? 