David Letterman Confession: I Had Sex

[JSngry]

if everything was consensual, how is release of the information going to "bring his life crashing all around him"?

feel some sadness for hiw wife and kid.

Like that.

The wife was an employee, too, and their relationship was long-standing, or off and on for a period of time. You don't think she knew about his extracurricular activities with other staff members before the marriage? As I understand it, the relationship with the woman who was involved with the extortionist ended with the birth of his son, which in turn pre-dated the marriage ceremony with the mother of his son. So ... my strong suspicion is that Dave hasn't been sleeping on the couch since he told his wife about the extortion attempt. I don't think any of it was news to her.

The threat was more about his public image - which ties back into the possibility that some of these affairs weren't consensual. If CBS decided to fire him, then his world would come crashing down around him.

Private affairs turned public take on a whole 'nother level of "weightiness". What's between a handful of people is often easier to deal with than when the whole world is on it 24/7.

Which i not to eliminate the possibility of something insidious like a "forced" relationship. But I can also see where having a private affair turned public could also be viewed as causing one's world to come "crashing down". Quite easily, in fact.

[RDK]

See, I think there's something else going on. Because it's as many here have pointed out: if none of the participants were married, and they were boinking each other, why would this be considered a scandal? I therefore wonder what else was in the material that was used for extortion. I would imagine it would point to some more serious problems. As to what those may be, I have no idea, but at least the extortionist thought they'd be worth $2 million.

I'm not sure too many people actually consider this a "scandal" - aside from the conservatives who are bitter over Letterman's anti-Palin (and pro-Obama) stance during the elections. The only "crime" on Dave's part is possibly opening himself and his company up to sexual harassment suits do to his workplace dalliances. His wife, of course, may or may not choose to hit him upside the head for it.

[mjzee]

See, I think there's something else going on. Because it's as many here have pointed out: if none of the participants were married, and they were boinking each other, why would this be considered a scandal? I therefore wonder what else was in the material that was used for extortion. I would imagine it would point to some more serious problems. As to what those may be, I have no idea, but at least the extortionist thought they'd be worth $2 million.

I'm not sure too many people actually consider this a "scandal" - aside from the conservatives who are bitter over Letterman's anti-Palin (and pro-Obama) stance during the elections. The only "crime" on Dave's part is possibly opening himself and his company up to sexual harassment suits do to his workplace dalliances. His wife, of course, may or may not choose to hit him upside the head for it.

Actually, in most of the accounts I've read, the media has been contrasting Letterman's incessant needling of Bill Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair.

[BruceH]

See, I think there's something else going on. Because it's as many here have pointed out: if none of the participants were married, and they were boinking each other, why would this be considered a scandal? I therefore wonder what else was in the material that was used for extortion. I would imagine it would point to some more serious problems. As to what those may be, I have no idea, but at least the extortionist thought they'd be worth $2 million.

I'm not sure too many people actually consider this a "scandal" - aside from the conservatives who are bitter over Letterman's anti-Palin (and pro-Obama) stance during the elections. The only "crime" on Dave's part is possibly opening himself and his company up to sexual harassment suits do to his workplace dalliances. His wife, of course, may or may not choose to hit him upside the head for it.

Actually, in most of the accounts I've read, the media has been contrasting Letterman's incessant needling of Bill Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair.

It might seem ironic, but that is literally his job (or part of it.) If he didn't make fun of politicians for their screwups, he wouldn't be doing his job as late-night comedian.

[Dan Gould]

Yeah but its still going to come back to "glass houses/throwing stones," as foolish as that may be.

[Brad]

I agree with the who gives a you know what. As he wasn't married before he did it, about the only thing he did was break some HR rules of CBS'.

[BERIGAN]

Well, there seems to have been a crime here, but Letterman didn't commit it.

He had a relationship with at least one subordinate. I guess he indicated there's more. Never a good idea at work....

True, unless they are like, really hot!

[BERIGAN]

if you all missed it, it was classic tv watching him talk about this. People laughing at the wrong time....not not exactly knowing if it was a real story or not.