If there’s one thing David Letterman has learned this week, it’s that a little contrition and self-deprecating humor can go a long way. Read the full post.
Oct 8
2009
09:00 AM ET
This week’s cover: David Letterman and celebrity blackmail
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Please let’s get on with our lives celebrities like letterman been cheating on there wives or girlfriends for years it wouldn’t be the first or the last, but i respect his gangster he came clean and admitted to over twentymillion people on national television he had sex with staff member or members and on top of that he said he being blackmail for his indiscrection, he did what a man suppose to do! I respect your gangster Dave!
Here’s an idea for all of you morally pious and obnoxiously self-righteous people: stick to the facts of the story before you post a comment. Surely all of you perfect “saints” have never done anything wrong. Yeah, right. I doubt a single one of you are qualified to sit in judgment of anyone. Of course, in your sad little worlds message boards like this give you a tiny sliver of the power and purpose that you clearly crave but cannot otherwise attain. Hint: that makes you pathetic. I’m not going to argue the morality of the situation. That’s up to Letterman and his loved ones. Sex happens between co-workers all the time. There is not a shred of evidence that the affair in question was anything but consensual. Please don’t pretend for a minute to give the the BS that Letterman “took advantage” of someone. Maybe they genuinely felt something for each other or maybe it was just sex. I could care less. Why not castigate the real criminal here: the slime who snoops into his girlfriend’s diary and then uses information in it to launch a blackmail plot. I know for a certain segment of our population, facts are just annoyances that get in the way of a warped world view. For those of you here who fall into that bucket, do the rest of us a favor and find a town hall meeting to scream at or Birther meeting to attend. Last time I checked, none of you were forced to watch Letterman’s show. None of you were forced to click through to an INSIDE page of the EW website. Certainly none of you had to expend the few working brain cells you have available to waste everyone else’s time posting your ill-informed commentary.
I agree 100%
Best post here!!!!
This whole sordid mess is so appalling. I just hope Letterman loses more than his (Worldwide) pants in the (please) impending divorce. He knew there was a technicality about not being an employee of CBS, so he could set up his (yuck) ‘love nest’ where he would bring (lure) his women, so less chance of lawsuits. The guy aspires to be pond scum. Trash with money!
Lee Ann, I’m not taking David Letterman’s side here, but your take on the whole situation is way over the top. I don’t agree with his having sexual relations with his employees–I don’t think a boss/employee intimate relationship is ever a good idea. However, calling him “pond scum” and “trash with money” is ridiculous. The guy made some mistakes–yes, some serious–but he’s apologized to his wife and staff, and he’s trying to move on. I personally would reserve “pond scum” for the senator who flew off to Argentina and had an affair, and then stated that he wanted to stay with his wife, while describing his mistress as his “soul mate.” THAT guy is pond scum.
Loved It! Dave is human and was quit literally caught with his pants down
Thanks EW for putting a comedic spin on a topic that has been unnecessarily overblown to catastrophic proportions.
oh com on people if this really was that big of a deal to his wife she would have just left him instead of making him appologise. not at all saying its right but he is a celebrity he is still only human and it should never of became public the blackmailer should go to jail. if he was a decent person he would have just told his wife and not wanted money he is just a greedy fart.
oh oh please lure them in im sure they were all to willing to have sex with him after all he is a celebrity. and its not sexual harrasement if they werent complaining. and as far as we all know they werent so apparently he is not that bad after all….lol.the media needs to just let it go and move on to the next celebrity sucker.
Seems like that ol’ razzle dazzle still works! Use a little bit of distraction, a few jokes, and instead of being painted as the cheating a**hole you are, you come off looking like the good guy. Congrats Dave. Thankfully I’m not as easily bamboozled as a number of people on here. I don’t think Dave is some ‘horrible person’. I do think he’s a savvy celebrity who spun this situation in his favor. So ‘Yeah Dave’? ‘Poor Dave’? Not so much.
The cover was a “photo illustration.” It explains in the magazine how they photoshopped a picture of Dave to make it look like he wasn’t wearing any pants. Pretty sneaky.
Tom Strong — I couldn’t agree more with your comment. Being a NON-Letterman watcher/fan as it is, the fact EW featured this loser on the cover (I could’ve thought of more embarassing ways to feature him) makes me even more turned off to exsistence. Not even knowing the circumstances surrounding his “controversy”, I’m not surprised this old fart is guilty of what being famous creates out of a human being.