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post #1 of 135
10/3/09 at 4:25pm
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One word comes to mind. KARMA



Somewhere, Sarah Palin is snickering and shaking her head in disgust.
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post #2 of 135
10/3/09 at 4:27pm
Is there a link or are us New Zealanders just left to guess?
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post #3 of 135
10/3/09 at 4:41pm
Someone tried to blackmail him by threatening to tell the world he had sex with someone that worked on his show. It happened some time ago, apparently, before he was married. He announced on his show that he had done it, so what, and the attempted blackmailer was arrested. He was such a moron that he came right to Letterman's house to threaten him. He worked for the network that carries the show.
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post #4 of 135
10/3/09 at 5:50pm
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http://blogs.kansascity.com/tvbarn/2009/10/davesex.html

He had sex with more than one staffer. He used the word, "staffers , probably more than two or he would have said, "two".

Yep, Karma seems like the correct word to me.
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post #5 of 135
10/3/09 at 6:27pm
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Originally Posted by ckblv View Post
http://blogs.kansascity.com/tvbarn/2009/10/davesex.html

He had sex with more than one staffer. He used the word, "staffers , probably more than two or he would have said, "two".

Yep, Karma seems like the correct word to me.
Thanks for the link, Cindy. I followed the other link so had a feeling it would be about this!
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post #6 of 135
10/3/09 at 7:02pm
I think it was very classy of him to just come out & disclose it like he did (even if the orignal act was not classy in the least). I wish more people would just admit it when they were wrong!!

The clip was HARD to watch though, the audience had NO idea what was going on.

His poor, poor wife.
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post #7 of 135
10/3/09 at 7:17pm
so did he have sex with these women while they were working FOR him, as in he was their superior ???

Either way, big effing deal...this kind of stuff happens all the time.
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post #8 of 135
10/3/09 at 7:35pm
I thought it was amusing that he said that if all the details were made public, it would be embarrasing for the women.
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post #9 of 135
10/3/09 at 7:42pm
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I thought it was amusing that he said that if all the details were made public, it would be embarrasing for the women.
yea I noticed that too, it is kinda confusing- why would it be less embarrassing for him and more embarrassing for the women??? Maybe we would have to know the "details of the relationship" which are not going to be made public in order to answer that question...
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post #10 of 135
10/3/09 at 8:19pm
I don't think we need to know any details of what he and I assume to be a consensual sexual partner did. It was a private act between them and none of our business. As for his wife, again that is between them and none of our business. Nobody that I know would want to have their private matters publicly aired and subjected to blackmail.

I'm not a big Letterman fan, but good on him for stopping a blackmailer in his tracks. Hopefully that will make other blackmailers stop and think before they act.
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post #11 of 135
10/3/09 at 8:57pm
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Karma bites. ha ha ha

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. He is soooo mean spirited at the expense of others, while I feel for his wife and son, I don't have much pity for old Dave.
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post #12 of 135
10/3/09 at 9:35pm
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I don't think we need to know any details of what he and I assume to be a consensual sexual partner did. It was a private act between them and none of our business. As for his wife, again that is between them and none of our business. Nobody that I know would want to have their private matters publicly aired and subjected to blackmail.

I'm not a big Letterman fan, but good on him for stopping a blackmailer in his tracks. Hopefully that will make other blackmailers stop and think before they act.
I'm with you, Linda.
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post #13 of 135
10/3/09 at 11:07pm
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Originally Posted by ut0pia View Post
yea I noticed that too, it is kinda confusing- why would it be less embarrassing for him and more embarrassing for the women???

He was making a joke

I'm still a fan and I'll continue to watch his show. Frankly I don't care what he does in his bedroom(s). It's none of my business and it doesn't make him any less of a talk show host or comedian.
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post #14 of 135
10/3/09 at 11:28pm
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I'm not a big Letterman fan, but good on him for stopping a blackmailer in his tracks. Hopefully that will make other blackmailers stop and think before they act.
That sums up my reaction.
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post #15 of 135
10/4/09 at 12:09am
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He was making a joke
Yeah, I took it as a joke at his own expense too.
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post #16 of 135
10/4/09 at 1:24am
Here is a more to the point, unbiased link that doesn't come from a barn and doesn't start with the word creepy, and doesn't end with calling Letterman a magnet for disturbed people. For those of you interested in a more journalistic account of what happened:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/1..._n_307221.html
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post #17 of 135
10/4/09 at 6:40am
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Originally Posted by carolinalima View Post
Here is a more to the point, unbiased link that doesn't come from a barn and doesn't start with the word creepy, and doesn't end with calling Letterman a magnet for disturbed people. For those of you interested in a more journalistic account of what happened:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/1..._n_307221.html
Oh yes, the Huffpo is certainly, "unbiased."

I read your link, I especially liked this part,
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Letterman told his story during a taping of his show, mixing in jokes to an audience that seemed confused about what it was. He called it a "bizarre experience" that left him feeling disturbed and menaced.
I imagine that is exactly how Sarah Palin felt as her teenage daughter was being drug through the mud by Mr. Letterman.
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post #18 of 135
10/4/09 at 6:51am
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Oh yes, the Huffpo is certainly, "unbiased."

I read your link, I especially liked this part,


I imagine that is exactly how Sarah Palin felt as her teenage daughter was being drug through the mud by Mr. Letterman.
What happened re Sarah Palin was low class and tacky - no question. Was it the writers that came up with that and Letterman was just the messenger so to speak? Perhaps the old adage about not shooting the messenger comes into play but again, it still was tacky.

Blackmail for 2 million dollars is a horse of an entirely different colour in my mind and the 2 are not even close to being equal or worthy of comparison.
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post #19 of 135
10/4/09 at 6:51am
he had "relations" with other women before he was married, its out in the open so what, i dont see it as karma coming back to bite him at all or am i just stupid
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post #20 of 135
10/4/09 at 6:56am
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Originally Posted by -_aj_- View Post
he had "relations" with other women before he was married, its out in the open so what, i dont see it as karma coming back to bite him at all or am i just stupid
Exactly! It would be interesting to see how others who have had more than one partner before marriage felt about someone demanding 2 million dollars or else they were going to expose them publicly worldwide. Blackmail is a much bigger thing than a tacky joke.
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post #21 of 135
10/4/09 at 6:58am
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I imagine that is exactly how Sarah Palin felt as her teenage daughter was being drug through the mud by Mr. Letterman.
Oh my God! I love how you can make anything about politics! This could not have less to do with Palin and her daughter!

I hate to tell you, but this isn't going to affect his career one iota. People will forget about it soon enough once the trial is over. Kind of like how everyone forgot about the whole incident with Palin and her daughter. I think the only one who still thinks about it is you...and maybe Palin and her daughter.
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post #22 of 135
10/4/09 at 8:11am
About the only time I pay any attention to the "late nighters" is when something like this comes up. And in this case, it looks to me as though he's playing it for all it's worth.

And the next time he says something that offends people, instead of apologizing, he can just say "hey, I've been there".
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post #23 of 135
10/4/09 at 8:33am
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Oh yes, the Huffpo is certainly, "unbiased."

I read your link, I especially liked this part,


I imagine that is exactly how Sarah Palin felt as her teenage daughter was being drug through the mud by Mr. Letterman.
Are you kidding? Your version comes from a site that is called the Barn TV, starts the article by calling Letterman Creepy and Bizarro, and not happy with that, wraps up the article by calling his show a magnet to seriously disturbed people.
My version on the other hand, is from the AP - Associated Press, giving the account of what happened.
Who is the biased here? Gee... Oh yeah, Evidently it is me!
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post #24 of 135
10/4/09 at 9:26am
He's an idiot for cheating on his wife/girlfriend/whatever she was at the time, but he's stopped it all in it's tracks by coming out immediately and explaining what happened. He didn't try to hide it, he didn't try to pull off a cover story, and he didn't try to overplay the victim.

The way he did it will ensure he keeps his ratings, and keep his dignity. And being a "celebrity" I think he's held to lesser standards than the politicians who do the same thing.
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post #25 of 135
10/4/09 at 12:26pm
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Bless your heart Linda, for trying to put the blame on someone else for Letterman's "tacky" jokes. If he didn't like them he didn't have to do them.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091003/...rman_extortion

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Letterman is target of the kind of jokes he tells

The bizarre case has created a messy legal and professional problem for one of CBS' most valuable personalities. Commentators and bloggers quickly accused Letterman of hypocrisy because he has made a career of mocking politicians mercilessly, often for their sexual transgressions.
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Oh my God! I love how you can make anything about politics! This could not have less to do with Palin and her daughter!

I hate to tell you, but this isn't going to affect his career one iota. People will forget about it soon enough once the trial is over. Kind of like how everyone forgot about the whole incident with Palin and her daughter. I think the only one who still thinks about it is you...and maybe Palin and her daughter.
I don't believe I mentioned "politics", I mentioned KARMA, which it, certainly is. I also mentioned Sarah Palin, "snickering and shaking her head in disgust" which I am sure she is.

Relax Carolinalima, that was the first link I found when Wellingtoncats asked for a link. But I never said MY link was unbiased.
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post #26 of 135
10/4/09 at 12:35pm
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he had "relations" with other women before he was married, its out in the open so what, i dont see it as karma coming back to bite him at all or am i just stupid
I am wondering how many of you women out there that have been living with a man for years and years, more than a decade and have a five year old son with the man but only married him 7 months ago, would consider it cheating if you were in the position that Letterman's wife is in right now I know I would consider it cheating and I am betting BIG BUCKS that if Letterman's wife came out with this same story but with her instead of him in the starring role, that divorce papers would be being drawn up at this very minute. BUT, because they were not LEGALLY married that is a cool excuse for his immoral behavior

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Originally Posted by ut0pia View Post
so did he have sex with these women while they were working FOR him, as in he was their superior ???

Either way, big effing deal...this kind of stuff happens all the time.
Yeah, no big deal, what good are morals anyway? After all, it's the new millenium and all, we don't need morals anymore, oh, except for when it happens to US and then it is personal and a bit of a different story.
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post #27 of 135
10/4/09 at 12:49pm
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I am wondering how many of you women out there that have been living with a man for years and years, more than a decade and have a five year old son with the man but only married him 7 months ago, would consider it cheating if you were in the position that Letterman's wife is in right now I know I would consider it cheating and I am betting BIG BUCKS that if Letterman's wife came out with this same story but with her instead of him in the starring role, that divorce papers would be being drawn up at this very minute. BUT, because they were not LEGALLY married that is a cool excuse for his immoral behavior
I don't know about that...it could even have been from before he and she were together. I mean then it's still a bit messed up that he boinked them while he was their boss (which would be enough to blackmail someone with), but it's a little less bad than if he were also cheating.

Though either way, who knows, maybe she knew about it at the time and was OK with it. People have all kinds of odd arrangements these days.
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post #28 of 135
10/4/09 at 1:11pm
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I have a feeling it is much more recent than that. His son is five years old, I am betting it wasn't longer ago than that.

But I could be wrong. Believe me, it will come out, we will be told all the sordid details whether we want to know them or not.

Hopefully all this will make Letterman have more empathy for others.
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post #29 of 135
10/4/09 at 2:36pm
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Bless your heart Linda, for trying to put the blame on someone else for Letterman's "tacky" jokes. If he didn't like them he didn't have to do them.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091003/...rman_extortion
That's true but I wasn't trying to put the blame on anyone else, just making a supposition. There is a definite difference.

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I am wondering how many of you women out there that have been living with a man for years and years, more than a decade and have a five year old son with the man but only married him 7 months ago, would consider it cheating if you were in the position that Letterman's wife is in right now I know I would consider it cheating and I am betting BIG BUCKS that if Letterman's wife came out with this same story but with her instead of him in the starring role, that divorce papers would be being drawn up at this very minute. BUT, because they were not LEGALLY married that is a cool excuse for his immoral behavior

Yeah, no big deal, what good are morals anyway? After all, it's the new millenium and all, we don't need morals anymore, oh, except for when it happens to US and then it is personal and a bit of a different story.
This isn't so much about cheating as it is about him thwarting a blackmailer which is a very good thing. Instead of giving in to a demand for 2 million dollars, he publicly outed himself and outed the blackmailer, who, if found guilty, will spend some time in jail and may rue the day he opted for blackmail in the first place. As to the cheating, it's no more our business than if your neighbour was cheating on their spouse. That's their business and totally personal between them.

As to morals, that's also none of our business what his morals are and who are we to judge anyone's morals. As the bible says, let he who is without sin cast the first stone. (I learned that in Sunday School. )
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post #30 of 135
10/4/09 at 3:46pm
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Originally Posted by -_aj_- View Post
he had "relations" with other women before he was married, its out in the open so what, i dont see it as karma coming back to bite him at all or am i just stupid
Exactly! Who cares who he had sex with since apparently they were all consenting adults. I've never been a big Letterman fan, but I applaud him for standing up to the blackmailer and not trying to cover it up and making things worse.
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