David Letterman blackmailed over sleeping with staffers

Dave pulled a Bill Clinton...butt ugly staffers were on his jock and he couldn't say no. He didn't force anyone to do anything.

 

It is not that simple. He has been in an on again, off again relationship with his wife for 25 years. We do not know if he cheated or not. Further, perhaps his wife is fine with it......... it sounds odd, but I have known a number of couples in open relationships. If it makes them happy, then so be it.

 

Why? The point is humor. If someone else wants to poke fun at him, then that is their right.

 

hardly.. though there was a time I'd share this possibility with someone I was in a relationship with, it was also a time where I was more interested in myself, my ideals, and how well "girls" matched them, than truly being in love with someone..

it's all dependant on the quality of the love one feels for another.. I could never see myself going through with the act of "cheating" on someone I truly, wholeheartedly loved.. so sure of it, that I can earnestly apply the word "never" to the full extent of it's meaning..

it's also dependant on the quality of person.. afterall, some are more capable than others.. do they stand on firm ground as a person, or are they the type to instead fall for anything.. and go to wherever the wind takes them...

take in mind.. most people are born lost.. and remain lost for a great majority of their life.. middle-aged men/women still unsure if their chosen path in life was the one wisely chosen.. you see it all the time, all around you.. be it with their careers, their family, their husbands/wives, their current point in life.. so they're very prone to indecision, and fickle, changing attitudes towards many things that should actually be considered with much more significance..

some, however, know who they truly are, what they truly want, go after it accordingly.. and never stray because they're as certain about it, down to their very core, as they are about themselves..

 

are you kidding? even in his prime Letterman was well known as a misanthrope who treated his staff like ****. he's a really really mean guy with a vicious streak of self-absorption

it was an industry joke how bad Letterman was, for example Krusty the Clown on the Simpsons who is so beloved by his audience (primarily Bart) after he treats everyone like **** and blows everything up is a not-subtle snipe at Letterman by past writers who worked for Late Night before they went to the Simpsons. Letterman is one of the geniuses of American comedy but he's a dick. He'd go ape**** if interns or lowly staffers even dared to try to speak to him and he'd mock them mercilessly for weeks on-air to humiliate them

All this was well known back in the day when Letterman was THE man, I guess now that his profile has gone down and he's not too popular people dont know much about him. I grew up in the late 80s and early 90s and to me and my friends growing up Letterman was the beginning and the end. These days you have Colbert and Will Ferrell and a lot of guys who were directly influenced by Letterman but back them there was nothing like him on TV... basically as teenaged American male you felt like if you could be glib with a streak of ******* like Letterman you could talk yourself out of any trouble or pick up any chick.

Leno and Conan have reputations as nice guys. Jon Stewart is supposedly kind of a dick off air. But Letterman has always been pretty bad, even after he stopped drinking. This doesn't surprise me at all, nor does his seeming guilt over having exploiting these girls. Of course that sort of guilt and self-awareness didn't stop him from pressuring these women to sleep with him...

 

Letterman has one of the most loyal staffs of anyone on TV. I don't know where you get your information from, but all reports say Letterman treats all of his employees super well.

During the writer's strike, he was the only one who paid his staff out of his own pocket. Leno did not do that until Letterman got press for it.

 

Where did you get all this from?

I especially like the part where you know he 'pressured women to sleep with him'. Have you written a book? A newsletter of some sort,perhaps?

 

It's funny that Dave made fun of Clinton for doing exactly what he had done for all these years. Come on Letterman write some jokes about yourself.

 

The masses haven't looked past Kobe cheating on his wife. Its funny how its all fine and dandy when Letterman does it, but when someone else would have done it, lets just say Jimmy Fallon, the reactions would be so much different.

 

David Letterman attracts more crazy fans and stans than Michael Jackson, The Beatles, Marilyn Manson, and CHarles Manson ever did.

 

The situation with Kobe and his rape case and the Letterman admission are like mirror images of one another.

 

How so? It might hurt a guy like Fallon more because he isn't as popular, so it could hurt viewership ... but I think even that is a reach.

Bottom line is we're talking about a guy (a major public figure albeit) that had sex with co-workers. Again, that happens in a lot of places. That fact alone is not damaging (on a personal level) nor incriminating. The damaging issue could be if he was cheating ... and that we do not know. So anyone thinking that "Dave is getting a pass" I guess is thinking that he did something wrong and cheated- which we do not know from the story. I just don't get what any negative fuss is about barring evidence of cheating.

Can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but Kobe committed adultery. Dave had sex with someone and could have been single at the time. Quite different.

 

As long as he didn't extort these girls into sleeping with him or sexually abuse anyone, who cares? Otherwise it is an issue between him and his wife (if he is/was married, which I don't even know) and I couldn't care less. I expect people in positions of power, wealth, and fame to have lots of people wanting to sex them up.

 

There's a big difference between actual co-workers sleeping together and a Boss and his employee. This isn't John from Accounting sleeping with Jane from Sales. As the Boss, it is a place of business and he should know better. I'm sure the ones banging Dave got better treatment than the ones that didn't bang Dave. The BOSS banging employees is not a good working environment.

 

And what do you mean no evidence? This is what Dave said:

Unless of course, he was trying to be funny about the I do terrible terrible things part. Seriously, theres more to this than just banging co-workers if he was getting extorted for $2 Million. You don't get extorted for something that as you say, happens regularly in the workplace.

 

Unless you're a wealthy national celebrity.

 

Yes, because the guy only wanted to write a screenplay about Dave and his casual and normal sexual relations with his employees. That's definitely gonna make people watch! I think he knew something real juicy if he wanted to make a screenplay out of all this.

 

It doesn't seem odd to me at all at someone trying to extort a celebrity out of a large sum of money for their sexual transgressions. He has a lot to lose being in the public eye. Plus he's probably got a net worth of several tens of millions of dollars. What is so unbelievable about that?

 

I'm not necessarily trying to defend Dave, but I would like to point out just because a person has been dating someone for 20+ odd years doesn't mean that they were always together during those 20+ years. And in today's society, it doesn't mean his wife (girlfriend at the time) wasn't cool with him getting some nookie on the side. Be honest....you really can't say it's normal for two people to date for 20+ years when they aren't wed.

 

It's more common than you think... probably even moreso in showbiz