Relatively not guilty.
Posted on 10/04/2009 8:26:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Long before Stephanie Birkitt was revealed as David Letterman's squeeze, the funnyman was known to surround himself with beautiful young staffers who ministered to his daily needs -- and favored women when it came to promotions.
Holly Hester, who interned for Letterman in the early '90s while she was a student at NYU, said yesterday the two had a steamy, secret affair for a year.
She said Letterman called her one day and asked her to the movies, and they soon began seeing each other on the sly.
"I was madly in love with him at the time," Hester told TMZ.com. "I would have married him. He was hilarious."
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"Late Show" sources said female employees always did well under Letterman.
"Dave has a great track record of promoting women on the show -- three of the five executive producers are women, and all of them have been with him for more than 20 years," said another high-ranking "Late Show" staffer.
Another source described the show as "a very female-friendly place. He's got all these strong women working for him. Strong women survive there."
Tasks Letterman assigned his younger female workers ranged from doing his Christmas shopping to having his car ready at the theater exit.(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Fixed it!
Again, Sarah is vindicated within months!!
Relatively not guilty.
Time to get the lawyer Anita Hill on this case.
Dave oughta hang it up. He’s 62 years old...time for social security.
Hasn’t been funny for a long time. Now he’s obnoxious.
Sort of explains his mindset when making vulgar comments about Palin’s daughter.
Worldwide Pants would probably have hired Monica Lewinsky too and had the same results. No wonder Leatherman and Klintoon are such great pals - they probably pass babes back and forth, maybe even did sandwiches like Dodd and the swimmer.
I didn't think strong women were supposed to sleep with the boss.
They did well on top too.
Agreed... If this woman thinks that sleeping with the boss, in order to advance, is "strong", I'd hate to see what she thinks of, as "weak"...
the infowarrior
“Worldwide Pants would probably have hired Monica Lewinsky too and had the same results.”
Very typical. Blame the women.
ARGH!
She’s an “almost closing time” girl..not quite a last call “I’d hit it” girl, but if she approached me at, say, 0030 hours, sure...I’m in!
Right. Strong women wouldn’t NEED to sleep w/the boss.
It sounds like Worldwide Pants should be changed to World wide OPEN Pants.
Why hasn’t CBS fired this guy? Where are the Feminists? Why don’t our conservative boom boxes call for a boycott of CBS advertisers on his show? When are we going to take the Tea-Party Principles and transform anger into action?
I still say he has a sexual identity problem.
We now have 4 names, there’s probably many more. This guy is runnig this show as his own personal harem. What a pervert.
Any other TV host in s imilar situation would be fired immediately. Obama called for Imus to be fired instantly. What does he think of his pal Dave bringing in young interns and banging them and then paying them and setting up their careers to keep them quiet? Clinton got Monica a job at Revlon and the UN. Dave paid for Birkitt to go to Law School. The same MO.
What a sick man
Pat Sajak was a conservative. Does anyone here wonder what the press treatment would be if HE used his position of authority for sex with subordinates?
I mean...sex is about POWER relations, right...?
Yes, I am a women.
I smell many lawsuits by men and the women that wouldn't put out and were then denied promotions by Dave and CBS.
Top ten pickup lines David Letterman has been known to use on staffers.
10 So what else is a staffer on my show qualified to do, asuming hypothetically you were fired for not sleeping with me?
9 You can sleep with me or Bob Shaffer from the news division, it’s your choice.
8 Hey, staffer, I heard a funny joke. Knock Knock. Who’s there? Me with your pink slip if you’re not free tonight.
7 Want to know what I can get away with that Sarah Palin can’t?
6 No lunch break for you today.
5 Looks like it’s your turn again, unless you have any other job skills.
4 Did you see how Obama wrecked that job market? I’d hate to be looking for work now.
3 Hey, Paul, did you know I swing both ways, and love musicians?
2 I’m sorry, staffers are the only girls who don’t get to tell me to take a hike.
1 Sleep with me or you’re fired.
The muzzies hate us because we are not muzzies. Nothing more complicated than that.
And I for one do not sleep with the women working for me. So you may identify with him but I don’t.
I also don’t think he’s funny.
Paging Whoopi Goldberg for a clarification here. Were they "with" him, or "with-with" him?
Hillary did it and it got her nothing but Sec of a non State in the end, because the One is out there denigrating the State she is supposed to represent...
Hillary did it and it got her nothing but Sec of a non State in the end, because the One is out there denigrating the State she is supposed to represent...
Miss 8pm...I would hit it but not buy dinner....Miss 10pm, she gets dinner before or after (Her choice)...Miss 1am, she gets dinner and a marriage proposal...just ask my 3 ex-wives!
LOL!! With *that*, I rest my case...
the infowarrior
And I remember Letterman of 10,11 years ago, in the wake of the fallout from the Lewinsky affair, asking a political ‘pundit’ guest on his show, regarding Clinton’s behavior, “Don’t you think we deserve something .....just ...a little....better?”
So there was a time when he could at least pretend to a little mild outrage.....and it was probably the time when
his own 50 year old self, though “unmarried” at the time, and the same age as Clinton,was doing pretty much what Clinton was doing.Ironic, huh?
It’s as though he was asking the question about himself, to himself.
LETTERMAN’S TOP TWO
SPRING 1998
For two BYU graduates, the first eight hours of the work day are just preparation. At 4 p.m., their work really gets started. The next 90 minutes in their New York office are frantic, precisely timed, and exhilarating. They are putting the final touches on a TV show for one of America’s most funny men, David Letterman.
At 4:20, they make sure Mr. Letterman is free to dress for the show. At 4:40, they see that Letterman meets with his writers for final script changes, and they verify that a copy is on set with cue cards ready. At 4:55, the show’s host grabs his football—a show tradition—and heads to the stage. At 5:20, the band starts playing in front of a live audience. At 5:28, Letterman walks on stage.
“Even if the day has been crazy and hectic,” says Heather Petersen, “when Dave walks on stage and the show begins, it’s always exciting—there’s always a little something.”
“There are days I still can’t believe I’m here,” says Lee Anne Archibald. “It’s still a reality check.”
Since graduating from BYU’s journalism program in April 1996, Heather and Lee Anne have worked as David Letterman’s personal assistants. They arrive at their Broadway office in the Ed Sullivan Theater between 8 and 8:30 every weekday morning. The show wraps about 6:30, but the duo doesn’t usually leave until 9:30 p.m.
Not to be outdone, Letterman leaves for work around 6:30 a.m. from his home in Connecticut, and arrives usually just before Lee Anne and Heather. He comes in early to beat traffic, but also because he is an incredibly committed show host, says Heather. “He has his hands in everything from the moment he gets here,” she says. “He’s meeting with the writers, he’s meeting with the segment producers, he’s down at rehearsal. He knows everything about the show.”
But Heather and Lee Anne aren’t far behind. Other than Laurie Diamond, Letterman’s friend and executive assistant for 13 years, the BYU graduates work with the host more intimately than anyone. They are involved with nearly every aspect of the show and handle every request made of Letterman’s time, from charity banquets to media interviews. “We deal with everything from contracts with his attorneys for his appearances on different TV stations and interviews down to making sure his car is running,” says Heather. Incidentally, Letterman, an avid car fan and collector, drives a 1993 Dodge Stealth.
Lee Anne and Heather met while preparing to work as interns in New York as part of the communications program during the summer of 1995. Lee Anne, from Tempe, Ariz., interned with Reader’s Digest, and Heather, from Las Vegas, worked as an intern for the Late Show—although not without a struggle.
Heather’s internship experience got off to a rocky start when, two months before she arrived, the women’s magazine she was supposed to work for was sold. Her internship was canceled, but Heather was undaunted and applied with 1,000 other applicants for the Letterman internship. She was offered the job a week later.
“The experience I had as an intern was amazing because it prepared me for this job,” Heather says. Since her experience as Letterman’s first BYU intern, the Late Show has hired three more BYU student interns, none of whom Heather or Lee Anne “pushed through.”
“The Utah connection is catching on with our staff,” says Diamond, Heather and Lee Anne’s direct supervisor. “The guest relations division of the Late Show is now seeking BYU graduates based on their experience with my terrific staff.”
A few months after her internship, Heather returned to Manhattan to do Letterman’s Christmas shopping. In early 1996, one of the full-time assistants took a job with Rosie O’Donnell, and the vacant spot was offered to Heather. Although she was hired one month before graduating, the Late Show waited patiently for Heather to finish.
About the same time Heather started her new job, Lee Anne, an avid sports fan, took a job in Bristol, Conn., working with ESPN. Although the graphics department wasn’t exactly her “thing,” she was happy at the channel. But only a few weeks later, Lee Anne and Heather were having a casual conversation on the telephone. Heather mentioned that the other assistant had left. “Then it kind of turned into, ‘Well, would I be interested?’” Lee Anne says.
Lee Anne didn’t feel particularly qualified. In fact, she was the only candidate who had not previously interned at the Late Show. “I didn’t know if that would work against me or for me,” she says. Apparently it worked for her.
She went to New York and interviewed on a Thursday, spending a few hours talking with everyone except Letterman. “When I left, I thought, ‘I really want this.’ I’d never had that feeling before,” she recalls. “I wanted it really, really bad.”
Laurie Diamond called Monday to offer Lee Anne the position. By Thursday, a week from the day she interviewed, Lee Anne had changed jobs, cities, and careers. “This is a great place to be at this stage in my life,” Lee Anne says. “I can’t imagine doing the show without Heather. It would be a completely different experience without her.”
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Your not going to see feminists say anything just like they didnt with Clinton. Because it is intention and perception that matter. Clinton said all the right things, so did letterman. That is all that matters. Being on the left means never having to say your sorry.
His pixieish assistant, Laurie Diamond (a former Broadway dancer), pokes her head in to advise Letterman that Hisao, his Japanese hairstylist from the fashionable Pierre Michel salon in Trump Tower, has arrived. “Oh, great,” says Letterman, burying his head in his hands and momentarily displacing his beloved baseball cap. “Another thing that’s going to make me look like an absolute twit.”
When he’s not working, he hangs out with a chosen few Late Night pals, including his director, Hal Gurnee; producer, Robert “Morty” Morton; associate producer, Jude Brennan; head writer, Steve O’Donnell; and assistant, Laurie Diamond. He remains distant from the rest of his staff, rarely interacting even with the dozen or so writers who have to tailor their material to his quirky specifications. “I think I saw him twice the year I was there,” says one former writer.
How many times have we been forced to hear the accusative warnings about not using rank or position to curry sexual favors?
This, most clearly, is sex harassment of the highest order.
I'm not excusing the extortion stuff (that guy would not want me on his jury); however...
Have the n.o.w. persons voiced an opinion of any of this?
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Were any of Dave's secret women "black"? If not, he is a racist!
It is all relative for him! OTOH, his wife does has some similar features.
She must have a really “snappy gyro” or something to make guys so interested in her.
“Duh! In this case who would you blame?
Yes, I am a women”
Okay...so you are a “women?”
Letterman always blamed the women with his “jokes.”
It was always Lewinsky’s fault..never Bill Clinton’s.
Also, the jokes were on the Palin women.
And you see nothing wrong with the post on which I commented?
>> Sources said Letterman’s fondness for Diamond — who worked for him in the 1980s — went straight to her head. “She just had an exceptionally high opinion of herself,” said one insider... “She’s just a jerk ...
So, feministas - who has the upper hand here? Dumb-ass Dave? Sounds like giving a ride or two down the old baloney holster is a real power trip.
Check out these ‘strong women’ jobs: “Tasks Letterman assigned his younger female workers ranged from doing his Christmas shopping to having his car ready at the theater exit”
‘oh, and get me fresh coffee!’
I believe the audience laughed because they thought at first that Letterman was joking.
Those whacko Muslims just hate the U.S. because we are not Muslim. Doesn’t matter whether we laugh at David Letterman’s actions or not. Whatever we might do, unless we convert to and practice the Muslim faith, we are the infidels and we must be destroyed. But I agree that there are times when it looks like we are going to hell in a handbasket.
Especially if they give Dave... 
a little strange on the side, eh?
I would have hit it.
Dave loves strong women. Especially if they have nether muscles that can make his ear wax pop out.
“..strong women survive there.”
What happens to the weak ones? or the ones who say NO?
Ummmmmmm, I'm sure they did.....LOL!
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