No sympathy for Letterman from me. No sympathy from CBS either.
But, if I were on the jury, CBS and Letterman would both be safe. Assuming the sex was consensual and not forced under threat of dismissal, each gold-digger would get about a dime, plus another $100.00 out of sympathy for having done Letterman.
Agree!!! What victims????!!??? Most likely these women were seeking some advantage in sleeping with him... or wanted the ego lift from being involved with a celebrity. Not one penny for them. CBS should be the one suing letterman if the ratings dive.
That's the way I see it too. Embarrassment galore.. that's life, and up to the public. But, consensual sex (if that's what it was without pressure) shouldn't carry a rag-to-riches time bomb with it.
Every demand from one's employer carries with it an implied threat of discipline, dismissal, loss of future opportunity.
I’m where you are. No sympathy for anyone involved, not Letterman, not CBS, not the women.
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Can’t stand the old pervert.
I read that he is a frequent visitor of NY call girls, also.
I happened to be channel surfing one night (I don’t watch him on a regular basis) and stopped for the ‘stupid pet tricks’. He kept sticking his arrogant, ugly mug into the face of a small dog and repeating over and over in a falseto voice, ‘Hello doggie’ until the dog bit him on the nose. Showed up the next night (couldn’t resist tuning in the next night) with a hugh bandage on his nose- even had to have some stitches. Priceless. Serves him right.
He is an unfunny sob who refuses to let his guests talk, constantly butting in trying to be funny and and is often insulting.
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Larry, “consentual” will be impossible to prove. Which is why there will be lawsuits.
Can any one be “bigger” or more powerful than the marquee name on a television show? Could there be an implied coersion in even approaching a subordinate staff member? What of the implied threat of loss of job; loss of advancement; loss of hiring potential in “defying” the person “whose name is on the lable?”
Makes the phrase “don’t dip your pen in the company ink” all the more telling.
That coupled with Letterman’s own vitriolic attempts at comedy at the expense of politicians/athletes provoclivities (and the great karma of spending a recent hour with Obama) makes for a long, long enemies list who want to take him down. Hard.
This isn’t going to go away...it isn’t just about sex; its about a hostile workplace for subordinate female employees...and on a delicious aside, the same NOW hags who kept silent on the Willow Palin verbal sexual assault are now keeping equally as quiet on this workplace sexual harassment. Telling isn’t it?
Even over at the DUmp, the schism is forming. Male koolaid drinkers (its Dave’s personal life!!!) accusing the female koolaid imbibers (hostile workplace! Sexual harassment!) Of being “church ladies” and “man haters.”. The fallout already is grand...and will only serve to get better.
We know that one of them got her law school tuition paid for by Letterman. I doubt she is going to sue. I wonder if the real trouble could come from people who DIDN’T have sex with Dave and claim to have been treated poorly because of it.
Lawsuits would also come from all the women (and men) who had NOT slept with Letterman. Look up "hostile work environment". Giving more favorable treatment in a work environment to somebody because she's sleeping with you, is discrimination against the entire rest of your staff.
“assuming the sex was consensual and not forced under threat of dismissal”
And THAT is the $100,000,000 dollar question.
It’s a HE said/she said, versus an admitted philanderer, who is known to be a yerror to those working around him.
I agree, this is gonna cost CBS, BIG-TIME!
I’m with you.
Unless these “ladies” were under 18 or Letterman forced himself on any of them, they should not see a payout.
There are NO laws against sleeping with a co-worker. If there was, my husband and I would have been in jail years ago.