Posted on 10/03/2009 4:36:49 AM PDT by jimbo123
If only Dave had kept it in his Worldwide Pants.
Letterman must be wishing that now, after accused blackmailer Robert (Joe) Halderman said "not guilty" at his arraignment in Manhattan Supreme Court on Friday.
After bigtime defense lawyer Gerald Shargel said ominously there are a lot more skeletons in this closet.
"This story is far more complicated than what you heard this afternoon," said Shargel, who won a big one for the late mob boss John Gotti.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
I have changed my mind.
Maybe he should twist in the wind for a few weeks, kinda like he did to Sarah Palin, ya carma payback is a beeotchhh.....
“Did they really think it was funny or did they think he was stringing them along?”
In that particular setting, I give the audience the benefit of the doubt. They were expecting humor and were likely anticipating a punch line.
” Did Letterman sleep with Roman Polanski? “
Not a wink.
Yes, but was it an “affair-affair?”
I am sure there will be more. Is the blackmailers only motive money? Not usually. At the end of the day, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn Dave’s peccadilloes didn’t somehow leave a stain in this guys sheets somewhere along the line.
In the case of the Catholic church, the non disclosure agreements were part of a settlement. We pay you x dollars and you drop this and any future lawsuits and agree to never disclose these allegations. Etc.
Unless Letterman already has such settlements in place, I doubt that any court would uphold a preemptive sexual harrassment settlement. The women who “slept” with him received preferrental treatment in work assignments, compared to other employees. In a sense CBS is the victim, since he made business decision to benefit himself rather than to benefit of his employer. It’s no different than if a mid level hiring manager demanded kickbacks from applicants.
Hey Dave! Discovery is a bitch isn’t it.
It also makes me wonder if he married his long time girl friend for reasons other than “I wuv you”...since she can’t be forced to testify.
Lets see, maybe Letterman’s wife was getting boinked by A-Rod while he was boinking his secretaries. Then again, having seen pics of Mrs Letterman, Arod would only boink her with his bat.
Sweet then that it was the bushy hair deal a meal guy!
RICHARD SIMMONS......His long time male love interest.
the chickens have come home to roost...is that how it goes?
The laughing audience was disturbing. But then, maybe it takes that kind of audience to sit through a Letterman show. I doubt most of them are people I’d want sitting next to me at a dinner party.
You infer that if they knew they would do the right thing. There is no doubt in my retired military mind that “CBS execs” are engaging in the same behavior. Their ONLY concern is that Dave had to fess up and that there is significant potential blowback to them.
They’re also probably pissed because they’ll have to put a cork in it—so to speak—until it all “blows” over.
His strength comes right from the heartland, and if Dave was telling his audience things weren’t right, no doubt he caused folks there to pull new levers in the voting booths.
Unfortunately, he’s given the targets of his humor some ammo. The question is, will his fans continue to see him as the decent guy he is?
Human, fallible, a little reckless maybe, but still a decent guy.
GEE LET’S cannonize the dirtbag Letterman right now.....the writer obviously loved what he did to Palin. Scum connects to scum to make alot of scum.
- and the lawyer quoted - he's the scumbag's lawyer...
Oh ok, that makes it all good then.
Could have been a laugh track ....or not!
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