Tuesday, October 6, 2009
2
Not unscathed exactly, just scathed in a way that endears him to all of us with wandering libidos of our own and a taste for celebrity confessions well delivered, which is pretty much all of us.
3
If he gets away with this, what sort of message are we sending to other late night yack-show hosts? That it's ok to have a consensual sexual relationship with other adults? Think of Colin Ferguson!
5
Dave got to be his own Hugh Grant. Plus, this has to be better than the crazy lady who used to stalk him.
10
And why is this a scandal exactly? He's a talk show host - not a person holding public office. He wasn't married when he was screwing around. The relationships were consensual between participating adults - no fuck-me-or-you're-fired situations. He's wealthy and funny and famous and would be considered attractive by many women.
He was the one being blackmailed. Whatever discord may exist between him and his new wife (old girlfriend) is really between them. Let's move on.
I love ya, Dave!
He was the one being blackmailed. Whatever discord may exist between him and his new wife (old girlfriend) is really between them. Let's move on.
I love ya, Dave!
11
Sometimes people like a person better after they apologize for doing something they shouldn't have done than they would if that person never made a mistake. Ask Jerry Springer.
13
Yep, what @2 said. I like him all the more for his honesty and his willingness to be humble and take responsibility for this. It's endearing, respectful, even sexy. Enough of Roman Polanski and his enfant terrible shtick. This is how a grown man should act.
15
Are people realy so bored wth Jon and Kate now that they're giving Letterman all this attention?!? Looks like it's tme for John to do something zany again.
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@16 What kind of a fucked-up world do we live in that thinks Letterman needs to be punished but Polanski needs to be freed? Yeesh, that's crazy.
18
Of course the ratings are up, Letterman has some good new material to work with. This is better than getting pulled over by a Connecticut trooper or having his house broken into by an obsessed fan.
19
If a person holding public office handled it the way Letterman did, I'd like to think they'd pull through as cleanly.
I'd still rather be led by adept statesman who was a rabid lech than a moral saint who was incompetent at government.
I'd still rather be led by adept statesman who was a rabid lech than a moral saint who was incompetent at government.
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