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Maybe it’s just me, but I’m not sure I’ll ever feel the same way about David Letterman again. Since the late night talk show host made his dramatic confession on TV last week that he was being blackmailed for $2 million for having numerous affairs with female employees, I’ve been talking to different people about Letterman. It seems like everyone basically wants to give Dave a free pass because a) well, he’s Dave, and just about everyone likes Dave, b) we all hate extortionists, and c) we’re all pretty sick of these silly sex scandals. Blackmail is wrong, no doubt about it. And it certainly sounds like Robert “Joe” Halderman, the Emmy Award-winning “48 Hours Mystery” producer who was arrested for the alleged extortion plot, is a real piece of work. But that doesn’t mean Dave should completely get… read more

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Stupid Americans and their ‘holier-than-thou’ BS. Grow up already and stop with the voyeursim. It’s not like he’s a pedophile or something. They were consenting adult women with whom he had sex. Big deal. Again, please grow up and move on to more important issues like healthcare reform, education, cleaning up and incarcerating the heinous criminals on Wall Street, etc.

Posted by Dovid Abraham on 10/05/09 at 11:49 PM

And what about his son? And the mother of his son? Was he faithful to her?

Yes, this is show business. And yes, it’s wrong. We may in time find that the State of New York and U.S. labor laws agree that it was wrong.

Posted by Barry List on 10/05/09 at 12:41 PM

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