The Oprahfication of David Letterman

Does anyone over 20 Watch liar the clown anymore>??

Meant to say :

If you don't like Dave you have the power to fire him yourself… use your remote control.

What a slimeball. It never occurred to him that his flip public apology would hurt his wife and his staff?

I've never liked him. His "humor" is mean-spirited, almost as bad as Bill Maher.

Those terms seem obvious to me.

once again, the rules don't apply here…

Letterman is a Star, an Elite- and, as such deserves to have a bevy of nubile and willing females to cater to his every need.

Kind of like our buddy Roman Polanski. THEY are important, and they have needs. And who are we serfs to question the High and Mighty?

Get a clue. Stop watching. Starve them of your meagre entertainment dollars. They will soon devour each other
(metaphorically, of course). Perhaps then another Carson will appear.

We can only hope…

Dave is a desperate man frantically clinging to the last tenuous thread of his career. He let his political ideology seep too deeply into his work thus alienating half of his audience. A mistake I'm sure he regrets yet one he cannot undo. The cruelty and vitriol with which he attacked Sarah Palin has damaged his credibility as well as his reputation. And all the apologies in the world won't win him any sympathy from his critics and now most of his fans.

I think he thought it would be a good idea to nip the rumor mill in the bud before it got out of control. This was his grasping for control of the situation. He has failed miserably. Now his private life is in upheaval as well as the private lives of his 'ahem' former employees.

uh his ratings only have been going up up since the Palin episode. Last thread of his career? Your joking right? It likely his ratings won't decline either from this episode either. Most people aren't uptight and don't care about an entertainers personal life so long they do their job and entertain.

Oh, Dave's got a fetish. It's called Palin-Envy.

Dave hasn't been entertaining or funny since Christ left Chicago. So what does he do? Turn his private life into a adolescent's facebook post.

The term 'pathetic loser' is too kind.

I also found it hard to believe that he was surprised at all the hurt (especially to his WIFE!) that his announcement caused. It's called empathy, and he obviously lacks.

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I'm waiting to see David Letterman on Celebrity Jeopardy.

I'm thinking Wolf Blitzer would smoke him like a cheap cigar.

Now THAT……………..would be embarassing.

Letterman = misogynist
The term misogynist is used in a looser sense as a term of derision to describe anyone who holds an unpopular or distasteful view about women as a group. A man who considers himself "a great lover of women," therefore, might somewhat paradoxically be termed a misogynist by those who consider this treatment of women to be sexist.

Dave surely isn't funny any more; instead, he's just plain mean these days, for a long time now.

I have no sympathy to spare on his crusty old a__, but I do have one thing to say in his defense. He pretty much had to say, upfront, that the women worked for him, on the show, since it would've come out soon enough, anyhow. And, by the way, where are the N,O.W. gang, with their outrage about a boss having sex with his female employees, his underlings (hmm, that's an unfortunate word).

If this were any conservative entertainer, no matter how little-known, they would be after his hanging-down parts, with an eye to removing them. It's just ypical leftist BS, tho, with his stupid apology and their stupid silence.

You probably can't provide data to support your first statement, and your third is a glaring example of cluelessness. When a celebrity's personal life gets ugly or repugnant, they usually cease to be quite so "entertaining".

Actually, his ratings went up because Leno left the #1 show and gave it to Conan. But thanks for playing.

Since I'm not privy to even the smallest sliver of the background relationships and details, I have no idea if Mr. Letterman's confession was a good or a bad idea. Mr. Clinton's handling of similar issues was denial and attempted cover-up (I'm being polite). Mr. Letterman is unlikely to have any means of keeping his situation a secret from the press, so maybe he decided that the classiest thing to do in an un-classy situation was to be frank about it in public and minimize speculation. It was going to be bad, no matter what. Would refusing to mention it have made it better, while the media made sure everyone was thinking about it? I'm not opposed to stoicism in many cases and think that spilling our guts about everything exaggerates many issues, but something like this sometimes calls for standing up and being forthright about it. You can be stoic about what you're suffering alone, but when others are involved, sometimes you have to manage more than just your own feelings. No sense in us Monday-morning quarterbacking the guy for trying to make the best of a no-win scenario.

you are correct- and millions ARE firing him via remote control. Doesn't mean he shouldn't get a sound thrashing here either- for he is a hypocrite's hypocrite…

It's only sexual harassment if you're a Republican.

Dave said "When you hurt a person sometimes it can be fixed and sometimes it can't be" Why such general terms, Dave? What an asshole and I think his little wife, the mother of his child, got ripped off when it came to husbands! Letterman is a emotional slug! His mother's only son. Her sole purpose for living. Dave's Father died when he was young. Dave's correct in that he NEEDS to be single. He always said that. I was surprised when he took the leap into marriage. It's pretty obvious why he married… I guess.Anyway, I believe he believes that the mean-spiritedness that he used when he went after Sarah Palin and her family, without mercy and with insincere apologies for laughs.Treating her like a non human without feelings, has come back to bite him on his own ass. Maybe he will realize that you just can't go around hurting peole for fun and getting completely away with it!

i'm NOT going to JUST use my remote control… I'm going to fight for decency, and for the general tendency of our society to accept this crap. Letterman ONLY thought of himself, and in a stupid 'Dave' way, he pissed off people like me when he incorporated jokes into his statement, and then the (quote) 'apology'… I own several radio stations in St. Louis, and this morning I called CBS in New York LIVE on the air to fire David Letterman. After getting through the dispatcher, and reaching the 'CBS COMPLAINT DEPT.'…the woman on the other end of the line didn't even listen to me, and in 5 seconds hung up! Just like CBS had YouTube remove ALL of the videos representing the first statement of last Thursday. The guy is a cranky old man who is now irrelevant anyway. Not funny,…preys on young 23 something girls, takes them upstairs above the Ed Sullivan theater, and elevates their position on his staff. Now, if a manager in a company did that over and over again and got caught DO YOU THINK HE'D STILL HAVE A JOB??? Hmmmmm? Get real!

Does anyone think there's a touch of arrogance there? Dave might make a good weatherman,as long as he sticks to the weather—no jokes please.

Well, you got me there guestagain. I am uptight and I do care about the personal lives of those I watch and allow into my home.

For example: I don't watch athletes who beat up women or breed dogs for fighting. I don't buy music of singers who lyricaly belittle women or constantly use illicit drugs. I don't watch movies or idolize those in the industry who rape young girls, or even old ones for that matter. I don't hang around people who used to blow up buildings to make a political statement. I don't befriend racists or hatemongers for 17 years before they become too politically costly for me to keep around. I don't associate with hypocrites who tell me I should pay more in taxes but cheat on their own. I don't honor those who basque in the glory of their own false virtue without ever lifting a finger for their fellow man.

The reason I don't do these things among many others is called integrity. Integrity is defined as "the quality of possessing and steadfastly adhering to high moral principals or professional standards". You should probably check into this, because not all things in life are relative.

"Worldwide Pants" how apropos

John Nolte… your level of vehemence usually indicates jealousy…. you seem to forget BLACKMAIL is a crime. Dave decided to get out in front of the victimizer…. I say three cheers for him. The blackmailer belongs in jail, regardless of what he has on Dave or how bad the criminal and his lawyer try to make him look. A crime was committed against Letterman and should be punished. Period. You're confusing personalities with the rule of law.

By the way, I'm a Palin conservative and would prefer Letterman skip the partisan politics….. but, all things considered, he generally amuses me… which, incidentally, is his job.

On the other hand, if he held himself up as a moral authority, such as a politician, clergyman or Oprah… I would be disappointed by his behavior. As it is, you're asking a comedian to be a roll model or moral authority… which is totally wrongheaded.

He's never been particularly enchanted with Hollywood… maybe that's your problem?

Cheers!

Didn't Letterman have a one-sided faux "feud" with Orpah?

oh, like we can ignore you?

David Letterman is an idiot.

Did you just teleport in from the 19th century or something, guest? Periodicals, which blogs are a form of, necessarily rely on their readers' familiarity with contemporary cultural currents. An article could never be written if everything had to be spelled out completely from the beginning every time. The allusions you cite as troublesome are by no means obscure or likely to cause confusion in the average reader, so I/we can only conclude that you are either a newcomer to public debate in America, or you are just off the boat from another time and place.

In a word, STFU.

P.S. Mr. Nolte writes some of the best stuff to be found anywhere in print right now. I don't know if you're imprudently forming a hasty opinion of him on the basis of this one article alone, or you deliberately set out to be insulting without first having the faintest idea what you're talking about, but in either case you should really STFU.

This is all very sophisticated. CBS appears to be running a brothel for David Letterman. CBS has provided him with his own secret room — which the chippies there call "the bunker" — and his choice from among all the whores that are employed there — or that are simply *there.* This is not the kind of perk you usually write into a contract. It must have been a handshake agreement. The tramp of Davy's desires eventually moves in with Joe Halderman, but Davy continues to stupf the whore anyway. Halderman finds out about it, gets royally upset at being cuckolded by a geezer, and strikes back at him, thus making poor innocent Davy the "victim." Meantime the tramp, who was never more than plain to begin with, and even that in a most dorky sort of way, gets fat, and gets a law degree. This highly ethically challenged little poster child of depravity will become an officer of the court some day. Davy goes on TV with nation-wide apology number two and shamelessly uses his wife to gain himself more sympathy. Davy's audience of dumbf—s applaud. All very sophisticated.

"If you don't like Dave you have the power to fire him yourself… use your remote control."

Oddly enough, you don't have to read John's posts.

When Letterman even makes jokes on the air about having sex with guys on his staff, that doesn't seem like a very convincing apology to me…

He has no shame and he doesn't love his kid. His wife he treated with no class, but she had none to get herself into this guys life. I never thought he was funny on Late Night in the 80s. He never had class, class is something you are born with, you can't acquire it like a suntan.

"Vengeance is mine thus saith the Lord"

Victim? He's a VICTIM? That's as far as I got in the video, cuz he makes me want to vomit. So the only thing I have to say to him is…come on Dave, it wasn't extortion-extortion.

He brought it up on TV because it took away the leverage the blackmailer held over him, and more importantly because the information was going to become public knowledge anyway, and better to control its release himself than via reporters circling the courthouse for lurid quotes.

And : if you think a comedian should quit or be fired for having sex with someone, you're a douchebag.

These mea culpas are all about ratings. Letterman's are going through the roof and he and wifey are laughing all the way to the bank. What will he do for an encore — a starring role in his very own porn clip on Late Night TV? (Eventually the law of diminishing returns will kick in.)

I know the guy is a bit of a scum bag, but his wife should have seen this coming. Did she not wonder why it took Letterman over 20 years (plus a child) for him to finally marry her? Especially considering how she met him to begin with? (Yes, she too was a staff member).

Not that people who don't marry are automatically cheating (and not that married people don't cheat), but it sounded like a very squiffy "well, I can do what I want because it's not like I'm married to her." And then, he got to that point in life, at the ripe old age of 62, when he apparently decided to stop playing around.

I'm not saying he should have paid the extortionist (if that's what it necessarily really was because it will be interesting to see what comes out during the trial), but you really wonder what he was thinking in his little speech: if his ego is so massive that he will be seen solely as a creature of pity, or if he was subconsciously hoping his wife would hit the road anyway.

Well, at least its wasn't as bad as what Clarence Thomas supposedly did to Anita Hill. Mean old Clarence Thomas said dirty things to Anita. All Dave did was give 'em some lovin'. The NOW ladies have to choose their battles. They can't get upset over every little thing that happens. (Sarcasm off)
Given their silence in this case and the Roman Polanski situation, I think their last shred of credibility is gone.

Uh-uh. If he goes public, he's a sleaze, and if he dodges, he's a coward *and* a sleaze. You know why that is? Because what he did was sleazy at best, no matter what he does to save his skin now. It remains to be seen whether he has any criminal or civil liabilities, but a sleaze he is and a sleaze he'll ever be. And CBS, they're sleazes, too. They're the ones who gave Dave his secret room above the theater known to the staffers as "the bunker." And the staffers? Well, what to you say about the one who sleeps with the geezer, goes off to cohabit with another guy, then cuckolds the other guy with the geezer? Then, woefully fittingly, this ethically challenged little poster child of depravity gets a law degree. Just the kind of "officer of the court" we need more of. It's all sleaze, Bunky, all of it.

Dave was "all twisted up"(SIC! LMAO! SURRRRRRE DAVE, RIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!) about all of the intense media scrutiny his staff is now encountering b/c of the (oh BOOOO-EFFIN'!-HOOOO!) "CRIMINAL ACTIVITY!!!!!!" OF THAT DARNED "BLACKMAILER", HUH! Anyone hear ol' "TRULY SORRY!!!(SIC!, LOL) DAVE apologize to ANYONE YET FOR BEING A SEXUAL HARASSER, which last time I checked, was ALSO A CRIME? Not a peep out of ol' sorry-assed Dave on that score yet, has there been one that I missed on this?

Like Obama, Geithner, Dacshle, Rangel, Waters, Reid, Burris, Clinton, Polanski et al., it's a good thing Letterman's not a Republican.

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