Letterman

[Pie]

I really doubt their policies are so hard-coded that they would be forced to fire top talent -- given that most of their top talent is probably enjoying exactly these fringe benefits.

Was he coercing favors from the underlings, or were they gold-digging/coattail riding? I'm guessing it was more the latter than the former.

[glatt]

I would assume it's only harassment if someone complains that they were harassed.

[Undertoad]

D. Letterman doesn't work for CBS, he works for his production company Worldwide Pants and they sell a show to CBS.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

They all live in a bubble and the usual rules don't apply in Hollywood. They are immune from judgement.

That's stupid. He's lived in places without extradition agreements with the US, be prosecuters have not stopped trying to apprehend him.

The timeline of a fleeing Roman Polanski
September 30, 2009
Film director Roman Polanski has been considered by prosecutors in California as a US citizen fleeing from American justice for three decades.

The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office recently released a timeline which shows how attempts were made to apprehend the talented film author in a series of countries including England, Canada, Thailand and Israel.

Feb 1978: US Extradition Services Section opened a file for Polanski following the confirmation that he was living in France.

May 1978: Prosecutors learned that Polanski was spotted in England and then submitted a formal extradition package to the UK government.

Dec 1986: Officials at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Ottawa were consulted after the news that the film director was considering a visit to Canada.

May 1998: Prosecutors verified the validity of an arrest warrant after information was received that Polanski was considering travel to Germany, Sweden, Denmark or Brazil.

June 1994: A request for a provisional arrest warrant was made to France.

Oct 2005: Thailand received an Interpol Red Notice because Polanski was planning a vistit to the South East Asian country.

July 2007: Israeli police requested further details when the artist travelled to the country but when information arrived he had already left.

Sept 2009: California prosecutors received Information that Polanski was planning to appear at a film festival in Switzerland. They prepared a provisional arrest warrant which was executed by Swiss authorities.

Originally Posted by classicman

How does this all fit within the realm of sexual harassment - thats another issue he needs to be concerned with. I think a company like CBS will have a very clear policy on this. Their hands may be tied and he may have to be terminated.

I don't think Letterman works for CBS. Either he is considered to be an independant contractor, or he works for World Wide Pants.

[ZenGum]

Shouldn't that be Spread Wide Pantys?


(That Y was a typo, but I think it works :p )

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

That's stupid. He's lived in places without extradition agreements with the US, be prosecuters.

What is stupid about a convicted child molester on the lam?

[TheMercenary]

NEW YORK (AP) - Some of the politicians zinged by David Letterman over the years for their indiscretions are offering pity and advice for the scandalized talk show host.
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford says Letterman could benefit from his confession that he had affairs with women who worked on the "Late Show." And former Florida Rep. Mark Foley says, "I feel sorry for Dave—I take no glee."

Most of Letterman's targets who were approached by The Associated Press refrained from jeering at his plight—or saying anything at all.

But Sanford sent Letterman warm wishes.

"Both my thoughts and my prayers are with him," he said Tuesday after a speaking engagement at a Rotary Club meeting in Easley, S.C.

In June, Sanford seemed fair game for comedy after he disappeared from the state (and his wife) for a five-day rendezvous with an Argentine woman he called his soul mate.

The governor "didn't really enjoy this year's Fourth of July. He left his favorite firecracker in Argentina," Letterman joked soon after.

"There's a lot more introspection and soul-searching on the way down than there is on the way up," said Sanford, who is under investigation by South Carolina's Ethics Commission, in addressing his woes as well as Letterman's. "He can be a better person for it."

Letterman, like many comedians, feasted on the disgrace of Foley, whose political career was ruined in 2006 by a scandal involving salacious e-mails he sent to underage teens.

"How about that Florida Congressman Mark Foley?" cracked Letterman at the time. "Whoa! At least the Democrats wait until the interns are 18."

On Tuesday, Foley, now a talk-radio host in Florida, voiced concern for Letterman's 5-year-old son, Harry, and for the child's mother, Regina Lasko, whom Letterman married in March after many years together.

"You hope that somewhere along the way," continued Foley, "somebody feels their heart beat and says, 'God, but for the grace of God, there go I,' and they say, 'You, know, this isn't funny anymore.'"

In March 2008, Letterman was taking potshots at Eliot Spitzer, then governor of New York, who was embroiled in an investigation into a high-end prostitution operation.

"It's so sunny and bright outside that, earlier today, Eliot Spitzer came out of a brothel squinting," Letterman cracked in a monologue.

But in Spitzer's case, he didn't stop at lampooning. During an indignant rant, he called for the scandalized governor to step down.

"I mean, can you imagine," said Letterman, "if this happened to me how fast they'd have my ... (backside) out of here?"

Unlike Spitzer, who resigned, Letterman seems secure in his job as host of CBS' "Late Show," nearly a week after his bombshell revelations of having had sex with women on his staff (a disclosure prompted by an alleged $2 million blackmail threat against him).

But considering his acknowledgment of past "creepy" behavior, it's kind of creepy to revisit a joke such as this one from a March 2008 show: "Let me ask you a question. Do you think it's too soon to be hitting on Mrs. Eliot Spitzer?"

In another monologue, Letterman tweaked Sen. David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican whose telephone number was found in 2007 among those called by an escort service that prosecutors said was a call girl ring.

Vitter "admitted he's been dating prostitutes," said Letterman. "And he was very generous with one girl: He paid her with a new highway project in her home state."

Perhaps Vitter, like many other embarrassed politicians, had set himself up for ridicule. But hasn't Letterman set himself up for payback, now?

Vitter chose not to return fire at Letterman's glass house.

So did former U.S. Sen. Gary Hart, whose run for the presidency was derailed by a sex scandal in 1987 and who became the butt of many of Letterman's jokes.

"Big weekend for Gary Hart," Letterman grinned when the Hart scandal broke: "He was campaigning his brains out."

Chris Smith, Hart's spokeswoman at the University of Colorado Denver School of Public Affairs, said Hart had no comment.

Letterman has made comic hay of the troubles of Larry Craig, a former U.S. senator from Idaho who in 2007 was arrested by an undercover police officer conducting a sting operation against men cruising for sex at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

Noting that Craig was nabbed in an airport men's room, Letterman said, it "gives new meaning to the word 'caucusing.'"

Both during and after his White House years, President Bill Clinton remained a reliable source of Letterman's humor.

Another favorite target: former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, with whom Letterman had a run-in over sexually suggestive jokes made at the expense of her teenage daughter in June.

In July 2008, Letterman turned his sights on former presidential candidate John Edwards, who confessed to an extramarital affair. No. 1 on Letterman's "Top Ten Signs Barack Obama Is Overconfident": "Been cruising for chicks with John Edwards."

That was just a joke. But now Letterman has admitted to real-life sexual misconduct—and put forth his apologies.

"Nobody is above making tragic mistakes," said Foley. "Some never get discovered; some do, in a very public way."

Letterman "can keep apologizing until the cows come home," he added pointedly. "But he's now found his own life the subject of late-night comedians."

From AP:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...show_article=1

[Pico and ME]

So Letterman had affairs with women he worked with while he was single?

And this is a scandal?

What am I missing?

[xoxoxoBruce]

And the women he had affairs with, aren't complaining.

[TheMercenary]

Maybe he is well hung and no one has any regrets....

I think it is ROTFLMAO that a guy who basically made a point of and a living out of joking about high profile people who have been caught screwing around had all along been doing the same thing. Sort of ironic don't you think? A bit of a double standard.

A longtime assistant said he had the ability to cast a spell on the ladies.

"I don't think women ever get over Dave," Laurie Diamond told London's Daily Telegraph.

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertain..._4dave04m.html

[Undertoad]

Palin supporters everywhere are busy working themselves into a pretzel shape trying to find this ironic. And yet it isn't.

[Pico and ME]

The difference, Merc, is that the politicians who got caught screwing around were married for one, and were part of the conservative 'family values' cabal that preached high morals. Lettermans situation just doesnt qualify here. That article is a joke in itself and Letterman has got to be ROTFLMAO himself at the quotes in it.

[jinx]

Also, he wasn't screwing around with underage boys or prostitutes.

[Shawnee123]

I don't think "married" is the magic word. He was, presumably, in a committed long-term relationship. Who gives a fuck if they were married YET. or ever?

HAVING SAID THAT, I also think it's between him and his woman. They may have an understanding. She may not care. She might be torn up. Who knows? I sure don't.

I'm waiting for the sexual harrassment suit from some bitch who willingly fucked him then decides to go on Dr Phil and cry about how horrible it all was. Book deal: Stupid Pet Tricks: How Dave Made Me Fuck Him.

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Palin supporters everywhere are busy working themselves into a pretzel shape trying to find this ironic. And yet it isn't.

And, speaking of stupid people fucking, the dude who knocked up Little Palin is going to pose for Playgirl. Uh, no thanks, I don't need to see Pasty Pansy Ice Boy nekkid.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...-for-playgirl/