Well if you didn't catch it on Letterman last night then you might have heard it on the news today. Yes David Letterman has had sex. OK big deal but here is the thing - it was with his employees and he was being blackmailed about it. There was a arrest in the case (the man blackmailing him) but last night David came out and admitted it on his show. Here is a clip of it, the video is a little choppy but the audio is perfect.
I think he took his audience by surprise because they laughed though his admission. I'm guessing they all were waiting for the punch line but one never came.
So I'm curious about what your thoughts are? Do you feel he needed to tell his audience and the public or it should have been kept private? Was he smart in coming out first? Do you feel less of him?
thanks for the warning. Yeah you have to love the scammers who play games.
I do think when he annouced it and everyone started laughing thinking it was a joke he should have said hey Im being serious here.
Have you watched it--the whole thing? He was trying to be funny...laughing and smiling along with them. I don't think he said what he did was wrong{adultery}--ever--during that time, and i think he made a joke out of it, as the thread is entitled "yes i had sex" followed by a *shrug* and more laughs. no big deal to him. the big deal is that someone was trying to blackmail him about it. seems as if the adultery part of the story doesn't even phase him in the least.
And i mean that's what his show is for, ... funny, that's what he dishes out--and what he dished out last night--and that's what his audience anticipates. Perhaps he should've done a press release if he felt it needed to be addressed. I don't think this was the correct manner to handle this situation he got himself into.
But that's just my opinion
Well I think now days that affairs are looked at like no big deal (unless your the one being cheated on). I mean after we (the country) have seen it all. What we have had Clinton, Edwards, the senator who ran to S. America, the other senator who was hiring male prostitutes.............I think you get the picture. Who know when all of this happened I read one place it was a while back prior to him being married. Regardless I feel for CBS HR department - what a nightmare. Yeah those girls hit the lotto by screwing the boss. Its just bad all the way around.
So I didn't catch it last night but I guess he apologized again to the audience, his staff and to his wife who is "horribly hurt" (duhhh).
"She has been horribly hurt by my behavior, and when something happens like that, if you hurt a person and it's your responsibility, you try to fix it," Letterman told audiences, according to a statement from his company, Worldwide Pants.
"And at that point, there's only two things that can happen: either you're going to make some progress and get it fixed, or you're going to fall short and perhaps not get it fixed, so let me tell you folks, I got my work cut out for me."
He said he was "terribly sorry that I put the staff in that position. Inadvertently, I just wasn't thinking ahead ... my thanks to the staff for, once again, putting up with something stupid I've gotten myself involved in."
So did anyone see it? If you did what did you think?
Nope I don't watch him, i think he's an idiot. And honestly, I don't even know why this had to become the scandal that it did, its ridiculous. How he's going to "fix" that I have no idea.
I think this article (huffington post) says it ALL:
"During these moments of apologies and admissions, these men somehow attempt to get the public to forget the arrogance that brought them to point that they had to apologize. It is arrogant to cheat on your wife and think that you are above getting caught. It is arrogance that drives a man to flirt with and eventually have sex with his employee. And yes, it is arrogance that makes a man ignore the embarrassment that his children will endure due to his sexual indiscretions. The real victims in this sordid story are Letterman's wife, son, and maybe even the staffers. They are the collateral damage."