Is it just me--does anyone else smell a Rovelike stench around the Letterman extortion plot?

[librechik]

He has made some very Republican enemies lately. And CBS is way in to the corrupt news organization thing nowadays.Would they really allow their Late Night cash cow to die like they did Rather?

It's probably just a coincidence.

Right?

On edit, just discovered the affair was back in 2003? When RoveCo was at the height of his media-pwning power

[jeffrey_X]

1. Ummm. no.

eom

[cali]

2. no. btw, love your tin foil chapeau.

[Junkdrawer]

3. I would have said no, but the immediate unrecs have me reconsidering...

You may have something there....

[cali]

9. I love logic!

clearly you don't.

[Junkdrawer]

14. I get a lot of information by tracking the DU "contrarians"... n/t

[conscious evolution]

17. I have to agree.

It seems that these days anyne posting info or opinions that are contrary to the zietgiest is immediately swarmed by those whose motives are suspect.

[Junkdrawer]

18. They doth protest too much. n/t

[bvar22]

27. The new "Top Tens Page"...

...is for you (and me).
It is a strike against the Middle of the Herd Political Correctness Commissars.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=greatest_threads&topten=1

Try it. You'll like it.
It saves me hours of scrolling through GD looking for "<0" to find something worth reading.

[conscious evolution]

28. How do I

get that page on My Forums?

[bvar22]

34. I don't think you can get it in "My Forums"....

...but if you go to The Greatest page, immediately under the 2nd Black Bar, you will see:

Top Tens >>

just click on that.

I made it my Homepage in Firefox. (Tools > Options > Main....make this my homepage)

[Lone_Star_Dem]

4. No, Halderman was arrested.

Something Rove never has been.

[NoPasaran]

5. Rove is too busy controlling the weather to bother with a half-baked blackmail plot

[librechik]

10. I said "Rovelike" stench, and they all smell like that.

and they share a hive mind and bank book.

[Ineeda]

6. IMO the story will die after a few days and Dave will be fine. n/t

[reflection]

7. No. But I am pretty sure

that Rove stole my lawnmower, burned my pancakes this morning, and knocked up my cat. That SOB. :mad:

[Bumblebee]

8. just you.

[WI_DEM]

11. No.

[Mz Pip]

12. No

There are plenty of people out there who don't need Rove;s help in being assholes.

[eShirl]

13. if there was a Rovelike plot, couldn't they have found a better target?

I mean, Dave Letterman? c'mon.

[librechik]

15. of course, and they are. But Dave is really hard on Palin and McCain.

and they are very very rich and very very vindictive. however, I'm sure everyone is right and it was just an idiot all on his own. i am too suspicious sometimes.

[cherokeeprogressive]

16. Unhealthy obsession. n/t

[Clintonista2]

19. Yup

it IS just you.

[cbdo2007]

20. It's no coincidence that so many affairs are becoming public recently.

Expecially the ones in politics I'm sure were because of political spies but I would bet the Letterman one is too.

The way TMZ wrote on their site, that Dave and his assistant had been rumored to have had a relationship, makes it sound like the affair itself is probably old news and was semi-widely known.

[lpbk2713]

23. Every office has its common-knowlege secrets.

And I'm sure Worldwide Pants is no exception.

[Junkdrawer]

25. Wasn't there something about how EVERY phone and email is tapped nowadays?

I think we're starting to see the fruit of that lovely tree....

[CoffeeCat]

21. Wanting to control David Letterman...

...would be a coup for anyone in power.

Letterman has a ton of influence. People really like him and listen to him. He's
got credibility.

Blackmailing him--to get him to shut up and to keep him from using comedy to go after
certain people, groups or ideologies--is not exactly out of the realm of possibilities.

I'm not saying that Rove did this.

However, we all sense that our politicians are being blackmailed--or at the very least
known corruption is being held over their heads. Siebel Edmonds talked about politicians
being blackmailed.

I don't have any evidence that this was happening to Letterman--but why would anyone be
immune to it? Especially a very powerful, influential entertainment personality?

If they succeed at blackmailing you--then they've got your original crimes plus your
complicit cover-up. Letterman made sure that no one owned him.

At least Letterman had the cajones to come forward. Can you image the numbers that are owned?

[Trajan]

22. It looks as if it is just you ...

[blogslut]

24. Not really

Karl Rove didn't invent extortion and such things will continue long after his black heart ceases to beat.

[AngryOldDem]

26. No. Just someone out to make a quick buck.

And I am crying NO tears for Letterman, either.

[Brickbat]

29. Sometimes an ill-timed fuck is just an ill-timed fuck. There's no point in giving the man more power

than he really has.

[JuniperLea]

30. Anyone who speaks out against "them" is taking a chance...

Letterman has a huge following; what he says is repeated and spread around. Anyone who is such a large mouthpiece will no doubt make enemies because you can't please everyone, and when you please a few, you piss off another few:)

Anything is possible in this whack world, especially with the exceptionally whack GOP!

Maybe, maybe not... but I can't blame you for thinking in those terms;)

[anonymous171]

31. No. Rove would have waited until 2012.

That way his credibility couldn't recover until the elections were over.

[fishwax]

32. Huh. I figured we were past the days we saw Rove around every corner

[malaise]

33. It crossed my mind at first, but it 's looking like

Halderman may have had a relationship with one of the women and decided to 'cash in' - poor fool. I really can't see ROve here as why would a successful CBS employee collect the check and head to his own bank to lodge/cash it - what a simpleton. Did he really believe Letterman would give him $2M that easily.

Indeed Letterman went on the attack and his approach was a stroke of genius.

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