Letterman is my Hero!

[The Sushi Bandit]

He has the guts to admit in public that he had sex with his intern.
He turned the guy into the police.
He was honest about it all.

could you do that?

[Raven]

1. His intern??? Jesus! Stupid, stupid, stupid. Otherwise, I agree.

[flvegan]

2. No. I don't have an intern.

[LisaM]

3. He was gutsy, about it, that's for sure. And I admire that.

Though his actions leading up to it were less than heroic - and he really, really should have laid off Bill Clinton all those years.

[roguevalley]

4. I remember people railing about someone else using interns

and the power differential and all that and hating the abuser. Frankly, I love dave and will continue to. I just loathe that he's stupid (doing this in this climate with a feud with Palin going on), that he's low class to cheat on a woman he has lived with for half his life in a committed relationship leading to marriage, that he thought he wouldn't get caught. What sort of ego do you have to have to do what you want in his position regardless of the obligations and family responsibilities he has and think someone wouldn't do something like this? He's a complete ass.

[FreeState]

6. How do we know he cheated on his wife?

He said he had sex with women he worked with. He never said when or if his marriage is beholden to monogamy.

[roguevalley]

9. 23 years with his girlfriend is common law. and common decency.

I wish men and women would dump their obligations before they decide to fuck around. Its a matter of integrity with me.

[FreeState]

10. How do you know what they defined their marriage as?

or are you placing what you think a marriage should be on them?

How do you know they are not in an open marriage?

[undeterred]

17. Maybe they were on a "break".

[WonderGrunion]

21. Incidentally, his 23 year GF, now wife, started out working for him too.

Just for perspective. you don't know Mrs. & Mr. Letterman's relationship. Hold off on the judgment.

[FreeState]

5. Hmmm maybe

but we don't know enough information about Letterman's marriage to make any judgement. Hes been married what 8 months? Marriage does not equal monogamy (and there is nothing wrong with that as long as both parties agree).

[WonderGrunion]

20. Letterman wasn't married at the time, Clinton was

Apples and oranges

[blm]

22. Bill Clinton was a single, late night comedian?

.

[AsahinaKimi]

7. honest yes...

But heard he recently got married.. ouch.. He has some explainin to do!
Hero? no.. creepy? Yes...

[Fla Dem]

8. Sorry I like Letterman but...he's no hero.

He had sex with a woman. That's where anything favorable that can be said about the situation ends. She was his assistant. He was her boss. That is a major error in judgment. I don't care if it was consensual or not. There are labor laws against that type of activity. He was in a long term relationship with another woman, who eventually had his child and he married. He betrayed her. The only difference between him and John Edwards is once he was threatened with exposure, he made the affair public and owned up to it.

For the most part, I say move on. He screwed up, fessed up, if his wife forgave him, fine. But to say he is a hero is a little beyond the pale.

[jesus_of_suburbia]

11. only if his wife knew that he would cheat before they got married.

otherwise, not so much.

(they may have had an understanding - she gets the cash and he gets the multiple ladies)


if not, I think he's an asshole.



edited because I typed "new" instead of "knew"... I'm an idiot.

[BlooInBloo]

12. I figure he just (correctly) reasoned that the best way to avoid being blackmailed...

Was to bite the bullet on this, and demonstrate publicly that you *cannot* be blackmailed. The deterrent value of that in the future for him should be huge.

I don't call him a hero, but rather a very, very smart businessman (conceptually as well as literally), in recognizing a sunk cost when he sees one, and continuing to gamble.

[Liquorice]

13. There are generally much higher standards than that to be considered a hero. nt

[panader0]

14. I've been living with my girlfriend for 8 years

If I cheated on her she'd cut me off, and I mean Cut Me Off!

[undeterred]

15. She was his assistant, not his intern.

Nothing wrong with lusting after young women as long as they are 'legal'.

[Warpy]

16. Well, not really, too bad the female staffer(s) got outed, too

but the blame for that belongs 100% to the piece of shit who tried to blackmail him.

This is how you deal with blackmailers. You make sure there's a paper or video/audio trail, you alert the authorities, and you admit the whole thing.

Then you have the satisfaction of seeing them twist in the wind while the legal system does its thing.

[Kablooie]

18. But he had SEX with women! How can you support a man who does THAT!?

[TheKentuckian]

19. I have nearly infinite indifference to who Dave is screwing but he's no chickenshit

So, I respect him a lot for that. No one can call Dave out for triangulating even if he takes one or two to the chin for hypocrisy (a trait pretty much required of a comedian along with a large measure of being self effacing).