So, you would think that the last man in America who would seek to make light of Tiger’s troubles would be David Letterman, (especially after the events of Letterman’s own recent past) but then you would be wrong.
Here is a clip from a recent Letterman monologue. Only the first 2:44 are about Tiger, but the rest is about the Salahis, and, well, it is still quite entertaining.
Don’t you just love this guy?
The Perfessor
And now we know exactly what Craig Ferguson had to do to get his job.
But how does he keep it?
From Monday's intro:
Dave's got his work cut out for him in this first mea culpa
showing, once again, no good sex goes unpunished.
[...]literature -- often taught in women's lit courses -- also teaches women to lust after men in a position of money and authority.
Jane Eyre is required reading in many schools, and what does the heroine Jane do?
She, the lowly poor tutor, falls for her rich boss, Mr. Rochester, and is in ecstasy when he deigns to fall in love with her, too. So think about it -- we're actually schooled to believe that it's desirable to date the boss.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bonnie-fuller/sexual-harassment-be-damn_b_310076.html
So it seems that David Letterman had a room where only certain women could visit.
Yes, it's that special place where all sorts of special things happen to just the lucky ones.
David Letterman 'kept a secret bedroom at his television studio for trysts with female staff'
[...] staff at the Late Show claim their boss has long kept a bedroom they dubbed 'the bunker' in the Ed Sullivan Theatre in New York where his show is taped.
It makes sense. Here you had the owner and operator of Worldwide Pants, David's production company, and the guy needed a place to... well, unzip.
This was Dave's bunker.
His "man cave"
The place where he would relax, put his feet up,
and if the mood was just right,
schtupp a woman 40 years younger than him.
It's good to be the king... (of late night)
Listen, I get it. The hours are long, the house is a couple of hours away, and it's easy to fall into the idea that everyone who you allow to get close is doing it of their own free will. After all, everyone here was an adult, and it's not like the younger woman involved came out told everyone about the affair -- it was just that asshole who the girl thought was a friend that found out about it and tried to get something out of the secret knowledge... Wait a minute...
I wonder what Bill Clinton is thinking right now...
Skipping age levels as well as skipping work hierarchy levels is done with a lot of risk, a lot on the line -- for both the younger and less experienced person as well as the older person at the top of the organization. The paths are fraught with dangers of the ethical kind and naturally of the monetary kind. In the case of David Letterman, the guy had done this before. More than once. And he'd gotten away with it, for the most part. No sexual harassment lawsuits, no babies out of wedlock, no... oh wait. Well, no other ones...
Anyway, as much as I'd like to condemn the practice of what David was doing, I find I really can't. Oh, I'm one of the first ones to suspect every single female employee who's ever been on camera at the Late Show of being in David's 'harem', but ya know, that's an easy and cruel joke based on... well, on the fact that I could never ever understand how _that_ woman got to be and stay on camera. So, yes, David's judgment on his lover of the moment spilled over to the content of what was presented on air.
While it IS his show, and it IS his call on who's on air, now that we know he was schtupping her, and that the air time was just another of Dave's perks -- well, you hear about the casting couch, but you always think it's a thing of the past.
And David seems to enjoy recycling old routines...
I'm kind of curious about the other women on the set of Late Night with David Letterman.
Did they all know that the "bunker" was for sex trysts? Did any one of them ever ask about it? I suppose there would be this problem about who to ask about it?
I mean, it's not like you can go and complain to the boss, can you? I'm sure working there is a sweet gig, so if you had a problem with Mr. Letterman's quiet time pal, you would simply leave.
I suppose nobody bothered to tell David's long time girlfriend, the one he married recently? Yeah, I know she once worked there, too. Hell, every woman David's ever "known" worked on that show... point is, one can only guess about David's now wife actually heard. Nobody else on the show thought to give the woman a courtesy call?
Or worse, maybe they did. Maybe everyone's a consenting adult, and sure, it's none of my business.
But let me get back to my point here. Would a younger woman have an affair with an attached man many years older than her? Sure. But when he's the boss? I mean, the owner of the freakin' company?
And when everyone else in the entire organization knows where the trysts take place?
Sheesh. Talk about performance anxiety.
OK, so by now, you probably have all heard David Letterman’s big (and surprising) confession on his TV program the other night. If you didn’t well, he admitted that he had sex with some of his female staffers, and was being blackmailed.
Letterman had decided his studio audience was the crowd to whom he should break the news that someone had attempted to blackmail him. In fact, that someone already had been taken into police custody.
But the audience didn't know that, and Letterman didn't make that clear until well into a detailed narration delivered in classic Dave comic monologue style.
You can read more about it in The Daily News, or you can watch the following clip:
The salient details are that Letterman (who is only recently married to his long-time girlfriend — who was a writer on the show, and now is the mother of their child) had apparently had sex with female staffers. No mention is made of the time-frame of these liaisons, or the number of them. Well, Letterman went to the DA, and had the guy arrested for blackmail.
Well, as it was pointed out to me, Letterman is a famous, wealthy guy who has been on TV essentially working on the same show for the last, I don’t know four or five decades or so — and had sex with people who worked for him. Well the guy works all the time and (until recently) hasn’t been married. We have to ask, where else but where he works is he going to meet women?
Yeah, we really don’t care much about this either.
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Apparently, not everyone does the Tweet, and there are still some old-school holdouts (like Dave Letterman) who simply don’t have the time, or inclination to make the (digital) jump. How do I know? well, here’s a truly priceless video segment from David Letterman’s “Late Show†last night, as he is taught how to use Twitter by actor Kevin Spacey.
See, I knew that I hadn’t been left behind, but was merely ahead of the curve.
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Letterman apologized for his crappy joke about Palin's daughter, saying (paraphrasing) that the perception of the joke will always trump the intent. You either love Letterman or hate him already -- this joke is big and it's way over the line, simply because it can be interpreted to be.
The thing is, this just _happens_to occur in the middle of Letterman fighting Conan for ratings, and if I was really conspiratorial minded, I'd say that the whole affair was prearranged. It amounted to a ratings bonanza, bringing in more people than it pissed off. The issue here isn't the populace refusing to watch the show as much as it is the fallout as it pertains to the potential advertisers. TV shows are tailored to the advertisers; the advertisers are shown demographics, and the advertisers either agree and pay up or think their money is better spent elsewhere and they leave. Perception over this joke can trump advertiser's greed, and they may walk if you piss them off, and Letterman by apologizing tonight (Monday) has stretched out a stunt for an entire week, and he couldn't have milked this for more ratings than if Paris Hilton had stripped down every night for Stupid Human Tricks.
No, Letterman won't try that again. We may eventually find out who Letterman fires as a way of illustrating his remorse over telling it. But no matter how you spin it, this shapes up as a Machiavellian scheme of evil genius. Letterman gets a ratings bounce that's just epic, all on the backs of two otherwise innocent girls.
I didn't think Letterman had it in him.
I'll just refer to him as "Palpatine of the Late Night"
To be sure, by now everyone has read about how Flight 1549 wound up in the Hudson River a few weeks back. We just recently happened across this simulated animated video of Flight 1549(with sound) that as been laid on top of the rather harrowing audio track from the flight.
Now, having seen what “actually†happened, check out this video which has taken the recent Christian Bale rant and intercut it with the flight tower chatter during that event.
Finally, we have Steve Martin on Late Night with David Letterman, talking about the crash. Funny stuff indeed.
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By now you must have heard that John McCain has suspended his campaign to focus on the economy meltdown. He was supposed to have appeared last night on Letterman, but canceled at the last minute. Here is a nine-minute clip from Letterman where he whacks McCain around for a bit for his “bail-outâ€:
Now, it could just be me, but isn’t “fixing the economy†something that the President should be doing? Meanwhile, over at The Daily Show, Jon Stewart had this to say about Governor Pailin’s NY visit.
I have to say that I really enjoyed the part with Samantha Bee was talking about Palin at the UN. I loved her use of film clips in the story, it was Hilarious.
Oh yeah, and to return to Letterman for a moment, his top 10 last night was (oddly enough) about McCain:
The Top Ten Questions People are Asking The John McCain Campaign (Sep 24 2008)
#10 "I just contributed to your campaign – how do I get a refund?"
#9 "It’s Sarah Palin – does this mean I’m pars’dent?"
#8 "Can’t you solve this by selling some of your houses?"
#7 "This is Clay Aiken. Is McCain single?"
#6 "Do you still think the fundamentals of our economy are strong, Genius?"
#5 "Are you doing all of this just to get out of going on Letterman?"
#4 "What would Matlock do?"
#3 "Hillary here – my schedule is free Friday night."
#2 "Is this just an excuse to catch up on napping?"
#1 "This is President Bush — what’s all this trouble with the economy?"
And then, of course, there is this:
I got yer energy policy, right here!
I’m telling you that November 4th can’t come soon enough!
Oh yeah, and I have to say, I just love #6.
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