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David Letterman

I watched Good Morning America this morning and they had a segment that talked about how common work place romances are. Some companies even have a "love contract" for employees to sign. This stipulates that if you get involved with a co-worker and then things go bad, you can not hold the company responsible. Sleeping with Co-workers is not illegal as long as it's consensual and as long as you don't threaten to hold back an employees career if they don't give in to your advances. None of this is a problem right now. No employees have brought such a complaint against Dave. That would be a totally different issue anyway.

Right now they are only dealing with the attempt to extort money from Letterman. That is the only law that has been broken. Any other issue has to do with Morals. Nothing illegal about Morals. Good nor bad. Don't think Dave's wife is very happy about this. But that still doesn't make it illegal. It just means that Dave screwed up.
 
Skynet said; Nothing illegal about Morals. Good nor bad. Don't think Dave's wife is very happy about this. But that still doesn't make it illegal. It just means that Dave screwed up.

None of this is a problem right now.

Well.....in reality it's a BIG problem.
It means that Dave overlooked and VIOLATED his marriage VOWS. That DOES mean more than you think in the long run.

Despite what Skynet wrote here, THOSE vows are more important than his CBS contract. Violating his marriage means that Dave can't be trusted.

He certainly promised fidelity to his WIFE and then he shot it down the toilet.

WHY get married if you are going to do that? [/b] WHY make the promises you make in a marriage contract if you have INTENTION of breaking them??

It DOES mean alot. It tells you what kind of person he REALLY is. He thought he was "smart" but got CAUGHT. He's a LOSER.
 
Prais said:
It DOES mean alot. It tells you what kind of person he REALLY is. He thought he was "smart" but got CAUGHT. He's a LOSER.
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Yeah well it's not illegal to be a loser either. The world is full of them.
 
Prais said:
He certainly promised fidelity to his WIFE and then he shot it down the toilet.

WHY get married if you are going to do that? [/b] WHY make the promises you make in a marriage contract if you have INTENTION of breaking them??

It DOES mean alot. It tells you what kind of person he REALLY is. He thought he was "smart" but got CAUGHT. He's a LOSER.
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It's been reported that all of this happened before he married Regina which was earlier this year although he's been WITH Regina for a lot longer than that. So he didn't violate any marriage vows. And, apparently, from what I've read, Dave isn't necessarily subject to CBS rules because he works for himself and, WorldWide Pants, his company apparently has no rules regarding relationships with co-workers.

So, unless other stuff comes out in the news, all he's done is have consensual sexual relationships with co-workers (at least one of them much younger than himself). As long as he didn't use that against the person as a way for them to move up the ladder, he really didn't do anything wrong.

Bob Barker did the same thing with former Price model Dian Parkinson (and probably other Price employees). He was sued, his name was dragged through the mud, and CBS stood by him, probably because he and his show were a huge moneymaker for CBS. Nevertheless, Barker remained a hugely popular game show host, especially among the younger college crowd, although that isn't saying much I guess. But if Barker and CBS can withstand lawsuits and such, they can withstand this thing with Letterman.

I'm a big Letterman fan and, while I was a bit surprised that he did this sort of thing, I'm not really surprised he was as candid as he was about it on his show. He took the initiative on his own before the rags and Entertainment Tonight's and other infotainment shows jumped on it. This will all blow over and we'll be talking about something else a month from now.
 
Skynet74 said:
Right now they are only dealing with the attempt to extort money from Letterman. That is the only law that has been broken. Any other issue has to do with Morals. Nothing illegal about Morals. Good nor bad. Don't think Dave's wife is very happy about this. But that still doesn't make it illegal.
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You're correct, of course, but no one claimed what Letterman did was illegal, just inappropriate.

Skynet74 said:
It just means that Dave screwed up.
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Literally.
 
Skynet74 said:
Best joke of the night.

I got in the car this morning and the Navigation Lady wasn't speaking to me.
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That was the best, huh? Wow.
 
He will survive, his marriage may not but he will. They want to forgive Polanski....what Dave did goes on everyday at every TV and Radio station and most entertainment venues where women know that Not sleeping with the boss will not further your career. The casting couch is alive and well. Heck, if we could forgive our Presidents, Dave is a shoe in...I personally would like to see him gone. Not the class act, platform agnostic man that Carson was.
 
There was only one Carson. I think we all miss him. If we could have Carson back I am sure that each one of us has our first choice of who would be the one to get rid of.
 
firepoint525 said:
Dave's mom is funnier than he is!
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OK well it's obvious that you can't turn a Letterman hater around. Did you watch him back in the 80's when he was at his best? He did some funny stufff.
 
earwig said:
what Dave did goes on everyday at every TV and Radio station and most entertainment venues where women know that Not sleeping with the boss will not further your career. The casting couch is alive and well.
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Very true, some years ago we had a local country music station where it was quite well known around the market that the PD ( a WOMAN ) in order to gain full time employment, one had to sleep with her to get it. Our station would call those jocks.."Jenny's Boys". Funny.. had the PD been a man he would had been labeled a "monster" but since the PD who was demanding sex was a MARRIED WOMAN, among the public it was like "so what?" Just like the teacher in my wife's hometown, 25 year old woman flashes her breasts and gives oral sex to a 15 year old boy. The reaction? "...well she was just giving the boy a lesson..lucky kid !!". People really couldn't see any wrong with that, they really couldn't. Now had that 25 year old woman been a 25 year old man....well hell would had broken loose.

Talk about a double standard.
 
A few anecdotes don't necessarily indicate a pervasive double standard, though. Not everyone considers it "ok" when the 'offending party' is a female, not by a long shot.
 
From a personal standpoint, my opinion is colored by many years of having been a manager in an industry where the workforce was 85% female. My whole life revolved around getting dragged to sexual harrassment meetings, being lectured about proper conduct, no jokes, don't look at anyone for more than 1/4 second, etc. So when a prominent and powerful person feels free to trample all over the rules I was forced to live by it really gets my goat, be it Dave Letterman, Bill Clinton, or anyone else.

Dave passed his sell-by date around the same time that Al Bundy jumped the shark. CBS has no doubt been reluctant to accept this because a)they have invested unbelievable gobs of money in the guy, and b)nobody knows what a better alternative would look like. If this incident forces them to face facts it is probably for the best.

This story (complete with the romps in the secret upstairs bedroom) will make one salacious Movie of the Week
feature (on NBC, no doubt!)
 
Just another one of those reasons I am glad I opted not to continue in media waaaay back when. Letterman is just one of many of the same type, I am sure. The difference is that he got caught.
 
Don't let the defendent or his lawyer throw you off the track. The only crime here was one of extortion. Legally there is only one person who has a chance at going to jail in all this.
 
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