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He seems to be very cavalier and casual about a very serious subject, milking the story for laughs all the way through. He even has the audience laughing at his confession that he may have commited several very serious acts of sexual harrasment in the workplace. Any time a person decides to have sex with those who are under his authority in the work place, it has the potential for being a very difficult situation.
I wonder if his management think it's as funny as he and his audience seemed to think? If a lawsuit or two come out of the woodwork, they may all stop laughing soon. Besides that, isn't it just kind of a creepy thing to do?
An influential authority figure having sex with staffers? After all the talk he has made about how bad others were for similar things?
I think admitting it is enough. Nice that he left it up to the women to decide if they wanted to publicize any relationships. I don't know him personally so I don't care either way who he has sex with.
What Letterman did was morally wrong, but he didn't commit any crime like what the guy who extorted him did. It was obvious Letterman wants this whole thing to be over that's why he confussed everything on his show, so you don't hear any lies like him sexually harassing women. Obviously he does know having relationships with people he works with is morally wrong, but he didn't break any laws, and he shouldn't have to say he's sorry for that.
I will still watch his show, and I am o. K with how he handled the situation, I think he handled it in the best possible way. A lot of people will stop liking and watching Letterman for this, but what happens in this man's private life is nobody's business.
I think he did it the way he does things. David is David. We should all be able to unleash what is bothering us in a way that is our own.
Good for hem.
Whatever happened here I think we owe sometimes some respect to these type of people, they get up and do there jobs daily like this and are looked up to by many people. I suggest we leave it alone and get on with our lives.
(CNN) -- For someone who seems to go to great lengths to keep his private life away from prying eyes, late-night talk show host David Letterman has seen a great deal of his personal life become public. Heart problems, a troubled stalker and a plot to kidnap his son have all landed Letterman in the news and provided fodder for jokes, including some of his own. The latest, an alleged extortion attempt involving his sexual dalliances (it's been dubbed "sextortion" by pundits), was handled very much the way Letterman fans might expect: with humor and a bit of storytelling.
"He told it as a story that you felt like you were living along with him, and so I think he immediately won your sympathy by telling it that way," said Hal Boedeker, TV critic for the Orlando Sentinel. Letterman revealed on his show Thursday night that he'd had sexual relations with members of his staff and that he had testified about those liaisons before a New York grand jury for a case involving the alleged attempted extortion. A CBS producer, Robert "Joe" Halderman, has been charged with first-degree attempted grand larceny; officials said he threatened to go public with the 62-year-old funnyman's dalliances unless Letterman paid $2 million.
Halderman pleaded not guilty Friday. The revelation, which Letterman shared with the audience of the "Late Show," seemed especially shocking given his reputation as the self-deprecating everyman. "Letterman picked up on that shock and played on that," said Robert Thompson, a professor and founding director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University.
Letterman has had plenty of experience dealing with awkward, and sometimes painful, episodes on television. Beginning in the 1980s, he was stalked by Margaret Ray, a woman with schizophrenia who often broke into his New Canaan, Connecticut, home, wrote him letters and once stole his Porsche. Letterman would sometimes joke about her -- without using her name -- on his show and told The New York Times that was because he joked about every public aspect of his life.
Ray would refer to herself as "Mrs. David Letterman" and once watched the talk show host and his now-wife Regina Lasko from a hallway in their home as they lay in bed. Ray committed suicide in 1998; Letterman offered his condolences on-air to her family. Though Letterman was quoted as saying Ray's actions were usually more odd than frightening, a plot in 2005 to kidnap his then-toddler son proved to be more alarming.
Frank, an ex-con who had done some work at Letterman's Deep Creek Ranch in Montana, was charged with planning to kidnap Letterman's son, Harry, and his nanny. Frank pleaded guilty to lesser charges and was sentenced to 10 years in jail. In 2007, he escaped and was later captured.
Thompson said Letterman has shown that he is able to rise above his troubles, including emergency bypass surgery in 2000, with a healthy dose of comedy. This latest incident was no different, Thompson observed. "The interesting thing is that he never went out of comic mode," Thompson said.
"His magnum opus was when he was the first late-night comedian to come back after September 11th ... and he did it brilliantly. He kept Thursday's tale so light, Thompson said, that many who may not have been aware of the news would have thought it was just another Letterman bit. "I think he realized that we are so cynical and so disbelieving of this long string of people apologizing for stuff like this," Thompson said.
"We don't believe it anymore, and we think they are only doing it for public relations. Glenn Selig, founder of the Publicity Agency, said that from a crisis-management perspective, Letterman handled his most recent incident well. "I think the fact that he put it out there in his own way, in his own terms with the timing that he wanted to do it, that was the best way to go," Selig said.
And although more intimate, and embarrassing, details may be revealed as the case continues, critic Boedeker said he thinks Letterman, his show and his career will come out well. "I think his fans are, for the most part, pretty forgiving," Boedeker said. "He's always made fun of himself and his looks.
A representative for Letterman's company, Worldwide Pants, said, "All the relationships David Letterman was referencing when discussing the matter on the 'Late Show' predated his marriage to Regina" in March.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.