David Letterman used his position of power to have sex with subordinates. Where's the outrage?
Only in America can the lecherous leanings and extra-marital shenanigans of a dirty old man result in ratings gold and a national conversation.
The David Letterman Show scored its highest ratings yet as he aired his sexual proclivities in public under the guise of apologizing to his wife for betraying her with a variety of casual sexual partners. Partners, who, by the way, could have lost their jobs on Letterman's whim if they somehow displeased him. Or if Letterman ran out of Viagra.
Under the new rules implemented by self-anointed elites, if a person is a celebrity, the normal rules of decent conduct are suspended. Unless, of course, the celebrity is a conservative. If only former Senator "wide stance" Craig were a Democrat, he'd have a restroom named in his honor. And probably his own personal peephole to boot.
Instead, as a member of the left, Letterman is accorded membership in the most valued and largest growing group in America. He is now an official "victim." And shame on those little tarts who used him in order to advance their own careers or merely to scratch a transient sexual itch.
Letterman's only sin appears to be his timing. He should have waited another week or so before stealing the headlines from pedophile rapist Roman Polanski. Whoopi Goldberg was right in the middle of convincing America that rape isn't rape and Hollywood had already garnered over 100 celebrity signatures calling for his release before Letterman rudely shifted the national conversation to his own sexual peccadilloes. Poor Roman.
The groundswell of elite support in favor of excusing Polanski for drugging and raping a 13 year-old girl 30 years ago could very well have resulted in freeing Polanski. Now, the fickleness and short attention spans of elite leftists may mean that Polanski may actually have to face the consequences of his past actions, instead of just getting his own star on Warsaw's "walk of fame." Life just isn't fair.
Former Boy President Bill Clinton can attest to that. After all, even though he was re-elected President after he made his historic seminal deposit on intern Monica Lewinsky's blue dress, he knows in his heart that the all the fuss was merely the result of a vast right-wing conspiracy. The same right-wing conspiracy that is now demanding that Roman Polanski be held accountable for the crime of which he was convicted. What meanies!
The vast right-wing conspiracy just doesn't get it. Sex, anywhere, anytime, and with anyone, is now defined as "empowerment." Parading naked through the streets of San Francisco as cops stand idly by is considered a right. A right exclusive to gay men, but a right, nonetheless.
Pesky conservatives are only showing their ignorance when they object to the public swapping of spit between two men, or the sexual harassment of sweet young things by powerful men. And dirty old men have the right to express themselves sexually and publicly, without censure. As long as they continue to parrot the leftist agenda, that is.
I wouldn't be surprised if Obama's advisors are currently suggesting that he engage in sex with a subordinate. After all, that would immediately shift the nation's attention to the Left's favorite topic instead of focusing on why Obama is ignoring our young fighting men in Afghanistan. But maybe, just maybe, Obama is more scared of Michelle than he is of the vast right-wing conspiracy and the Taliban. Ya think?
No, I don’t think so. Mrs. O is pretty scary, but not compared to the Hill. Besides, it’s all a plot to keep the proles off balance and entertained.
Nancy,
In your essay you lament; “If a person is a celebrity, the normal rules of decent conduct are suspended. Unless, of course, the celebrity is a conservative.” You then prove the point through comparisons of David Letterman, Roman Polanski, and Bill Clinton to Senator Larry Craig.
None of this is anything new. Of course conservatives will always be held to impossibly high standards. It’s a Saul Alinsky tactic to ‘hang them on their own morality’.
Progressives will always come out on top (pardon the pun) in this arena. You cannot hold anyone to a standard when they never ascribe to any standard. Any minute, I expect someone at CNN to begin breathlessly castigating NOW for having the temerity to speak out against David Letterman.
I also notice how NOW was strangely silent regarding the Polanski case; and never had an opinion regarding Anita Broderick either.
Letterman is a sick, philandering, vular man and this whole sordid affair is sickening (pun also not intended). Here’s a letter I wrote to a DJ on XM satellite radio who was laughing innocently at the Letterman episode:
Today The Spectrum Radio Channel (XM 832) I heard XM Sirius Radio DJ Kristine Stone make a nonchalant remark about David Letterman’s affairs with the women who work with him on his show. In her remarks she made light of the fact that “Any publicity, even bad publicity can be good”, and “Well, his ratings are through the roof, so I don’t think CBS can fire him now”, and mentioned KISS lead singer Gene Simmons saying about the incident: “We’re all human being so get over it.” Following is what I wrote to Kristine Stone and my utter disgust about this,
Kristine Stone,
I heard what you said about David Letterman on the air today and it makes me sick!! Here is a guy who has an affair with how many umpteen women he works with it’s some big joke to you, like it was just some light-hearted neighborhood barbeque complete with lemonade, Vodka, and Bloody Marys. He has high ratings. What does that mean? Apparently he has a room above the stage he where he has gone with these women and tossed them around like worthless sacks. And that’s okay with you and you think that should be okay with us, we should just nonchalantly accept it all because he’s a harmless, amiable 60-some-year-old goofball who makes comedy on stage and pals around with all of greatest pop culture superstars. So you think this a joke? Let me ask you, Kristine Stone, do you sleep your boss? In fact do you sleep with everybody you work with at XM Satellite Radio? Does everyone sleep with everyone at XM Satellite Radio? Is it corporate policy for all of you to have affairs with everybody you work with from the janitors to the interns on up? Do your superiors constantly sexually harass you, slapping you on the posterior and calling you a piece of liverwurst, and telling you if you don’t roll around with them right on the DJ console that you’re a worthless you-know-what and you’ll have your booty bounced out of the business faster than you can say, “OH yeah, that was great!”
That must be fun for you. The culmination of 20 years of DJ experience, yacking it up every day in front of the hungry masses just to get into the bedroom with the CEO of XM Satellite radio. OH YES the be-all and end-all of your existance on this planet summed up in 10 seconds of euphoric bliss on the task chair in the broom closet.
And then you quote Gene Simmons, who is the king of being a male chauvenist, womanizing pig because he’s slept with over 2000 women as saying, “We are all human beings so get over it.”
So Gene Simmons is the idol we’re all supposed to worship. He’s the man that all of us unrefined males should look up too, along with dirty-ol’ David Letterman. He has the moral compass, intestinal fortitude, and self control to weigh in on this whole despicable cultural mea culpa. All of us men are supposed to file into a brothel somewhere, find the latest used-up pin cushion and ride her to our greatest delight, tossing her away like cheap cardboard and before moving on to the next convenient strip joint to further satisfy our male propensities to be creepy, preying animals.
Is this what you teach your boys Kristine? Is this what it is for them every single day. “You boys have to grow up into fine young men now, chase everything with skirt right down the block, make sure you land it properly too”. “Hey, that peeping Tom in the newspaper, he’s really got going on, you boys can learn from that.” “Hey kids, watch that Letterman guy, maybe someday you’ll grow up just like him! You can affairs with any women you want too! Who cares if they’re married or work under you! Who cares if you have power over them or they really, really are in a vulnerable position in their lives! They’re just women and it’s just SEX!! Everyone has SEX all of the time everywhere! It’s like breathing! After all, what are women anyway but just sex objects for men and all they ever live for is to please men and please themselves in any way they can in the process.”
I’ll bet you’re training your boys on how become rock stars and make it with groupies. That’s where its really at. I mean, what better way to live but to make lots of money and sleep with women until you have a heart attack. Why not be Hugh Hefner. It works for him doesn’t it?
You can call me a prude, a wacko, a right-wing extremist, whatever you want here. As far as I’m concerned, (and this is a man talking by the way believe it or not!), I do not believe that women are play objects for men to just poke and prod, use and abuse, throw around, make out with, or use their power to otherwise subjugate for their own pleasures and then brag about it on national television to polite laughter. I actually believe women are people, actual flesh and blood human beings who have hopes, fears, desires, and sensitivities. I believe they deserve to be treated as equal partners in life, as equal people who aren’t out running around looking for the next cheap male tryst around the corner. They’re not my next conquest. That may be your world but it isn’t mine. In my mind that’s what REAL men think about women. Call me what you want. Call me a cretin, call me a loser, call me an idiot, and call me a moron. I believe women deserve respect. If that’s gone out of the window and it makes me crazy then I’m glad to be nuts. The normal people can keep making jerks out of themselves. If that makes me an extremist then so be it.
I used to like your delivery on XM radio. I used find your voice very soothing and conversational. Now I’m just going to hit the mute button or not listen when you’re on. Hearing it now makes my stomach turn.
Scott Schneider