By now I’m sure you have all seen the buzz…. David Letterman took to his show last night and disclosed not only an extortion plot against him, but the fact that he has had sex with a few “Late Night” employees.
Not that it is not a shocking story, but to hear it being dissected on the morning shows kind of made it lose its shock value… and well, it started to annoy me hearing all of these non-issues were being discussed like a catty round table.
The whole “office romance” thing happens all the time. A lot of the time its hush hush.. and stays that way until it fizzles out (which a lot of the time it does). So Letterman owned up to it where many others do not- but he’s not a lone.
The real story is that Letterman is being extorted, and perhaps– PERHAPS, some employees were able to advance their careers by being Letterman’s “pet”.
I mean how pissed would you be if you saw your fellow entry level employee go from GRIP to executive producer after an office cocktail party that she and Dave slipped out of a little early?
However- The Today Show, Cathylee and Hoda, amongst many others this morning decided to have panel discussions… including “EXPERTS” chiming in, and over all kind of painting Letterman as a monster who victimized these employees he slept with. “These poor women were his employees”
CUT!!! ….Wait a minute …..
Can we take a step back from the witch hunt for just a second and realize that none of these employees have come forward saying that he has made inappropriate advances, or sexually harassed them in any way. Call me a skeptic, but I’m going to venture to say, they were ok with what happened.
OR maybe, MAYBE they was genuine interest for both parties- he has had 2 public relationships with employees, one being his current wife. Its not completely out of the question.
Now if they had some research that found out Letterman was “rewarding” these women for their “actions” by advancing them in his company, now that’s where the STORY is.
However— None of these morning shows have not even once talked about that. They’re all “These poor women”, poor women? … these women could be the office tramps- USING Dave just as much as Dave could have been using them… or could have been the intern, turned 3 figure employee for all we know. Now, if that’s being a victim, sign me up please!
(eerr…. ok, well maybe not if sleeping with David Letterman were part of the sign up…)
If — any of that is even the case, the real victims would be all the people who did not “milk the Late night cash cow” …. which at this point is a HUGE **IF**
