And on more than a few occasions. After spending years making fun of every Republican sex scandal there was, David Letterman deserves what he gets - which hopefully is plummeting ratings and a humiliating, public cancellation. Besides, Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno are much more entertaining these days. Come to think of it, so is the watching the Paint-Drying Channel.
UPDATE: Remember the old Letterman routines where he used shout things from a megaphone out the window, the ones that always ended with "I'm not wearing pants!?" I guess he wasn't kidding.
UPDATE 02OCT09: Looks like I was wrong. CBS and the rest of the Left/Mainstream Media have girded themselves in the situational ethics of the elite and gone into Polanski-like spin mode, painting Letterman as the heroic victim to be admired for being strong enough to confront this issue. They are casting this as a crime of extortion, and extortion only, and the public seems to be buying it. The fact that this is a superb example of what the Left/Mainstream Media used to define as sexual harassment - i.e. employer soliciting/getting sex from employees - is being utterly ignored. (Anyone remember Clarence Thomas?... - ed.) It's not important here - what is important is Letterman spent eight years making fun of George W. Bush, and he kisses Obama's ass.
I predict that this issue will be pushed aside, and Letterman will survive. If it is raised again, it will be as a positive, and not a negative, thing.
All that aside, Letterman's show is still tired, worn, utterly predictable, and unfunny. The South Park repeats 10:30-11:30, or HSN, are more ehjoyable.
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