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Tuesday, October 6, 2009

TV Letterman's Ratings

Posted by Dan Savage on Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 3:14 PM

Up.

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I knew it. He's coming out unscathed.

Posted by Confluence on October 6, 2009 at 3:17 PM

Not unscathed exactly, just scathed in a way that endears him to all of us with wandering libidos of our own and a taste for celebrity confessions well delivered, which is pretty much all of us.

Posted by gloomy gus on October 6, 2009 at 3:40 PM

If he gets away with this, what sort of message are we sending to other late night yack-show hosts? That it's ok to have a consensual sexual relationship with other adults? Think of Colin Ferguson!

Posted by The Amazing Jim

on October 6, 2009 at 4:09 PM

I am shocked.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on October 6, 2009 at 4:11 PM

Dave got to be his own Hugh Grant. Plus, this has to be better than the crazy lady who used to stalk him.

Posted by Jason Josephes

on October 6, 2009 at 4:17 PM

It just reinforces that men are dogs.

Posted by raindrop on October 6, 2009 at 4:21 PM

Woof woof.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on October 6, 2009 at 4:30 PM

Sex is interesting, even if it's an old person doing it.

Posted by very bad homo on October 6, 2009 at 4:31 PM

People like watching train wrecks.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on October 6, 2009 at 4:37 PM

And why is this a scandal exactly? He's a talk show host - not a person holding public office. He wasn't married when he was screwing around. The relationships were consensual between participating adults - no fuck-me-or-you're-fired situations. He's wealthy and funny and famous and would be considered attractive by many women.

He was the one being blackmailed. Whatever discord may exist between him and his new wife (old girlfriend) is really between them. Let's move on.

I love ya, Dave!

Posted by Bauhaus I on October 6, 2009 at 4:45 PM

Sometimes people like a person better after they apologize for doing something they shouldn't have done than they would if that person never made a mistake. Ask Jerry Springer.

Posted by Former Mayor Of Cincinnati on October 6, 2009 at 4:50 PM

Good.

Posted by Aislinn on October 6, 2009 at 4:59 PM

Yep, what @2 said. I like him all the more for his honesty and his willingness to be humble and take responsibility for this. It's endearing, respectful, even sexy. Enough of Roman Polanski and his enfant terrible shtick. This is how a grown man should act.

Posted by Irena on October 6, 2009 at 5:15 PM

@12 yes, you would like that, wouldn't you.

Posted by can u relate? on October 6, 2009 at 5:23 PM

Are people realy so bored wth Jon and Kate now that they're giving Letterman all this attention?!? Looks like it's tme for John to do something zany again.

Posted by Allyn on October 6, 2009 at 5:24 PM

NOW thinks action needs to be taken about him, according to Howard Kurtz at WaPo.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on October 6, 2009 at 5:24 PM

@16 What kind of a fucked-up world do we live in that thinks Letterman needs to be punished but Polanski needs to be freed? Yeesh, that's crazy.

Posted by Allyn on October 6, 2009 at 5:37 PM

Of course the ratings are up, Letterman has some good new material to work with. This is better than getting pulled over by a Connecticut trooper or having his house broken into by an obsessed fan.

Posted by dwight moody on October 6, 2009 at 5:48 PM

If a person holding public office handled it the way Letterman did, I'd like to think they'd pull through as cleanly.

I'd still rather be led by adept statesman who was a rabid lech than a moral saint who was incompetent at government.

Posted by Uriel-238 on October 6, 2009 at 6:04 PM