Letterman essentially cheated on his wife.  He should have separated from her if he didn't want to remain faithful.  He's a cheat.  It's immoral if you care about the woman who supposedly committed to him.

There was an extortion attempt, he reported it, testified to a grand jury - all of which he should have done - and then he blurted it all out on his show.  Was he taking control of the media before it was all over TMZ and every other gossipy media outlet?  Well, maybe so.

In the letter he left in Letterman's car, Halderman said he needed to "make a large chunk of money" and included a one-page screenplay treatment describing how the "Late Show" host would have a "ruined reputation" after he exposed details of the comic's private life. He demanded that Letterman call him by 8 a.m. to strike a deal.

Instead, the comic called his attorney, who met with Halderman on Sept. 15. At that time, the CBS producer demanded $2 million to keep quiet. In coordination with the Manhattan district attorney's office, the attorney held two more meetings with Halderman at the Jumeirah Essex House, a posh New York hotel, and secretly taped his demands.

A spokesman for Worldwide Pants, Letterman's production company, said the company's sexual harassment policy did not prohibit sexual relationships between managers and employees.

"We have a written policy in our employee manual that covers harassment," the spokesman said in a statement. "It is circulated to every employee every year. Dave is not in violation of our policy and no one has ever raised a complaint against him."

to my knowledge, mr. letterman has never held himself out to be a paragon of virtue, he's not a legislator, and this all appears to have occured when he was still single.

i'd say his public announcement, on his own show, is a testament to how smart he is. probably helps explain why he's been so successful over the years.

I am trying to think of a more useless thread in TL history and I cannot.

Grown ups have sex.  Sometimes with co-workers.  Sometimes with staff members.  Consensual sex is legal in most states, extortion is not.

Can we have a thread dedicated to our own misdeeds?  We can all air out all of the immoral crap we have done in our lives.  Being that we blog together it should be fair game as we are in the "public domain" so to speak.

It will not be long before people start researching each other on blogs and posting dirty laundry......

"Sometimes in life you want to just keep walking," Noonan said, adding, "Sometimes, I think, just keep walking.... Some of life just has to be mysterious."