David Letterman Saga

Aha, the late night talk show host who picked on others’ characters became the center for others to pick on! Not bad! Now we all know that Mr. Letterman was very busy with sexual affairs (during the day?) with his female employees when he was going steady with his now-wife. What is more disturbing is he is not ashamed of it. Rather, the comic, as the LA Times refers him, very arrogantly admits that it would be those females who had affairs with him, would be in trouble if he divulges much about it. And, of course, there is his family to protect. Not sure, as it stands now, whether his family is okay with the information that is public now. Wonder how, however, his family could be in the dark all this time when he was busy with many other extra-curricular activities.

We have other equally public figures, all of them males and married with children, sometimes grown, admitting their foils unabashedly as if nothing happened, as soon as they are discovered. They would carry on with their escapades in full blast until they are caught red-handed and immediately, I say immediately, they stop in their tracks dead and apologize profusely. It is like, an electric switch that is turned off without any remnants of the immediate past history! Would they stop and apologize had they not been discovered?

This arrogance in the public admission illustrates complete lack of conscience and a belief that males are allowed to philander, then suddenly fly home to their lack-luster wives (or go separate as in the case of our Los Angeles Mayor) to nurse their bruised libidos and start all over again. Soon, the public will forget and they will be in business, with improved ratings many a times, as the increased number of viewers to the Letterman show illustrates! Well, people may be there to see what he got to say about this and what his other shenanigans might be! And, whether this showman is going to give any more juicy stories of self, after all now that he has admitted his straying, what is there to hide.

Joel Halderman, who is supposed to blow the whistle on the comic’s character and do the damage to him, got the opposite of what he was hoping for. Now, Letterman is supposed to be a victim and Halderman, a perpetrator. Interestingly, Mr. Letterman has not violated any sexual harassment policies of his company when he was enjoying the sexual-perks. Seems like, they have an altogether different code for sexual harassment policies compared to the rest of the country. It did not prohibit any sexual relations between the managers and the employees. How convenient! Next time, when I get my next job, before I accept, I need to check on the company’s sexual harassment policy. Not that I can be another victim, but who knows how these perverts act? Just to be on the safer side…

Another question, that is in the Kernel mode in my brain, is why the respected veteran of the TV, Mr. Halderman did this in the first place? Did he reach his limit of patience with Mr. Letterman’s real-life shows; or, the obvious hypocrisy of the showman? Why did he write that letter, incriminating himself in the process, to Mr. Letterman? Did he really need that money? If I, with several million unemployed people in this country, can survive on the unemployment insurance, could he not have survived with his nice package from the CBS? Well, we the ordinary people of this country are in a different plane than the parallel universe of the Hollywood, or even the public service people, of course.