Loading ...By now, I’m sure everyone has heard about the David Letterman extortion plot. What I think is interesting is how people have drawn conclusions about things they couldn’t possibly glean from the monologue he gave about the circumstances. They make things up in their own heads; draw conclusions based on nothing except their own imagination. Are we a nation of uneducated peasants? The stupidity of it all just floors me.
Now, to be absolutely clear, I’m not defending Letterman. Having workplace relationships (romantic or sexual) is stupid and ill-advised. He’s an unmitigated jerk-off for cheating on the heart of the woman (women?) who loves him and possibly thought she was in a committed, monogamous relationship. Engaging in this behavior also exposes him as a target for just this kind of thing, as we’ve seen.
But, at this stage, based on what little details we know, he hasn’t done anything unlawful. We absolutely do not have the kind of true and complete knowledge of the facts to assume anything. And he didn’t admit to anything other than he’s “had sex with women who work on the show.” So what. He’s just a celebrity. Heck, he’s just a man. Who cares if he’s a hypocrite. He’s not the Pope and he’s not the president. Last I checked, he was a comedian. It’s his job to poke fun of others in the same situation he now finds himself in.
Beyond that, how people conclude that he committed sexual harassment based on his monologue is beyond me. It becomes obvious that they don’t know what sexual harassment is (and shame on the HR consultant who should know this). So let me enlighten you:
A boss, manager or other superior having a romantic or sexual relationship with a subordinate does not automatically constitute sexual harassment.
It’s not against the law to have a consensual relationship with a subordinate. There is no wrongdoing unless the relationship has been coerced with threat looming over the subordinate’s position or career and they bring a claim of sexual harassment against the superior. If the reports that have come out thus far are true, no one has ever filed a sexual harassment claim against him and he didn’t violate any company policies against workplace relationships. Until a victim actually steps forward and states there has been unwanted, coerced sexual harassment, we don’t know that there has been any.
I guess my point is, don’t be an ignorant dummy. Get the facts before you go flapping your lips about stuff you don’t know anything about. Don’t make them up.
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Letterman is fine; he never was the “Family Values” type. Yes, he probably cheated on his girlfriend now wife. But at least he doesn’t go around claiming he is Mr. “Family Values” like some of our politicians/ preachers (can you just see the grin on all “Fake News” reporters/ commentators and the Palin fringe?). This has been a tough summer, for Dave, for our economy, but at least he did not end up on the “Republican 2009 Summer of Love” list: Assemblyman, Michael D. Duvall (CA), Senator John Ensign (NV), Senator Paul Stanley (TN), Governor Mark Sanford (SC), Board of Ed Chair, and Kristin Maguire AKA Bridget Keeney (SC).