Report: Letterman regrets last week’s revelation, apologizes to wife on tonight’s show
posted at 5:26 pm on October 5, 2009 by Allahpundit
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Yet another way in which Dave is like Mark Sanford: Neither one knows when to stop talking.
Audience member Tracy Frye, of Dallas, Texas told RadarOnline.com: “David apologized to his wife and his colleagues at Worldwide Pants. He said he didn’t really think through what he said on-air last week and how it would affect his co-workers.” He also apologized because he now realized that people would speculate he was involved with women on the show with whom he had no sexual relationship.
According to Frye, “He made a direct apology to his wife and said: ‘I have a lot of work to do’. “I think he was being sincere.”
“I think he was being sincere.” So I guess this means the genius PR move of telling the world what he’d done before the papers had published a word of it wasn’t so genius? And if he was going to apologize to his wife publicly, why didn’t he do it last week? All this is going to do is fuel more speculation, that maybe he was messing around more recently than we’ve been led to believe and this is his way of getting out in front of the next set of revelations. Hey, Dave? Shhhhhh.
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Rawr.
/lol. Sounds like you got burned.
Key West Reader on October 5, 2009 at 6:24 PM
I don’t see how he continues his show. It is dependent upon cruel jokes about politicians and celebrities, and he no longer has any credibility to insult these people. Will he stop doing monologues and jokes?
yogi41 on October 5, 2009 at 6:24 PM
Dude that isn’t a “stain” either. Rash comes to mind.
upinak on October 5, 2009 at 6:25 PM
Dirty old man. And, doesn’t even have good whiskey.
HornetSting on October 5, 2009 at 6:27 PM
TXUS on October 5, 2009 at 6:16 PM
Slide It In
Slow ‘n Easy
Crazy B!tch
Hot in Herre
Titt Ya Head Back
My Place
Doin’ It
Money Maker
Sexy Can I
Baby One More Time
I’m In Love With a Stripper
Love Don’t Cost a Thing
txag92 on October 5, 2009 at 6:28 PM
I was thinking thong song… but who is wearing the thong?
upinak on October 5, 2009 at 6:30 PM
LMAO!
Hey, did you ever give Terryann the fatal sting yesterday?
Key West Reader on October 5, 2009 at 6:31 PM
Letterman.
::::shudder::: Can you just imagine what he made those young women do? Blech.
Key West Reader on October 5, 2009 at 6:32 PM
Riiiiiiiight. . . . And Dave testifying before a Grand Jury in downtown Manhattan would be a non-story.
Dave was just trying to aim the fan before the humongous load of crap hit it.
It’s really simple.
BigAlSouth on October 5, 2009 at 6:32 PM
I think Sara Palin was right to say she didn’t want this man near her daughters. That part of the story gets more creepy the more one thinks about it.
MikeA on October 5, 2009 at 6:37 PM
keeping your pecker in your drawers is a lot harder to do when you are rich and powerful.
Immorality and Corruption is rampant with liberals.
kirkill on October 5, 2009 at 6:37 PM
This wins, hands down (pun intended). Perfect.
TXUS on October 5, 2009 at 6:39 PM
Letterman was mesmerized by the prospect of looking like an upstanding citizen for taking a once in a lifetime extortionist off the street. True to form, it’s all about Dave and to hell with his family, co-workers, and colleagues.
csdeven on October 5, 2009 at 6:41 PM
Time to go, you perverted hypocrite.
marklmail on October 5, 2009 at 6:41 PM
Both Dave Litterman and Garrison Keillor are sad, and distasteful, examples of washed-out, bitter, and unfunny has-beens.
Dhuka on October 5, 2009 at 6:43 PM
For years Letterman has made a lot of money with his “New York humor.” After 9/11 I paid more attention because for a short time the Big Apple allowed itself to remember it was part of America. The Letterman types needed us.
But as time passed he reverted to type.
He is no longer about humor, or even anti-humor. He is about anti-good taste and anti-morality. His PR effort last week was not about ‘getting ahead of this thing’ as much as it was his trademark “do the unexpected.” He is an entertainer, and a second-rate one at that. His whole schtick comes from one uncreative ploy repeated continuously that has run him into a dead end both in life and his profession.
Goodbye, Dave.
A lot of good people whom you have dissed over the years will smile just a little more when you sign off for the last time. They weathered your scorn and kept on doing whatever it was you mocked, presuming that in doing so they would have the last laugh.
Did you ever dream that in your self-destruction you would brighten so many lives in such a reverse-intended way? How’s that for anti-funny?
rwenger43 on October 5, 2009 at 6:47 PM
You are 100% correct. I had forgotten she said that.
I’d cross the street if I saw Lettermen walking toward me.
Pervert.
portlandon on October 5, 2009 at 6:48 PM
Who’s creepier to imagine having sex: Letterman or Olbermann?
radjah shelduck on October 5, 2009 at 6:51 PM
The pride of Ball State.
Ronnie on October 5, 2009 at 6:56 PM
Where was Hot Air in the early 1990s, so I could go back, read what you many of you would have written about Bob Barker’s sex scandal (and this is not a sex scandal), and call you hypocrites?
YYZ on October 5, 2009 at 6:58 PM
You noticed that too? The creepy, almost cult-like worship of Bob Barker by HA posters?
notropis on October 5, 2009 at 7:00 PM
So you want to call people hypocrites for statements that only exist in your head? And you think this might carry some weight?
Ronnie on October 5, 2009 at 7:02 PM
Who was Garrison Keillor making the sex with?
Dork B. on October 5, 2009 at 7:03 PM
Boy, I’m sick of people doing stupid stuff and then apologizing.
Just say, “I’m sorta stupid,” and move on.
AnninCA on October 5, 2009 at 7:07 PM
Bob Barker? The…. YOOOOUR the Next Contestant on the Price is RIGHT so spin that wheel, who has been retired for quite a while now! Give me a break…
You don’t see Bob Barker on TV talking about politics.
upinak on October 5, 2009 at 7:08 PM
Did you strain yourself in that colossal reach for moral relativity?
csdeven on October 5, 2009 at 7:11 PM
low-life. scum-bag. has-been.
jbh45 on October 5, 2009 at 7:11 PM
You just had surgery and are on some sort of medication?
The drugs are typing, right?
Wow..
SteveMG on October 5, 2009 at 7:14 PM
..same as his him getting a vapor-lock during a taping.
VoyskaPVO on October 5, 2009 at 7:15 PM
I believe in Bob Barker.
I believe in Bob Barker.
I believe in Bob Barker.
I believe in Bob Barker.
He is my master.
Blake on October 5, 2009 at 7:15 PM
A million monkeys typing for a million years would laugh at that.
“This is the best you can do?”
SteveMG on October 5, 2009 at 7:16 PM
Barker-Palin in 2012.
Palin-Barker will do.
Just make sure Bob’s there.
SteveMG on October 5, 2009 at 7:17 PM
XYZ: There was no HA in the early 90s and if there was, I doubt Allahpundit would be posting on Bob Barker.
Blake on October 5, 2009 at 7:17 PM
You’re trying to arguing logic with someone who brings up Bob Barker’s sex scandals?
Don’t try, really.
SteveMG on October 5, 2009 at 7:18 PM
Then what exactly is it?
The left is becoming more unhinged with each passing day, if not each passing hour.
tsj017 on October 5, 2009 at 7:19 PM
What? Their zippers are different than mine???
Blake on October 5, 2009 at 7:20 PM
Help control the troll population. Have your YYZ spayed or neutered.
Ronnie on October 5, 2009 at 7:25 PM
Bob Barker, right?
He’s a bastard.
SteveMG on October 5, 2009 at 7:33 PM
Let the man talk!
Never interrupt your enemy when they are in the process of detroying themselves.
And make no doubt about it…Dave is my enemy.
DrW on October 5, 2009 at 7:38 PM
Dave stopped being funny years ago. CBS has too much money “invested” in him to dump him…at least until his contract runs out.
naap51stang on October 5, 2009 at 7:46 PM
His wifes’s attorney is going to make alllooottt of MONEY.
faol on October 5, 2009 at 7:49 PM
This all just might bring a whole nother level of bizarro to the phrase… “jumped the shark”…
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RalphyBoy on October 5, 2009 at 7:57 PM
Bottom line: Probably would have been cheaper if he’d just paid the $2 million.
Ronnie on October 5, 2009 at 7:58 PM
I think a lot of attorneys are poised to make a lot of money. What is the record for the number of sexual harassment and/or discrimination lawsuits brought against an individual employer by former and current employees? What a scumbag.
Philly on October 5, 2009 at 8:01 PM
Branch Rickey on October 5, 2009 at 8:04 PM
Is crow tasty with hot sauce, anyone know? ;p
Branch Rickey on October 5, 2009 at 8:06 PM
For the sake of YYZ’s teeth, I’m just going to forget he said anything bad about Bob Barker.
Jim Treacher on October 5, 2009 at 8:41 PM
Closer to reality? Getting what he deserves? ;-)
Yoop on October 5, 2009 at 9:08 PM
Certainly does. And like portlandon above, had forgotten she said this. Thought at the time she meant cause he’d say something else offensive. She sure has good mom instincts, doesn’t she. Has crossed my mind to wonder how Bristol and Willow are holding up what with being re-reminded now of this horrible little man’s attack on them then, but feels voyeuristic even to speculate.
Am just glad they got lots of support and comfort from Mom and Dad when it happened, poor things.
inviolet on October 5, 2009 at 9:20 PM
“Got a lot of work to do”?
Well, gap tooth, try keeping your pants on for a starter.
Labamigo on October 5, 2009 at 9:23 PM
Who was Garrison Keillor making the sex with?
Dork B. on October 5, 2009 at 7:03 PM
A Norwegian gentleman farmer?
Dhuka on October 5, 2009 at 9:34 PM
I really don’t see why you are running with this.
Yes he is a leftist water carrier and a tv show host. Nothing new there.
Personally I really do not care where stuck his schwansticker. He’s not funny and of no interest.
Honestly, who cares? This is a complete non story.
Celeby-host type muppet gets caught banging the staff? Great.
Who give a f**k? Honestly?
Anders on October 5, 2009 at 9:55 PM
Should read “where he stuck” not “where stuck” – I blame my dying keyboard.
Anders on October 5, 2009 at 9:57 PM
You do.
Jim Treacher on October 5, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Not really.
Given the issues the country is facing, where this fool sticks his pork sword seems rather trivial to me.
Anders on October 5, 2009 at 10:01 PM
Then what are you doing here? You care.
Jim Treacher on October 5, 2009 at 10:14 PM
About the issues, absolutely.
Where some boring talk show host sticks his schwansticker? Not as much as you, clearly.
Anders on October 5, 2009 at 10:21 PM
And you keep checking back to see what people are saying about the topic you don’t care about.
Jim Treacher on October 5, 2009 at 10:24 PM
Wonder if Joe Piscopo’s up for imitating Letterman again like he did on his HBO special eons ago?
Dr. ZhivBlago on October 5, 2009 at 10:25 PM
Just trying to illuminate the dim Jims.
Honestly, try to focus.
Anders on October 5, 2009 at 10:31 PM
You’re still here. Out of all the topics being discussed on Hot Air, this is one you care about.
Jim Treacher on October 5, 2009 at 10:35 PM
Not so. Do a search.
Anders on October 5, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Honestly, Jim, must you play with your food before you eat it?
Snowed In on October 5, 2009 at 10:41 PM
I didn’t say the only one you care about. But you do care about this, or you wouldn’t still be here.
Jim Treacher on October 5, 2009 at 10:46 PM
By pointing up your monomania over something that is frankly trivial I am doing you a favor.
You can thank me later.
Anders on October 5, 2009 at 10:53 PM
I’m thanking you now for caring.
Jim Treacher on October 5, 2009 at 11:33 PM
LETTERMAN IS AN ASS AND DOES NOT DESERVE TO HOST ANY SHOW.
sonnyspats1 on October 5, 2009 at 11:36 PM
It’s OK to set the hook now. ;-)
Yoop on October 5, 2009 at 11:56 PM
Anders,
I’ll answer your question. On second thought, I won’t. Does it really take that much imagination to see why people might enjoy seeing a professional character assassin being hoist by his own petard?
shazbat on October 6, 2009 at 12:26 AM
OK, I watched the show last night. Letterman did not apologize to his wife, son or mother. He apologized to his staff for subjecting them to press scrutiny.
He didn’t apologize to his family.
cannonball on October 6, 2009 at 3:19 PM
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