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I knew since his appalling shows from London years ago that David Letterman was overrated. Now I know he is a swine. Anyone who systematically has sex with women he employs is despicable (extra points if he is also and at the same time formally married). Even supposing for a minute that he had not used blackmailing tactics in his approach, there is no way that a targeted employee would not feel her job was not safe if she turned him down. This is next door to rape, and he did it again and again. If only half the indignation aimed at Roman Polanski would hit this systematic and deliberate swine, and force him out of his inexplicable prominence in American TV, I for one would feel better.

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I am not particularly interested in what Whoopi Goldberg has to say on much of anything - her most intelligent lines of late were as First Hyena in The Lion King. My reasons to object to Polanski's entrapment are different. And that does not make Letterman any less of a bully or a rapist. I repeat: a man who makes a habit of sleeping with women he employs is using his position to blackmail them. And the only the defence against this charge is that it is not rape-rape either. (Besides, I'd have chucked Letterman out of TV just on the strength of his hideous broadcasts from London a while back.)

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PS: what's with the double post? Were you so taken with Goldberg's reduplication that you had to reduplicate everything? 8-)

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<<If only half the indignation aimed at Roman Polanski would hit this systematic and deliberate swine, and force him out of his inexplicable prominence in American TV, I for one would feel better.>>

The press is trivial and more interested in big, booming moments than subtle undercurrents of unethical behavior, and as for the entertainment industry, most people in it are defending Mr. Polanski. Not only that, but I'd imagine quite a few of them have, at some point in their past (or even present) done exactly what Mr. Letterman did.

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True. But the argument everyone dusted for Polanski - once found out, it should be punished - is worth tenfold for Letterman, in that we are not speaking of one crime, but of a pattern of behaviour.