Kansas City Star TV critic Aaron Barnhart got an e-mail from Fox News last week that he thought was funny, and posted about it on Twitter. Fox News flacks said the network never sent the e-mail. They lied.

Did David Letterman Try to Warn His Blackmailer?

John Cook

10/12/09 10:57am

The night before Joe Halderman was busted in a sting operation for trying to extort David Letterman out of $2 million, the Late Show aired a parody of a Geico ad that seems, in retrospect, rather prescient.

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Did David Letterman Try to Warn His Blackmailer?

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