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    David Letterman's Vicinity Now "Harm's Way," Says College

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    10/13/09

    In reply to David Letterman's Vicinity Now "Harm's Way," Says College
    How many interns has Quinnipiac sent to the Ed Sullivan theater over the years that this is actually a serious concern for them?
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    10/13/09

    @gladys_kravitz: Well, with press releases like this, you can be sure there won't be any more.
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    10/13/09

    In reply to David Letterman's Vicinity Now "Harm's Way," Says College
    Yes, I'm sure Letterman is going to be missing all of those potential interns from Quinnipiac (AKA "Backup of the Backup of the Backup of the Backup" or "Where you go if you somehow manage to get turned down from Clark") University.
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    10/13/09

    In reply to David Letterman's Vicinity Now "Harm's Way," Says College
    Okay I get it. What Letterman did wasn't as big a deal as if he were a Congressmen or Senator or whatever. I get it. Fucking around in the work place isn't a big deal. Fine. But the continuing laissez faire tone of the discussion here is really pissing me off. It's not like Letterman was completely in the right. If a university's internship coordinator is looking into the environment its interns are going into, I applaud them for doing their job. Not every girl wanting to work in late night television is necessarily going to feel comfortable working in an office where the boss is fucking everyone around her or that the boss wants to fuck her. And I don't say any of that to cast Letterman as the big bad wolf and the women involved as helpless lambs because I'm sure all the relationships were consensual and above board but ultimately, while everyone is totally free to fuck whomever they want at work without fear of puritanical judgment, it's also totally reasonable to feel kind of appalled by that on a professional level.
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    10/13/09

    @WackoJacko: Dear commenter whose comment I will not promote, I repeat: while everyone is totally free to fuck whomever they want at work without fear of puritanical judgment, it's also totally reasonable to feel kind of appalled by that on a professional level.
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    10/13/09

    @WackoJacko: Spot on, dude.
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    10/13/09

    @WackoJacko: How do you really feel?
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    10/13/09

    In reply to David Letterman's Vicinity Now "Harm's Way," Says College
    Haha. Dear parents everywhere, remember:

    Your kids will always end up fucking someone!
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    10/13/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: ...and vice-versa.
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    10/08/09

    In reply to Gawker Exclusive: Letterman Blackmailer Lunched With Cop Days Before Sting
    I'm not sure that this post rises to level of post hoc fallacy, but it's kind of dumb.

    At first I thought there were going to be some Leopold/Loeb elements. One of them befriended the police during the investigation. That was ironic.
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    10/07/09

    In reply to Gawker Exclusive: Letterman Blackmailer Lunched With Cop Days Before Sting
    Wow, he had lunch with someone who is in law enforcement! What next: a story that says that, ironically, the week before he blackmailed a TV star, he watched some television?
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    10/07/09

    In reply to Gawker Exclusive: Letterman Blackmailer Lunched With Cop Days Before Sting
    Does anyone else think Halderman looks creepy?
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    10/08/09

    @bowel_and_the_obstructors:

    I know there's an extra "r," but does anyone else think Watergate everytime s/he hears his name?
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    10/07/09

    In reply to Gawker Exclusive: Letterman Blackmailer Lunched With Cop Days Before Sting
    I think Halderman was working up a war chest to go live some place where people wouldn't constantly mistake him for Phil Jackson.
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    10/07/09

    In reply to Gawker Exclusive: Letterman Blackmailer Lunched With Cop Days Before Sting
    It's always the same. Paying alimony drives guys nuts. Simple as that.
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    10/07/09

    @fitley: Prenup!
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    10/07/09

    @NigelAstydameia:

    I asked my hubby of 17 years if he wanted me to sign a prenup, but he said when both parties are totally broke there isn't much need.
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    10/07/09

    In reply to Gawker Exclusive: Letterman Blackmailer Lunched With Cop Days Before Sting
    My theory is that he was fed up with the child support and alimony payments, had made bad investments, and had mounting variable rate mortgages on his home and the home where his ex-wife lived. He was in a financial hole. He was also embarrassed about being "cuckolded" by Letterman.

    Halderman knew he wouldn't succeed in blackmailing Letterman, but, if he attempted it, he could get himself sent to prison and embarrass Letterman in one blow. He'd go bankrupt and wait the whole thing out behind bars. No more bills, no more alimony payments, no more stress.

    In other words, Halderman isn't stupid so much as desperately self-destructive. He did it as a fucked-up exit strategy.
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    10/07/09

    @iplaudius: My theory is he had Dry Rub BBQ pork, and the Cop had a tuna sandwich. This was corroborated by the 16% tip.
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    10/07/09

    @NotChoinski: My theory is that being called a "Nashville socialite" is to be damned with faint praise second only in offense to being called "governor of Alaska."
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    10/07/09

    @iplaudius: Except that I've heard prison can be a rather stressful experience. I'd rather be stressed-out in my home I can't afford.
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    10/07/09

    @iplaudius: As another of the perks of life behind bars, you neglected to mention endless reruns of "The Wire" shown on an endless loop.

    And speaking of "endless loops"....
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    10/08/09

    @iplaudius:

    And he was going to do what -- teach video journalism courses to inmates at Otisville?

    A lot of us have had the incarceration fantasy; it's close kin to the coma fantasy, but actually commiting a possible felony to avoid financial obligations is a huge stretch.
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    10/08/09

    @Atilla the Bun:

    If you've ever been in a prison, even as a protected member of the media, it's scary.
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    10/08/09

    @Seeräuber Jenny: I visited death row in Huntsville, Texas during law school as part of a capital punishment clinic. It was horrific. Granted, Halderman isn't going there, but prison is no place to "get away from things," I agree.
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    10/07/09

    In reply to Gawker Exclusive: Letterman Blackmailer Lunched With Cop Days Before Sting
    Did they order the clam chowder?! WE MUST KNOW!
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    10/07/09

    @ElleL: Yes, Manhattan style. Coincidence? I think not!
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    Seeräuber Jenny promoted this comment blix was starred blix was unstarred
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    10/07/09

    @blix: Conspiracies abound!
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    10/07/09

    In reply to Gawker Exclusive: Letterman Blackmailer Lunched With Cop Days Before Sting
    But don't leave us hanging!! What did he order?
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    10/07/09

    In reply to Gawker Exclusive: Letterman Blackmailer Lunched With Cop Days Before Sting
    I fail to see any relevance between a cop who was in one of Halderman's pieces and an extortion plot. To me it's like The Post asking Birkitt's grandma questions.

    If I'm missing some sort of connection please fill me in....
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    10/07/09

    @hjih: There's no connection. I find it interesting that the guy was socializing with a cop as he was planning a heist. But maybe it's not!
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    10/08/09

    @John Cook:

    John, if you thought the detail was merely "interesting," you wouldn't have added:

    "Little did Postiglione know that on September 9, a little over one week..."

    That's a forced connection if I've ever read one.

    If Denton put you up to this, I can forgive. But do you think we are idiots?
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    10/07/09

    In reply to Gawker Exclusive: Letterman Blackmailer Lunched With Cop Days Before Sting
    Who did he have brunch with the Sunday prior? Where did he receive his last pre-blackmail mustache trim? Those might be interesting stories, too, right?
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    10/04/09

    In reply to Purported Letterman Blackmailer Slept With Colleagues Himself, Colleagues Say
    "This is not a bad man."

    I absolutely love it whenever someone like this is called "not a bad man."

    • I knew a guy who beat his girlfriend, and his friends called him a "good guy."
    • I had a friend of a friend get divorced because her husband was in debt to some loan sharks AND he didn’t spend time with his family. And he was "not a bad guy."
    • I knew some other guy who would sleep with co-workers, steal their clients, and find ways to push the women out of the office. Verdict? "He was ambitious but a good guy."

    You know what? Someone acts like an a-hole call them an a-hole. I'm tired of hearing idiots who destroy the lives of others called "good" or have excuses tossed their way.
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