Oh Margo, I truly believe you knew you would be lighting a firecracker with this article.  First off, feel sorry for someone who just months ago had NO problem publicly humiliating a decent family with inappropriate sex jokes about the teenage daughter leaves me spent for any sympathy toward David Letterman.  The Palin family did not deserve to be the butt of his SICK sexual humor regardless if the writers got the daughters mixed up or not.  David was long in offering up an apology to the Palin family, and it only came at the heels of demonstrators outside his studio.  I could care less what he thinks politically, but I as a woman with a daughter and a teen grand daughter found NO humor is his and his writers poor judgement in attacking a young girl and a very decent family at the expense of ratings and laughter.

 Now as far as I am concerned I do NOT beleive for one second we have all the facts yet.  David comes on air and poors out his story to his audience and the PUBLIC and wants our support and sympathy for yet more BAD behavior and poor judgement.  His apology once again was delayed until he saw the overall reaction of the public.  He stated he found a package with photos and emails that would be terrible, terrible and bad for him and his reputation.  He admits to having sex with his staff and we are suppose to take that as the gospel truth.  So what are the photos and emails?  David Letterman has been showing poor judgement in his life choices and his career and I for one have NO sympathy for him.  You want to use the old addage, many men cheat so what is the big deal?  I wish I had a dime for every time someone uses that excuse to excuse bad behavior.  I live by morals and values and in this day and age it seems a life style that gets mocked.  I am not perfect and do not expect anyone else to be, but when an individual shows me a pattern of their bad behavior I have a sense of wondering if they are trustworthy and believeable.  David is looking out for his own A$$.  How dare him make a public apology to his wife on his show.  That is as disgusting as apologizing to the Palin family after his intro of jokes and followed by work as usual.  The show must go on.

 Celebrities have brought this country down to a level of behavior that gets a high five and a pass in the past years that make me want to throw up.  They defend each other because they have the same lack of values and morals.  How can we expect celebrities to speak out for justice and values when they don’t live by it themselves.  All is fun and fair in Hollywood.  Throw the politicians in the mix and wow, it appears there are only certain classes of people who are held to abide by the law.

David Letterman deserves to lose his job.  I don’t care who he had sex with, if it was consenual or not and how many public apologies he gives.  He signed a contract to NOT have sexual relationships with staff.  He broke the contract.  I am sorry someone alledgedly has used his bad behavior to extort money from him, but the botton line is this…..as one very wise Dr. Phil always says…."Those who have nothing to hide, hide nothing." 

I for one would not want to breathe the same air as this creep.  He has the tenacity to judge and poke fun at a decent family all the while he is living a life filled with lies and infidelity.  We have only heard about one woman.  I have my suspicions there is a whole LOT more to follow.  So before you get all sympathetic to him, you might want to wait for everything to come out.  David Letterman made it public, he wanted our sympathy to soften what he knew was coming.  If CBS had any morals they would not have allowed him to announce this on his show.  He assumed we would all look at the extortionist and not look at his bad behavior and he threw us a bone, admitting to having sex with staffers to deflect from I am certain other things.  Photos and emails…I’ll wait til I have all the facts thank you.  I do know his past behavior has been enough to make me turn the channel at night and make sure he never gets another rating from my home.

I do want to address the "hypocrisy" label that has been thrown around so much over this issue. Letterman did go after people on many occasions, and yes, he could be scathing. But in almost every case he was more gleeful over the hypocricy itself than the actual affairs. Let’s not forget — it was "Mr. Family Values" Sanford who got caught with his pants in Argentina. It was John "Clinton should resign" Ensign who got embroiled in an extramarital affair and then succumbed to blackmail. Now we have John "I just love my hookers" Vitter, preaching about how even prostitution is. Even John Edwards, who surrounded himself with his family for photo ops and then got involved with his "videographer." Sad, human, and hypocritical. These guys are and were absolutely fair game. And even Letterman pointed out how embarrassing it was - for the women involved - to be involved in him.

 No where do I see any coercion toward subordinates. If that turns out to be the case, it will be a different matter entirely. But so far no one has come forward to accuse Letterman of inappropriate behavior.

 And, as disappointed as I am that he’s not the domestic Baby Daddy I envisioned him as, I’m certainly not going to stop watching him because of it.

If one sex partner is the employer of the other, then it’s not ethical, regardless of their respective marital statuses.

If a person is in a committed relationship, they need to keep their knickers up with everyone except the person to whom they have promised monogamy, whether or not said promise was on a signed marriage license. What’s really so difficult about that concept?

Frankly, I don’t know enough about this gossip to comment other than to say that in our nation, from the top down, now - with "abstinence only" being the qualifier for government funding when those same legislators do not follow their own morality code on others, it’s no wonder idiots continue to run around half cocked! (at least he wasn’t branded ‘tapping’ his foot - heaven forbid that come back into scrutiny).

Women are still being confined to the "kitchen" - they believe, promote, accept, and suffer continuously under males, that is what has to stop! Abuse is rampant in our American society, and it’s running amok now - again from the top down, the Halls of Congress and the Networks (ala Letterman). I do not feel sorry for him or any of them but do believe that the PRnewswire will fix i t all depending on much they are paid to position whomever as Americans fall for the "news" once again.

I have been a fan for 30 years.  Dave’s brand of humor and even his appearance are an adult version of my childhoood hero, Alfred E. Newman of "Mad" magazine fame.

I am disappointed in him. I think what is unfolding will indicate he is nothing but a serial cheater.  Did he cheat on his first wife with Merrill Markoe?  Did he cheat on her with Regina Lesko?  Did he cheat on her with Stephanie Burkitt and others?  I certainly don’t know the answer to these questions, but my instincts tell me Dave is just a player, and not a partner.  He may be trying to now have a real marriage, based on fidelity, for his son’s sake, but it is built on a very poor foundation.

I agree that using the gender switch puts a different light on it and I also agree that men will be men, (little boys). We have never seemed to really care enough to change that so it is what it is.

For the last poster concerned about the "decent" Palin family, I have to know if she gets out much or just lifts her material from one of the conservative "Heres what to think and say" sites.