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CBS has got to dump David Letterman. Right now. If the Tiffany Network continues to coddle the crotchety king of late night, it will rightly be known as the destination of choice for any girl who jiggles, giggles and puts out repeatedly for a man old enough to be her father. Dave must go. If not, CBS will have lost any remaining shred of credibility, not to mention common decency. By his own admission, the married Letterman has bedded any number of women working under His Highness. Problem is, he doesn't seem to know precisely how many. And brass has long looked the other way. Letterman's dream life came crashing to earth when an ex-boyfriend of one of his conquests allegedly attempted to extort him for $2 million to keep the affairs quiet. This development certainly makes Dave a victim -- a victim of his own recklessness. The very livelihoods of the young women who caught Dave's fancy depend on making Letterman happy. But Letterman, 62, certainly knew what he was doing. This is a full-grown adult who made a grown-up choice. And he chose to sleep with junior staffers rather than take the standard route and walk to the corner bar to conduct a sad, ordinary affair. Instead, he's working out some twisted Freudian issues on dewy-eyed underlings. Letterman is guilty of cheating on the woman he eventually married after a 20-year relationship and trashing the trust of their 6-year-old son, Harry. This was not one little slip-up, but a deviant pattern. And when Letterman got lazy, egotistical and sloppy, he became a ticking time bomb -- a walking, breathing, sexual-harassment lawsuit waiting to happen. The man who has been famously stalked in the past intentionally made himself into stalker-bait. Worse, he became the punch line in one of his own Monica Lewinsky jokes, which Dave told with such glee not so long ago. A former staffer at "Late Show" described to me a "toxic" atmosphere in the studio. She said women flirt mightily with the man. Sometimes, it works in their favor. Everyone inside the program knows what it takes to get ahead. In recent years, Dave's comedic chops have taken on a mean streak, as well. He has shown a wicked hatred of Republicans, which reached a climax when he joked about Sarah Palin's 14-year-old daughter, Willow, getting "knocked up" in the seventh inning of a Yankee game by Alex Rodriguez. CBS brass could have taken that gag as a sign that Letterman was slipping. Instead, bosses chose to ignore it. The network rescued Letterman from a future of obscurity in 1993, when NBC denied him his dream promotion as host of the "Tonight" show. CBS dusted off the Ed Sullivan Theater in Midtown for Dave and made him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But Letterman became the ratings champ of his 11:35 p.m. time slot this year only by default -- after NBC stupidly replaced Jay Leno with the dreadful Conan O'Brien. Who knows if Dave will remain a winner? Dave has repeatedly whined publicly about CBS's failure to bow down to him. Now, the network has a chance to strike back at this ungrateful wretch. Americans would not stand for this kind of behavior from a government official. Should a jock act in a like manner, his morals clause would likely kick in. Letterman's contract expires at the end of next year. I count on CBS to pull Letterman off the air, then kick him to the curb. It couldn't happen to a nicer guy. *********************************** * POST TO MEDIANEWS@ETSKYWARN.NET * *********************************** Medianews mailing list Medianews@etskywarn.net http://lists.etskywarn.net/mailman/listinfo/medianews
