Stan Geiger

Weird Letterman

I watched Dave Letterman’s dissertation last night. I’ve watched the coverage this morning---which has provided little in the way of new information. I find this ordeal very strange.

I guess we can start with the alleged extortionist’s delivery method.

Letterman claims he was headed off to work at 6 in the morning, about 3 weeks ago. He spotted a strange package in his car. He opened it.

First, Letterman is a celebrity. He has tons of money. Yet some guy can apparently just stroll up to his house and deposit a package in his car in the nighttime hours. No security? Letterman doesn’t keep his car in a garage or even bother to lock the car doors?

Fascinating.

Second, Letterman opened a strange package he found in his car. Dude, if I were him, I would have called the cops so that package could have been checked out before I laid a finger on it.

Meanwhile, Letterman, his lawyer and the DA’s office set up a sting. The alleged extortionist has been arrested after accepting a bogus check in the amount of $2 million. Letterman went on his show and admitted to the, uh, heinous act of having sex with women.

No timing was mentioned. But Letterman has only been married for a few months. What his longtime girlfriend, mother of his child and current wife thinks about all of this, I have no idea. But it sounds like the sexual encounters to which Letterman admits have taken place over the years.

It’s not like Letterman is a governor that’s been caught cheating on his wife. It’s not like he’s a schoolteacher that’s been caught having sex with a student. A single guy---a relatively unimportant single guy---has had sex with women. Is that a scandal? In this day and age in particular, is that a scandal?

Why would the alleged extortionist think his information about a relatively unimportant fellow doing the wild thing with chicks would be worth $2 million to anybody?

There has to be more to this story.

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