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David Letterman reveals $2M sex affair extortion plot; CBS News producer Robert Halderman busted
New York Daily News ^
| October 1st 2009,
| Richard Huff, George Rush and Samuel Goldsmith
Posted on 10/02/2009 5:40:15 AM PDT by tlb
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To: GOPJ
...but I admire the fact that he stood up to the blackmailer. Yah. It's really the best way to handle it. I suppose it might be tempting to just pay it, but I think it's probably true that it rarely ends there. The blackmailer will just keep coming back for more.
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posted on
10/02/2009 6:52:51 AM PDT
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
Stephanie Birkitt former live-in girlfriend of Robert Halderman. It will turn out that she's the one who dropped the dime on Letterman to her boyfriend.
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posted on
10/02/2009 6:54:22 AM PDT
by
A.A. Cunningham
(Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
To: GOPJ
To tell you the truth, I’m much more interested in Halderman, and what some of his projects might have included. Everything he touched is tainted—did he ever work for the CBS (so-called) News, for instance?
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posted on
10/02/2009 6:58:32 AM PDT
by
MizSterious
(Do you not think an angel rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm? John Page, 1744-1808)
To: tlb
The twit who might have been trying to extort money from him is an idiot. Instead of getting tried for extortion he should have just released the story to a number of outlets. Hell, he could have made more than $2 mil by hawking it to the scandal rags and he would have gotten away with it.
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posted on
10/02/2009 6:58:47 AM PDT
by
RJS1950
(The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
To: RJS1950
Instead of getting tried for extortion he should have just released the story to a number of outlets. I was thinking that instead of trying to extort the money, he could have simply showed Letterman what he had and offer to sell his information to Letterman. A simple business transaction.
To: tlb
The extortioner’s fatal error:
Assuming that David Letterman had any shame.
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posted on
10/02/2009 7:05:31 AM PDT
by
EternalVigilance
(If you're not a Personhood Pro-Lifer, you're a holocaust enabler, either actively or passively.)
To: Tijeras_Slim
Ah, now I see that you had already made the same point.
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posted on
10/02/2009 7:06:31 AM PDT
by
EternalVigilance
(If you're not a Personhood Pro-Lifer, you're a holocaust enabler, either actively or passively.)
To: tlb
Robert Halderman too elite to sell the story to the National Enquirer?
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posted on
10/02/2009 7:07:22 AM PDT
by
elizabethgrace
(I pray for our military, our Republic, Bibi and Israel.)
To: Last Dakotan
“...threatening to expose the late-night funnyman’s affairs with several female staffers in a movie and book”
Since the entertainment industry holds that there’s nothing wrong with this, how is this much of a threat? It’s not like Letterman is a conservative or a candidate for Vice-President.
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posted on
10/02/2009 7:07:27 AM PDT
by
popdonnelly
(Yes, we disagree - no, we won't shut up - no, we won't quit.)
To: tlb
To: RJS1950
The twit who might have been trying to extort money from him is an idiot. Instead of getting tried for extortion he should have just released the story to a number of outlets. Hell, he could have made more than $2 mil by hawking it to the scandal rags and he would have gotten away with it. The twit was probalby too lazy.
To: Tijeras_Slim
Further proof (other than Mary Mapes) that CBS hires the stupidest most untrustworthy producers in existance. And, thanks to that from the conservative world. Seems being a despicable person is a prerequisite for employment at CBS.
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posted on
10/02/2009 7:28:19 AM PDT
by
CitizenM
("An excuse is worse than an lie, because an excuse is a lie hidden." Pope John Paul, II)
To: MizSterious
Im much more interested in Halderman, and what some of his projects might have included. I'm interested in what he's done too... Was he coming at Letterman because it was a typical shakedown? Or were Letterman's "taste" a little to creepy? Or is he a liberal who's so corrupt it doesn't matter? Many puzzle pieces here... wonder when we'll see the larger picture?
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posted on
10/02/2009 8:00:44 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(MSM BIAS: the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. George Orwell)
To: Ramius
Yah. It's really the best way to handle it. I suppose it might be tempting to just pay it, but I think it's probably true that it rarely ends there. I agree. Who knows, they say a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged. Maybe this mugging will "wake up" Letterman... or maybe he's already horrible compromised. We'll know soon...
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posted on
10/02/2009 8:10:13 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(MSM BIAS: the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. George Orwell)
To: MizSterious; elizabethgrace; GOPJ
It should be funny watching Katie Couric do this one...
To: tlb
Or is this the first time CBS News staffers have tried to pull shakedown schemes?
To: tlb
Halderman, who was being held on attempted grand larceny charges, has directed dozens of "48 Hours" documentaries, from the Winter Olympics to the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. You'd think that with Richard Huff, George Rush and Samuel Goldsmith all working on the article, at least one of them could have corrected that sentence, which is gibberish.
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posted on
10/02/2009 8:25:05 AM PDT
by
B Knotts
(Calvin Coolidge Republican)
To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
Katie will be AWOL - or so vague no one quite knows what she’s talking about. The MSM will give this their “ACORN” coverage - not much at all.
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posted on
10/02/2009 8:34:03 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(MSM BIAS: the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. George Orwell)
To: GOPJ
So Polanski, Bill Clinton, and Hugh Grant on the next show?
Or will Dave star in a revival of Californication?
To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
Dare we watch Ms. Couric tonight? LOL.
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posted on
10/02/2009 8:53:09 AM PDT
by
elizabethgrace
(I pray for our military, our Republic, Bibi and Israel.)
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