Emmy Award Winning CBS News Producer Behind Letterman Blackmail ScandalWizbang (http://wizbangblog.com/)
Posted by Kevin
Published: October 2, 2009 - 1:48 AM
Earlier we reported on the extortion attempt that David Letterman faced. The scandal just gets so much juicier. The person behind the blackmail attempt is an Emmy award winning producer for CBS New's 48 Hours. His name is Robert Halderman, but professionally he goes by Joe Halderman. Here's a bio from a documentary he did for Showtime.
As the writer, producer and director of Three Days in September, Joe Halderman has drawn on the skills gained in his career in journalism. For more than 25 years, Halderman has been shooting, writing and producing news pieces. His work has taken him around the world, reporting on events from 75 different countries. Based in London for 12 years, he has also spent many months in the Soviet Union, and later Russia. Halderman has witnessed war firsthand, covering conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait, Bosnia and Lebanon. Halderman has been acknowledged for his work with seven Emmy awards and one Columbia Dupont award. He has two children and lives in Norwalk, Connecticut.
Apparently he also lives with one of the Late Show female staffers who slept with Letterman...
From the Home Office in New York City... Top 10 Reasons to Keep your Pants Zipped Up at Work.
Yo Dave....
Keep your dick in your pants and this sort of shit won't happen.
From the Home Office in New York City... Top 10 Reasons to Keep your Pants Zipped Up at Work.
David Letterman victim of extortion plot: reports
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Late-night U.S. television talk-show host David Letterman said on Thursday he was the victim of a $2 million extortion plot related to sexual affairs he had with members of his staff, according to media reports.
CNN reported that Letterman told his audience during the taping of CBS's "Late Show with David Letterman," that he received a package three weeks ago from a person who claimed to have information about his sexual activities and demanded $2 million to avoid going public.
Leave it to the idiots at Reuters to not know the difference between EXTORTION and BLACKMAIL.
How the hell do you get out of journalism school functionally illiterate?
Wait. Wait. Wait.
Women actually consented to have sex with Letterman?
Beer goggles, maybe?
Gross, I think I would rather do Michael Moore and that is when I am dead and maggots eating my innards.
Aren't most journalism schools very liberal? :whatever:
The school at the University of Missouri (Mizzou) in Columbia, MO, is EXTREMELY liberal.
The Obama worshiping there is unbelievable. And the hatred of conservatism there is a very, very palpable thing.
It's kind of odd, really. Most of the outlying areas around Columbia are rural, therefore conservative to a large level. So those little turds in Columbia think of themselves as some kind of bastion or outpost of liberalism. :whatever:
Very true....Mrs. doc and I were at our attorney's office in Columbia last week for some estate planning, and the place had a very palpable hostility about it (not our lawyer, whom we've been with for generations)......not at all like the days when home from college, we used to chase the Stevens College girls......and occasionally catch a few.....
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What did Mrs. doc do with the college girls when she caught them? :innocent:
Wait. Wait. Wait.
Women actually consented to have sex with Letterman?
Beer goggles, maybe?
Wait. We've heard only one side of the story from the (sexy? yuck) Letterman's public mia culpa.
Let's wait till we hear the other side. If it goes to court, get the popcorn ready.... :popcorn:
At the close of David Letterman's stunning on-air disclosure Thursday, the host seemed set to put the whole sordid affair behind him. After a 10-minute explanation of an extortion plot intended to expose his sexual liaisons with female staffers, he concluded, "I don't plan to say much more about this on this particular topic."Hollywood Reporter (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i505f5fdeedc76b427c79c07ad496b7f9)
But if Letterman thinks he's had the last word, rest assured this controversy is far from over.
Sure, the immediate aftermath has gone well for him. Robert Joe Halderman has been indicted and so-called media experts are in consensus that the late-night host is going to be fine.
But Letterman may find the devil in the details, of which he divulged precious little in coming clean. What will truly determine just how ugly this will get for him is the yet-to-emerge particulars of his sexual exploits.
As judicious as he was in meting out what he wanted his audience to know, it's ultimately not in his control. TMZ and its ilk are raiding Letterman's skeleton-filled closet and leaving no bone untouched; the witch hunt to surface the unidentified women Letterman slept with has already yielded names like Stephanie Birkitt.
Were all of these relationships consensual affairs with women of appropriate ages who, if they choose to come forward, will not speak ill of the man? That more than anything will keep Letterman's reputation unsullied. But anything deviant or inappropriate is a potential career killer; even worse if any audio, photographic or video evidence makes its way into the media.