video While most of you were cheating on your flame-haired imaginary boyfriend with the two biggest victims of the Gotcha Media, soon-to-be perennial presidential candidate Mitt Romney was all business in an appearance on Late Night with David Letterman last night. On the table were such recent highlights in his career as the constant speculation surrounding his presidential run and his mile-high scuffle with a member of obnoxious Jersey Shore house band LMFAO. (more...)

video David Letterman didn't hold back, again, in bashing NBC and its late night woes on his Late Show tonight. But in a move that combined new media savvy, playful ribbing and the acknowledgment many viewers would be tuning into the potential impending seminal late night moment when Conan O'Brien post-letter Tonight Show airs, CBS released all portions of Letterman's NBC jabs early on YouTube. (more...)

video NBC's late night shake-up (that, at this present time still sits mid-shake-up) has provided tremendous fodder for all late night comedians, including those at the peacock network. But last night David Letterman seemed to relish pounding his former network more than others who had taken on the subject before - complete with a Jay Leno impression and a Top 10 list. (more...)

Shortly after news of the Letterman scandal broke (you may recall that it was broken by intrepid reporter David Letterman), Nikki Finke theorized that CBS wouldn't investigate Letterman's "single man sex with staffers at his independent production company Worldwide Pants." CBS boss Les Moonves and his boss, Sumner Redstone, had both had adulterous affairs, she argued, and so they wouldn't be too keen on digging into Letterman. But as the New York Observer's Felix Gilette reports, CBS will be looking into the sex-and-extortion saga the way they know best: with a crack investigative reporter. (more...)

Is the journalism industry so down-at-the-mouth these days that David Letterman is the only thing standing between it an utter irrelevance? Probably not, but you'd be forgiven for drawing that conclusion based on how much ink the Late Show host's love life continues to generate. Two of the country's top media columnists devoted inches to Dave and his (apparently) consensual, unmarried, behind-closed-doors activities. (more...)

Read This A "Talk of the Town" item in this week's New Yorker uses the extortion case involving Dave Letterman and CBS producer Robert Halderman — which keeps getting weirder and weirder, and doesn't look like it's going away any time soon — as a jumping-off point for a broader discussion about blackmail. (more...)

It was never about money for Robert Halderman. It was about revenge and jealousy. It was about David Letterman hugging his girlfriend. (more...)

Last night, after a weekend of being battered by the press, David Letterman apologized on air to both his wife and his staff. Was it sincere? You can watch here and decide for yourself. Here's what struck me as utterly insincere and unbelievable: that he didn't see it coming. (more...)

video David Letterman's seemingly schizophrenic first 15 minutes of tonight's Late Show spanned the spectrum from funny to serious, all while sticking firmly to the subject of his extortion/sex with staffers revelation last week. As Rachel Sklar asked earlier tonight, "Which Letterman should we believe?" Well here's what they both had to say. (more...)

Tonight Dave Letterman goes back on the air after one hell of a weekend. And I'm already confused. Thursday night — as I'm sure you know by now — he went on the air and told an extraordinary story, first about being blackmailed and then about what he'd been blackmailed for. "Creepy" things, that vague descriptor, was put into a little sharper focus like so: "I have had sex with women who work for me on this show." (more...)