LOEB Meeting 10-2-09: Blame it on Rio Edition.

[bleever]

Alternate title: Someone Slept with David Letterman? Edition.

:hi:

[bleever]

1. And, I know everyone's watching Ken Burns' awesome documentary,

but as far as I know, since the KOEB started, there has been a thread for every single night Countdown has been on.

[Berry Cool]

2. It's OK, bleev, I'm here, I just don't have much heart to post.

:hi: I am disgusted with:

--the way the Repigs are cheering and partying because "Obama" lost the Olympics
--the Senate for its public option-less bill
--David Letterman and the way people on DU are defending him for fucking his underlings because hell, he was a man who wanted to fuck women, and what argument have they got with a man who wants to fuck some women?
(Sorry. Yes, I think he's doing the right thing and that the blackmailer deserved exposure. But Letterman, kudos to him for admitting it, did wrong too. YOU DON'T FUCK PEOPLE WHO WORK UNDER YOU. YOU JUST DON'T. AT LEAST NOT IN MY WORLD. I am SO SICK OF MEN WHO CAN'T CONTROL THEIR DICKS THAT I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU. WHAT ARE THEY, EFFING CHILDREN????)

*sigh*

[bleever]

5. Hi Berry.

At least we will, in fact, end up with a public option. I am certain of it.

[RevCheesehead]

3. I'm just posting to tell you all that my computer issues are fixed.

All it took was a phone call to Charter, and they hit the reset button. Go figure.

:hi:

[bleever]

4. Deus ex machina!

:hi:

[Berry Cool]

8. Hurray!

:hi: I love it when computer problems are solved easily!

[SeattleGirl]

6. What the flock??? Some dude tries to blackmail Letterman, and

O'Donnell and that hack attorney are talking about how it could destroy Dave?????

Please tell me this world didn't just get crazier.

The woman who wrote the diary dated Letterman for quite awhile.

What the hell???

[Berry Cool]

9. Well, obviously the would-be blackmailer is pretty much destroyed.

Please don't tell me you see nothing wrong with a man fucking the women who work for him.

I'm sorry to be so blunt, I'm just tired of living in a society in which men are expected to take advantage of every opportunity they get to dip their wicks, and everyone just shrugs. In the meantime, the other women he wasn't sleeping with, who worked for him? How did they feel about this?

I'm sorry, but Dave doesn't get a free pass from me. As much as I have enjoyed him over the years, this is just acting like a horndog. And I don't accept the commonly held belief that the penis has a mind of its own and cannot be controlled by its owner. True, its reactions cannot be controlled, but what the owner DOES about those reactions is entirely up to him. And "Don't get your meat where you get your bread" is a time-honored saying for a reason.

Or did I forget that IOIYRFAG? (It's OK If You're Rich, Famous And Gifted?) Or IOIYHMAP (It's OK If You Have Money And Power?)

I didn't think we progressives believed in double standards. But more and more nowadays, from Polanski to Letterman, I am seeing that many of us do. Especially when penises and where they choose to travel are involved. All hail the Mighty Penis! It must never be denied what it wants!!!!

[ralps]

7. Hi bleever! Hi Everyone!

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo: