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3rd October
2009
written by jed

The woman who told the 48 Hours producer (who the Post is now referring to as “Robert ‘Joe’ Halderman”) about her relationship with David Letterman has been identified. Her name is Stephanie Birkitt. She started at Late Show as an intern, then became Letterman’s personal assistant, then started appearing on the show (and also in Dave’s pants).

Letterman claims that he stopped sleeping with his employees after his son was born, and his wife — a former writer for Late Night with David Letterman — is nonplussed (according to her mother).

But People Magazine claims that there were many other trysts with many other employees (and how could you doubt anything that People Magazine claims?), including one “with another of the show’s staffers in the late 1990s” (whoa — don’t give away too many details, People!).

But wait! As I read the FOURTH (out of 56) page of coverage, it seems that Birkitt had moved out of the home she shared with Halderman (for four years) and left behind her journal — and that’s what prompted Halderman to try blackmail (he knew of the affair for years, but he now had physical evidence).

Halderman’s attorney, Gerald Shargel, assured the press that “this story is far more complicated than what you heard” and that “we intend to bring this case to trial.”

I wonder if Letterman will get a fancy petition like Roman Polanski has…

The state of New York has ethics watchdogs!?!?

The Public Integrity Commission (which was formed by then-governor Eliot Spitzer in late 2007 by merging the Lobbying Commission and the Ethics Commission — and, really, what goes together better than Lobbying and Ethics?) has had more than its fair share of controversy in the last two years, but yesterday’s “team-building” activity might be the final nail in their coffin.

Governor Paterson and the Legislature have proposed disbanding the PIC in the past. And that was before they threw an apple-picking party at a Rensselear County orchard. That’s right. While on the clock, 30 of the 50 members of the PIC picked apples (as a “morale-builder”).

And why would the PIC need a morale-builder? Because the state’s inspector general released a report in May in which he accused the PIC of “lack[ing] public integrity.”

So the PIC picked apples. On our dime. Let’s hope it gained them public integrity.

My blog gets results!

Michael David Barrett, 48, of Westmont, Illinois was arrested yesterday on charges of interstate stalking. He’s the guy who rejiggered the peepholes in two hotel room doors, allowing for Erin Andrews to be videotaped in her birthday suit.

He later tried selling the videotapes to TMZ (they declined).

But here’s what I found bizarre: “The FBI made it clear that Andrews ‘did not have anything to do with the video being made nor with their being posted to the Internet and was not aware who had done it.’”

So… we still don’t have the guy(s) who made and/or posted the video, just the guy who fucked with the peepholes. And I’m supposed to believe that Barrett rigged the peepholes but had no idea that someone might come by and videotape Andrews?

Enjoy prison, Mike.

Charles Hurt (who is once again “D.C. Bureau Chief”! Congrats!) says, “Obama has been humiliated by one of his most enthusiastic bases — anti-American internationalists around the world. It wasn’t for a lack of trying. At some cost to taxpayers and the ozone layer, Obama flew Air Force One to Copenhagen to cash in some of that global love…”

1) How many trips did Bush take (at some cost to taxpayers and the ozone layer) to his ranch in Texas over the eight years he pretended he was POTUS? At least Obama had a reason to go to Copenhagen (besides wanting to feed a horse and watch his stories on the TV box).

2) Hurt doesn’t give a shit about the ozone layer, he just wanted to imply that by flying in a plane, Obama is a hypocrite (either he wants to save the environment or he flies to places in an airplane — IT CAN’T BE BOTH THINGS!!!)

3) He goes on (back?) to ridicule Obama for “apologizing” to everyone in the world: “Remember the Berlin rally before Obama was president? He drew 200,000 swooners to hear him basically apologize for everything. And Cairo earlier this year? He soothed the multitudes with more apologies. And who could forget Denver with Greek columns at the Democratic convention?” Hey, Chuck? Since Bush wasn’t going to apologize for the way he (ostensibly on behalf of America) treated the rest of the world himself, someone else had to. It’s called “being the bigger man.” Look it up. B’also? I don’t remember the Greek columns. I do remember people like you pulling your hair out because it was proof that, um, Obama thought he was Zeus? Is that right? And I also remember watching a televised McCain rally WHERE HE SHOWED INCREDIBLY GRAPHIC FOOTAGE OF THE 9/11 ATTACKS. But, yeah. Greek columns. Much worse.

4) I get the feeling that the “D.C. Bureau” is actually just a desk with “Dumb Charlie” carved into the side.

Chicago lost out on its bid to be the host city for the 2016 Olympics. Oh, well. NYC tried for the 2012 games and lost. No shame in trying, right?

Oh, that’s right. I’m reading the Post.

Hey, I have an idea. We know that the IOC is corrupt. We know that setting up for the games is a gigantic pain in the ass that (more often than not, according to Glenn Beck) can bankrupt the cities that host them. So why do we continue to participate in them? It costs us tons of money to train and send athletes, to obtain broadcasting rights, to put together proposals that the IOC will ignore anyway. So let’s just walk away!

Or… do you think it’s more important to remain part of the global community? Oh, you do? Well, then I guess you should stop ridiculing Obama for going to other countries and attempting to heal the wounds inflicted by the previous administration.

Hours before Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland, Brett Ratner tld BlogTalkRadio, “The family has forgiven [Polanski]. The victim has forgiven him. The rest of the world has forgiven him. The LA judicial system is corrupt. It’s horrible.”

But Ratner recently released an addendum, explaining that he didn’t mean “to discredit the present California legal system or the district attorney’s office.”

For the record, I haven’t forgiven Polanski for sodomizing a 13-year-old against her will. Or for The Ninth Gate.

The episode of WWE Raw that The Fat Reverend Al Sharpton hosted (I told you I wasn’t kidding) earned the lowest ratings since last November. WWE rep Robert Zimmerman doesn’t think it had anything to do with the race-baiting huckster’s presence. “Yes we were low, but Monday Night Football really had a lot to do with it.”

That, and the bizarre intro in which Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka entered the ring claiming that Nikolai Volkoff and the Iron Shiek had written racial slurs on his chest in doodies.

Ha! Polanski reached an agreement in 1993 with the girl he raped. He’d pay $500,000 and she’d drop the suit.

In 1996, he was accused of owing the girl $604,416.22, which leads me to believe he didn’t pay her by the agreed-upon time.

Did he ever pay her? No one is commenting, so I’ll assume he did.

Still… that seems cheap, no?

Holy. Shit.

Remember the trial of James Jimenez? The guy who stole Kirsten Dunst and Simon Pegg’s stuff and then claimed he had no idea that what he was doing was illegal? Remember how the jury needed more than 3 minutes (actually, they needed 3 DAYS) of deliberation?

A lone holdout on the jury has caused a mistrial.

Jimenez’s excuse was that he was too stupid to realize what he was doing.

What’s that juror’s excuse?

Minnesota won and Detroit lost. The Twins are now one game behind the Tigers, with two games remaining for each.

The Yankees got demolished. Sabathia gave up 9 runs in less than 3 innings (we ultimately lost 13-4) and his chance at a 20-win season disappeared.

Honestly? I would rather everyone played like shit this week and then recouped for the playoffs, instead of continuing a win streak when its meaningless and then choking in the post-season.

Did you know that the Ashton Kutcher-produced Mischa Barton vehicle (The Beautiful Life) was cancelled after just two episodes?

She really is that terrible.

But if you’re worried that you won’t have a talentless non-actress to stare at, fret not. The CW will replace TBL with reruns of Melrose Place — starring Ashlee Simpson-Wentz.

And that’s it for Saturday.

Looks like rain.

See you tomorry.

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