Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Wednesday morning roundup

It is striking that in both cases, the assailant argues that his crime was justified because he was provoked.

Funny Maureen Dowd should mention "Mad Men," which I recently Netflixed, and of which I saw the first three episodes over the weekend. Wouldn't you hate to be all but one or two women on that show?

Back to the matter at hand, though, which Tom Shales also sums up nicely (although too wordily) in that Letterman is a comedian and not a politician, so this really is between him, his wife, and the other women in question. And Maureen Dowd invokes that as well:
As Craig Ferguson, whose show is produced by Letterman, joked: “If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I’m out.”
But her main point is even more key: those relations were consensual.

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