Why would David Letterman threw spitballs from his own glass house?”
Letterman threw spitballs from his own glass house By FRAZIER MOORE (AP) NEW YORK — Turns out David Letterman doesn’t just live on a TV show. He also lives in a glass house, where for years he’s hurled comedy zingers at misbehaving politicians, even as he brashly engaged in hanky-panky of his own. In March 2008, Letterman was taking potshots at Eliot Spitzer, then governor of New York, who was embroiled in an investigation into a high-end prostitution ring. “It’s so sunny and bright outside that, earlier today, Eliot Spitzer came out of a brothel squinting,” Letterman cracked in a monologue. But in Spitzer’s case, he didn’t stop at lampooning. During an indignant rant, he called for the scandalized governor to step down. “I mean, can you imagine,” said Letterman, “if this happened to me how fast they’d have my … (backside) out of here?” Unlike Spitzer, who resigned, Letterman seems secure in his job as host of CBS’ “Late Show,” nearly a week after his bombshell revelations of having
Letterman threw spitballs from his own glass house By FRAZIER MOORE (AP) – 46 minutes ago NEW YORK — Turns out David Letterman doesn’t just live on a TV show. He also lives in a glass house, where for years he’s hurled comedy zingers at misbehaving politicians, even as he brashly engaged in hanky-panky of his own. In March 2008, Letterman was taking potshots at Eliot Spitzer, then governor of New York, who was embroiled in an investigation into a high-end prostitution ring. “It’s so sunny and bright outside that, earlier today, Eliot Spitzer came out of a brothel squinting,” Letterman cracked in a monologue. But in Spitzer’s case, he didn’t stop at lampooning. During an indignant rant, he called for the scandalized governor to step down. “I mean, can you imagine,” said Letterman, “if this happened to me how fast they’d have my … (backside) out of here?” Unlike Spitzer, who resigned, Letterman seems secure in his job as host of CBS’ “Late Show,” nearly a week after his bombshell revel