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In 1969, Letterman married his college sweetheart, Michelle Cook. The couple divorced in 1977.
For a time, Letterman was engaged to
Late Night head writer, Merrill Markoe, but the relationship eventually fell apart. Markoe moved to California soon after to pursue a writing career.
In 1985, Letterman established the Letterman Telecommunications Scholarship at his alma mater, to provide financial assistance to Department of Telecommunications students, based solely on his or her creativity, and not high academic grades — so much so that the student must have a C or below average. Letterman continues to regularly donate to Ball State and other organizations through his American Foundation for Courtesy and Grooming.
In 1988, Margaret Mary Ray was arrested while driving Letterman's Porsche near the Lincoln Tunnel in New York City. Ray claimed to be Letterman's wife. Ray went on to be arrested repeatedly in subsequent years on trespassing and other counts. In one instance, police found her sleeping on Letterman's private tennis court at his home in New Canaan, Connecticut. Ray spent nearly ten months in prison and 14 months in a state mental institution for her numerous trespassing convictions. On October 7, 1998, Ray was struck and killed by a train in an apparent suicide in Colorado.
In 1996, Letterman became co-owner of the open-wheel racing team known as Team Rahal, with former Indianapolis 500 champion Bobby Rahal. The team changed its name to Rahal Letterman Racing in May, 2004, and later that same month, team driver Buddy Rice won the Indianapolis 500. This was an exciting win indeed for Indianapolis native Letterman, who has attended the race regularly since he was a young child. Normally a private person away from the studio, like his mentor,
Johnny Carson, Letterman uncharacteristically gave many interviews following the race.
Letterman, along with bandleader Paul Shaffer and
Late Show stagehand,
Biff Henderson, celebrated Christmas 2002 in Afghanistan with United States and international military forces stationed there. The three visited Iraq around Christmas in 2003 and 2004.
On September 12, 2003, Letterman announced that his long-time girlfriend and ex-colleague Regina Lasko was six-months pregnant with his child. His son Harry Joseph Letterman, named after David's late father, was born on November 3, 2003.
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Published: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:57:49 GMT - Source: Sfbay.Craigslist.Org - Read the articleIssuesDespite evidence to the contrary, NY Times asserted as fact that McCain had "suspend[ed] his campaign"
In a September 26 front-page New York Times article, Adam
Nagourney and Elisabeth Bumiller wrote: "In suspending his campaign, Mr.
McCain declared that he would not attend the debate unless a deal was worked
out." In asserting as fact that Sen. John McCain had
"suspend[ed] his campaign," Nagourney and Bumiller did not mention
the McCain campaign surrogates who continued
to appear
on television throughout the day on September 25 attacking Sen. Barack Obama,
or the McCain campaign ads that continued to run on television. Nor
did they give any indication that they had attempted to determine if the
campaign had actually ceased state and local operations; according to reporter
Sam Stein, The Huffington Post
"called up 15 McCain-Palin and McCain Victory Committee headquarters in
various battleground states. Not one said that it was temporarily halting
operations because of the supposed 'suspension' in the campaign."
In addition, several other media outlets uncritically
reported that McCain announced he was "suspending his campaign"
without noting facts that cast that in doubt:
In a September 26 Washington Post article, Anne
E. Kornblut and Robert Barnes wrote:
The tumultuous
events of the past few days suggest that McCain's ambivalence toward debating persists. The fate of the first
presidential debate, scheduled for tonight in Oxford, Miss.,
has been up in the air since Wednesday, when McCain announced he would suspend his campaign to attend to the financial crisis -- and sought to delay
the face-off.
In a
September 26 Associated Press article, Jennifer Loven and Julie Hirschfeld Davis wrote:
McCain, who dramatically announced Wednesday that he was suspending his campaign to
deal with the economic crisis, stayed silent for most of the session and spoke
only briefly to voice general principles for a rescue plan.
In a September
26 article in
the Chicago Tribune, Mark Silva and Naftali Bendavid wrote:
The candidates were
setting aside their campaigns and jetting to D.C. -- McCain had announced dramatically that he
was "suspending" his and might stay away from Friday's candidate debate --
ostensibly because they were needed to help craft a bailout plan. Yet word of a
tentative deal among legislative leaders was broadcast on cable news while
Obama was still in flight.
In
another September 26 article in
the Chicago Tribune, James
Oliphant wrote:
Dodd and other
Democrats blamed McCain, who vowed to suspend his campaign and skip Friday night's scheduled presidential debate
until a bipartisan deal is reached. McCain spent much of the day talking on the Hill with Republicans, including
some architects of the new proposal.
By contrast, other articles in The Washington
Post and from The Associated Press, as well as The Los Angeles Times, reported that
McCain's campaign "continued":
In a September
26 Washington Post article,
Michael D. Shear and Jonathan Weisman wrote:
Democrats
immediately blamed McCain for disrupting the effort at
compromise, saying his decision to suspend his campaign and return to Washington
shifted the klieg lights of the White House contest to the tense and delicate
congressional negotiations.
[...]
Despite the GOP nominee's pledge to suspend
electioneering, the presidential campaign continued yesterday.
Democrats attacked the McCain
campaign for declaring what they called a false truce, pointing to the
television appearances of McCain campaign domestic policy adviser Nancy Pfotenhauer, who
has been attacking Obama as taking undue credit for crisis
management and legislative deal-making.
In a September 25 AP article, Liz
Sidoti wrote:
As the day began, McCain
portrayed his announced halt to campaign events, fundraising and advertising as
an example of putting the country before politics. But in doing so he also hoped
to get political credit for a decisive step on a national crisis as polls show
him trailing Obama on the economy and slipping in the
presidential race.
And politics
continued on all sides nonetheless.
Despite McCain's stated hiatus, Alaska Gov.
Sarah Palin, visited memorials in lower Manhattan
to those killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and McCain aides
appeared on news programs. Chief strategist Steve Schmidt said all television
advertising was "down." But a McCain ad was later seen on local
television in Las Vegas,
and perhaps elsewhere.
In another September 25 article, the
AP wrote:
Republican
presidential nominee John McCain
vowed Wednesday to suspend his campaign to focus on the nation's financial
crisis, but there were plenty of signs of activity Thursday -- including an
apparently live fundraising link on the campaign's Web site.
[...]
McCain appeared that evening in an interview on CBS'
newscast, but canceled a planned appearance on David Letterman's "Late
Show." His vice presidential running mate,
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, made a highly visible visit to ground zero in New York on Thursday
morning. McCain spokeswoman Nicole Wallace appeared on NBC's "Today"
show.
[...]
E-mail messages continued to trickle out from the
campaign, but at a far slower rate than normal. And the Huffington
Post, a left-leaning Web site, said it had called 15 McCain campaign
offices in battleground states, and none said it was suspending operations.
In a September 26 Los Angeles Times article, Noam
N. Levey and Bob Drogin wrote:
It also did not appear that McCain had
fully suspended his campaign, as he had said Wednesday that he would until a
solution to the economic crisis was reached. His Republican running mate, Sarah
Palin, remained on the trail Thursday, his ads were still on the air, his
campaign offices remained open, and fundraising continued.
[...]
Elsewhere, there were other signs that the presidential
campaign was very much in swing.
Trailed by camera crews and reporters, Palin visited the
former World Trade Center site in Manhattan to tour a museum built as a tribute
to the victims of the 9/11 attacks.
McCain's campaign website still
allowed supporters to volunteer or contribute. His national headquarters in Arlington, Va.,
as well as local, state and regional field offices remained open. And on
Capitol Hill, McCain was joined by his senior campaign team, including
strategist Steve Schmidt, campaign manager Rick Davis, aide Mark Salter and
policy advisor Douglas Holtz-Eakin.
In a September 26 AP article,
Steven R. Hurst wrote:
McCain's call to postpone the debate
was his latest surprise move aimed at shaking up a race in which Obama would seem
to have an inherent advantage, given the economic turmoil and the unpopular
presidency of Republican George W. Bush.
The four-term Arizona
senator did not, in fact, truly suspend campaign activities nor, Democrats
claim, did he carry through on a promise to halt TV ads attacking Democratic
opponent Barack Obama. McCain's running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, paid a
highly visible visit to memorials in lower Manhattan to those killed in the Sept. 11
attacks.
Published: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:59:21 GMT - Source: Mediamatters.Org - Read the articleIssuesCBS devoted 5 minutes to "lipstick," other McCain attacks before reporting that "lipstick" attack was bogus
The September 10 edition of the CBS Evening News devoted five minutes, in two segments, to the back-and-forth
between the campaigns of Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama over
Obama's September 9 "lipstick" remark and other McCain attacks -- including a statement
by Capitol Hill correspondent Chip Reid that a McCain ad about the "lipstick" comment may work whether "true or not" -- before CBS
White House correspondent Bill Plante reported of the "lipstick" comments: "The
facts: Obama had not mentioned [Gov. Sarah] Palin.
He was focused on the central argument of his campaign -- that McCain's
policies would be no different than President Bush's."
Reid reported, "In one ad aired on
the Internet, the McCain campaign accuses Barack Obama of suggesting that Palin
is a pig," before airing a clip of the ad. He went on to say, "The
Obama campaign called the ad 'pathetic.' Obama, they said, used a
common expression to criticize the McCain campaign's policies, not
Palin." After airing another ad from the McCain
campaign, Reid stated, "Democratic officials called that ad, and The Wall Street Journal article it was
based on, a flat-out, absolute fabrication -- but true or not, the ads may
work." Reid then played a clip of Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia
stating, "Any day that the campaign is about Sarah Palin given her
current popularity, it's a good day for John McCain and a bad day for
Barack Obama." Reid then said that "another sign that both
campaigns have taken a hard turn on to the low road, in Philadelphia today, McCain was all but
drowned out by hecklers shouting support for Obama." He provided no
evidence that the Obama campaign was in any
way responsible for the "hecklers," while citing their
heckling as evidence of "both campaigns hav[ing] taken a hard turn on the
low road."
In the
second report, correspondent
Dean Reynolds began by stating that
Obama "played into the hands of his
rivals with a flip comment that left him open to attack." After airing
comments from Obama responding to the McCain campaign's charges about the
"lipstick" comment, Reynolds
stated that "by responding, Obama elevated the issue."
Five minutes after Reid had first
mentioned the "lipstick" comments and after both Reid and Reynolds had aired statements
from both the McCain and Obama campaigns without taking a position on whose
argument was correct, Plante noted, in what anchor Katie Couric called a
"Reality Check," that Obama hadn't mentioned Palin and was
talking about McCain's policies when he made the "lipstick" comment. Plante went on to note that "[t]he colorfully descriptive phrase is often used
by politicians, including John McCain." He later added, "Even the
vice president has used it."
From the September 10 broadcast of the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric:
REID:
Sarah Palin is, at this moment, in the air, on her way home to Alaska to see her son as he's deployed to Iraq,
and she leaves behind a campaign that seems to get uglier everyday.
[begin
video clip]
REID:
In Northern Virginia today, John McCain and
Sarah Palin drew their biggest crowd yet, more than 23,000, and there was no
doubt who many of them came to see.
CROWD:
Sarah, Sarah, Sarah.
PALIN:
We're going to Washington
to shake things up.
UNIDENTIFIED
FEMALE: She's amazing. She thinks the way I think.
REID:
But neither Palin nor McCain even mentioned the ugly war of words swirling
around Palin that has all but consumed both campaigns. In one ad aired on the
Internet, the McCain campaign accuses Barack Obama of suggesting that Palin is
a pig.
OBAMA:
But, you know, you can -- you know, you can put lipstick on a pig; it's
still a pig.
REID:
The Obama campaign called the ad "pathetic." Obama, they said, used a
common expression to criticize the McCain campaign's policies, not Palin.
In the middle of that furor, the McCain campaign released another ad portraying
Palin as a victim.
ANNOUNCER:
Obama air-dropped a mini-army of 30 lawyers, investigators, and opposition
researchers into Alaska
to dig dirt on Governor Palin.
REID:
Democratic officials called that ad, and The
Wall Street Journal article it was based on, a flat-out, absolute
fabrication -- but true or not, the ads may work.
LARRY
SABATO (director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia):
Any day that the campaign is about Sarah Palin, given her current popularity,
it's a good day for John McCain and a bad day for Barack Obama.
REID:
It's a campaign strategy focused on personality, not issues, as described
by McCain's campaign manager last week.
RICK
DAVIS (McCain campaign manager): This election is not about issues. This
election is about a composite view of what people take away from these
candidates.
REID:
And in another sign that both campaigns have taken a hard turn on to the low
road, in Philadelphia today, McCain was all but drowned out by hecklers
shouting support for Obama.
[end
video clip]
REID:
Now, one question now is whether John McCain will see a drop in enthusiasm
campaigning alone without Palin, and we're told when she does return from
Alaska in a
few days, they may well campaign more together than had been planned. Katie?
KATIE
COURIC (anchor): OK, Chip Reid. Thanks a lot, Chip. If the McCain campaign was
outraged over that lipstick comment, Senator Obama said today he's just
as outraged over their use of it. Dean Reynolds, now, has that part of the
story.
[begin
video clip]
REYNOLDS:
Having played into the hands of his rivals with a flip comment that left him open
to attack, Obama today denounced what he called a cynical, insincere game
played by the Republicans and a willing news media.
OBAMA:
I mean, this whole thing about lipstick. Nobody actually believes that these
folks are offended. They seize on an innocent remark, try to take it out of
context, throw up an outrageous ad, because they know that it's catnip
for the news media.
REYNOLDS:
But by responding, Obama elevated the issue. And though he tried to laugh it
off, he did not seem amused.
OBAMA:
Right, I'm talking about John McCain's economic policies, I say
this is more of the same -- you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still
a pig -- and suddenly they say, "Oh, you must be talking about the
governor of Alaska."
This is what they want to spend two out of the last 55 days talking about.
REYNOLDS:
Obama, though, spent some time on it in an interview for tonight's Late Show with David Letterman.
[begin
video clip]
DAVID
LETTERMAN (talk show host): Have you ever actually put lipstick on a pig?
PAUL
SHAFFER (musical director): Whoops.
OBAMA:
You know, the --
SHAFFER: Uh-oh.
OBAMA:
The answer would be no. But I think it might be fun to try. ... Had I meant
it this way, she would be the lipstick, you see. The failed policies of John
McCain would be the pig.
[end
video clip]
REYNOLDS:
Jokes aside, Obama's aides have loudly complained that his words are
being twisted by the Republicans and then spread by the press.
SEAN
HANNITY (Fox News host): We saw the audience got the joke, calling the
vice-presidential candidate a pig.
OBAMA:
This McCain campaign would much rather have the story about phony and foolish
diversions than about the future.
REYNOLDS:
He has spent the last two weeks addressing the economy, energy, and education, but
he said episodes involving what he called "phony outrage" block a
meaningful discussion.
OBAMA:
You know who ends up losing at the end of the day? It's not the
Democratic candidate. It's not the Republican candidate. It's
you.
[end
video clip]
REYNOLDS:
But Obama may be more willing now to mix it up. Sources tell CBS News he will
no longer stand in the way of those partisan independent groups that could do
in attack ads to John McCain what those behind the Swift Boat attacks did to
[Sen.] John Kerry just four years ago. Katie?
COURIC:
Dean Reynolds. Thanks very much, Dean.
The
McCain campaign also took aim today at Senator Obama's record on sex
education, but is that attack and the lipstick uproar really on target? For
that, we turn to Bill Plante with this "Reality Check."
[begin
video clip]
PLANTE:
The McCain campaign jumped hard on the phrase "lipstick on a pig." In
addition to this Internet-only video, their truth squad quickly set up a
conference call. The claim: Obama was talking about Sarah Palin.
JANE
SWIFT (McCain campaign "Palin Truth Squad" member): Senator Obama
uttered what I can only deem to be disgraceful comments comparing Governor
Palin to a pig.
PLANTE:
What connected the comment to Palin? Governor Swift said it was this line from
her convention speech.
PALIN:
You know, they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull:
lipstick.
PLANTE:
The facts: Obama had not mentioned Palin. He was focused on the central
argument of his campaign -- that McCain's policies would be no different
than President Bush's.
OBAMA:
That's just calling some -- the same thing -- something different. But
you know, you can't -- you know, you can put lipstick on a pig; it's still
a pig.
PLANTE:
The colorfully descriptive phrase is often used by politicians, including John
McCain, here talking about the health-care plan of another female politician,
Hillary Clinton.
McCAIN:
I think they put some lipstick on the pig, but it's still a pig.
PLANTE:
Even the vice president has used it.
VICE
PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY: You can put all the lipstick you want on a pig, but at
the end of the day, it's still a pig.
PLANTE:
McCain's campaign also released an ad criticizing Obama's education
record, which makes this claim.
ANNOUNCER:
Obama's one accomplishment? Legislation to teach comprehensive sex
education to kindergartners.
PLANTE:
The facts: The bill introduced in the Illinois
legislature never became law. It called for non-mandatory sex education for grades
K-through-12 that was age and developmentally appropriate. For kindergartners,
that included, among other things, how to say no to unwanted sexual
advances.
[end
video clip]
PLANTE:
Obama did vote for the bill in committee, and he says he supports similar laws
in other states, but he said the point was to help parents teach their children
how to deal with sexual predators. Katie?
Published: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:32:02 GMT - Source: Mediamatters.Org - Read the article
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