I mean I can’t condone Letterman cheating on his wife, but the producer was out of line. And it’s obvious he wasn’t concerned about it from a moral standpoint. If that had been the case, he should have found a more descreet, and less self serving way to bust Letterman. So screw him. The guy was probably making millions, and then he tries to black mail his own star? And as I said I know this is ancient history. But I was appalled by it.

Blackmailers are trying to profit off the forced failings of others. Threatening to make an affair public is, in my opinion, much worse than the people involved in the affair.

The worst person in the whole Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky mess was Linda Tripp.

I think Mrs Letterman would say David was the bigger one.
I say both equally the same.
For different reasons, but same.

I agree with @zenvelo. Blackmailers are lowlifes, jackals and hyenas scoring off the stink of others’ weakness. It’s no credit or praise to the victim, who clearly deserves some consequence, but the consequence ought not to be a foul profit to an unscrupulous extortionist.

Both are slimeball acts.

Blackmail is a crime whether it is true or false. With that, I will say the Blackmailer is the bigger slime.

@Forever_Free That is pretty much the same view that I have.

I kinda look at it as, what I call the rule of First. If someone breaks into your house and injures themselves while in there, they shouldn’t be allowed to sue for damages. The law of First says that if he hadn’t broken the law FIRST, he couldn’t have been hurt in the house. In the case of Letterman, if he hadn’t had the affair FIRST, there would be nothing to blackmail him about. Not condoning the blackmailer…it was slimy too, but I have to say he set himself up for anything and everything that might come his way.

Slimeball award winners in their own categories.