Lanny Davis
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233 appearances
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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Literally, a reporter wrote that, well, he must have done something wrong if he was willing to pay that amount of money.
It's a very valid question, but it's the conclusions that people are speculating about that I take strong exception to.
If you go to anyone who's been blackmailed, blackmail is about taking advantage and leveraging embarrassment or something that is a private act that somebody doesn't want to be splashed all over the media.
Sometimes the option, which is a painful option, when you're a subject of blackmail, that's no fun.
is to pay and pray.
That's what happens to people who are blackmailed.
They have to make the tough choice rather than letting it go out into the public and take care of it the way I am right here in the public and the way Shannon Sharpe bravely did himself on Instagram.
But that's the definition of blackmail.
The shock that he should say, you know, I'm willing to pay a lot of money to avoid embarrassment to my family.
Why is that a shock?
It has nothing to do with admitting wrongdoing.
So you get my point, Don.
May I respond to that?
Yeah.
There is a certain mental lapse, imperfection in the human species.
And I think it applies to the male gender more than to the female gender.
But both genders have human weaknesses.
One of the weaknesses does involve sexual activity.
And he certainly has stepped up and expressed his regret at the distress he's caused his fans, his family,
all of his colleagues at ESPN, he knows that he made some bad judgments.
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