Toobin...

[George K]

@Copper said in Toobin...:

He will return to cnn

[jon-nyc]

I think there’s a good chance he won’t.

Now’s the time the #metoo accusations will be (re)surfaced.

[Klaus]

I have no idea who this guy is or where he stands politically. The reactions to this incident seem to be divided along the usual political lines, which is a little strange. I for one think there's no reason to fire or ban him. He made a stupid mistake, but he didn't do anything illegal. He was already punished enough by the ridicule.

[George K]

People have been fired for less. Much less.

[Jolly]

Tremendously less.

[jon-nyc]

Klaus you’re correct on all fronts. I don’t think he should lose his roles, I just think he probably will.

[George K]

@Klaus said in Toobin...:

The reactions to this incident seem to be divided along the usual political lines

I haven't heard any people on the left come to his defense.

[Mik]

I can't imagine anything they could do to him that's worse than it already is. But his career willl likely be rearranged.

[George K]

@Mik said in Toobin...:

his career willl likely be rearranged.

Iowahawk agrees:

[George K]

[George K]

From Lifehacker: How to Not Masturbate During a Zoom Call

[George K]

[Mik]

Gripping story.

[George K]

@Mik said in Toobin...:

Gripping story.

It was brand-spanking new a few hours ago.

[Copper]

The New Yorker isn't the only game in town, he could still do expository writing elsewhere.

[jon-nyc]

@George-K said in Toobin...:

@Mik said in Toobin...:

Gripping story.

It was brand-spanking new a few hours ago.

And freshly waxed.

[jon-nyc]

I think we’ve beaten this story to death.

[Jolly]

Yes, at this point it's rather limp...

[George K]

CNN's chief legal analyst returned to national television on Thursday, eight months after masturbating on a New Yorker Zoom conference call that included several female colleagues who had to witness it.

Unlike the New Yorker, which promptly fired Jeffrey Toobin after the incident, CNN curiously held out in doing the same. And for about the past 250 days, the network continued to pay Toobin his lucrative salary before putting him back on air. Suspension without pay would be one thing, but CNN’s brass made sure they had Toobin's back. For his part, Toobin called the New Yorker firing "excessive." Talk about hubris.

"Many of us have really missed having your legal analysis to guide us on our programs, so let me be the first to welcome you back," CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota – who was tasked with conducting this cringeworthy interview – told Toobin during his first return to the air.

"I hope to be a better person off-camera as well as on-camera," Toobin replied.

Earlier in the interview, Toobin played the victim, insisting he didn't know other people could see him on the infamous Zoom call. "I wouldn’t exactly say 'in my defense,' because nothing is really in my defense, I didn’t think I was on the call. I didn’t think other people could see me,” he said.

“You thought that you had turned off your camera?” Camerota asked.

“Correct," Toobin responded. "I thought that I had turned off the Zoom call. Now that is not a defense. This was deeply moronic and indefensible. But that is part of the story.”

[Jolly]

Well, it's not like anybody is watching...