Toobin...

[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...

[xenon]

I’m assuming it was truly accidental with Toobin. The punishment is the embarrassment itself.

I don’t think the New Yorker should have fired him. It’s kinda like walking out of the washroom with your fly open and your junk flops out.

Also - isn’t the New Yorker supposed to be super sex positive?

[Loki]

If you want your job back apologize and hope for the best.

[Mik]

I don’t care a whit for the truth. The story is just too good.

[Loki]

@mik said in Toobin...:

I don’t care a whit for the truth. The story is just too good.

Great point.

[Copper]

He represents the best of cnn, they can’t just let him go

[LuFins Dad]

Well, most CNN panels and segments are giant circle jerks anyway…

[Mik]

Its just too good. Even his name is ridiculous.

[Catseye3]

@mik said in Toobin...:

Its just too good. Even his name is ridiculous.

It might even make it into everyday usage. Corporate employee: "Did you hear what happened to Hank? He got toobined."

[George K]

Iowahawk predicted this:

[Mik]

@catseye3 said in Toobin...:

@mik said in Toobin...:

Its just too good. Even his name is ridiculous.

It might even make it into everyday usage. Corporate employee: "Did you hear what happened to Hank? He got toobined."

Or "He got caught Toobin"