Disgraced CNN chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin Thursday made an abrupt and unannounced return to the cable network, and acknowledged masturbating while on a Zoom call with colleagues from The New Yorker last year.
Toobin, 61, who became the butt of jokes by late-night comics after the October incident and was fired a month later by The New Yorker, where he was a staff writer, apologized for his actions in a segment with CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota, who described the incident in which Toobin "was caught masturbating on camera."
"I'm trying now to say how sorry I am, sincerely. Above all, I am sorry to my wife and to my family, but I'm also sorry to the people on the Zoom call. I'm sorry to my former colleagues at The New Yorker. I'm sorry to my current, fortunately, still colleagues at CNN. And I'm sorry to the people who read my work and watched me on CNN who thought I was a better person than this," said Toobin, seated next to Camerota at he CNN anchor desk. "I've got a lot to rebuild, but I feel very privileged and very lucky that I'm going to be able to try to do that."
CNN confirmed Toobin's reinstatement as chief legal analyst but made no further comment. The New Yorker declined comment.
Granted, I *guess* in CNN's defense, he did this to his colleagues at the New Yorker rather than anybody at CNN, but still... wtf, CNN? Are there so few legal analysts out there that you have to go with a guy who couldn't wait until he got off a Zoom call to... well...
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(/)(/)|-| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist.