Poll of the Day > CNN gives jerkoff legal analyst his job back

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2021/06/10/jeffrey-toobin-apologizes-transgression-zoom-cnn-return/7641703002/

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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Jerkoff indeed LOL

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I'm not familiar with this incident. Did he intentionally jerk off in front of them? Or was it an accidental thing where he thought he was no longer connected? Or didn't realize the meeting had started and was trying to rub one out real quick before?


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Ya blew it!

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Bugmeat posted...

I'm not familiar with this incident. Did he intentionally jerk off in front of them? Or was it an accidental thing where he thought he was no longer connected? Or didn't realize the meeting had started and was trying to rub one out real quick before?

The 2nd.
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Bugmeat posted...

I'm not familiar with this incident. Did he intentionally jerk off in front of them? Or was it an accidental thing where he thought he was no longer connected? Or didn't realize the meeting had started and was trying to rub one out real quick before?

His defense was that he didn't realize his camera was on while he was doing it, which really isn't much of a defense. It's not like he didn't realize the meeting was going on, he just chose to do it during the meeting either to fill some sick fetish or because he didn't care. Honestly, who knows how many other meetings he might have done this and not been caught?


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Zeus posted...

His defense was that he didn't realize his camera was on while he was doing it, which really isn't much of a defense. It's not like he didn't realize the meeting was going on, he just chose to do it during the meeting either to fill some sick fetish or because he didn't care. Honestly, who knows how many other meetings he might have done this and not been caught?

Hera knows.

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Zeus posted...

His defense was that he didn't realize his camera was on while he was doing it, which really isn't much of a defense. It's not like he didn't realize the meeting was going on, he just chose to do it during the meeting either to fill some sick fetish or because he didn't care. Honestly, who knows how many other meetings he might have done this and not been caught?

Wouldn't surprise me. There's been this new "genre" going for a while now of people doing sexy things deliberately while on important Zoom calls and recording it for an audience. And I always figured the ones actively making "content" from it are only a fraction of the total doing it, the rest just don't have a record unless they slip up and get caught like this.

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can't imagine caring about this since I don't let me brain rot with cable news

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I didn't know about this and have no desire to seek out the video of it, but I'm just curious how bad this was. Was only his top half visible and he was making funny faces/sounds, or...was everything on display?

Cause...yikes. Either way but especially the latter, I'd NEVER want to work in a highly visible job like that ever again, I'd want to just crawl into obscurity and hope people all forget about me.

It was a mistake, I'm fine w/ him getting a 2nd chance if he wants it. Seriously though, dude... Learn to physically cover your webcam lens anytime you're not using it. Never know when you're actually being recorded, despite what the software might claim. I keep a piece of cardboard taped over mine...

Toobin recently turned 61. Imagine still feeling it between the knees at that age, let alone so badly that he's like "Nope, I have to do it. I cannot wait."

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Maybe the talk of bringing that guy back will get CNNs 52% ratings drop back.. or maybe they're doing it because no one will notice :)

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