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Inside the explosive meeting with CNN stars angry over Jeff Zucker's resignation: Jake Tapper called Chris Cuomo a 'terrorist', Jim Acosta said network would now become 'Fox News Light' and Kaitlan Collins unleashed fury on WarnerMedia CEO
Daily Mail ^ | February 4, 2022 | Natasha Anderson and Jennifer Smith

Posted on 02/04/2022 9:20:23 AM PST by billorites

CNN's top talents slammed the top boss of the network's parent company over the ousting of president Jeff Zucker during an explosive meeting Wednesday and demanded to know whether or not he'd consulted anyone in the decision.

Anchor Jake Tapper demanded WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar address the 'perception' that Zucker lost his job by refusing to pay 'terrorist' Chris Cuomo the $18million remaining on his contract.

'The perception that Chris Cuomo gets fired by CNN. Chris Cuomo hires a high-powered lawyer who has a scorched-earth policy, who then makes it very clear to the world that unless Jeff gives Chris Cuomo his money, they're going to blow the place up,' Tapper said, according to an audio recording of the meeting leaked by Business Insider.

Zucker was cast out of the company with immediate effect on Wednesday after bosses at WarnerMedia and AT&T, which owns WarnerMedia, were told of the affair by Chris Cuomo's lawyers.

He wanted to keep his job until AT&T's $43billion deal with Discovery was completed, but Kilar - with whom Zucker has had a frosty relationship before - insisted that he resign immediately.

The affair surfaced as part of the investigation into whether or not Chris Cuomo, who Zucker fired in December, should be paid the $18million left on his contract. He insists he is entitled to it but Zucker was refusing to pay up, citing his inappropriate work relationship with his brother as cause for the firing.

Cuomo, determined to get his money, is still threatening a lawsuit against the network that is rooted in allegations Gollust and Zucker were inappropriately close with his brother Andrew as well.

To stave off that lawsuit - and more potential scandal - CNN is now reportedly considering giving him half - $9million.

It has also been claimed that...

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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Well, look at him!


21 posted on 02/04/2022 9:36:42 AM PST by BozoTexino (RIP GOP)
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To: billorites

When do they all quit and start their own company?


22 posted on 02/04/2022 9:36:54 AM PST by SaxxonWoods ("If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself." - Minquass)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Blazing Saddles.


23 posted on 02/04/2022 9:36:57 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: billorites

Maybe they should just go ahead and let it all out. Expose the whole pit of depravity at cnn. Let the viewers decide if cnn is the moral superior they claim to be.


24 posted on 02/04/2022 9:37:36 AM PST by robel
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To: dfwgator

Thanks. How could I have forgotten?


25 posted on 02/04/2022 9:37:39 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If truckers quit their jobs, society would collapse. If politicians quit their jobs...HALLELUJAH!)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Allison is pushing 50 years old. She needs to give up the mini skirts and cover up her sagging neckline.


26 posted on 02/04/2022 9:41:35 AM PST by NautiNurse (Who will portray Alec Baldwin in the SNL skit? )
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To: billorites

Got it now. Scorched earth. Cuomo rained fire.


27 posted on 02/04/2022 9:42:02 AM PST by bethelgrad
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To: billorites

CNN’s “talent” is petrified that Discovery will clean house and they’ll all be out of jobs. Zucker was their protection. Now he’s gone. Boo hoo.


28 posted on 02/04/2022 9:42:04 AM PST by DeplorablePaul (s)
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To: billorites

That was good. Tucker really “handing’ it out.


29 posted on 02/04/2022 9:42:51 AM PST by Luke21
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To: dfwgator

30 posted on 02/04/2022 9:42:52 AM PST by Bratch
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To: billorites

CNN has lost 90% of the viewership with these “stars”. Fire all of them and start over. Othwise CNN will remain the most laughed at name in news


31 posted on 02/04/2022 9:46:47 AM PST by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: NautiNurse
You can't mean this can you?


32 posted on 02/04/2022 9:47:44 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (Let's go Brandon)
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To: billorites

The new boss should tell Tapper to shut the hell up or he is next.
Then look the rest of them in the eye and tell them, the door is over there, ain’t no one going to stop you from walking through it.
Then put a stack of Voluntary Termination Forms on the table and say whoever wants one, take one on your way out, meetings over, then walk out.


33 posted on 02/04/2022 9:48:32 AM PST by TexasM1A
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To: billorites

What fun. CNN “stars” defend a guy who likely orchestrated Gov. Cuomo’s covid show, brother Chris’s smoke job, failed to fire the masterbater Toobin, probably knew of the child molesters predalations, ignore Don Lemone’s sexual predations, and God knows what else. What a freakin’ den of slime.

Given the culture at CNN, I suspect this thought FTA explains it all:

“It has also been claimed that a top shareholder at Discovery, Trump-donor John Malone, insisted on Zucker’s departure.

Malone has made no secret of his disdain for how left-wing CNN has become and how he wanted to ‘restore’ it to its old style of journalism before Discovery inherited it.”


34 posted on 02/04/2022 9:49:08 AM PST by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'm going ahead.)
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To: billorites
Jake The Little Female Dog is making demands.

STFU, Democrat front hole.

35 posted on 02/04/2022 9:50:45 AM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: dfwgator

They need to require handguns on site for all CNN staff—and then let the circular firing squad begin!


36 posted on 02/04/2022 9:55:51 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: dfwgator

Cue the Mancini Music




The Epic Pie Fight From "The Great Race".

37 posted on 02/04/2022 9:56:21 AM PST by left that other site (A Man Without Self-Control is like a City Broken Into and Left Without Walls (Proverbs 25:28))
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To: billorites
CNN is now reportedly considering giving him half - $9million.

Fredo is not worth 9 cents.

38 posted on 02/04/2022 9:57:41 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

If they have “top level” talent, you would hate to see the “low level” talent aka Brian Stelter among others.


39 posted on 02/04/2022 10:00:00 AM PST by srmanuel (`)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
I choked on the headline and first line. CNN has “top talents” and “stars”? LOL. Yeah, right.

It is amusing. I don't believe I ever ran into someone who considers any of those turkeys to be "stars."

Somewhere in America, just before bedtime, some people go over to the row of framed CNN star pictures on the wall and kiss each one goodnight. Like teenage girls used to do for Rock Hudson, Cary Grant and Elvis.

40 posted on 02/04/2022 10:00:19 AM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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