Posted on 08/15/2022 3:28:06 PM PDT by conservative98
Longtime CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin announced his split with the network late Friday afternoon, only 14 months after CNN welcomed him back following the infamous Zoom incident that tarnished his reputation and embarrassed the network.
While Toobin announced that he "decided" to leave CNN, many feel he wasn’t exactly given a choice considering new CNN CEO Chris Licht is thought to be attempting to "tamp down spectacle" and restore the network’s credibility. If anyone brought spectacle to CNN, it was Toobin.
The legal pundit was famously caught masturbating during a 2020 Zoom meeting with his New Yorker colleagues and subsequently fired by the magazine. CNN, however, did not dismiss him and granted him a lengthy leave of absence when the network was still controlled by former president Jeff Zucker – who was forced out himself earlier this year.
A longtime media industry insider with ties to CNN doesn’t believe the Friday news-dump announcement was Toobin’s decision.
"Jeffrey Toobin was almost certainly pushed out," the industry insider told Fox News Digital.
"You can’t have someone on air like that representing you and only someone with Jeff Zucker’s power— which Chris Licht doesn’t have— could have protected him," the insider continued. "Look for many, many more cuts to come. CNN is notoriously bloated compared to Fox and MSNBC and Licht could probably halve its size with no noticeable change on air."
A current CNN insider agreed that more cuts are looming.
"They’re going to cut back on [contributors] I think. Toobin clearly was first on the list..
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When you pull it out you get pushed out.
So CNN told Jeffrey Toobin to beat it.
“ new CNN CEO Chris Licht is thought to be attempting to “tamp down spectacle” and restore the network’s credibility”
Bahahahaha. Let me know when that happens he’ll freezes over pigs fly and libtards become honest
Does anyone know anything about Don Lemon’s sexual assault civil suit?
He needs to get ahold of himself.
Let’s all remember what he was looking at while pleasuring himself on that call. It was a map projecting when Texas might turn blue. He’s a very sick person.
Maybe he was jerked..err...out.
Ok but why now? He got caught doing a pee wee how long ago?
Toobout 100% for real now I guess?
Why now?
Because that is the kind of screw-up you never live down.
There must be something new we don’t know about.
The CNN building has “14 floors above ground.”
Toobin is praying to his pagan ceramic pseudo gods he will be
“certainly pushed out” at a lower floor. So far brass made no promises to him.
Toobin: Why should I get singled out for something Biden does all the time? Just being friendly. Not my fault they place those kids' parks so close to the CNN building.
Biden: Uh, Jill, speaking of dump could you run and get me a Depends?
Jeff will always be a Jerk Off first and a suck ass pundit and Lawyer second.
We’ll deserved. Hope his family is proud.
Word on Jeffrey Toobsteak is that pushing in or out doesn't change the picture.
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