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CNN Couldn’t Fire Jeffrey Toobin for One Simple Reason
Townhall.com ^ | June 17, 2021 | Derek Hunter

Posted on 06/17/2021 4:12:14 AM PDT by Kaslin

It really takes some balls to, er, I mean guts, to show your face again after being caught on a company Zoom call pleasuring yourself. Most people wouldn’t do it, but then most people wouldn’t feel the need to drop trou in the middle of a work event and take care of business, then actually do it in that same room. If people did, they’d likely be smart enough to leave the room with the camera attached to the computer on which they’d just been talking to everyone they work with only moments before the frisky coffee break. Then again, most people aren't CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin.

On the list of things that are obvious firing offenses, going to town on one’s self in front of colleagues, either in person or on a video chat is not on any list. Not because employers encourage it, but because it’s so, well, obvious. No one needs to write down “Don’t play with yourself during work meetings, even in breaks” because who would do that?

Jeffrey Toobin would do that, it turns out. (For the record, it was already widely known that Toobin is a bad person. He had an affair with the daughter of a colleague at CNN, got her pregnant, tried to bully her into getting an abortion, denied paternity, only changing his tune when DNA left him no choice, all of which embarrassed his wife beyond anything…until that Zoom call.)

What would normally embarrass someone into moving to a remote cave somewhere just a few years ago, is now just one of those things that happened. While he was fired from his job at the New Yorker magazine, the company that was hosting the Zoom call and whose employees were subjected to the visual, CNN simply suspended him for a while.

Even though we live in a world where accusations are enough to be people fired from every job they hold, even if the accusations are from another job or an old job, CNN kept Toobin because to fire him for this obvious fireable offence would be to impose some level of standards on employment at CNN. And standards, no matter how low, are not something anyone at CNN can meet.

In other words, if they enforced a standard against Toobin, they’d pretty much have to fire everyone at the network too. Once you have standards people have to meet them.

Chris Cuomo couldn’t meet any standards. As a self-proclaimed “journalist,” Cuomo played footsie with his brother, New York Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo, in interview after interview while his brother was ordering senior citizens to their deaths in nursing homes. That inconvenient fact simply never came up in between giant Q-Tip jokes and calling Andrew “The Luv Gov.”

That last part is ironic since 9 women, all liberals, accused Governor Cuomo of sexual harassment and/or assault. Seems not everyone wanted the “luv” from the Gov. And, famously, Chris the “journalist” helped his brother develop and implement a strategy to survive the scandal, urging his brother to attack the women. A far cry from CNN’s embrace of “believe all women” and “Me Too” just a few years earlier.

Chris Cuomo should have been fired. But because of CNN’s strict “We have no standards” policy, he wasn’t even suspended.

The stories of CNN employees belching out Democratic National Committee talking points, using anonymous sources that later prove to be wrong, or simply embarrassing themselves and their employer are legion.

Network face Jake Tapper proudly ranted about how he’s refused to have anyone who didn’t vote to certify the Electors in the Electoral College on his show, ever. Then a bunch of Republicans who voted against certification began tweeting screen captures of emails from Tapper’s producers nearly begging them to come on the show. Tapper tossed his staff over the cliff and moved on, no consequences.

CNN employs a Weeble named Brian Stelter spends his time critiquing Fox News, uncritically echoing whatever is fed to him by left-wing activists while appointing himself the arbiter of what constitutes journalism. Not only does his show rate lower than the Close-Ups Of Infected Wounds channel, he regularly embarrasses himself with his selectivity. CNN clearly doesn’t even enforce the appearance clause of their contract with him.

If CNN were to have fired Jeffrey Toobin because he violated their standards it would be an admission that they have standards, then the whole house of cards for the Atlanta-based Cable News Network would collapse.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: brianstelter; chriscuomo; cnn; jaketapper; jeffreytobin; restingjakeface
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1 posted on 06/17/2021 4:12:14 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
If CNN were to have fired Jeffrey Toobin because he violated their standards it would be an admission that they have standards, then the whole house of cards for the Atlanta-based Cable News Network would collapse.

Speaking of, speaking truth to power ...

Older folks remember when we didn't want to sin, because it's sin, and there are consequences for sin.

Modern America is about to learn that lesson all over again.

2 posted on 06/17/2021 4:19:38 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: Kaslin

“CNN Couldn’t Fire Jeffrey Toobin for One Simple Reason...”

Because they are all a bunch of jagoffs.😎


3 posted on 06/17/2021 4:20:11 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Kaslin

They didn’t want to be a jerk?


4 posted on 06/17/2021 4:23:20 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (The veil of civilization is only 9 meals thick. )
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To: Kaslin

“...after being caught on a company Zoom call pleasuring yourself...”

At least he didn’t do it in the middle of an in-person staff meeting....although I wouldn’t put that past democrats.


5 posted on 06/17/2021 4:23:23 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Kaslin
CNN kept Toobin because to fire him for this obvious fireable offence would be to impose some level of standards on employment at CNN.

Winner, winner, chicken dinner.

6 posted on 06/17/2021 4:24:36 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Kaslin

They didn’t want to rub him the wrong way?


7 posted on 06/17/2021 4:24:52 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (The veil of civilization is only 9 meals thick. )
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To: Kaslin

CNN

Consensual National Necrophilia

By the way, Canada’s CBC is a repeater station for CNN. The leftist whackos at CBC like the Toobular Transitions.

You can hear their Zoom Call activity on their open mikes even thoough the screen in blank.

Like their news service, its just onanismic drama. One is equated wit the other. Thats why their ratings are so low.

They are “dead man wanking.”


8 posted on 06/17/2021 4:25:35 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: Kaslin

I’m still unclear how/why Toobin isn’t in jail. Is indecent exposure not a thing anymore?

That we’re even having a discussion about Toobin’s presence in the media anywhere simply underscores how hopelessly broken society is today, particularly the part of the society that is effectively controlled by the media.


9 posted on 06/17/2021 4:28:13 AM PDT by ScubaDiver (Reddit refugee.)
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To: Kaslin

It’s like he had his hands gripping around their neck ready to choke them. The little squirt.


10 posted on 06/17/2021 4:30:16 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Whatever doesn’t kill you will make you stronger. Except bears. Bears will definitely kill you.h)
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To: Kaslin

Is that wrong?

11 posted on 06/17/2021 4:30:47 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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To: Kaslin

Jeffrey Toobin must have some serious dirt on executives at CNN and ATT.


12 posted on 06/17/2021 4:31:13 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Kaslin

Well written about trash talking self-loathing CNN.


13 posted on 06/17/2021 4:31:18 AM PDT by existentially_kuffer
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To: Kaslin

14 posted on 06/17/2021 4:34:56 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Kaslin
For the record, it was already widely known that Toobin is a bad person. He had an affair with the daughter of a colleague at CNN, got her pregnant, tried to bully her into getting an abortion, denied paternity

Where did I read that before...

Oh, yeah... I wrote it three days ago!


Toobin obviously has deeper problems than the LAAP-dog media are willing to admit.

They are focusing on his most recent exposure scandal, but are ignoring how he had several affairs, impregnated a coworker's daughter, then tried to bully her into getting an abortion, and finally denied being the father.


Who says they don't all read FR?

-PJ

15 posted on 06/17/2021 4:36:14 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (* LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Political Junkie Too; governsleastgovernsbest

Congratucasualadulations! Yes, it isn’t attributed, but ...hey!

So, ABCNNBCBS is now supposed to have “standards” ? To be enforcing standards? Yet my social media feeds (Quora, Reddit, YouthTube, Twitter, Facebook) keep telling me that Faux News is so stupid and out-of-touch!

/sarchasm - That gaping whole between a liberal and reality


16 posted on 06/17/2021 5:00:15 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: Kaslin
“...after being caught on a company Zoom call pleasuring yourself...”

From now and forever, known as 'toobin'.

17 posted on 06/17/2021 5:00:23 AM PDT by chief lee runamok (Anti Socialist Derelict at Large)
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To: Political Junkie Too
I won’t believe he tried to bully the daughter of a colleague into an abortion. That’s like saying he knocked up a younger woman of a pal and she actually wants to be the mother of married Jeffrey Toobin’s children.

So who’s the sick one in that “relationship”?

18 posted on 06/17/2021 5:13:46 AM PDT by atc23
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To: Kaslin

The left doesn’t see anything wrong with what tooobin did. The left wants all standards of right/wrong regarding sex eliminated.

Except when it’s a Republican White male who says “You look nice” to a female employee. Then he is fired.


19 posted on 06/17/2021 5:19:31 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The government is the biggest criminal of them all.)
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To: Kaslin

I dunno. Tubin’ is really right where he belongs.


20 posted on 06/17/2021 5:33:56 AM PDT by Spok (There are many more things that frighten us than can cause us harm.)
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