Okay, guys, you won't see me do this often, but you have to watch this clip from CNN. Yes, I actually said it.
The Communist News Network, you gotta watch this clip.
They brought back Jeffrey Toobin seven months after he got caught doing a little something-something on a Zoom call.
Now, his defense, he thought the Zoom...
Video was off, which made it okay apparently to masturbate while in a meeting with your work colleagues.
This is CNN, folks.
Watch this. I guess I'll recap.
I'll do the honors. Help yourself.
Okay. In October, you were on a Zoom call with your colleagues from the New Yorker magazine.
Everyone took a break for several minutes, during which time you were caught masturbating on camera.
You were subsequently fired from that job after 27 years of working there.
And you, since then, have been on leave from CNN. Do I have all that right?
You got it all right.
Sad to say. Okay, so let's start there.
To quote Jay Leno, what the hell were you thinking?
Well, obviously I wasn't thinking very well or very much and it was something that was inexplicable to me.
I think one point, I wouldn't exactly say in my defense because nothing is really in my defense, I didn't think I was on the call.
I didn't think other people could see me.
You thought that you had turned off your camera?
Correct. I thought that I had turned off the Zoom call.
Now, that's not a defense.
This was deeply moronic and indefensible.
But, I mean, that is part of the story.
And, you know, I have spent the seven subsequent months, miserable months in my life, I can certainly Confess.
Trying to be a better person.
I mean, in therapy, trying to do some public service, working in a food bank, which I certainly am going to continue to do, working on a new book.
Well, guys, I'm glad he had seven months to think about it.
He's working at a food kitchen to make him realize that maybe, maybe playing with yourself while at work on a Zoom call, whether the video is on or off, is in fact wrong.
Probably not a great idea.
I mean, you know, during the lockdown, Jeffrey, wasn't there plenty of other time throughout the day where you weren't on a Zoom call where you could take care of yourself?
I mean, I would think that you'd be able to make some time.
Between CNN and The New Yorker, you're not that busy, okay?
You guys put out a lot of garbage.
It doesn't take much to come up with this crap.
So, I think you'd be able to do it a little bit better.
I think you'd be able to hold off just a few minutes till that Zoom call ended, but I'm glad you're figuring it out.
I'm glad you're realizing now that it was wrong to not just hold off for a couple minutes for the Zoom call to end, that you could just turn off the cameras and listen to your coworkers as you pleasure yourself.
And I hope...
I hope that they see this and just have that visual of what you were doing while listening to their voices, trying to get, I assume, create whatever propaganda CNN is going to put up next on while you're doing that.
Because I'm not sure that's something that I could ever get out of my mind.
That'd be a swing thought that would haunt me for the rest of my life if I was your coworkers.
And I surely hope they don't think about that each and every time you're on the air, buddy.
Keep up the good work.
We need more like you in this business.
It makes everyone else realize how big a clowns the media truly is.