This is CNN.
Twitter had a meltdown after disgraced CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin made his first on-air appearance after he was fired from the New Yorker over his Zoom masturbation scandal last fall.
“At least @CNN is honest now about having no journalistic standards whatsoever. Such honesty must be freeing!” National Review contributor Pradheep J. Shanker reacted.
“This is garbage,” Meghan McCain of “The View” slammed the network. “Why does the media protect these old white male dinosaurs in this industry? No woman on PLANET EARTH would be welcomed back on network tv after being caught masturbating in front of her colleagues.”
“Never thought I’d see a network effort to rehabilitate a guy caught yanking it in front of female colleagues, but ‘this is CNN,’” radio host Dana Loesch tweeted.
“Awkward doesn’t quite cover this interview,” Insider media correspondent Claire Atkinson wrote.
“This man must’ve had some dirt on somebody with power ’cause this is just beyond,” former Splinter News journalist Jorge Rivas asserted.
“Presumably, Laura Coates will get moved to the back burner to create airtime for Toobin,” New York Times reporter Katie Rosman predicted about the status of CNN’s other senior legal analyst.
……Other critics highlighted that CNN is the same network that let its star liberal anchor Chris Cuomo off the hook after it was revealed that he had been advising his brother, Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, amid his sexual misconduct scandal but let go of its Republican contributor Rick Santorum for remarks he made about Native Americans.
“You can jerk off in front of coworkers or help your brother cover up sexual harassment allegations and you’ll be safe knowing that CNN will still not fire you,” Stephen Miller wrote.
“It’s just baffling that Rick Santorum had to go, but Cuomo, after everything he’s done, and Toobin, after what he did, are fine. CNN’s standards are pathetic,” NewsBusters associate editor Scott Whitlock said.
……Tara Reade, the former Senate staffer who came forward last year with a sexual assault allegation against Joe Biden, tore into the liberal network.
Notably, CNN avoided Reade’s claims over an entire month on-air.
I just hate it here.
Watch this bizarre clip w Toobin. @CNN always got the perverts back but you smash survivors of sexual assault when they come forward. Your outlet is misogynistic, xenophobic weaponized arm of the Establishment @TheDemocrats
Hypocrisy & bad taste abounds. https://t.co/zvp0YtuSwe— Tara Reade 🦋 (@ReadeAlexandra) June 10, 2021
Even one of CNN’s own contributors mocked the network’s decision to roll out the red carpet for Toobin.
So yer telling me I could have had this career *and* an OnlyFans.
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) June 10, 2021
……this wasn’t his only sex scandal. Toobin fathered a child in 2009 with Casey Greenfield, the daughter of Toobin’s onetime CNN colleague Jeff Greenfield.
Toobin urged Greenfield to have an abortion and was later taken to court after he denied the child was his. Toobin was forced to take a DNA test which proved that he was the child’s biological father and was ordered to pay child support.
This pervert took a page right out of Hunter Biden’s book of debauchery.
If he worked for Fox News, OANN, or News Max, you know the rest…..