The hypocrisy masks keep falling off along with the "exceptions" allowed for the "exceptional"!
CNN anchor Brian Stelter is mocked for calling Zoom pervert Jeffrey Toobin's online masturbation scandal an 'accident' as it emerges network may NOT fire legal analyst
CNN correspondent Brian Stelter has been mocked for describing Jeffrey Toobin's online masturbation scandal as an 'accident' - as it emerged the shamed contributor may keep his job at the network.
On Monday, it emerged that 60-year-old Toobin - who is a CNN legal analyst - recently pleasured himself while on a Zoom video call with staffers from the New Yorker magazine.
The following day, Stelter addressed the scandal surrounding his cable news colleague, writing on Twitter: 'Jeffrey Toobin has been sidelined at a pivotal moment in the run-up to the presidential election. The reason: He exposed himself during a Zoom call with New Yorker colleagues in what he says was an accident.'
Stelter's post was immediately met with derision from fellow Twitter users who accused him of downplaying the egregiousness of Toobin's behavior.
'I've never 'accidentally' masturbated in any situation and I'd guess that goes for 99.99 percent of people. What was accidental about it, that he was caught?' one replied to Stelter.
Another wrote: '"I believed I was not visible on Zoom" is a lot like "I didn't know there were cameras in the room where I exposed myself to the victim". He was in a Zoom meeting with women on company time and couldn't keep it in his pants? This is not just some embarrassing workplace mix-up.'
A third person chimed in: 'Toobin was in a work situation. His behavior was completely inappropriate and borders on predatory. He needs to be more than side-lined. He should be fired.'
Toobin has been suspended from the New Yorker magazine - where has worked for 25 years.
Additionally, he is 'taking time off' from CNN, where he has also worked as a contributor since 2002.
But while some say he should be fired from his prominent on-air role, well-placed sources say he will 'probably' return to CNN once the scandal blows over.
'He is one of the biggest faces on the network,' one CNN insider told
Fox News on Tuesday.
They added that Toobin was 'too valuable of a commodity' and 'good on TV'.
However, the source conceded that the incident had been 'humiliating' for CNN.
A second source from the cable news network also stated that Toobin's previous scandals could force them to sever ties with the star.
'If this was an isolated incident, it would be a different story,' the anonymous person Fox News.
Toobin has previously been the subject of a high-profile paternity suit.
The CNN pundit has been married to wife Amy McIntosh for 34 years, and the pair share two daughters. However, that didn't stop him from having a decade-long on-off affair with younger lawyer Casey Greenfield.
Greenfield got pregnant in 2008 and Toobin immediately questioned whether he was the parent, balking at taking a paternity test.
When she refused his money for an abortion, he made a counteroffer to 'swap' pregnancies — if she agreed to terminate her pregnancy he would pay for her to have a child with a sperm donor.
But Greenfield, who was 35 at the time, decided to go ahead and have the baby boy, whom she called Rory. On the day she gave birth she emailed Toobin, inviting him to meet his son. He didn't reply.
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The Zoom call was for an 'election simulation' — so the magazine could work out many different outcomes of the upcoming vote. Toobin was playing the role of the courts while colleagues including Jane Mayer, Evan Osnos, Jelani Cobb and Sue Halpern played political parties and attorneys.
The meeting broke off briefly but Toobin's camera kept rolling, two unidentified staffers say. He seemed to be on a second Zoom call when the break was over and people started returning to the video meeting room.
They say Toobin lowered his camera and he was seen touching his penis.
In a brief statement, Toobin said on Monday: 'I made an embarrassingly stupid mistake, believing I was off-camera.
Yikes! This "accident" could have happened live on election night!
So yeah, Trump and anyone attached to him, his campaign, his family have been slandered and libeled relentlessly, whereas egregious behavior coming from the opposition - no matter how terrible - barely rates any consequence. You would think all of this more and more blatant double standard would start to sink in and people would realize what's really going on.
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