Just when you thought CNN couldn't sink any lower (technically they can't in Cable News ratings but they sure can when it comes to content), they welcome back legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin. If you recall, Toobin was the guy who....uh...."interrogated his little witness" on a Zoom call while thinking his camera was turned off (while he was turned on apparently).
On his first day back on the job, Toobin was interviewed by CNN Newsroom host Alisyn Camerota. To say the beginning of Toobin's appearance was cringe inducing is the equivalent of saying Joseph Merrick had a slight acne problem.
This Jeffrey Toobin “welcome back” clip, in its entirety, sets cringe records at levels I did not know existed pic.twitter.com/mTuTS15amo
— Ben Williamson (@_WilliamsonBen) June 10, 2021
Is there really such a dearth of quality legal analysts that CNN pined for Toobin to be back on their airwaves? Is this move supposed to help them emerge from the basement of TV ratings? Is Toobin privy to some incriminating tale about CNN President Jeff Zucker and thus is blackmailing him? Outside of all that, I'm at a loss why a network which practically makes its living questioning the morals of Fox News hosts would go this route.
Oh, and why was Ms. Camerota forced to conduct this interview? For all the indignance the CNN ilk showed over the #MeToo movement, having one of their prominent female anchors put through that bizarre sequence was quite degrading. As such, former Fox News and NBC personality Megyn Kelly hit on a key observation.
There is not a woman alive who could have done anything close to what Jeffrey Toobin did (not that one would) and kept her job. What a disgusting,
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) June 10, 2021
incestuous boys’ club. So damned tired of it.
It has been reported that Zucker's rationale for bringing back Toobin was that he's a talented legal analyst and thus doesn't want to see his career ended over one horrible mistake. If only Zucker's network had used similar discretion when discussing a 16-year old kid smirking at a Native American man, they likely wouldn't have had to pay Nick Sandmann a boatload of money.
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