Jeffrey Toobin fired

[melman]

Link to tweet

[regnaD kciN]

1. Look like the magazine owner decided to be a dick about it...

[PJMcK]

2. What a jerk off! (n/t)

[malaise]

5. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

You win the thread.
He must really be sick

[Renew Deal]

35. You know what rhymes with sick?

[malaise]

38. Who turns on a computer, links into a link up

and plays with this dick - that is sick!

[octoberlib]

3. Well, that's no surprise. CNN will probably be next.

[58Sunliner]

4. And having more me time.

[Blue Owl]

6. K&R for "exposure"

[Nevilledog]

7. ...

[klook]

8. All due to a stroke of bad luck!

Well, a few strokes, actually.

[Shermann]

9. Everybody has freaking cameras in their home offices now streaming data to company servers

Does this poor guy really have to fall on his sword because it inadvertently caught a glimpse of his innocent private life?

This was funny the first day maybe.

[cwydro]

14. "Poor guy"...seriously?

He was AT WORK. He deserved to be fired.

But major props for the phrase “fall on his sword!”

[Shermann]

18. I assume he was working from home

Link to the contrary?

Also that pun doesn't really work.

[cwydro]

22. He was on the clock with his coworkers.

If you think there’s anything ok about this, that tells me two things - 1) you’re a male, and 2) you need to learn a bit more about sexual harassment.

How difficult is it to keep it in your pants until the work call is over?

Good for the New Yorker. I hope CNN follows suit.

If this was Tucker Carlson, those defending him here would be turning cartwheels calling for termination. I despise hypocrisy.

[Shermann]

25. OK you convinced me

I was pondering the definition of harassment, which is "aggressive pressure or intimidation". Is that the very best characterization here? Is that what he was going for?

Eh, I don't know, too much like work. Cancel him!

[cwydro]

28. Believe me, having a guy show you his dick, whether he's pulling on it or not is disgusting.

I’d bet just about every woman on DU has experienced this. Every woman I know has. It’s sickening, disgusting, gross, and perverted as hell.

The first time it happened to me, I was with 3 other female playmates in a park near our house. We were all about 8 to 10 years of age.

Then it happened while I was running on a trail at 15.

Once I saw a guy do it in a freaking grocery store parking lot as I was walking to my car. Broad daylight.

But I gotta say, NEVER at work.

You simply have no clue. Buh bye.

[Raine]

40. TOTALLY Agree, so repulsive and disgusting

I had it happen to when I was in a parking lot, guy came up tapped on the window then waved it in front of me! I managed to stay calm and turned the other way then got out of the area as fast as I could.

[MrsCoffee]

23. He was working. There was a zoom meeting in progress.

He was wanking while connected to a work call.

No feeling sorry for him at all. If I'm on that call, I'm suing him for sexual harassment.

[Shermann]

27. Yeah he might have been on a short call doing most of the talking

....with his PANTS DOWN at the time. That's a totally greasy thing to do. F'n bullshit.

OR it may have been one of those two-hour conference calls with fifty people where you are muted the whole time. On those, you are basically a ghost and it's like listening to the radio. Some days you might have a couple of those to sit through. You could even...*gasp*...momentarily forget you are on one when WORKING FROM HOME.

BUT it could have been the first situation. Yeah, it was probably the first. Cancel him!

[mcar]

31. You are really pushing this "cancel culture" nonsense

I always liked Toobin on CNN - he was knowledgeable and funny.

But, he royally fcked up - on camera. It makes no difference if it was a short Zoom or a long Zoom meeting. None whatsoever.

Are you really suggesting that men are such slaves to their dicks that he just had to whip it out during a 2 hour meeting? Really?

That's pretty insulting to the males of the species.

[Shermann]

36. I'm doing more asking than asserting

The only point I'd offer is there seems to be a wide range of possibilities here, from pretty bad to pretty tame. DU doesn't know jack shit about it, and appear to suffer from a failure of imagination here (other than the imaginative plays on words).

[mcar]

37. Apparently The New Yorker does

Cuz they fired him over it.

[Shermann]

39. The New Yorker held out for 23 days before unloading

Just had to go there.

[mcar]

41. Oh boy!

[Hortensis]

43. Well, no need to understand or agree to take a lesson

from Toobin's mistake.

[cwydro]

29. He doesn't get it.

At all.

[Renew Deal]

34. His staff should be probed

For their opinions

[Hortensis]

42. +100, and

[PoliticAverse]

10. "as a Staff Writer" - and in the end the staff did him in. n/t

[Brainfodder]

11. He can now complete his transition to full-time cam modeling?

You aint living that down so soon Mr.!

[Roland99]

12. He was "out"...so now he's OUT!

[Mike Nelson]

13. I think...

... that's a pretty classy announcement. I've joked about Toobin, but will restrain myself & enjoy the other comments.

[Funtatlaguy]

15. The almighty penis brings down yet another.

[Straw Man]

16. That took a while.

I'm surprised he even lasted 24 hours.

[VOX]

17. "I look forward to staying in touch with myself."

What an unspectacular career crash and burn (ouch!).

[underpants]

19. I was quite a fan.

[Beakybird]

20. Unfair!

I heard that someone at the meeting said, "Speak now, or forever hold your peace," and Jeffrey thought they said, "piece."

[honest.abe]

21. Maybe a future porn star.

[Miguelito Loveless]

24. He already has his porn name

[joshcryer]

26. He had a kink for politics.

Stupid, stupid, move tho. Why are so many well spoken dudes like him pervs?

[irisblue]

32. Patriarchy. Boys will be boys "logic"

Their belief and expectations that everyone will admire their penis.

Among many others

I'm hoping this a rhetorical question.

[joshcryer]

47. Him and Weiner, tho, generally...

...aren't for sexist crap, at least ideologically (like they'd argue for equal pay, pro-choice, stuff like that). But somehow they turn out to be huge pervs.

I mean, really, what kind of perv could you be to whip it out in the middle of a zoom call. I mean I can say I am on the higher end of libido but that is crazy to me. Incomprehensible.

[exboyfil]

30. It seems the breaking point is that he was on the call

Let's say he was on the toilet during the call. Is that fireable as well (assume either the bathroom toilet can be seen from the webcam or he is using a tablet)?

Could he keep his job if he thought the call was over, and he didn't realize the camera was still on?

How about if was in a stall at work masturbating and the stall door came open so a coworker could see him (say its a unisex bathroom for example)?

I actually exercise during some of my business meetings. I am on the clock, but not doing multitasking with something that isn't work.

My wife walked into my home office in underwear. The camera was not on, but I sent her out of the office pretty quickly.


My daughter actually walked in on a doctor doing this in one of the empty patient rooms. She would have just left and not reported it. Unfortunately for the doctor she had a patient with her. Amazingly he kept his job.

I got to say the intent to do this in front of someone has to enter into any discussion of dismissal.

[Sneederbunk]

33. His employer may just want someone with better judgement.

[Hortensis]

44. Likely, and to uphold a standard everyone must meet. nt

[Iggo]

46. "It's not that kind of a Staff Meeting? Aw, damn."