CNN insults #MeToo movement, provides happy ending for Jeffrey Toobin

Actual headline on The Hill.

CNN's chief legal analyst returned to national television on Thursday, eight months after masturbating on a New Yorker Zoom conference call that included several female colleagues who had to witness it.

Unlike the New Yorker, which promptly fired Jeffrey Toobin after the incident, CNN curiously held out in doing the same. And for about the past 250 days, the network continued to pay Toobin his lucrative salary before putting him back on air. Suspension without pay would be one thing, but CNN’s brass made sure they had Toobin's back. For his part, Toobin called the New Yorker firing "excessive." Talk about hubris.

"Many of us have really missed having your legal analysis to guide us on our programs, so let me be the first to welcome you back," CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota – who was tasked with conducting this cringeworthy interview – told Toobin during his first return to the air.

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"I hope to be a better person off-camera as well as on-camera," Toobin replied.

Earlier in the interview, Toobin played the victim, insisting he didn't know other people could see him on the infamous Zoom call. "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,” he said.

“You thought that you had turned off your camera?” Camerota asked. LINK