Another Day, Another (Alleged) Perv at CNN

By Athena Thorne

What kind of corporate culture have they got over at CNN? Judging by the behavior of some of the media company’s staff, it’s a culture conducive to employing sexual degenerates.

Exhibit A occurred in Oct. 2020, while COVID-19 corporate Zoom-mania was at its peak. CNN had to put legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin on leave because he whipped it out and spanked it during a live video conference with his colleagues at The New Yorker. Toobin wasn’t a paragon of moral virtue prior to the incident, either: a little over a decade ago, his out-of-control libido got him into trouble when he fathered a child with the daughter of his one-time CNN colleague, Jeff Greenfield. The child’s mother had to get a court-ordered paternity test before Toobin would take responsibility for his progeny.

Last summer, CNN appalled many when it returned Toobin to the network. I guess there must be a massive shortage of people who are able to do the incredibly complex work he performs, or something. For what it’s worth, New York State penal (lol) code says that exposing oneself is punishable by up to 15 days in prison and a fine of up to $250, while public lewdness is a Class B misdemeanor and punishable by up to 3 months in prison and up to $500. But as you know, laws are for us little people.

Then there was Chris Cuomo, who might even have been able to survive the scandal of abusing his work connections to help his brother, accused woman-molester and former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, except that CNN seems to have discovered additional problems when it investigated the anchor. “Based on the report we received regarding Chris’s conduct with his brother’s defense, we had cause to terminate,” CNN stated at the time. “When new allegations came to us this week, we took them seriously, and saw no reason to delay taking immediate action.”