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Jeffrey Toobin almost certainly pushed out from CNN, insiders say
Fox News ^ | August 15, 2022 4:27pm EDT | Brian Flood

Posted on 08/15/2022 3:28:06 PM PDT by conservative98

Longtime CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin announced his split with the network late Friday afternoon, only 14 months after CNN welcomed him back following the infamous Zoom incident that tarnished his reputation and embarrassed the network.

While Toobin announced that he "decided" to leave CNN, many feel he wasn’t exactly given a choice considering new CNN CEO Chris Licht is thought to be attempting to "tamp down spectacle" and restore the network’s credibility. If anyone brought spectacle to CNN, it was Toobin.

The legal pundit was famously caught masturbating during a 2020 Zoom meeting with his New Yorker colleagues and subsequently fired by the magazine. CNN, however, did not dismiss him and granted him a lengthy leave of absence when the network was still controlled by former president Jeff Zucker – who was forced out himself earlier this year.

A longtime media industry insider with ties to CNN doesn’t believe the Friday news-dump announcement was Toobin’s decision.

"Jeffrey Toobin was almost certainly pushed out," the industry insider told Fox News Digital.

"You can’t have someone on air like that representing you and only someone with Jeff Zucker’s power— which Chris Licht doesn’t have— could have protected him," the insider continued. "Look for many, many more cuts to come. CNN is notoriously bloated compared to Fox and MSNBC and Licht could probably halve its size with no noticeable change on air."

A current CNN insider agreed that more cuts are looming.

"They’re going to cut back on [contributors] I think. Toobin clearly was first on the list..

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: chrislicht; clintonnonnews; cnn; jeffreytoobin; jeffzucker; toobin; wellbye
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1 posted on 08/15/2022 3:28:06 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

When you pull it out you get pushed out.


2 posted on 08/15/2022 3:28:57 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
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To: conservative98

So CNN told Jeffrey Toobin to beat it.


3 posted on 08/15/2022 3:29:20 PM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: conservative98

“ new CNN CEO Chris Licht is thought to be attempting to “tamp down spectacle” and restore the network’s credibility”

Bahahahaha. Let me know when that happens he’ll freezes over pigs fly and libtards become honest


4 posted on 08/15/2022 3:31:15 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: conservative98
You can’t have someone on air like that representing you,

ya big dummy!
5 posted on 08/15/2022 3:31:34 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Does anyone know anything about Don Lemon’s sexual assault civil suit?


6 posted on 08/15/2022 3:36:04 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: conservative98

He needs to get ahold of himself.


7 posted on 08/15/2022 3:40:14 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: Antihero101607

8 posted on 08/15/2022 3:42:47 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: conservative98

Let’s all remember what he was looking at while pleasuring himself on that call. It was a map projecting when Texas might turn blue. He’s a very sick person.


9 posted on 08/15/2022 3:43:49 PM PDT by cdcdawg (Hoes mad! LOL! )
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To: conservative98
Jeffrey "Tube Steak" Toobin.

10 posted on 08/15/2022 3:52:33 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: conservative98

Maybe he was jerked..err...out.


11 posted on 08/15/2022 4:02:15 PM PDT by moovova
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To: conservative98

Ok but why now? He got caught doing a pee wee how long ago?


12 posted on 08/15/2022 4:06:30 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: conservative98

Toobout 100% for real now I guess?


13 posted on 08/15/2022 4:07:35 PM PDT by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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Why now?
Because that is the kind of screw-up you never live down.


14 posted on 08/15/2022 4:14:43 PM PDT by I-ambush (We watched the moment of defeat, played back over on the video screen. )
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To: conservative98

There must be something new we don’t know about.


15 posted on 08/15/2022 4:20:51 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: conservative98

The CNN building has “14 floors above ground.”

Toobin is praying to his pagan ceramic pseudo gods he will be
“certainly pushed out” at a lower floor. So far brass made no promises to him.


16 posted on 08/15/2022 4:21:04 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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There must be something new we don’t know about.

Toobin: Why should I get singled out for something Biden does all the time? Just being friendly. Not my fault they place those kids' parks so close to the CNN building.

17 posted on 08/15/2022 4:23:20 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: conservative98
the Friday news-dump announcement

Biden: Uh, Jill, speaking of dump could you run and get me a Depends?

18 posted on 08/15/2022 4:24:37 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: conservative98

Jeff will always be a Jerk Off first and a suck ass pundit and Lawyer second.

We’ll deserved. Hope his family is proud.


19 posted on 08/15/2022 4:25:34 PM PDT by LeonardFMason
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To: conservative98
"Jeffrey Toobin was almost certainly pushed out,"

Word on Jeffrey Toobsteak is that pushing in or out doesn't change the picture.

20 posted on 08/15/2022 4:27:51 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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