While speaking with CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota on CNN Newsroom Thursday, Toobin offered a not-terribly-detailed explanation for what happened. I thought I had muted the Zoom video.”Įlection 2020: An Ode to John King, CNN's Statistician MagicianĬNN's Van Jones in Tears Over Biden Win: 'Character Matters, Truth Matters'ĬNN's Christiane Amanpour Reveals She Has Ovarian Cancer - Watch Video
I thought no one on the Zoom call could see me. “I apologize to my wife, family, friends and co-workers. “I made an embarrassingly stupid mistake, believing I was off-camera,” Toobin said in a statement at the time. The potato video made America chuckle as millions of people could relate to her struggle as they transitioned to remote work due to Covid-19.Seven months after CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin exposed himself during a work-related Zoom call, he appeared on the network Thursday to address both his firing from The New Yorker and his continued employment at the cable network.Īs first reported by Vice in October, Toobin was participating in a Zoom call with colleagues from The New Yorker when several participants reportedly caught him masturbating. Who can forget “ Potato Boss,” the viral video of an unlucky boss who held a virtual meeting in Microsoft Teams as a potato because she could not figure out how to turn off the filters. Toobin isn’t the only person who has made an embarrassing mistake on zoom. “I suspect he thought that when the breakout rooms started, he was disconnected, and he didn’t realize we’d all returned to a live camera.” Said Masha Gessen, a New Yorker colleague to the New York Times. “I am quite sure that Toobin didn’t realize that the people on the New Yorker call could see him,” Gessen said. Toobin claims he unknowingly exposed himself to his colleagues when he thought his camera and microphone were off. Thinking that his computer camera and audio was turned off, Toobin masturbated during an election simulation between The New Yorker and WNYC radio employees.
Popular legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin was suspended from The New Yorker and put on leave at CNN earlier this week after an embarrassing Zoom incident. Scariest Zoom Meeting Ever? CNN Legal Analyst Accidentally Masturbates In Front of Colleagues
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