Some 3,000 Americans a day are dying of COVID-19, a significant chunk of the country won’t accept November’s election results, and Russian hackers appear to have compromised much of the federal government. Amid this mayhem, the mainstream media found time to address an issue that most Americans haven’t given a second thought: Will Jeffrey Toobin’s career survive?
In case you haven’t heard – or have mercifully forgotten – during an Oct. 15 New Yorker magazine staff meeting held on Zoom, the 60 year-old Toobin “was seen lowering and raising his computer camera, exposing and touching his penis, and motioning an air kiss to someone other than his colleagues,” according to a New York Times report. Dozens of staff members from the venerable magazine were assembled online for an election simulation exercise, which in retrospect sounds like an unfortunate euphemism.
Posted By Ruth King on December 19th, 2020
Some 3,000 Americans a day are dying of COVID-19, a significant chunk of the country won’t accept November’s election results, and Russian hackers appear to have compromised much of the federal government. Amid this mayhem, the mainstream media found time to address an issue that most Americans haven’t given a second thought: Will Jeffrey Toobin’s career survive?
In case you haven’t heard – or have mercifully forgotten – during an Oct. 15 New Yorker magazine staff meeting held on Zoom, the 60 year-old Toobin “was seen lowering and raising his computer camera, exposing and touching his penis, and motioning an air kiss to someone other than his colleagues,” according to a New York Times report. Dozens of staff members from the venerable magazine were assembled online for an election simulation exercise, which in retrospect sounds like an unfortunate euphemism.
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– Robert Frost
The method in which the president of the United States is to be chosen is in Article II of the Constitution. In the Federalist Papers No.?68, Alexander Hamilton explained the method and noted that of all the articles of the proposed Constitution, the selection process had received virtually no criticism. Even critics professed that the selection of a president was “well guarded.”
The Electoral College s creation draws upon the Enlightenment and the philosophies of ancient Greece. The American colonists had a real distrust and suspicion of despotic rule. They sought not only independence but a government that would protect the sovereignty of the people and their “inalienable rights.”
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The New York Times posted an article on The Undoing of Jeffrey Toobin on Tuesday by reporters Katherine Rosman and Jacob Bernstein. The main takeaway is that CNN executives are still unwilling to discuss his future, which means he s not fired. A spokeswoman confirmed Toobin was still CNN s chief legal analyst, but would not comment further.
Three CNN employees say that CNN boss Jeff Zucker is a big fan of Mr. Toobin’s and a believer in second chances. But Mr. Zucker may be leaving CNN in 2021, making his opinion perhaps irrelevant. Toobin s offense is described:
While working on a podcast about the presidential election for WNYC and The New Yorker with some of the magazine’s other well-known journalists, including Jane Mayer and [ non-binary ] Masha Gessen,
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