CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin announced his departure from the network Friday. 1210 WPHT morning show host Rich Zeoli said Toobin will largely be remembered for his gaffe during a Zoom call when he reportedly began to masturbate while still on camera with The New Yorker and WNYC co-workers in 2020.
“Here’s the thing about this: You can’t come back from that,” Zeoli said. “There’s certain things you can come back from. Like, you can kill a guy and come back from it. You can’t come back from this. You can be like ‘yeah, you know, I killed a man just to see him die’ but they’ll be like ‘you’re forgiven, everybody makes mistakes’. I was caught blanking myself on Zoom. Because nobody could take you seriously after that. That’s the problem.”
“Well, yes, but also, you have to wonder who was he looking at during the Zoom call,” The Rich Zeoli Show co-host Dawn Stensland said. “It’s just eww.”
“As he tries to sit there and pontificate and give his legal analysis people just look at him and go ‘dude…you’re the guy who was king of your castle on Zoom?’ And that’s all they can think of,” Zeoli continued. “Literally, I think that’s all they can think of when they look at the guy. They can’t take a word of his analysis as anything seriously. That, I think, is the reality. I feel bad for him but I don’t feel bad for him at the same time. Actually, I don’t feel bad for him. I have no sympathy for him. He’s a buffoon. Let’s be honest.”
