Ah, Christ: O.J. Simpson has weighed in on Jeffrey Toobin's "Zoom Dick" incident
Good morning. Many of you might already be aware, but it bears repeating that yesterday a certain story broke involving the proper nouns “Jeffrey Toobin” and “Zoom Dick.” It was a lot to process on multiple levels, but the gist is this: Last week, noted CNN and The New Yorker legal analyst Toobin, while participating in an election simulation between both fellow TNY staffers and WNYC members, was reportedly seen masturbating during the teleconference call. Thus, Zoom Dick.
As Vice notes, the former Department of Justice associate counsel for the Iran-Contra Affair has since been suspended by The New Yorker, banned from all future WNYC engagements, and is currently taking “some time off while he deals with a personal issue,” according to an official statement from CNN. For what it’s worth (which is not much), sources told VICE it didn’t appear Toobin’s Zoom Dick was intentional, and that he didn’t realize his camera was on. Toobin has since admitted that he “made an embarrassingly stupid mistake, believing [he] was off-camera,” and that he would like to “apologize to my wife, family, friends and co-workers.”
Okay. So know that we’re all caught up, we can all agree that the image of Toobin cranking it during a #Resistance happy hour is both horrifying and hilarious and move on with our lives…