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Maybe CNN is right to view him as irreplaceable. I understand how difficult it must be to find attorneys who have enough of an ego to want to promote themselves on television.

He’s “been a leading legal voice on television for decades”? Oh, OK then. Some anchors and hosts at CNN also expressed a desire to have Toobin back on their shows, since he has been a leading legal voice on television for decades. Toobin’s viewers occasionally inquired about whether he’d be back on the air, and neither he nor CNN commented. The network said he asked for some time off “while he deals with a personal issue, which we have granted.” This turned into a leave of absence without any clear sign of whether he’d ultimately return. Here’s Brian Stelter’s take on how their network handled Toobin’s Zoomtastrophe:ĬNN took a different approach. The guy doesn’t deserve to be permanently barred from all opportunities to earn a living, but can’t the standard be a tiny bit higher than “thanks for not sexually assaulting any of your colleagues”? To be fair, Toobin does seem to be telling the truth that his risqué online exposure was unintentional, and it’s certainly far below some of the more shocking #MeToo tales that have plagued Hollywood and the media for years. We’d like to pose the same question to the network. “What the hell were you thinking?” Camerota asked Toobin. “You got it all right, sad to say,” Toobin replied, calling his actions “deeply moronic and indefensible.” And you, since then, have been on leave from CNN. You were subsequently fired from that job, after 27 years of working there. “Everyone took a break for several minutes, during which time you were caught masturbating on camera. “In October, you were on a Zoom call with your colleagues from the New Yorker magazine,” Alisyn Camerota said to Toobin during a cringetastic segment on CNN Newsroom Thursday afternoon. I mean, what explanation could there be for CNN’s awkward relaunch of Jeffrey Toobin other than they just can’t find any other lawyers to go on TV? Yes, indeed, it seems there is a tragic shortage of attorneys who are willing to undergo the burden of wearing in-ear monitors for agonizing minutes at a time in exchange for merely being able to promote themselves to millions of people on national television and cash an overly lucrative paycheck.

Dear readers, it is my somber task to inform you of a newly-endangered species whose population has apparently plummeted to near-extinction levels: the cable news legal commentator.