Of Course Jeff Toobin Will Be Fired...

 He was caught masturbating in the workplace, on company time.  Can't do that. Not in the office, not in Zoom calls "working from home", not even in the stall next to someone who "catches you".  It makes other employees uncomfortable. People who understand boundaries: private actions are meant for private places on private time...

No Human Resources manager worth her or his salt could protect him, no agent has that power, even if they wanted to spin this as taking pity on a nebbish, weak, white Jewish man who seems threatening to no one. (Imagine if we'd even be having this discussion if it were a big black man on one of the ESPN sports shows "caught" in this situation...)

It's not Toobin's first sexual transgression, after all.  He seems to relish playing the sexual bad boy, with a laundry list of past incidents -- many denied, some proven.

Please don't bother trying to spin this as a "let's take pity on this special fellow, and offer him special dispensation".  It just won't work.  Not now, when precedents are being set across industries regarding what will, and what will not, fly in the "at home" but working from home workplaces so many now find themselves in.

There's no choice but to let him go.  Now.  The investigation will be brief; the facts were right there on display for others to see...

He'll be fine. Let him use his talents to strike out on his own.  The New Yorker doesn't need the bad publicity -- it's not sophistication, it's not even sleaze.  It's skeezy behavior, and it will not be tolerated in the workplace.  

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* The fact that people are even discussing Toobin somehow getting off is a bit like those defending Hunter Biden's crack habit and Joe Biden's going after the prosecutor in another country investigating his son.  That situation went well beyond one man's personal weakness when it involved national security, and the United States intervening in another nation's affairs

We are holding our tongues about Hunter's lack of mature behavior and morals. That's why nobody in the media is talking about him sleeping with his brother's widow, while he himself was still married.  That -- even though it involved a grieving family, and non-adult children on both sides -- can plausibly be spun as a private family affair. Skeezy, outrageously so, but private.

No so with the crackhead "kid" making millions overseas, while his politician dad had to step in and play cleanup.  You might not like President Trump, might compromise your own morals -- if you have any -- to make excuses, but anyone schooled in Journalism 101 knows that is a real story, one that ought to be discussed in full and fairly questioned during this campaign run.

Pity?  Sure.  Empathy -- okay, lots of people have had destructive addicts in their family, apparently.  But to bury the story because ... this one is somebody special?  A fortunate son, with a now dead brother and sister?  Nope.

Sorry friends, we're well past the halcyon Clinton years and those given passes in the past -- Polanski with his underage drug-and-anal perversions; Woody Allen with his stack of Polaroids on the family mantlepiece -- would not get the same tsk tsk-ing "who are you to judge" treatment that they did in past years.

George Floyd taught me that.

No more special rules for special people.  If the social rules are misapplied to some special people, we all suffer.  Jerk off in the workplace at your own risk.  Precedent is being set via Jeffrey Toobin.  Let those who decry his job losses set up a "Go Fund Me" if they're so inclined...

But J.T. has to go.  Times have changed, for every one. If you don't believe me, just watch...