In August, the New York Times reported on a war game conducted by The Transition Integrity Project in which former Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta played Biden and after a Trump win alleged voter suppression. Washington Examiner columnist Byron York coined the phrase ‘coup porn’. The New Yorker exercise was part of a subgenre of fantasy fiction that has grown in popularity with the Acela establishment as the election draws nearer. But why fill roles for the US military and ‘the courts’, performed by Toobin himself?īecause it was a coup scenario: what happens if Trump fails to respect the outcome of an election that the New Yorker and other standard-bearers of the liberal order have already decided in favor of Biden? Answer: when the courts rule in favor of Democratic party lawyers litigating every district lost by Biden, and Trump locks himself in a White House bunker, the Pentagon will order the same SEAL team that killed Osama bin Laden to frogmarch the Orange Man in an orange jumpsuit out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to the steady applause of a grateful nation. Clearly any election role-playing game would have parts for the candidates and their parties. Jane Mayer dressed up as ‘establishment Republicans’. Biden was played by Evan Osnos, Trump by Masha Gessen. New Yorker staff writers were cast as principal players.
In preparation for November 3, the two media organizations were playing out various scenarios of what’s likely to happen the first Tuesday in November, and after. Toobin says he didn’t know his colleagues could see him when he pulled out his penis last week during an ‘election simulation’ held by the New Yorker and WNYC radio. In other words, Toobin is being punished for having the precise response that the exercise was designed to elicit. Toobin masturbated during a Zoom video conference in which he and his colleagues fantasized about forcibly removing Donald Trump from office and throwing him in jail. What possible sin could he have committed that forced these pillars of the media establishment to sideline a bonafide star with the presidential election less than two weeks away and Team Joe Biden needing every hand on deck? On Monday, the New Yorker writer was suspended by the magazine for which he’s written for two decades, and took a leave of absence from CNN, where’s he served as a legal affairs analyst since 2002. “They just assumed he had done something terrible, but never told us what the terrible thing was,” Gladwell, a New Yorker writer himself, told the newspaper.Jeffrey Toobin is a man much wronged.
Still, Gessen and other top media figures - including Gladwell - whined that Toobin’s public flogging was unfair. Malcolm Gladwell Bloombergĭespite his supposed downfall, Toobin is holding on to his post as senior legal analyst at CNN, where he’s on leave, and has several Hollywood projects in development, the Times reported. The star writer was suspended and later fired from The New Yorker, where he’d worked for nearly three decades. The incident was “traumatic” at the time, Gessen said - and led to Toobin getting ripped on social media, “The Tonight Show” and even spawned the hashtag #MeToobin after Vice broke the story. “I was really, truly shocked.”ĭuring the virtual gathering - attended by other New Yorker notables and WNYC public radio staffers - Toobin, 60, “was seen lowering and raising his computer camera, exposing and touching his penis, and motioning an air kiss to someone other than his colleagues,” the Times reported. “It wasn’t a full-out sexual act, but it was much more than a second,” Gessen said. 15 video call that led to Toobin’s fall from grace. New Yorker staff writer Masha Gessen described in a New York Times article the now-infamous Oct.
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