You know things were getting really uncomfortable for New Yorker scribe and CNN contributor Jeffrey Toobin when the hashtag #MeToobin began trending on Twitter — then O.J. Simpson piled on with his own social media scorn.
After Toobin was caught in an alleged masturbation scandal during a work Zoom meeting, #MeToobin was born and many online commenters had much to say. One @nickeaster19 opined: “CNN has asked Toobin to resign but he said he’d rather stick it out at CNN. #MeToobin.”
Donald Trump Jr. tweeted: “Does ‘almost everyone’ pleasure themselves in front of their co-workers or during a meeting? If so I guess I’ve been doing it all wrong. #MeToobin.”
But then O.J., hardly our national arbiter of morals and ethics, took to Twitter, saying in a video clip, “Damn Jeffrey Toobin, at least Pee-wee Herman was in an X-rated movie theater, I’m just saying.” (In 1991, Herman actor Paul Reubens was arrested in Sarasota, Fla., for masturbating during a film at an adult movie theater.)
When Toobin was caught with his pants down he was taking part in an “election simulation” for the New Yorker. The legal expert was playing the role of the courts — seems as if he got too caught up in the penal codes.