by Andrew Stiles
CNN president Jeff Zucker abruptly resigned on Wednesday after failing to disclose a romantic relationship with a subordinate. The relationship, which appears to have been an open secret that may have precipitated Zucker’s divorce, was uncovered as part of the company’s internal review of disgraced former anchor Chris Cuomo’s tenure at the scandal-plagued network.
In an email to CNN staff, Zucker acknowledged a “consensual relationship” with executive Allison Gollust, who was Zucker’s “key lieutenant for the last two decades,” according to the network’s media desk. Gollust was one of the first people Zucker hired upon joining CNN in 2013 and also worked with Zucker at NBC for nearly 15 years. Zucker’s former colleague, Katie Couric, discussed the unusually close relationship in her 2021 memoir, Going There.
“At a certain point Jeff made a huge push to bring on Allison Gollust. … They were joined at the hip,” Couric wrote. “I had to wonder why Jeff was angling so hard to bring Allison on board. She and her husband and kids had moved into the apartment right above Jeff and [his then-wife] Caryn’s—everyone who heard about the cozy arrangement thought it was super-strange.”
Gollust’s marriage reportedly ended nearly a year before Zucker announced his divorce in 2019. On at least one occasion in 2017, the pair was observed bickering like a married couple at a cocktail party for media elites. Zucker reportedly used his influence in the industry to keep the affair from becoming public until now. “He’s too powerful and holds grudges,” a friend of Zucker’s told Radar Online. “Everyone knows about it in business, and he’s persuaded people to avoid it.”
Zucker’s resignation and the scandal surrounding it is yet another humiliating episode for the low-rated entertainment channel, which has struggled to attract viewers since President Joe Biden’s inauguration. If CNN was pulling in the same numbers it did during the Trump administration, when the network went all out confronting Facebook grannies for posting problematic memes, Zucker’s indiscretion would almost certainly be overlooked.
The announcement further vindicates CNN’s critics, who have long alleged that the network is not a legitimate news channel that deserves to be taken seriously. On the contrary, according to its myriad critics, CNN is a creepy clown network run by creeps and clowns. For example:
Jeffrey Toobin returned to CNN in June 2021 as the network’s chief legal analyst. Seven months earlier, Toobin was fired by the New Yorker for masturbating in front of his colleagues on a Zoom call. CNN could easily have promoted a person of color to replace Toobin, but Zucker wanted to give his friend a second chance. Before the public masturbation scandal, Toobin was best known for knocking up a colleague’s daughter, pressuring her to get an abortion, and denying paternity after the child was born.
CNN fired Chris Cuomo in December 2021 after the primetime host was found to have advised his brother, disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo (D., N.Y.), in an effort to smear one of several women accusing the governor of sexual harassment. Several weeks after Andrew resigned in August 2021, Chris was credibly accused of sexual harassment by a former colleague, Shelley Ross, who said the younger Cuomo squeezed her butt in front of her husband. In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the CNN host routinely violated journalism ethics by conducting inane interviews with his own brother.
Michael Avenatti, one of the most celebrated guests across all CNN programming in 2018, was ultimately exposed as a fraud and convicted of several felonies. Avenatti is currently serving time for attempting to extort Nike and is also on trial for stealing $300,000 from his porn star client, Stormy Daniels.
CNN’s Anderson Cooper introduced Avenatti to the book agent who unwittingly helped him commit the theft. Cooper described the obvious charlatan as “a dynamic, energetic guy.” Meanwhile, CNN’s Brian Stelter was asserting that Avenatti was a “serious contender” to win the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. Stelter, who is best known for his courageous reporting on former president Donald Trump’s spelling errors, continues to lament the lack of public trust in the media.
CNN’s Don Lemon, who hosts one of the lowest-rated shows on television, once invited Avenatti to a party at his mansion in the Hamptons. Speaking of which, Lemon is fighting a lawsuit filed by a Hamptons bartender who claims the CNN host sexually harassed and assaulted him in 2018. Speaking of alleged sex crimes, two CNN producers were busted late last year for sexually inappropriate behavior involving underage girls. John Griffin, who spent years working “should to shoulder” with Chris Cuomo, was indicted by a federal grand jury for attempting to “induce minors to engage in unlawful sexual activity.”
This is what it takes to be a full‐time supporter of Democrats and their agenda.
What do Republicans turn a blind eye toward? Eric Trump took the Fifth nearly 500 times when he was deposed in connection with the criminal investigation of Trump Organization property valuations.
John Eastman has cited the Fifth Amendment as justification for his refusal to testify before the January 6 committee altogether, knowing damn well that it cannot lawfully be used as a blanket excuse for a refusal to show up and anything.
The GOP is harboring and encouraging criminals
My goodness the witnesses called are exercising their rights?
In your commie twisted CNN pedophile polluted mind this means something?
Yet they refuse to release footage of the event withholding evidence from any defense.
They have already altered evidence to try to make Jim Jordan look like he said something he simply forwarded.
CNN has been sued for lying and lost in a court of law.
They lied to you and you repeated it over and over, the lie was proven in a court of law.
How many times did Lois Lerner take the 5th? How about Hillary’s tech buddy, Bryan Pagliano? Lot’s of people take the 5th, but only Democrats are the criminals. Corrupt Democrats don’t deserve to be answered.
CNN sucks
FJB
CNN Continues to Collapse
Jeff Zucker did not resign from his post as top moonbat at CNN because of sexual indiscretions that were an open secret for some time. He was fired because ratings are collapsing for the liberal propaganda platform. Turns out that a 24-hour Trump-bashing channel has limited appeal with Trump no longer in office. Even with Zucker gone, the nosedive into oblivion is likely to accelerate; Megyn Kelly promises other shoes will drop.
Mark Dice stands ready with a spadeful of dirt for CNN’s grave:
Moonbattery CNN Continues to Collapse – Moonbattery
He’s an NBC entertainment director, and he knows when to flee the scene of a failing venture.
This was all planned.
NEW YORK—Following a slew of sexual misconduct allegations concerning staff,
CNN has been forced to take extreme action to repair their image. The interim president has announced that henceforward, all CNN employees must wear chastity belts at all times.
“I know everyone wants to sleep with me, Jim Acosta,” said Jim Acosta. “But this seems like overkill.”
“I have never done anything wrong, ever,” said Jake Tapper. “I’m not sure why this is necessary.”
“Desperate times call for desperate measures,” said Brian Stelter sporting his new metal chastity belt. “We take sexual misconduct seriously at CNN, that’s why we have all gladly locked ourselves away, lest we be tempted.”
“We considered a multitude of options, but none of them made as much sense as simply placing a giant cage and metal padlock over every employee’s genitals.” said new CNN interim President Michael Bass. “Some have called this measure overkill, and inconvenient—I call it necessary.”
The keys to the belts have all been given to their spouses for safekeeping. “I can’t tell what this move has done for our marriage,” said Brian Stelter’s wife. “Knowing that my Brian is not acting up in the office has given me tremendous peace of mind.”
At publishing time, CNN was forced to up their requirement to force all employees to wear straight jackets to prevent staff from getting ‘handsy’ in the breakroom.
You hate CNN because they tell the truth:
Feb. 4, 2022 – In censure of Cheney and Kinzinger, RNC calls events of January 6 ‘legitimate political discourse’
(He’d shut his mouth, or he’ll also be purged.)
Trying to shame them is a total waste of time. They’re beyond any capacity to feel shame.
If choaking your chicken on a Zoom meeting is your thing, you’re in luck. You have CNN to show you how.
“Shame falls on a party that would censure persons of conscience, who seek truth in the face of vitriol. Honor attaches to Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for seeking truth even when doing so comes at great personal cost.” Mitt Romney, who still has a conscience.
Yeah… I don’t think that could possibly be the reason, since CNN has NEVER been caught telling the truth. They based their entire business model on lying about “Russian collusion”.
It is about time the republicans did something about cheney and kinzinger.
Both of them are low life scumbags. Kinzinger read the writing on the wall and punched out. cheney on the other hand is too stupid to realize the good people of Wyoming see her for the piece of shit she is. cheney is so far behind her primary opponent she is a lock to lose.
“We Failed” – Danish Newspaper Admits Failure and Apologizes for Not Questioning the Government’s COVID-19 Narrative (VIDEO)
we could never expect our democrat media doing do anything like this.
No, they just continue to declare lies the truth.
If there was ever a more clear example of the lack of tolerance on the left, Joe Rogan is about to be come a victim of cancer culture.
Some nimrod pulled together a compilation of Rogan using the N word among other comments. And now the left is attempting to discredit him in the public eye to do irreparable harm to his podcast.
neil young and Joni Mitchell were not enough to get it done.
Joe Rogan Apologizes for Being Joe Rogan, Begs Woke Forgiveness
Pennsylvania School Board Votes to End Mandatory Streaming of CNN Program Over Bias
A good move for the students