The Campaign Update: Zucker is the Tip of a Depraved Iceberg at CNN
The fun is just getting started at CNN, apparently. The resignation under pressure by CEO Jeff Zucker appears to be just the tip of an incredibly depraved iceberg there. The story Zucker and his in-the-office squeeze Allison Gollust tried to push yesterday about the nature of their relationship changing to a romance “during covid” was debunked immediately by a raft of former colleagues, CNN contributors and competitors, leaving palace propagandists like Brian Stelter in the lurch, wondering what narrative to spin next.
The truth, it turns out, is far more sordid even than the disgustingly sordid tale the two news-faking lovers - along with Zucker’s best little buddy and possible clone, Stelter - tried to sell. Oh, my, what tangled web these lying leftists weave.
Let’s first remember that CNN has already been home base for a long series of sexual-related scandals in recent years. There was “legal analyst” Jeffrey Toobin getting caught pleasuring his own self while participating in a staff Zoom video conference call. Naturally, he was only suspended by the center of media depravity led by Zucker, because, after all, Zucker turns out to have been doing much worse.
Unfortunately, Toobin appears to be the only CNN employee who keeps his hands on, er, too himself.
There was Don Lemon, the fake news channel’s prime time host, who has been credibly accused by at least two underage boys of hitting on them in gay bars. He hasn’t even been suspended because, after all, this is a news channel that has been engaged for years now in efforts to normalize pedophilia in the American public’s mind and culture.
Speaking of pedophilia, not one, but two of CNN’s senior producers - including the guy who produced Jake Tapper’s low-rated show - have also been accused of being pedophiles. They both lost their jobs because, after all, they aren’t the on-air “talent” and producers with standards low enough to work at CNN are a dime a dozen. There aren’t many Don Lemons out there, and children everywhere apparently should be thankful for that.
Then, of course, there’s Fredo Cuomo, who spent his office time at CNN helping his big brother, disgraced former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo - the head of the Cuomo Crime Family - smear the dozen or more women who have credibly accused big bro’ of sexual assault and harassment. That was just Fredo’s most recent bit of on-the-job malfeasance, after having been involved in a long string of other scandals - like faking a bout of COVID-19 - for which Zucker protected him and kept him on the job.
James Woods summed it all up quite well:
‘Cesspool’ is the perfect word for it. This place makes the Dutton saga on “Yellowstone” look tame.
But back to Zucker. Pretty much immediately upon him and Gollust putting out their cover story, here came the former colleagues and other celebs to debunk it. It turns out that their relationship was known to be a long-term one, and was common knowledge in the halls of CNN as soon as Zucker came on-board there in 2013:
Thus sayeth the insipid former CNN hostess, Soledad O’Brien:
And:
Oh, my. But hey, it wasn’t only known in CNN’s halls - the competition knew it, too:
So, Megyn Kelly, who for most of the time since 2013 was working at either Fox News or NBC, knew all about it, and all about the other qualified folks who were allegedly being passed over while Zucker promoted his main squeeze up the corporate ladder at CNN without having disclosed their affair. And she’s pretty pissed about it:
Trust me: If Megyn Kelly knows all of this, plenty of people at CNN and parent companies Warner and corporate umbrella AT&T know it, too.
Which all means, this is just the beginning:
Hey, investigators at AT&T and Warner: Maybe start with a hostile interview of Brian Stelter, well known to be Zucker’s best little office buddy. You know, the Zucker clone who has used his on-air show “Reliable Sources” to promote Zucker’s corporate propaganda for years now. If any on-air personality at CNN knows where all the bodies are buried, it’s little Humpty Dumpty there.
The chubby little propagandist was doing his duty yesterday, claiming Fredo “wanted to burn the place down” on his exit out of CNN during a segment with the terminally smarmy Alysyn what’s-her-name who used to pretend to be a conservative while at Fox News:
Yikes. If that’s the corporate propaganda, what must the actual truth look like?
Look, here’s reality: EVERYONE KNEW. Literally everyone at CNN - and apparently outside of CNN as well, knew what Zucker was doing. That means everyone at Warner also knew, and it also means that everyone at AT&T knew, too.
I spent 40 years working in the corporate world witnessing the speed at which juicy gossip like this sped like lightning through the hallways. Trust me on this: EVERYONE KNEW. And all their friends and acquaintances outside the company knew, too.
That reality begs this question: Why are Zucker and Gollust spinning a narrative that everyone knows is false? Is it just habit from years of spinning narratives at CNN on behalf of the DNC? Or is it because there is something they were doing in those years before covid - 2020 - that they are desperate to keep hidden?
Eric Wemple, the Washington Post’s media critic, thinks it all goes back to the Cuomo Crime Family, and Zucker’s efforts to promote Andrew as the godfather of covid response:
That might all be part of it, but given CNN’s sordid, depraved history, one cannot help but suspect there is more - much, much more - to this story than that.
Could this be a part of what Zucker and Gollust want to keep out of the news cycle?
My goodness. No telling what more is to come. The RadarOnline reporter who broke the Zucker/Gollust story in early January - Melissa E. Cronin - says there is much more:
“This is a huge mess, and we’re really only seeing the beginning…” she says in that 8-minute video.
By lying about their open secret relationship that everyone seems to know goes at least back to 2013, are Zucker/Gollust just trying to cover up the fact that she was being promoted by Zucker over other, more qualified people while they were having an affair? Could be, since that would violate not only all sorts of corporate policies, but a bunch of employment laws, too.
That might be it. Then again, CNN’s culture and history agitates in favor of there being even more to this story. Can’t wait to find out what it is.
If Fredo really wants to burn the whole place down, well, I’m just wondering what I can do to help.
That is all.
For Zucker to get laid he’d have to be head of a corporation; he looks like a pedophile.
The cnn thing is starting to read like a bad romance novel, with political twists and turns. Brings a chuckle to my perverted sense of humor, if not outright guffaws at some points.
Reminds me of the heavy coverage of the Trump as a human being, all the while hiding their own similar crap. I agree with the statement, "the fun is just getting started at CNN, apparently".