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We’re Zucked
Allison Gollust got Zucked by the boss (Photo: CNN)
Reportedly it was an open secret within the network but those in the know were afraid that if they were identified saying anything Zucker would exact revenge. It only came to light because of an outside law firm’s investigation in L’affaire de Chris Cuomo. In a previous life, Gollust had been Comms Director for none other than former NY Governor Andrew Cuomo. And before that, she worked in publicity at NBCUniversal.
Zucker, of course, came from NBC where he was the Executive Producer of Today. In her book, Going There, former Today anchor Katie Couric alluded to what was going on. Zucker tried to force Gollust into the role as the publicist on Couric’s ill-fated daytime talker.
They were joined at the hip. The problem was, we’d already hired a PR person for the show. There really wasn’t a role for Allison.
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 Caryn’s — everyone who heard about their cozy arrangement thought it was super strange. By that point, Caryn (Zucker’s ex-wife) had become a close friend and it made me really uncomfortable.
When Zucker moved from NBC to CNN his first hire was Gollust. Quelle surprise.
In other media news, Whoopi Goldberg (real name Caryn Johnson) has been suspended by Disney for two weeks for suggesting the Holocaust was nothing more than an internal squabble between two groups of white people. “I think of race as being something that I can see,” she said. “So, I see you and I know what race you are.”
Evidently, all Jews look alike to Whoopi. Now, can we talk about her cultural appropriation of the name “Goldberg?”
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yes, I grew up in Georgia and that is the way it was as I understand before I was born. My experience socially began after WWII and it was changing rapidly.
Zucker will never suffer. Once you’re in the club at a certain level, you never leave it. He will always get jobs or positions and will always have tremendous amounts of money.
My last boss when I worked at Dell was an idiot. No need for details, we’ll just state that and leave as a given. When my entire group got laid off because he had made us useless, he quickly got another high status job at some other company because they saw that he was a director at Dell. It probably took a couple years for the full depth of his idiocy was understood, and then he probably continued on somewhere else equally lucrative.
This is one of the tragic farces of life. Dan Rather betrayed every standard we expected of a j-urinalist back then and was fired. Does he now live on the streets, down and out? No. He’s 90 now but he got lots of good jobs after he was fired in shame. He’s most likely enjoying a very comfortable retirement. There’s no justice for lying scum, and Zucker will also never suffer.
Yep
Yeah, but if you fire one idiot, who knows where it’s going to end? Wouldn’t be prudent.
Now that’s funny!
But only because it is true.
Regarding Goldberg, I have to note the simplicity of her mind. To Whoopi, all white people are of the same race – that much is clear. I wonder if she sees racial distinctions between peoples of more melanin.
Regarding Zucker, I don’t understand. The relationship was consensual. So what if they kept it private? This isn’t some organization that values morality, this is CNN. Seriously, is that relationship enough to can Zucker? Of course not – he’s out because CNN is in the toilet and circling.
Regarding Zuckerberg, and Soros, Schwab, and a few others, well you can’t make an omelet without making some mess and leaving the dishes for some dumb lefty to clean up.
Honestly, race is a pretty nebulous definition. Jews are a “race” only because it is politically convenient to label them as such. They are a Semitic people originally, and Semitic people are as White as Italians, Greeks, and any other Mediterranean people.
As far as arbitrary definitions of race go, the United States only recognizes four races: white/caucasian (which includes most Jews), Black, Asian, and American Indian. Everything else is considered an ethnicity. (Again things may have changed, but that was the policy at least in the 1990’s.
So, if you’re from India, according to the US Government, you’re a caucasian. If you’re from Sweden, you’re a caucasian.
If you’re from a place like Cuba you can be either caucasian, American Indian, or black, and your ethnicity would be hispanic.
So, was it racial to kill off the Jews? Well, it depends on what you mean by race. Clearly the Germans don’t share the US Government’s definitions of race. What the hell do we care what they think? They were monsters.
So, we can enjoy a laugh at the absurdity that is Whoopi, as she puts her foot in her mouth again. But she wasn’t completely wrong, except that you just can’t say some things in our country of free speech.
Looks like the real story is now out. Latest word is that Zucker worked to persuade Governor Cuomo to do the interaction he did with his brother at CNN
And more. It looks like Zucker fired Cuomo and wouldn’t honor the 18 million Cuomo had coming in his contract. Cuomo knew of his affair, as did many others and implied earlier that he might spill the beans, which he now has done. Company policy – that is what Zucker fired Coumo for violating – was being violated by Zucker himself. That policy was you had to report to HR if you were romantically involved with another employee regardless of the positions held.
Zucker may have been fine with a way to avoid being fired based on CNN’s bottom feeding ratings and poor performance. I don’t think they have staff capable of a revival.
As I’ve said many times, the Joker’s bank heist crew are shooting each other.
Ratings are no longer the force you think they are. Just based on US distribution they have a $1B pouring in before one ad is sold. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. It’s international edition is seen in 150M homes and hotels in 200 countries.
There’s probably a lot more to it than that. I suspect the Cuomos had something on him and were threatening to come out with it. Other news bits I’ve read in the last week suggested that pretty much everyone at CNN had something on him.
“We’re in this together”
Oh, man, that reminds me. Andrew Cuomo is still not the Governor of New York. I lost that bet with @She, I have to find where to send the payout.
LOL. I totally forgot about that. Hang onto it. I’ll collect one day when you least expect it.
Ok, call it in when you need it.
What jumped out at me was that she thought the Jews were fighting the Nazis.
I am amused by Whoopi’s assertion of what makes a black person. Saw this today and was mystified.
I dunno. Maybe the Dems are bringing back their old “one drop rule.” Or she (I hope I guessed right) identifies as black. Or the Baltimore Sun page setter munged up the composition.
Dr. Jones was born in Central Harlem. I’ll take her word for it.