CNN's Jeffrey Toobin distracted -- again -- during another debate
Jeffrey. Jeffrey. Jeffrey.
A couple of weeks ago, The Ticket celebrated the sharp-eyed folks over at Gizmodo.com, who spotted CNN political analyst Jeffrey Toobin, on camera to discuss the ongoing vice presidential debate, actually spending his time watching the baseball playoffs on a laptop there.
Worthy of chuckles.
Not that anyone would ever think media "analysts" talk about things they don't know about. Not for those salaries.
But how do you know what Alaska Republican Gov. Sarah Palin and Delaware Democratic Sen. Joe Biden are saying if you're actually doing something else on your laptop? (You can see those Gizmodo photos by clicking on the "Read more" line below.)
But you'll never guess what happened during last week's last presidential debate between Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama?
What happened was another website, Valleywag, caught the very same Jeffrey Toobin during the presidential debate checking out a Facebook page on his laptop instead of watching the rhetorical jousting going on to decide the White House race he was there to discuss.
Maybe he was Friending both candidates. Or writing on their Wall.
Anyway, good thing there are no more debates. Someone could catch someone else watching "Sara Does Sarasota" on the Playboy channel.
— Andrew Malcolm
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Photo credit: Valleywag.com
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Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000. A veteran foreign and national correspondent, Malcolm served on the Times Editorial Board and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2004. He is the author of 10 nonfiction books and father of four.
Johanna Neuman is a veteran Washington correspondent for both The Los Angeles Times and USA Today, having covered presidents and politics as far back as Ronald Reagan. A former president of the White House Correspondents Assn., she authored a book on media and foreign policy, “Lights, Camera, Wars.” Most recently she was co-author of the 
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I would never, ever knock a man, woman or child for watching a baseball game. As we all know, baseball is proof that a higher power exists in the universe since man is clearly incapable of inventing something so perfect.
But Facebook? Jeffrey, Jeffrey, Jeffrey... this is not embarrassing, this is humiliating.
Posted by: Clay Landon | October 20, 2008 at 08:11 AM