It looks like CNN, now under new management, will be bringing back Mary Katharine Ham as a commentator. Where did she go? She explains today in a Substack post.
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) October 6, 2022
Ham writes:
It came to my attention in July that I had been punished under old CNN leadership— kept off air since January— for tweeting about Jeffrey Toobin in a Twitter dust-up with Andrew Kaczynski (another CNN employee) regarding our network’s coverage of the 2017 Congressional baseball shooting.
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… I was never informed of my punishment until it was rescinded recently by new management. No one called me or my representation about it. There was no announcement of a suspension, or notification of in-house disciplinary action, which I would have preferred, even welcomed by comparison to serving a secret sentence.
In case you’re wondering, as I did, how my punishment for tweeting about Toobin compares to Toobin’s suspension for his offense, I can tell you. He was off air for eight months; I was off for seven. One month was the difference between punishment for jacking off at work versus commenting on the inadvisability of jacking off at work.
👀 My best friend works as a TV political commentator, but she’s been conspicuously off the air for the better part of a year. In her own words, she explains why — and it’s quite a read: https://t.co/jzkyVArnOc
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) October 6, 2022
.@MKHammer was secretly suspended by CNN in January 2022 by the Zucker regime…for pointing out that Jeffrey Toobin should not have been jerking off during a Zoom call for work. She's telling the story herself today for the first time: https://t.co/CWjTUFGa1Y
— Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON* (@EsotericCD) October 6, 2022
Ham was suspended by Zucker's personal edict, w/o being told until *just now* by the new regime; the logic for concealing it from her was "she's just had a baby and might be a postpartum loose cannon."
Not a joke! 𝑁𝑜𝑡 𝑎 𝑗𝑜𝑘𝑒.
These were not good or defensible people!
— Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON* (@EsotericCD) October 6, 2022
Holy shit. Read this. Just amazing. I thought my opinion on CNN and Jeff Zucker couldn't possibly be any lower. https://t.co/D2ktEB9fWp
— Blame Big Government (@BlameBigGovt) October 6, 2022
CNN is one of the most misogynistic networks and this proves it. https://t.co/LsvySR4LDK
— 🍍Andy Splatz🍍 (@AndySplatz) October 6, 2022
If this is an accurate assessment of what happened, this is damning and arguably illegal. https://t.co/kas1eUzsqo
— E R (@erosSCS) October 6, 2022
You’re amazing. And I’m 😡 about this bs. 😠
— Elisha (@ElishaKrauss) October 6, 2022
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Related:
Legal analyst and Zoom masturbator Jeffrey Toobin leaving CNN https://t.co/qsNmq6XueE
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 13, 2022
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