Tucker Carlson’s Prep School in RI Won’t Let Him Speak on Campus Because ‘People Could be Killed’
“I found, honestly in my exchanges with the administration at St. George’s, a total resistance to having anybody who they don’t agree with even in the same world.”
Students at St. George’s School, a prep school in Rhode Island, wanted Tucker Carlson to come and speak at the school. Carlson graduated from St. George’s and sent his children there, but faculty members and people in the administration would not allow him to speak there, claiming it would be too dangerous.
Carlson claims that he was even told that “people could be killed” if he was allowed to speak on campus.
Bob Hoge writes at RedState:
Tucker Carlson’s Prep School Too Scared to Let Him Speak on Campus, ‘People Could Be Killed’
Tucker Carlson was invited by a student to speak at his high school alma mater, the St. George’s boarding school in Middletown, RI, but he says the administration first gave him the runaround, then flat-out said he was not welcome. They issued all sorts of reasons why over the course of several phone conversations, claiming that he’d bring unwanted media attention, that the students didn’t actually want him, the faculty “hated” him, that he was “embarrassing,” and finally, that it would just be too dangerous.
Of course, the real reason they didn’t want him was because they couldn’t deal with his ideas or the thought of having their worldview challenged.
Finally, he arranged to do a Zoom call with interested students, telling them the whole episode was “wrong”:
I found, honestly in my exchanges with the administration at St. George’s, a total resistance to having anybody who they don’t agree with even in the same world. Like I’m not on your campus right now because they — the campus that I went to, and donated to and sent my two children to — because they wouldn’t let me come.
Carlson claims that this is all because the people who run the school hate his politics and we all know he is right. Watch:
Breaking: Tucker Carlson is considered by faculty and administration "too dangerous" to speak at his high school alma mater, the St George's School, despite a student invitation. He hosts a Zoom with students instead and explains what happened. Here's the clip. pic.twitter.com/GvShGq9qGK
— The ReDeclaration of Independence (@ReDecNews) March 29, 2024
The school is now freaking out because he did a Zoom session with the students.
The Daily Beast reports, via Yahoo News:
Tucker Carlson’s Alma Mater Says He Wrongly Recorded Student Zoom Session
The Rhode Island prep school from which Tucker Carlson graduated in 1987 has accused the former Fox News host of violating an agreement during a Zoom discussion he held with current students this week.
In a letter Friday to the St. George’s School community obtained by The Daily Beast, administrators expressed their disappointment with Carlson after he allegedly broke their agreement not to record the session.
The school explained that after a student group invited Carlson to speak on campus, the two sides had come to an agreement that a better fit was for Carlson to speak remotely, with the school citing security concerns and a Rhode Island law that prohibits guns on school campuses. Carlson travels with armed guards, the letter said.
Perhaps the students who wanted Tucker to come to campus should protest the next time a progressive speaker is invited to speak on campus.
They can just say that the speaker makes them feel unsafe. That seems to work for the left.
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The leftists run the private schools that feed the premier colleges and universities. The premier colleges and universities expound on the leftist, Marxist, philosophies that further steer these students in this direction. The premier colleges and universities are the main feeders to significant government and private sector positions of authority. No wonder the country is in such dire straights.
” the campus that I went to, and donated to and sent my two children to — because they wouldn’t let me come.”
I am sure that there will be no further donations from Tucker, now he should make this an issue that causes others to stop donating, and perhaps looking into founding a new school.
Private schools are preferable to public schools.
Homeschools are preferable to both these days.
Not necessarily; it depends on the school. One certainly shouldn’t assume that a school is all right just because it’s “private”. The Communist Party can run its own schools too, but you wouldn’t want to send your children there.
It’s probably the fake laugh.
Is it ‘fake’ or just obnoxious? I tend to think it’s just obnoxious. I don’t pick my political commentators based on their laugh, just like I don’t pick my politicians based on the niceness of their tweets. Superficial bitches gonna bitch superficially.
I really got a kick out of Trump’s zesty tweets, where truth really worked them up.
It’s fake. It’s an element of persuasion and actually marks something he’s saying as clickbait.
And you “know” this how, exactly?
Long relation to similar person.
Sure, what you observed in one person that you know translates directly to somebody totally different that you’ve never met in person. Seems reasonable.
What an odd thought process.
He takes his role of pseudo-intellectual skeptical gadfly very seriously.
I think it’s funny. You can’t fake that laugh.
I suspect that if TC had a swastika tattooed on his forehead, the school would allow him to express his views to the students.
“People could be killed”? By whom?
And, HOW would they be killed? By . . . GUNS . . . ????
You know the answer: it isn’t Tucker that is “dangerous;” it’s the typically violent and destructive leftists that will cause the trouble.
The school is too gutless to expel them when they start trouble, and in all likelihood, they agree with the mob.
Well, mobs have a way of eating themselves, eventually.
Progressive crazies…Antifa, Blm ect…
St. George slew the dragon in England, but cowers in a corner in Rhode Island. Bunch of babies;
St George never set foot in England, even in legend. The dragon legend was set in his homeland in eastern Turkey, or in some later versions in Libya.
The overwrought hysteria these people express is truly astonishing, even when it’s expected. Criminy. That alone should be enough to have those people removed from authority – at least in a sane world. But it’s Heinlein’s Crazy Years, instead.
TWANLOC
Subotai Bahadur
Tucker is not someone I would allow to address a school lower than college level today. Schools are for shaping minds, that is what the intention was and that is what they are. They are going in the wrong direction doing the wrong thing, two wrongs don’t make a right.
We do have standards as a society, the overton window does exist and declaring it doesn’t does not make it disappear it just lets leftists decide where it is.
If you wish to advocate for this countries enemies, advocate for a sex trafficker, and advocate there is a secret conspiracy of aliens with the CIA you do so alone.
Speakers at schools are people you want to be influencing the next generation do you want a generation of people convinced that the president is in league with a mass of aliens (if so please provide proof refuting endless research establishing you can’t go faster than the speed of light)
He has misbehaved in plenty of other ways to.
If I was the principal I would not have told him a hyperbolic lie about people will be killed and the principal should be sacked for that I would have said “a speaker engagement at this school is for people who do not spread alien conspiracy theories, if the students find that entertaining they could listen on their own time”.
Sorry but our own conspiracy theorists need to be shunned to and yes if you believe in an alien CIA conspiracy you are a conspiracy theorist (again unless you are going to tell me you have figured out every single physicist is wrong and you could go faster than the speed of light).
Add in his Russia advocacy, his Andrew Tate advocacy……is he really the person you want a school paying to influence people?
I haven’t even mentioned that he is a pro-Hamas advocate because being a RUSSIA advocate should be enough.
Are schools falling over themselves to book colonel McGregor?
Even without the Russia advocacy are you really telling me you want HAMAS advocacy to be in the overton window?
Beijing is a great city and it is extremely well run, and easily the equal of Moscow it is not an excuse for being a CCP advocate.
I hope that we all not just me draw the line at alien conspiracy theory and advocacy for this nations enemies, which Tucker does.
After closely reading your post I feel Tucker may be on to something with his alien CIA conspiracy theory .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbQHSAkopyU
Putin’s dance partner
I did not watch that propaganda screed, but if it isn’t about Russia just watch his last appearance.
That is who Tucker was pushing you to listen to.
The left has completely lost the plot on what the role of journalists is, or even what journalism is. Interviewing someone is not “advocating” for them. How on earth is anyone supposed to make up their own minds when proggie morons screech every time an opposing viewpoint is explored? Just agree with the proggie morons, I suppose, is the point. Sorry, but no.
Yet when liberal, left wing journalists interviewed Soviet leaders in the past, before Tucker’s time, the conservatives/right said those journalists were “advocating” for the communists. So what’s good for the goose should be good for the gander.
Because they were…
Which is exactly what Tucker Carlson was doing.
Why do you think young Russians are trying to escape to America instead of young Americans escaping to Russia?
Your question makes no sense. If anyone was lionizing Putin, then young Americans WOULD be trying to emigrate to Russia.
Like when Walter Duranty literally won a Pulitzer for puking the Potemkin Village propaganda onto America’s living room rug?
Yeah, that is totes the same thing, exactly the same.
SMH at their sheer idiocy of progdom.
Thank you for posting this, I was just about to do the same.
Sounds a lot to me like Tucker’s tour of Moscow.
Well, your lack of logical discrimination is well-documented.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbHCMZuUtt4
Does Tucker Carlson not understand economics or is he pro-Russian?
The interview with Putin……well all I could say about it is that it was more of a Putin speech using Putin’s interpretation of history to justify invasion of Ukraine.
Either we accept free speech or we don’t. Your argument amounts to censorship via controversy of the speaker/topic. Controversial topics/ideas and those who express them are exactly what the 1A and the concept of freedom of speech is about. I would submit that this particular institution has already exposed their Students to views well outside the mainstream of the voting population of the USA.
There is no stronger advocate of government regulation of the PUBLIC SQUARE to be a free speech zone where conspiracy nuts who are anti-Semitic like Tucker Carlson can spew whatever venom they want.
A school is not a public square. A school is an institution tasked with shaping minds. It is in no way obligated to shape minds to become anti-Semites or conspiracy nuts.
I wouldn’t want a leftwing conspiracy theorist, or anti-Semite (Tucker is both you can’t claim that anyone who is pro-Israel is a traitor to America as Tucker does without being an anti-Semite) to be given an opportunity by a school either.
What your child sees and hears at school matters. There is no free speech when we say no pornography in school either.
Free exchange of ideas in academic institutions, especially the introduction of controversial subjects on occasion, seems like the purpose of academic institutions. Why go straight to the extreme of porn when you must know that it is regulated speech due to universal recognition of its harm? We regulate what images/content is age appropriate material in movies X, R, PG-13, PG, G.
Here the discussion is about suppression of viewpoint on topics already in the public sphere that these students have already heard more mainstream views about most of them in this institution.
Sure it matters what students see and hear. In this case you are arguing for maintaining a lefty thought bubble imposed by the establishment. We need to be very careful adopting the tribal language of the left and should, IMO, avoid making accusations with clear evidence re ‘ists and isms’.
1. I no more believe that schools for kids are for exchange of ideas when you say it than when David French gives the same laughably absurd notion.
2. If you go back and read the debates and arguments for and against creating an American Public School system you will find that free exchange of ideas is nowhere present. Shaping patriotism, passing on good values, preparing people for more productive careers are present. Nothing about debates if the government hiding aliens from another solar system.
3. Kids are in school to learn, and have positive values imparted to them not be told that they are traitors to their country if they do not back Hamas. Kids are not in school to be told the United States Government is hiding aliens from another solar system. Kids are not in school to be told that Putin is a great statesman who has a rightful claim to Ukraine.
4. You really don’t seem to distinguish college which is for adults, and the K-12 system which is literally for kids.
5. To reiterate you do not eliminate the existence of an overton window by pretending it doesn’t exist you just eliminate yourself rom voting on what it is.
“A school is an institution tasked with shaping minds.”
And the left controls them.
And you, who on other issues masquerades as “Mister Practical Politics,” want them to remain unchallenged.
Problem is Danny, people like you consider The Constitution to be pornography. The only one being fooled by your posts is you.
You could have condensed this grammatical flatulence down to one sentence:
“I have no idea what I’m talking about, and I’m going to show you right now.”
You could have condensed that into “I am an asshole”
Thirteen downvotes on your post tells me all I need to know about who the “asshole” is.
You literally get ratio’ed every time you comment.
Wow 13 people want a conspiracy theorists with views on Russia and Hamas identical to Normal Finkelstein to influence the next generation wow I am trembling you are right the Republican Party without doubt wants Tucker, Israel is about to be boycotted, wow oh and the moment the right gets into power Ben Shapiro will be arrested for treason, I think Megyn Kelly is trying to flee to Vietnam for her treason……sarcasm over bleephole.
Tucker is an advocate of Russia (there is no other explanation for his openly peddling propaganda from Moscow) who is also an advocate of Hamas (you know the institution he called America’s child) with views interchangeable with Norman Finkelstein.
That you love him reflects on you being excrement.
@Danny.
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You DO seem overly fond of name-calling.
Why is that?
Jackasses like you who start with insults that lack arguments don’t get to complain when name called back.
The fact that you cannot travel faster than the speed of light has nothing to do with the fact that aliens may or may not have visited the Earth in the past.
There are at least three ways to get past the light speed problem.
Aliens Could be extremely long lived in the tens of thousands of years range.
If this Is the case, then they could make an interstellar trip in one alien lifetime.
Aliens, and perhaps future humans, , could build a generation ship where several generations will be born, grow up and die during the journey between the stars.
Hibernation technology could allow aliens and possibly humans in the future, to make the journey in a sleeping state and arrive thousands of years later.
It’s conceivable, that aliens could make the journey between the stars at sub light speed over thousands of years.
If humans ever to journey to the stars we will have to send either generation ships or hibernation using technology still to be developed.
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/faq/26/what-is-a-light-year/
https://www.space.com/24054-how-old-is-the-universe.html
https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Space_weather_and_its_hazards
Extraordinary claims requires extraordinary evidence.
To put exactly what you are saying into perspective
Going at the speed of light ( 186,282 miles per second) you aren’t at the nearest solar system in 4 years.
Science is not just making things up (Hibernate for thousands of years to do it) it is what you could prove.
Not only can Tucker not prove his point, his point is impossible under any current scientific understanding.
Furthermore it fails the laugh test.
An alien civilization has technology that is indistinguishable from magic, and the U.S. Federal Government with radars, and F 35 aircraft could find them……..and of course there is something they need form the U.S. Federal Government…….
Kids go to school to learn science, not conspiracy theories, or Hamas propaganda.
When Tucker first started mentioning UFOs, I thought he had stepped over the line of sanity and judgment. Then, over the next few years, more and more reports were coming from other official sources, and then there was testimony before congress substantiating Carlson’s reports. BTW, I don’t believe he said “aliens” were actually here, but he described it as ” an independent intelligence” and actually said he doesn’t believe it’s extraterrestrial. He has described UFO reports from military and government sources, and now some of those reports are public.
You wrote a long post, but instead of showing your intelligence, you have shown your ignorance. Did Carlson claim something can travel faster than the speed of light? Not that I’m aware of, but theoretical scientists believe it may be possible to travel distances that are unimaginable, by other means, ie: warping space, wormholes, etc. Much of what used to be science fiction has become science fact or science theory.
Mankind has been on Earth about 6 million years. Earth is about 4.4 billion years old, and the universe is estimated to be 13 billion years old. Most of mankind’s advances have been in the past 10s of thousands of years, which is just a blip on the timeline of the universe. What makes you so arrogant that you think that intelligent life couldn’t have formed on a planet of a star shortly after the “big bang” if you believe that is the beginning of creation? It would have had 13 billion years to figure out how to travel great distances faster than the speed of light, but even if it didn’t, it would have had the time to actually travel it as a species in that amount of time. Regardless, it’s possible they could have influenced our civilization without being here. Quantum physics suggests that it’s possible to communicate faster than the speed of light. Let your imagination run and be open-minded to all possibilities. Stop being so closed minded. I’m not a conspiracy theorist, nor a physicist, but only in the last hundred years has it become possible to talk to and see someone on the other side of the world nearly instantaneously. 500 years ago, if you claimed that could be done, you would be imprisoned for being nuts.
https://www.popsci.com/article/technology/will-wormhole-travel-ever-be-possible/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/would-astronauts-survive-interstellar-trip-through-wormhole-180953269/
From the article
But other physicists are not convinced. “I think that a stable, traversable wormhole would be very confusing and seems inconsistent with the laws of physics that we know,” says Maldacena. Sabine Hossenfelder at the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics in Sweden is even more skeptical: “We have absolutely zero indication that this exists. Indeed it is widely believed that it cannot exist, for if it did the vacuum would be unstable.” Even if exotic matter was available, traveling through it may not be pretty. The exact effects would depend on the curvature of spacetime around the wormhole and the density of the energy inside, she says. “It is pretty much as with black holes: too much tidal forces and you get ripped apart.”
Extraordinary claims will require equivalent evidence.
I am not even advocating removing conspiracy theorists with their alien theories from the public square, and I am against shadow banning of them to.
Just don’t set them to influence kids to pick the conspiracy theories before they get a chance to learn the actual science.
I bet they take his money
They did
St. George’s has now shown itself to be the Sheldon Whitehouse of prep schools.
Because it doesn’t want an alien conspiracy theorist, pro-Russian, pro-Hamas speaker?
You have a very strange overton window.
“Remember, it’s not lying if you instigate it!”
Just a few comments….
1) Rhode Island law does not prohibit individuals from carrying a weapon when “an individual in accordance with a contract entered into between a school and the individual or an employer of the individual to provide security services to the school.” That means that if the school had a contract – even an appearance contract – with Carlson, they could have allowed Carlson’s security to be armed.
2) Rhode Island is a one party consent state when it comes to recording. The Yahoo article says that no students were filmed which may or may not be a good thing depending on your point of view, but there is no doubt that Carlson had the right to record the Zoom call.
3) As another commenter noted above, if the school was worried that someone “may be killed,” that statement begs the question “killed by whom and how?” The school only has 370 students. Are the school administrators saying they cannot control those students? Or are they worried that outside forces may come onto the campus which means they cannot protect any student much less Carlson.
4) Although legally the concept does not apply in the realm of the First Amendment, this incident was clearly viewpoint discrimination. St Georges is associated with the Episcopal Church. Many founding fathers – including those who believed in the first amendment and more importantly, the right to speak and hear differing points of opinion – would be rolling in their graves at this bias.
5) Finally, in the play / movie “1776” there is a line from Rhode Island’s representative to the Continental Congress Stephen Hopkins who, when asked if the Congress should discuss independence says:
Well, in all my years I ain’t never heard, seen nor smelled an issue that was so dangerous it couldn’t be talked about. Hell yeah! I’m for debating anything.
Apparently the St Georges school does not subscribe to that open thinking.
You did not produce a single thing that deals with the topic of “can a private school say no to hosting a conspiracy theorist”.
What about reviewing a list of campus speakers 2004-2024? Then draw conclusions.
First when the hell did I EVER defend schools bringing leftist speakers???
Second would I as a principal be reasonable in rejecting ALL people claiming the CIA is covering up for aliens from outer space?
Furthermore would I as a principal be reasonable in rejecting Norman Finkelstein and other leftists with identical foreign policy/Hamas views to Tucker Carlson?
We aren’t a tribe, and if we are Tucker isn’t a part of it considering he has stated if Trump picks Nikki Haley as VP he is voting supporting Biden being re-elected (you know the guy we want out of office?)
This isn’t a free speech issue this is a issue of is the school right not to want Tucker Carlson influencing their students.
It is.
Unless you want to defend the idea that aliens from outer space are among us but the evil evil CIA covers it up.
There is a field of study that deals with the idea that people cannot handle and should be taught not to critically think as to whether an idea is true or not.
That field encompasses “brain washing.”
Apparently you and the school are uncomfortable with teaching students to think critically for themselves and instead regurgitate whatever the school believes.
The problem with that is that the blind acceptance of whatever an authoritative body believes is not good for individuals, groups and society as a whole.
LOL.
Your entire post is nothing but a series of assumptions.
I think you’re rapidly earning your “dingus of the week” award.
The school does not HAVE rights. It has responsibilities.
The parents have rights that the school must respect. The children have rights that the school must respect.
Because those parents are the school’s EMPLOYERS.
I never claimed that the school could not host any speaker they wanted, and likewise reject any speaker they want.
The purpose of my response was to illustrate the hypocrisy and lies the school told to students and teachers to support their decision. One would think that for $69,650 tuition per year, the school would have some dedication to the truth.
Alas, it appears you do not feel that way. Your values appear to line up more with the schools deception and hypocrisy than mine.
That being said, people with different ideas are often labeled as “conspiracy theorists.” It is a dishonest attempt to discredit people without facts.
Many times “conspiracy theories” have eventually been shown to be correct.
For example:
Operation Mockingbird – the CIA’s effort to control and manipulate the media was a “conspiracy” until it was shown to be fact in the 1970’s.
In the 1920’s the US government put toxic chemicals to industrial alcohol to discourage people from drinking it. The government denied it and claimed it was a conspiracy until it was revealed after the repeal of prohibition in 1933.
The existence of the Iran-Contra program was labeled a “conspiracy.”
The FBI denied the existence of COINTELPRO, labeling it as a “conspiracy theory” until documents were taken showing the existence of the program.
When Congress investigated Operation Norwood, it was labeled as being non-existent and a fallacy.
Since we are talking about “aliens” surely you must remember that the US Government told people that the UFO crash in Roswell was was weather balloon and any speculation to the contrary was a fallacy and conspiracy theory. However, we now know that the UFO was not a weather balloon but a spy balloon from Project Mogul.
While you want to focus on aliens and Carlson’s belief in them, you perhaps missed the Congressional hearings on UFO where other people testified to the same thing Carlson believes. In fact, many of the members of Congress were less than swayed by the government denials to what whistleblowers testified to.
There are several things are work here. One is the idea that “everything is impossible until it is possible.” Just because you don’t believe in what others believe doesn’t make you right or them wrong (and vice versa.)
However, the interesting thing is your position that Carlson should not have been allowed to speak because he is a “conspiracy theorist.” Yet the school banned him not for that reason, but for the idea that people could die, which in and of itself is a conspiracy theory.
It is mind boggling that you are trying to defend the school’s action of using a conspiracy theory to ban someone who you claim is a conspiracy theorist. It is a shame that you didn’t think that through.
Finally, as I said, the school has the right to not host or host anyone they want. The real question that needs to be answered is based upon the idea that “just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.”
You’re okay with the school banning Carlson based on a conspiracy and then lying to parents, students, faculty and donors.
The truth matters to me. It appears it does not matter to you.
Detractors like Danny who continually bleat about “conspiracy theories” do so because they want to shut down the conversation.
Can’t allow any of that critical thinking nonsense to challenge the official narrative, y’know.
Ok I want to shut down the conversation?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2JCoIGyGxc
100% of physicists say what Tucker claims (Aliens here being covered up by the U.S. Government) is impossible.
Furthermore about children being indoctrinated at school by someone who is in love with Hamas YES I WANT TO STOP IT.
If you don’t want to stop Hamas’ cheerleaders from influencing the next generation you are an anti-Semite.
LI routinely covers stories about that in school DEMANDING IT BE STOPPED.
Sorry but the Oct 7th narrative that Tucker is attacking….well him attacking it makes him a POS and anyone still pro-Tucker……
No children should no more be subjected to him than Nick Fuentes.
“Your values appear to line up more with the schools deception and hypocrisy than mine.”
That’s exactly what Democrats and RINOs do.
Danny has well established his GOPe credentials here.
So you are for Hamas advocates being brought by kids schools to indoctrinate their children now?
Please STUF and GTFO of any further conversation about Jews, we now all know you are with the anti-Semites like Tucker.
Private schools can do anything that they want. Just as we can make them feel bad about themselves for doing it. What the school doesn’t seem to get is that feedback will come in the form of reduced donations. Ask Oberlin how that is working out for them.
I didn’t say a dam thing about law you idiot. I discussed the overton window, why Tucker Carlson is not in it, and why we should not want him to be in it.
Legal Insurrection has had many stories objecting to speakers with Tucker Carlson’s views at HARVARD.
You know Harvard the COLLEGE.
It is utterly hypocritical to say “No leftwing anti-Semites inciting at college campuses, only right wing ones at high schools”.
I have exactly the same standard regardless of which side of the isle you stand on.
The alien stuff alone even without the anti-American, and pro-Hamas stuff removes Tucker from the realm of acceptable.
This exact same website objects to people with exactly Tucker Carlson’s views on Hamas advocating to college students on campus.
I am not even objecting to Harvard having anti-Semites on campus, I am merely suggesting not bringing over a man who claims the United States Government is covering up a presence of aliens from outer space to influence the next generation of kids.
The arguments used here to defend trying to make Tucker Carlson part of the K-12 education are recycled arguments from David French about CRT speakers in K-12.