The CIA's Loss

“The Fox News host Tucker Carlson briefly went to a Swiss boarding school before reportedly being kicked out. He went on to graduate from Trinity College. In a 1991 yearbook entry, he described himself as being part of the ‘Dan White Society,’ an apparent allusion to the homophobe who killed San Francisco’s mayor, George Moscone, and supervisor Harvey Milk, California’s first openly gay elected official, in 1978.

“After graduation, The Columbia Journalism Review reported, ‘Carlson applied to the C.I.A., but his application was denied, so he turned to journalism. ‘You should consider journalism,’ his father told him. ‘They’ll take anybody.’”

—Charles Blow, opinion writer, “Demanding That Ketanji Brown Jackson ‘Show Her Papers’,” The New York Times, March 6, 2022. (Thanks to alert WORDster Andrew Merton)

• Editorial Comment: Tucker would have done less damage in the CIA.

  

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