Posted on 10/27/2015 6:47:41 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
A Central New York college is under fire for kicking Fox News Channel off campus after questions about the school's alleged "liberal bias."
Bill O'Reilly spoke Monday night about a recent Cornell Sun newspaper report that claimed 96 percent of the more than $600,000 in political donations from Cornell University faculty went to Democratic candidates. Only 15 of 323 donors gave money to "conservative" politicians, the Fox News host said.
O'Reilly complained that it didn't seem diverse enough, so he sent "O'Reilly Factor" producer and reporter Jesse Watters to ask professors and students if they thought there was a liberal "indoctrination" on campus.
"What's the vibe on campus?" Watters asked during the "Watters World" segment.
"A very diverse campus – a bunch of different people from a bunch of different backgrounds," one male student said.
"It's not that diverse, because according to this report, 96 percent of the donations from faculty here went to Democrats," Watters shot back.
"What's wrong with that?" the student replied as Watters chortled.
Eventually, the network came head-to-head with Cornell's media relations department. Deputy director of media relations Melissa Osgood asked Watters not to interview students on the Ithaca campus.
"Cornell doesn't have a problem with Fox News, does it?" Watters asked.
"Absolutely not," Osgood said.
John Carberry, the Ivy League school's senior director of media relations, also asked Fox News to leave campus but declined to give a reason on camera.
"Are you choosing not to articulate the reason, or you don't have a reason?" Watters asked.
Watters later said he received a statement that didn't give a explanation for turning Fox News away: "It just says Cornell does not consider a person's political stance in its hiring practices."
Cornell first aroused curiosity at Fox News when the Sun found the vast majority of faculty political donations over the past four years went to Democrats. When asked about a lack of political diversity, government professor Andrew Little suggested to the student publication that hiring Republicans would compromise the quality of education.
"Placing more emphasis on diversity of political beliefs when hiring [would] almost certainly require sacrificing on general quality or other dimensions of diversity," Little said.
Still, before being ejected, Watters managed to ask students if they had been "indoctrinated" by throwing out questions about Hillary Clinton and Benghazi, the national debt and whether building a wall on the Mexico border is a good idea.
"They hated you," O'Reilly told Watters after the segment.
"They told me the real reason they didn't want you on campus," O'Reilly mused. "You had mittens... That offended almost everybody."
Thanks for posting. I was just getting ready to.
Liberal universities - where tolerance is preached but not practiced.
Keith Olbermann’s alma mater
It’s only academic freedom if they approve. Any differing opinion need not be recognized. They’re just that enlightened and balanced.
There she stands ,Cornell
That smell is not Cayugas waters
That smell is Cornell
Wash rinse repeat.
That pretty well tells the story about their bias. And yet they will continue to deny it.
Something about the Hitler Youth and Nazi Germany comes to mind regarding college campuses.
They have consensus, but not education.......................
Media director’s FB page:
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008161925383&fref=ts
I messaged him and told him what I thought.
FReep on!
Cornhole U.....
A typical sampling of our beloved commie-campi.
It’s their campus. They can run it how they please. And I’m free never to go there even though a number of my family members have attended.
EnGorge Cornell
Ann Coulter, too, but Ann graduated from the endowed College of Arts and Sciences, where Olbermann graduated from the state-supported College of Agriculture.
Ruth Bader Ginsberg, class of 1954.
The fact they can do something does not mean they should do something. And I think you and I both know if the reporter had been from, say, the Huffington Post, they wouldn't have kicked him off.
Ironically, as a general rule, the Aggies tend to be the more conservative students (at least when I went there).
It isn’t just Cornell, it’s virtually all of them save the few that are part of Christian organizations (Like Hillsdale College for example). Even the Catholic Universities stink of this kind of stuff. If there is one thing that the Marxists have done very effectively, it their virtually complete take over of “higher education.” Until you fix them, there will be very little, if any progress in fixing this country! Furthermore, until you get the Federal Government out of the business of giving them our tax dollars and then calling the tune as to what they can teach, the problem will remain.
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