Tucker Carlson's College Yearbook Entry Goes Viral, And It's A Doozy

[DonViejo]

04/23/2021 06:58 am ET Updated 1 hour ago

The Fox News host affiliated himself with some eyebrow-raising groups.

By Ron Dicker

Tucker Carlson’s college yearbook seemed to foretell plenty about the man whose bigotry would later fill the prime time airwaves on Fox News.

In a 1991 Trinity College yearbook entry now making the rounds on social media, Carlson wrote that he was part of the “Dan White Society.” News outlets presumed he was referring to the man who in 1978 murdered San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and city Supervisor Harvey Milk, California’s first openly gay elected official.

Carlson also affiliated himself with the Jesse Helms Foundation, named after North Carolina’s longtime anti-gay and anti-civil rights senator.

Link to tweet

Trinity, a liberal arts school in Hartford, Connecticut, confirmed the entry was real to The Wrap, but said the Dan White Society did not appear to exist at the school. The fact-checking blog Snopes could not find any mention of the Jesse Helms Foundation elsewhere in the yearbook either, perhaps indicating it, too, wasn’t a school-sanctioned group.

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[secondwind]

1. What a smarmy grin !!

[lagomorph777]

2. Once a dickhead, always a dickhead.

[bullwinkle428]

3. Might as well have added "President of John Wilkes Booth Fan Club".

[Botany]

4. If he wasn't born rich he would be a nobody but now he is trying to "unring the bell."

In a segment on his show Tuesday, Carlson claimed a media rival had been conducting “opposition research.”

Washington Post owner “Jeff Bezos had one of his minions, a mentally unbalanced middle-aged man called Erik Wemple, pull our dusty college yearbook and call around and see if we’d done anything naughty at the age of 19,” Carlson alleged.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tucker-carlson-yearbook_n_60828e18e4b0dff25404b38f

[nolabear]

5. So neither of those TWO organizations of his exist?

Dan White Society and Jesse Helms Foundation weren’t real? So he did nothing?

What a contribution to humanity he is...

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. I don't think "troll" would have been understood in 1991, so he had to make something up

to make it clear what his interests were.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. LOL

Link to tweet

[Nululu]

8. The Twinkie defense, laughable punishment

[Cicada]

11. There was no twinkies defense

White’s lawyers said he was suffering from depression. As a brief aside it was said that as an indication he was depressed he was eating junk food. No one said the junk food caused his depression nor that junk food caused his actions. The Twinkie defense is an urban myth.

[Nululu]

9. White used a gun to murder mayor of SF & Milk

He served 5 years for 2 cold blooded murders. He used a handgun to kill Mayor Mosconi and Harvey Milk.

He was found guilty of manslaughter after claiming junk food made him crazy.

[Cicada]

10. The Twinkie defense is an urban myth

White’s lawyers said he was suffering from depression, and in passing referred to his consumption of junk food as evidence that he was depressed, not the cause of his depression and not the cause of his actions.

[Nululu]

14. Reporters invented the term to explain the verdict

White went to the city offices where he killed the Mayor and Milk. He spent 5 years in prison for murdering two politicians at City Hall with the gun he brought.

White privilege at its worst.

[Raven]

12. That's the only thing he caould put in the yearbook??? No other accomplishments? Nothing but

two made up societies? Pathetic!

[lame54]

13. Max Fischer...