Tucker Carlson's first grade teacher busts him for lying about her to explain why he's an asshole.

[TheBlackAdder]

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Tucker Carlson's first grade teacher called him out for lying about her.

The Fox News broadcaster blamed the teacher, whom he identified as Mrs. Raymond, for his longtime hatred for liberals, calling the educator "a parody of earth-mother liberalism" who "wore long Indian-print skirts" and was so terrible at her job that his wealthy father was forced to hire a private tutor, but the Washington Post tracked her down for comment.

"Oh my God," said retired teacher Marianna Raymond. "That is the most embellished, crazy thing I ever heard."

Raymond, now 77 years old, denied crying at her desk, wearing Indian skirts or discussing her politics in class, but she praised her former student Carlson as "very precious and very, very polite and sweet."

She also confirmed that Carlson's father hired a tutor to help him with his school work, but Raymond told the newspaper that she was the tutor.

https://www.rawstory.com/tucker-carlson-teacher/

What a lying POS. At least pick a dead teacher to smear, jerk-off.

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[Walleye]

1. What is his gripe? It wasn't a public school

It does confirm that the man is not too bright

[pnwmom]

52. His gripe was that she taught him to hate liberals. n/t

[Walleye]

53. He was born rich he didn't need to be taught to hate liberals

[pnwmom]

54. The Kennedys were born rich, and they weren't taught to hate liberals. n/t

[Walleye]

55. I guess I should've said he was born Republican

[usaf-vet]

63. Right!

[usaf-vet]

61. Right!

[usaf-vet]

60. Right!

[olegramps]

96. How to tell if a Repub is lying: Their lips are moving. Old but still true.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. tucker is a sick puppy

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[KS Toronado]

11. Thanks for sharing all the info.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

19. Tucker is an asshole

Link to tweet

[LymphocyteLover]

24. so where exactly did Tucker go bad? Did he just sell out for money?

[JHB]

67. I wouldn't assume there was some specific point where he went bad...

...so much as he was always an Eddie Haskell on assholery and viciousness steroids.

[LymphocyteLover]

90. I read over the WaPo piece just now. He was born into extreme privilege and is a massive snob

He has no empathy at all, can't understand what racism is about... and that attitude has earned him countless millions

[SergeStorms]

23. Tucker couldn't keep up...

with the rest of the class I guess.

I always perceived Tucker as being a little slow.
Old "short bus" Carlson would shock me more if he told the truth, for once.

Of course this news about Tucker being a lying dullard will reach 1% of Fox viewers, if that.

[TheRealNorth]

25. Bingo

Tucker was probably a spoiled rich POS even at that early age.

[SergeStorms]

29. Yes.....

Mumsy and Daddy couldn't keep Master Tucker interested in his schoolwork. He was too busy eating the paste, and pulling the pigtails of little Millicent Throckmorton to apply himself to his studies.

Hence the "hippie" tutor (because anyone not an heir or heiress to the Swanson TV dinner fortune was considered a "hippie", or "the help" in the Carlson manor) and little Tucker was well on his way to being the unbearable weenie he is today.

All of Carlson's problems can be lain at the feet of "affluenza", not at the feet of learned instructors trying to enrich his mental acuity.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

56. He's so much like TFG it's eerie...

[calimary]

34. Another Professional Victim.

And badly done. YAWN …

[PCIntern]

3. BUSTED!!!

She should go on all the networks and bust his ass.

[Pinback]

4. Washington Post link:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tucker-carlson/2021/07/13/398fa720-dd9f-11eb-a501-0e69b5d012e5_story.html

The whole piece puts this spoiled, petty Little Lord Fauntleroy in perspective.

FYI to those unable to get through the paywall, your local public library may provide free access to the Washington Post. And occasionally digital subscriptions go on sale for $29 a year.

[qazplm135]

44. Or just use incognito mode

You can read it that way.

[Pinback]

48. Yep - depending on browser settings. (nt)

[SeattleVet]

77. If you're using Safari you can also use 'Reader' view to skip the paywall.

It will open the full-text of the article (sometimes with, sometimes without the photos) on top of the paywall reminder hiding the article.

[PJMcK]

73. A minor point

Little Lord Fauntleroy was the antithesis of Tucker. The young Lord was polite, always saw the good side of people and treated everyone with respect.

Those are hardly the qualities one would ascribe to Carlson.

[Pinback]

84. Ah - right you are. I stand corrected.

Thanks for the information. I was thinking more of the sartorial aspect of the foppish "Little Lord Fauntleroy" suit and all that it symbolizes than of the fictional character. (I confess I have not read the Frances Hodgson Burnett novel.) By all accounts, young Cedric Errol was indeed a kind and admirable child.

A better fictional parallel for Carlson would be the young Dudley Dursley from the Harry Potter stories. (The obnoxious Dudley does mature into a decent person after his and his cousin Harry's harrowing encounter with Dementors.)

[wnylib]

85. But Dudley was middle class.

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Maybe Draco Malfoy would be a good parallel for Carlson. Draco's family was wealthy and lived in a mansion.

[soldierant]

89. Even Dudley was more straightforwardly awful, less

slimy and hypocritical than Tucker.

Sadly, the variety of ways that people can be horrible human beings borders on infinity.

[LizBeth]

5. Why would anyone need to hire a tutor. Math I assume. Adding, subtracting. Not even multiplications

yet. A parent can easily spend a couple hour with any first grade academics.

Maybe a tough time reading but that fell into kids practicing at end of time during story time.

I guess printing. But Really, parents.

[TheBlackAdder]

6. While his parents were well off, perhaps they weren't great. Maybe that's his root asshole cause.

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[yardwork]

14. This story tends to suggest that.

It sounds like his father hired the teacher to provide "extra help" to little Tucker. Was he behind in reading or math? Needed help to meet developmental milestones? Dyslexic? Learning disability? Who knows. Lots of little kids need a little help and Tucker was fortunate to be in an affluent family with means.

Only Tucker Carlson would make this a bad thing. And I doubt the teacher's clothes had anything to do with it.

You hate women and liberals because your first grade teacher wore long skirts? Really, Tucker? Talk about snowflakes.

[LizBeth]

17. +1

[hadEnuf]

91. So the now the viscous little asshole who was ignored by his parents blames liberals for everything.

Especially the fact that liberals usually give a shit about their children, spend time with them and help them.

If he didn't get that, then nobody else can.


A typical specimen of a rich boy RWNJ upbringing.

[haele]

22. Reading, most likely. That actually comes harder to boys between the ages of 4 and 7 than Math.

Dyslexia is more common in boys, along with the assumptions by parents that boys will be more active than studious at that age are typical impediments to catching on to reading.
I've noticed it in my granddaughter's pre-K/elementary school.

Haele

[LizBeth]

26. +1. Personal experience interfered. I had two sons and both huge readers even at young age

Books were huge in their upbringing and they never had a time they were not around. Was the downtown every night before going to bed.

[haele]

36. Yes, but do you think the Carlson family took that sort of time and effort?

Also personal experience - my parents tried to get me and my younger brother to be able to read by the time we were four -and my brother was found to have dyslexia by the time he was seven.
As for my spouse, he came from a family of teachers and just couldn't get the hang of stringing letters together until it suddenly clicked for him in 1st grade, then you couldn't get his nose out of a book.

I've known plenty of families where they prefer to let their young boys wear themselves out with sports and play, but will sit their young girls down with a book or art project at the same time periods and level of energy expressed by the child.

But for Boy-Tucker, I doubt his socially active parents had far less to do with his early education than a nanny (if he had one) or his teachers would have. Just a personal opinion, true, but his actions suggest a lack of a love of learning.

Haele

[LizBeth]

58. +1. My oldest lacks sequential thinking. Would blow my mind how he could not get

to start on a particular page and read across. He always wanted it backwards....

Division was a nightmare if he ever lost the sequence. He could not get back to it.

[Hekate]

30. This

[Hekate]

39. Depends. I read constantly to my kids from infancy, but my little boy needed glasses ...

He slipped thru the cracks at the school screening for vision, but an ophthalmologist diagnosed a problem with convergent focusing. It was amazing how much that helped. And yes, I enrolled him in a tutoring program outside of school so he could catch up.

[LizBeth]

62. +1. I had the issue with eyes too. They had a check up and got thumbs up but

was not their realty.

[dsc]

41. I am a teacher myself and if I had a child who struggled with reading I would hire a professional

just like I am assuming that said reading professional would hire me if their child had a problem with high school math which is what I teach.

[LizBeth]

65. +1

[ShazzieB]

81. According to Carlson, the tutoring was for phonics.

Not that it matters, because who needs a tutor for any subject in the 1st(!) grade? Especially if you go to a swanky private school with the kind of student-teacher ratio those places have, where the teacher is able to devote a lot of time to each kid.

It's called first grade for a reason, because the material is very basic. Kids who have trouble at that early stage don't usually grow to be academic over achievers.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

86. I have ADHD

And dysgraphia

Math growing up was impossible for me,and to this day I have issues with multiplication,fractions forget it.

They didn't know how to work with me or even recognize what was going on with me in the 70's. They knew something was wrong.My ADHD just made it worse.

My mom had a tutor at public school in 6th grade help me with math. I was with her a whole year. I loved her. But math was very hard for me.Still is. But at least I can function in daily life with the math level I have today,thanks to her.

As for the other classes, I was in gifted classes. So it was a real problem.They just didn't know what it was. Dyslexia with numbers,dysgraphia

You don't have to be lazy,stupid spoiled rich kid to have and need a tutor.

Tuckers problem is he's a damn narcissist,playing victim and yeah he is a huge asshole.

[LizBeth]

93. My oldest the same. This is first grade, we parents should be sitting down and able to do the

ABC's and 123's. As I said above, he is not a sequential thinker and it affected reading and math, though he too very gifted in the reading. Teachers we having me come in to watch him in class, giving me books and by third grade, we had him with a teacher getting her master in these issues. We worked closely together and watchful to find different tools to help him. All the teachers and many students aware to help guide him the direction he need after a class. That would be the sequential of a damn schedule and what class came next. Division was the worst if he ever lost his pace, he could never find that sequence of division again. He was an hoot and joy because I had the time and the teachers help and he was/is an amazing kid, well young adult.

[tanyev]

7. Yeah, and he got booted off of Dancing With The Stars after one week because of a liberal plot

and not because he danced so bad that his pro choreographed the first 25 seconds of his routine to just sit in a chair.

&t=5s

[3catwoman3]

18. You have to really suck to get a 3 on DWTS.

And a tutor for first grade?

[tiptonic]

33. Barf

Again, BARF!!

[dhol82]

43. It's a good thing he came from money. Otherwise.....

He’d still be an incel.

[Cracklin Charlie]

8. I'm sorry, that's hilarious.

Never disrespect your teachers. They remember everything, and they bring receipts. (That IS the permanent record)

[Bo Zarts]

20. Exactly! And here's my read on this:

1. So fucking what if Mrs. Raymond wore long Indian-print skirts? I have always thought that Navajo-type prints, as well as Madras-type prints, etc., are very attractive. Add a plain blouse, and maybe a simple Navajo turquoise-and-silver bead neckless and you have my wife of 47 years (with a PhD from Georgia Tech) headed to DC for a committee meeting of the National Academy of Sciences - and she is the chairwoman of the committee! In cool weather, add a plain western vest. Kick-ass haute couture. When you dress like that, and you are very smart, you are usually in charge. But Tucker, the little fucker, doesn't understand that. He wears a bow-tie. Clowns wear bow-ties.

2. The tutor? Of course Tucker needed a tutor. He was slow then; he is slower now. So Tucker, just finish your Swanson's frozen dinner and STFU.

That's my two-¢'s worth.

[panader0]

69. I agree with your wife's wardrobe. Looks great with some boots too.

Love Southwest style.

[Bo Zarts]

78. Brown boots to match her eyes ..

No one wears Southwest style better. And no one detests Tucker Carlson like my wife does. She is the epitome of the liberal that Tucker so greatly fears.

[KG]

9. wingers have decided that whining and crying somehow advances their cause. whatever that is.

[maxsolomon]

13. Revenge against people who hurt their emotions. People who shamed them.

Conservatives are emotional children.

This story is a perfect example. He still carries a grievance from 1ST GRADE. He's fucking 52 years old.

[lsewpershad]

10. Fuccer Carlson

Has no scruples no conscience.

[NQAS]

12. And this will appear precisely nowhere in the fox universe

Evil, vile piece of shit.

[mdbl]

15. No one could have taught Tucker to be that big of an asshole

it was obviously innate.

[Crunchy Frog]

16. He needed a tutor to get through a 1st grade curriculum? Makes sense.

[PatSeg]

21. That is pretty damn low

Tucker Carlson will go after anyone, even his first grade teacher. What kind of adult attacks his first grade teacher? He's running out of material and people to blame. He is low even for Fox News.

[packman]

27. First grade? A TUTOR!!!

Failing in building blocks? Can't color in the lines? Can't find Waldo?

Sounds like his "parents" never gave him any attention - most kids have an inkling about math, reading, and the basics by the first grade. Guess mommy and daddy were too busy to help little Tucker.

[lunatica]

49. LOL!

The only thing missing is a shirt collar with a little bow tie!

[SleeplessinSoCal]

28. Even given his own lying logic, that is no reason to become a con asshole.

[Caliman73]

35. Very True. Total non-sequitur.

My first grade teacher embodied "liberal ideals" therefore I went the opposite way and became a belligerent conservative idiot who lies all the time and aligns with White Supremacy.

People who are conservative either grow up in conservative households where the ideology is passed to them, OR they fall down the rabbit hole where they start believing right wing propaganda that they are somehow being cheated and those cheating them are NOT the very wealthy, who actually have the power to affect their lives, BUT the poor and minorities, and women, who have far less power in society and are forced to compete for scraps to get by. Conservatism is very ego centric. It is a way for people who feel inferior to externalize the blame to people who actually have much less than they do. You don't have to confront an enemy that is more powerful than you are, you just have to punch down. The problem with that logic is, "How can a group that is less wealthy, less advantaged, and marginalized by society, have such power over you?" Therein lies the conservative dislogic and their magical leaps. Somehow their enemies are weak, but at the same time surrounding and overwhelming them. It is completely emotional and has no bearing in reality and only makes sense to other conservatives.

[malaise]

57. Do you think that fool even remembers the ideas promoted by his

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first grade teachers?

That is bullshit.

[Caliman73]

68. No. He is simply a bullshit artist.

He likely thought that his first grade teacher was dead and that he would just get a quick jab in a liberalism using her as an avatar.

Here is what I say, "Why the hell does anyone care about what Carlson says? He is a PROVEN liar. Proven in a court of law. His defense against a defamation suit was that he is a liar and no reasonable person should take what he says seriously. That was his defense. Why would anyone take ANYTHING he says as honest?"

[MarcA]

74. His followers care. Like flies attracted to poop. n/t

[BradAllison]

31. I really want to kick him hard in the nuts

Not that I think it would have any effect.....

[tiptonic]

32. Another

He's just another 'trust fund baby'. No concept of the real world. 'Poor baby'!!!!

[Quakerfriend]

37. No kid needs to be tutored in first grade! Maybe he's the way he is because his mom left

the family- just walked out- abandonment issues?
His dad later married a Swanson and she legally adopted the boys.

[apnu]

38. So what happened to the sweet boy Mrs. Raymond knew and the bitter prick he is now?

Seriously, something happened in his youth, but I don't think it was grade school. I figure he couldn't get laid in college and that started him off on this judgmental bitterness.

Every dick I knew in college that didn't have the social skills to get laid was a judgmental asshole.

[GoodRaisin]

40. I consider Carlson as bad as Trump when it comes to lying.

No reason to believe anything that comes out of his mouth.

[Justice matters.]

79. He must be practicing daily to run for the RepubliQan nomination some day... (n/t)

[Layzeebeaver]

42. She should sue for slander

If possible

[Hekate]

51. She's retired on a teacher's pension, I presume, and Tucker has a fortune. Lawsuits are expensive.

Naaah.

[ShazzieB]

83. Unless you can find a lawyer who will do it on a contingency basis.

But those are usually the kind of cases with a good chance of a big payoff. This isn't that kind of case.

[cutroot]

45. Who was the old radio announcer that once said...

I don’t care if you don’t like me or my opinions, as long as you do it every day between 5 and 6 PM. Tucker is a blowhard and he should simply be shunned. After saying this I will never click on another post about him. I would not watch his show for love or money.

[Hekate]

46. Dammit people, lay off first-graders who need additional help. Read OUR experiences here...

Tucker Carlson disgusts me. He is a sick excuse for a man, and he has re-written his entire life, apparently, as a narrative of victimhood by Liberals. How dare he reach back and smear a woman who was nothing but kind to him?

But there are real little kids out there — usually boys — who need extra help, and it is not because they are stupid or their parents (read: their mothers) are neglectful.

[world wide wally]

47. Is that about the same age that Trump hit his piano teacher.

I guess UpChucker Carlson is just trying to show trump that they are of one mind.

[H2O Man]

50. Recommended.

He would have had a rough time in my school.

[smb]

59. You Can Hardly Expect Him To Tell The Truth...

...when the truth was "I was so darn stoopid that my dad needed to pay my teacher to give me twice as many lessons so I could just barely keep up with the class".

[Buckeye_Democrat]

64. I can imagine Tucker Carlson behaving like...

... the millionaire Paul Radin in The Twilight Zone episode, One More Pallbearer.

Radin offered protection from a nuclear holocaust to people from his past, on the condition that they apologize for his deluded and perceived slights to his ego. One of them was a teacher who failed Radin and had caught him cheating.

The teacher and the other two guests preferred death with honor and loved ones over the idea of surviving with Radin. As they enter the elevator to leave Radin alone in the underground bunker, the teacher tells Radin that he has spent his life deluding himself about his own character and what is right and wrong. As the elevator leaves, Radin screams hysterically.

[dsc]

66. I sincerely hope she sues

she is not a public figure in any way, shape or form. Since he wrote this in a book and didn't say it on Fox they may tell him he is on his own here.

[panader0]

70. Funny thing--all I can remember are the teachers I really liked.

[alterfurz]

71. That moment when you meme yourself...

[greenjar_01]

72. It was the very tutor who was the teacher

[Permanut]

75. Tucker Carlson lying? Really?

I'd sooner believe there was gambling in Casablanca.

[yonder]

76. Mrs. Raymond misspelled precocious

'she praised her former student Carlson as "very precious and..."'

[ShazzieB]

80. It's lovely to see Tuckems put his foot in it like this. 😁

Or maybe I should say his cloven hoof. Yeah, that sounds about right!

[TexasBushwhacker]

82. As a former teacher, here's what I think

1) Tucker's birthday is May 16th, which means he was on the younger side of 6 rather than the older side. He may have been a little smaller and less developed cognitively. At that age, 6 months can make a huge difference. Nowadays, it isn't even unusual for parents to decide for their children born in the late spring or summer to have their kids repeat kindergarten, so they can start 1st grade a little ahead rather than a little behind.

2) Tucker's parents divorced WHEN HE WAS 6, because his artist mother (quote from Wikipedia) "left the family when he was six, wanting to pursue a "bohemian" lifestyle." His father got custody and moved Tucker and his younger brother to La Jolla. So not only did his parents divorce when he was in first grade, but he was uprooted during the school year. My guess is he associates "bohemian" artistic people with liberals, but hating one's mother is such a cliche that he made up a hippie first grade teacher instead.

3) Tucker's dad didn't marry the Swanson heiress until 1979, when Tucker would have turned 10. Then in a few years he was shipped off to boarding school.

[Maraya1969]

88. Kind of amazing that a kid would need a tutor in the first grade! Spot was too hard for him?

[Mike Nelson]

92. Ha-ha!

... Tuckums busted again! Also, his need for tutoring was likely because he was failing.

[Hulk]

94. DU keeps this asshole in the news.

He reaches 2 million idiots. DU share his dumb ass crazy-horse horse shit on this site. Time to ignore these assholes.

Like with "anne coultier" of yesterday....he says and does stupid shit to keep him in the news...keep him "relevant". Yes....he's bat shit crazy. Do we have to cover these dumb ass attention seeking butt holes?

[Aussie105]

95. Got to ask . . .

Where does Fox find this and similar total jerkoffs?

And why do they employ him? Some sort of hidden agenda?
No, actually, the agenda is right there, appeal to the other jerkoffs in the country.

I just hope Mrs Raymond has recovered from her close proximity to Tucker.

[olegramps]

97. It seems to me from my experience, that because they are wealth believe they are intelligent.

That also seems in many cases to apply to some who have hit is rich to think that they are superior to common folks. While many people's success is well deserved, they often discount the fact it is usually built on work of others that prepared them and an element fortunate timing a just pure luck. They seem to believe that they alone are the sole cause of their success and fail to attribute their success to those under payed teachers who put in hours working for peanuts in their behave.

[olegramps]

98. It seems to me from my experience, that because they are wealth believe they are intelligent.

That also seems in many cases to apply to some who have hit is rich to think that they are superior to common folks. While many people's success is well deserved, they often discount the fact it is usually built on work of others that prepared them and an element fortunate timing of just pure luck. They seem to believe that they alone are the sole cause of their success and fail to attribute their success to those under payed teachers who put in hours working for peanuts in their behave.