Fox News host Tucker Carlson has blamed his first grade teacher, whom he identified as Mrs. Raymond, for his hatred for liberals.
Carlson, who attended the elite La Jolla Country Day School in California, has called his former teacher “a parody of earth-mother liberalism” who “wore long Indian-print skirts” and “had little interest in conventional academic topics, like reading and penmanship.“
Carlson has claimed Raymond sobbed at her desk: “The world is so unfair! You don’t know that yet. But you’ll find out!”
Carlson has also blamed Raymond for him needing a tutor: “Mrs. Raymond never did teach us; my father had to hire a tutor to get me through phonics.”
Marianna Raymond told The Washington Post that Carlson lied:
That is the most embellished, crazy thing I ever heard.
The Washington Post continued:
Raymond said in an interview that she never sobbed at her desk, didn’t wear an Indian skirt and didn’t advocate her political views. She said that not only did she teach Carlson reading at La Jolla Country Day School — with a student body that was “very affluent and White” — but that she also was then hired to tutor him at his home.
(Source: The Washington Post)