When Jesse Watters sought to interview students at Cornell University for his Watters World segment, the university was not having it. Watters was there to ask students for their take on 96 percent of professors donating to Democrats.
The university media relations explained they had not granted him permission to interview students. When Watters went to go ask for that permission he was told “not on campus at this time.” The school said they would send him a statement, a much less exciting alternative.
The statement was not only less exciting, but rather contrived. It also did not provide any further reason why they couldn’t shoot. Watters said about the statement that “it just says Cornell does not consider a person’s political stance in its hiring practices.”
One professor at Cornell had previously said however that “placing more emphasis on diversity of political beliefs when hiring [would] almost certainly require sacrificing on general quality or other dimensions of diversity.”
Before getting kicked off campus, Watters had been able to get in a few questions, and some of the responses may reflect that this high percentage is a problem:
“A very diverse campus – a bunch of different people from a bunch of different backgrounds.”
Jesse: It’s not that diverse, because according to this report, 96 percent of the donations from faculty here went to Democrats.
“What’s wrong with that?”
Jesse: Do you ever feel the professors are pushing a political agenda here?
“I’ve got friends who are liberal arts majors – they write a paper and they bring up a conservative viewpoint, they won’t get a good grade.”
“If I want an A, I tailor my paper to how the professor leans.”
Jesse: What is the national debt right now?
“200 million.”
Jesse: 18 Trillion. Professors aren’t tell you the truth.
“Maybe not.”
Jesse: Do you trust Hillary?
“Yes.”
Jesse: Then why did she lie about the Benghazi attacks being about a video when she knew it was about a terrorist attack?
“Huh…”
“I don’t think that she was lying at all to the American public.”
Watters discussed the situation with Bill O’Reilly on The O’Reilly Factor. O’Reilly pointed out Cornell just made themselves look worse. He also quipped though that Cornell told him “the real reason” they didn’t want Watters on campus, which came down to his mittens “offend[ing] almost everybody.”
