Veteran news anchor Bill O’Reilly has the message to Harvard University that “you’re wrong” in his battle with President Trump.
Earlier this week, the university rejected the Trump administration’s request to limit activities on campus. The decision has led the federal government to freeze more than $2.2 billion in grants to Harvard.
The focus on the school’s DEI – diversity, equity, inclusive – was at the heart of the conflict, but O’Reilly doesn’t think Harvard is genuinely committed to the idea, as there are few conservatives on campus.
“Your faculty is 90% radical left, and you don’t hire moderate traditional conservative professors,” O’Reilly told NewsNation’s “Cuomo” on Wednesday.
“Conservative Republican students are feeling uneasy and blackmailed,” he continued. “Jewish students feel uneasy.”
However, the former Fox News host said the campus is not always hostile to a conservative perspective.
“When I went there in the mid-’90s and got my Master, it wasn’t,” O’Reilly told host Chris Cuomo. “It was a liberal culture, but other perspectives were accepted.”
He added:
in Monday letterHarvard President Alan Gerber said the university would “not waive independence or waive constitutional rights.”
“A government in power should not direct what private universities can teach, whom they can recognize and hire, and which areas of learning and research can be pursued,” Gerber wrote.
On Wednesday, the Trump administration called on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to revoke Harvard’s tax-free status.
O’Reilly believes that if schools prove their commitment to ideological diversity, many of the Trump administration’s threats will disappear.
“If people are reasonable, this can be resolved and I hope it is,” he said.
