Republicans of course play the same game. The Bush brothers, geniuses all, also attended Yale.
Bill Clinton, from a poor family, truly attended Georgetown (BS) and Yale (JD) on merit.
Tucker Carlson bio indicates he did not grow up impoverished and deprived of opportunity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_Carlson"Carlson was born in San Francisco, California, and later lived on Laurel Terrace Drive in Studio City until the first grade in elementary school.[2]
He is the elder son of Richard Warner Carlson, a former Los Angeles news anchor and U.S. ambassador to the Seychelles who was also president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and director of Voice of America.[3] Carlson's father had been born Richard Boynton and was adopted by the Carlsons at age three.[4] Carlson's mother is Lisa McNear (Lombardi); she left the family when Carlson was 6 years old,[5][3] wanting to pursue a bohemian lifestyle. She eventually moved to France and had little contact with any of the family after that.[6] Carlson has a younger brother, Buckley Swanson Peck Carlson. His maternal Lombardi lines leads to a Swiss immigrant ancestor, Cesare Lombardi.[7]
In 1979, when Tucker was 10 years old, his father married Patricia Caroline Swanson. An heiress to the Swanson frozen-food fortune, Swanson is the daughter of Gilbert Carl Swanson, as well as the granddaughter of Carl A. Swanson and the niece of Senator J. William Fulbright.[8][3]
In first grade, Tucker and his younger brother moved to La Jolla, California, where they grew up.[9] While living in La Jolla,
Tucker briefly attended La Jolla Country Day School. He then attended high school at St. George's School, a boarding school in Middletown, Rhode Island. After graduating from high school, he studied at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where he graduated in 1991 with a BA in history.[3]"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_College_(Connecticut)
"Trinity College is a private liberal arts college in Hartford, Connecticut. Founded as Washington College in 1823 as
an alternative to Yale, it is the second-oldest college in the state of Connecticut.
Coeducational since 1969, the college enrolls 2,300 students. Trinity offers 38 majors and 26 minors, with a student-to-faculty ratio of 9:1. 73.1 percent of classes at the college contain fewer than 20 students.[4]
The college is a member of the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC), informally referred to' as the Little Ivies. U.S. News & World Report has ranked Trinity tied for 46th in its 2019 ranking of best national liberal arts colleges in the United States.[5]
