CNN host Michael Smerconish announced on Monday that Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, rescinded his invitation to deliver the commencement address at this year’s graduation ceremony over unearthed comments he made in a 2004 book.
Smerconish, in an article published on his website on Monday, wrote that the school retracted its invitation for him to speak at the ceremony, where he would receive an honorary degree, after students and members of the faculty complained about comments he made in his 2004 book, “Flying Blind: How Political Correctness Continues to Compromise Airline Safety Post-9/11.”
According to Fox 43, the issue began after an undergraduate student wrote an opinion piece for the college’s student-run newspaper, the Dickinsonian, criticizing the decision to invite Smerconish to deliver the commencement address.
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