Ohio State caved to the woke mob on Charlie Kirk moment of silence

Here's how the Lunatic Fringe successfully stymied the plan to honor the slain conservative activist who believed that college was a waste of time.

Ohio State’s color guard accidentally lowered and raised the flag during “Script Ohio” on Saturday night. From left to right: OSU AD Ross Bjork, OSU spokesperson Ben Johnson, OSU president Ted “Slapshot” Carter and the late Charlie Kirk.

Ohio State scuttled a planned moment of silence for slain conservative Charlie Kirk before its football game against Ohio University on Saturday night.

As The Rooster reported Friday night, a tipster from inside Ohio State’s game day operations department revealed the covert plan to honor Kirk, which was set to come after the playing of the national anthem.

After the anthem, the flag in the south endzone would be lowered to half-mast, the moment of silence would be observed, and then the flag would be raised to the standard height for the rest of the game.

However, by Saturday morning, Ohio State President Ted “Slapshot” Carter had told at least one Franklin County elected official that the report was a “false rumor.”

Ohio State spokesperson Ben Johnson parroted that language while denying the report to Kyle Beachy of NBC4, which broadcast the game on its Peacock platform.

But as The Rooster reported roughly an hour before kickoff, Ohio State culled the plan to save face. The flag lowering and raising would still happen after the anthem, but the announcement “at the order of the President [of the United States]” would be devoid of Kirk’s name.

That plan, according to the inside source, also got scrapped. However, the chain of command became so jumbled that the official word never got to the university’s color guard.

“[The color guard was] waiting to lower the flag, and [the order] never came,” the source said. “So they lowered the flag to half staff and raised it while the band was doing Script Ohio.”

The flags atop the stadium, meanwhile, remained at half mast throughout the pregame ceremonies and game itself.

The Ohio State Color Guard accidentally lowered and raised the flag during Script Ohio after orders around the originally planned moment of silence for Charlie Kirk became jumbled.

Reporting on the future plans of powerful people is risky business.

Plans can be changed. Reports can be “officially denied.”

Ohio State’s brain trust knows the power imbalance favors the locally beloved institution, as we saw earlier this year when we learned that university spokesman Ben Johnson knowingly misled the media about his employer deploying snipers to “observe” peaceful pro-Palestine protests before the Highway Patrol ultimately deployed force to disperse them.

From Zurie Pope of mattersnews.org in June (emphasis theirs):

The documents also reveal how Ohio State’s messaging and on-the-ground realities didn’t always match.

It was widely claimed on April 25 that State Highway Patrol officers on the roof of the Ohio Union were carrying sniper rifles – claims Ohio State initially denied. In an article published by OSU student newspaper The Lantern headlined “University Confirms There Are No Snipers on the Ohio Union’s Roof,” Ohio State spokesman Ben Johnson said the troopers were “in a watching position, similar to a football game day.”

However, an email from the state highway patrol’s intelligence unit on April 25 referred to the troopers as “snipers.” Hours later, the university confirmed the officers had firearms.

And that’s without mentioning other credibility problems like the university being enthralled to Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged lover, its obsequiousness to Donald Trump, and slapping sexual abuse survivors in the face with the recent re-hiring of E. Gordon Gee after an independent investigation cited the former president for dereliction of duty in the cover-up of the crimes of Dr. Richard Strauss.

That’s why, minutes after reporting the original story, special investigator Max Littman submitted the following records request:

“Ohio State has once again acquiesced to the moral majority who are invested and care about the University,” Littman told The Rooster in a statement.

“In six to eight months, I am looking forward to seeing what actually happened and how many teary-eyed sentences Ted Carter wrote about being bullied out of having a moment of silence for a podcaster who had no affiliation with Ohio State.”

Two more records requests targeting Ohio State associate athletic directors will be filed Monday morning.

As Special Investigator Littman referenced in his statement, Ohio State isn’t known for quick turnarounds on records requests.

Earlier this year, The Rooster successfully sued the university in the Ohio Court of Claims after the university failed to release records in a timely fashion as required by state law.

That process took eight months.

As in that previous episode, The Rooster stands by our reporting and awaits the public records that will vindicate us.

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