November 3, 2008, - 9:17 pm
Um, Why is My TV Weatherman Telling Me to Vote for Obama?
By Debbie Schlussel
On Sunday Morning, I watched in disbelief as I heard weatherman Andrew Humphrey tell the Detroit TV audience to vote for Obama. No, Humphrey didn’t flat out say, “Vote for Obama on Tuesday”. As a graduate of the University of Michigan and MIT, he’s smarter than that.
No, meteorologist Andrew said on WDIV/Local 4 (Detroit’s NBC affiliate, owned by the liberal Post-Newsweek), “And on Tuesday, it’s your chance to get out and make history on this very historic election day.” Well, I think it’s pretty clear what he was saying, and very unclear what this had to do with the weather.
I called Channel 4’s newsroom immediately to complain and I got through. The news staffer said that he also meant Sarah Palin–that we could make history by electing either Obama or Sarah Palin. Uh-huh. The Detroit Free Press reports that 98% of Black voters here are voting Obama. The other 2% are undecided, and he isn’t one of them. Do you really think he was telling us to make history with Palin (not that that would make it okay–it would be equally objectionable)? And why the heck is this in a . . . weathercast?
I know Andrew Humphrey, though not well (he’s liberal and definitely voting Obama). I like him–really smart and nice guy. But, dude, just give me the damn weather.
Keep the politics and other pronouncements to yourself. There’s a reason it’s called a “NEWScast”, not an OPINIONcast.
Maybe you think I’m making a big deal out of an innocent statement. I suppose that Andrew–who is no militant–could have said something far more blatant and egregious. But come on, I think we know what the weatherman was telling us to do on election day.
The only “history-making” that should be mentioned in a weathercast is record precipitation or temperatures.
It’s amazing that in no less than Rev. Wright’s alleged “U.S. of KKKA” people get away with this.
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Here’s my new weather term: Partly Obama (partly cloudy). When there’s a blizzard outside, it’s SnObama–kinda like what Obama does whenever he’s asked for specifics about anything, as in he gives you the SnObama.
Ok, this was not an innocent statement. Huel Perkins and FOX2 have been doing the same kind of thing over the last 8 months. Very obvious.
rickster on November 3, 2008 at 10:17 pm