Jeremy Kappell was fired from WHEC-TV in Rochester, New York after he inadvertently said "Martin Luther Coon King Junior Memorial Park" on the air. In a radio interview with me tonight, Kappell said he never even heard his own mistake. Truth of intent didn't get in the way of a nice public stoning. Social Justice Warriors assembled the internet mob and ---BOOM!--- Kappell was fired. Ill-informed EMOTIONAL ALL CAPS INTERNET RAGING prevails over logic once again. Did anyone think to ask Jeremy Kappell's co-workers, neighbors, or other people in regular contact with him ask about his racial temperament? I worked with him. He's one of the kindest people I've ever known. His WHAS-TV workmates Ben Pine and Reed Yadon were
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Rochester SJW mob gets meteorologist fired for mangled words
Former WHAS11 and WDRB meteorologist Jeremy Kappell was fired at a Rochester, New York station after the internet mob determined that his on air phrasing of Martin Luther King Junior's name was a deliberate racist shoutout. In what reasonable people would consider spoonerism, Kappell mashed up "King" and "Junior" and said "coon" and quickly corrected himself. It's the exact same verbal mashup that ESPN's Mike Greenwell tripped through a few years back without repercussion. Wait, what? That's right. The ESPN guy said "oops" and went on with his life back then. Today it's all about the WOKE factor. It doesn't matter what a person says in their own defense. The WOKE crowd is allowed to determine what is in another