"Bernie, can I draw a reasonable conclusion that the weather will help or hurt the Republicans?" the anchor Gregg Jarrett quizzed a weatherman yesterday on MSNBC.
I have begun to feel more like a poor man's Derek Brockway, the BBC Wales weatherman, this week, than a rugby reporter, as virtually all of my despatches began with an admittedly, rudimentary weather report.
Unfortunately a BBC weatherman this summer got caught making an untimely gesture.
He may be better known for his basketball skills, but former NBA superstar Charles Barkley is boasting a new title of "weatherman" this week.
A dogmatic offshoot of the Weathermen, May 19th's members believed that a black-led revolution in America was in the offing.
From Paul M. Barrett's review of Mark Rudd's memoir, "Underground: My Life With SDS and the Weathermen" (May 3), one might imagine that Rudd had written an unrepentant, unreflective, shallow defense of his activist days with "some mistakes" tossed in.
Kevin Lathrop Brooklyn, Oct. 4, 2008 To the Editor: Re "Palin, on Offensive, Attacks Obama's Ties to '60s Radical" (news article, Oct. 5): According to Gov. Sarah Palin, Senator Barack Obama is un-American for "palling around with" Bill Ayers, who was involved with the Weathermen 40 years ago.
Tuesday night, there was a party at Blue Smoke for Al Roker, the avuncular weatherman of "Today," and for his new book, "Al Roker's Big Bad Book of Barbecue".
The incident parallels the case of Rob Blair, a Las Vegas TV weatherman sacked last year for apparently starting to call Martin Luther King Martin Luther Coonn" before stopping himself short.
