Posted on 06/23/2023 1:18:34 AM PDT by dennisw
A longtime meteorologist is quitting his job at an Iowa TV station and plans to change careers after viewer backlash over his “liberal conspiracy theory on the weather” led him to seek treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder.
Chris Gloninger announced Wednesday that he will depart KCCI-TV in Des Moines in July, according to the Washington Post.
The 18-year TV veteran, who joined the CBS affiliate in 2021, told the newspaper he was inundated with “harassing” emails calling him an “idiot” for his “liberal conspiracy theory on the weather” which had him “pushing nothing but a Biden hoax.”
“I was not sleeping,” Gloninger said. “I had bags under my eyes.”
Some of the commenters asked for his address while others vowed to give him “an Iowan welcome you will never forget,” according to the Washington Post.
Another troll angrily urged Gloninger to “go east and drown from the ice cap melting.”
The messages took a toll on Gloninger, who started seeing a therapist and sought treatment for PTSD.
When one of the angry messages appeared in his inbox, he rushed home from the hair salon where his wife was waiting alone and suggested to her that they call the police, according to the Washington Post.
Police in Iowa located a man in the town of Lenox, 63-year-old Danny H. Hancock, who was found to have been the one who sent the threatening messages.
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Today’s forecast: Partly cloudy with a 90% chance of the World’s Smallest Violin™ playing.
I would say that this guy is “under the weather”.
He will not be missed!
This looks like a few Iowa FReepers gave this PTST weather girl a piece of their mind.
The dude can’t tell you tomorrow’s high temperature to the nearest tenth of a degree, but he is cocksure what it will be in 50 years.
EC
I take it this weather man works for an affiliated broadcast station.
How about just report the weather and skip the political BS. Your know, the 5 day analysis and stuff like that.
Could be part of the problem.
I wonder how fast he would melt if shown this: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4162859/posts
EC
This sounds like a made up story.
Now, he has advertised the facts that he can’t stop editorializing the weather and he can’t handle any negative reaction to it. What network would want to hire all those potential problems? He shared all this, perhaps thinking it would make those Iowans feel guilty, when all it did was make himself look pathetic.
Spewing globalist propaganda is so unappreciated these days.
Typical liberal idiot that can’t handle reality.
Another troll angrily urged Gloninger to “go east and drown from the ice cap melting.”
The horror!
When losers lose, they always claim they are receiving “death threats.” Booschidt! I’m not a fan of making death threats at people over their dumbass politics. A lot of people are just born stupid and dependent on the government to survive. You can’t kill people for that.
Well I’ll be. A liberal crying when he’s subjected to liberal tactics. What a weenie.
Except that it has happened on The Weather Channel every day for ten years. I would say their is more environmental global warming crap on the TWC than there is weather reporting.
Great news! The left is starting to get a dose of their own medicine.
Think how many conservatives/Republicans have been subjected to that and much worse.
It’s about time we go on the offensive! And if we keep it up we will win this culture war because we way outnumber them.
They’ve abused our tolerance and compassion long enough. We’re tired of being schmucks.
I love starting my day reading an article with a happy ending!
I am sure the moonbats at a left or East Cost station will hire this jackhole.
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