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Weatherman Fired After 33 Years on the Job for Refusing Vaccine, Goes Out with Legendary Final Words
The Western Journal ^ | September 20, 2021 | Jack Davis

Posted on 09/20/2021 11:45:50 AM PDT by Hostage

With a prediction for very stormy weather ahead for the nation he loves, meteorologist Karl Bohnak signed off last week after being fired for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine.

Bohnak had served as the weatherman at Michigan’s WLUC-TV for 33 years, according to The Washington Post. Gray Television, WLUC’s parent company, instituted a vaccine-or-else policy that went into effect on Wednesday.

“I am sad, but, to borrow a quote from a famous ballplayer, ‘I’m the luckiest man on the face of the earth’ because I had a dream as a kid to be a weatherman.

“That dream came true and to top it off, I got to broadcast weather for one of the most challenging, beautiful spots in the United States. As an added bonus, the people I broadcast to all across Upper Michigan were so kind and encouraging,” he wrote.

But a cloud has fallen over the land of the free, he wrote.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: barackhusseinobama; bhohatesamerica; biden; bloggers; covid19; covid1984; covidstooges; districtofcolumbia; gestapogretchen; globalwarminghoax; govwhitmer; greennewdeal; gretchenwhitmer; jeffbezos; karlbohnak; michigan; obama; opus; stretchengretchen; vaccine; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost; weatherman; whitler; whitmer
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To: Hostage

CORRECTION

Gray broadcasting is NOT owned by the Washington Post. It is a oublicly traded, independent company.


41 posted on 09/20/2021 12:18:14 PM PDT by VideoPaul
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To: Hostage
Northern Michigan isn't exactly a hotbed of leftism.

Ann Arbor, on the other hand....

42 posted on 09/20/2021 12:19:37 PM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: Hostage

WAPO is not the parent company. Gray Television is.


43 posted on 09/20/2021 12:19:58 PM PDT by mikesmad
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To: Cboldt
Two competing gangs fighting over who controls the neighborhood.

Two competing gangs fighting over Treasury stolen loot.
44 posted on 09/20/2021 12:21:17 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Hostage

I don’t understand why this isn’t being called out for what it is. This is a dictionary definition of EXTORTION.


45 posted on 09/20/2021 12:21:20 PM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Hostage; Red Badger; pepsi_junkie; EEGator; hoe_cake; Steve_Seattle; Thunder90; ...
Show a little love for Karl by checking out his EXCELLENT book:

So Cold A Sky
Upper Michigan Weather Stories
https://www.amazon.com/Cold-Upper-Michigan-Weather-Stories/dp/097781890X

46 posted on 09/20/2021 12:22:26 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: All

A much classier way of leaving your job than flushing cement down the toilet


47 posted on 09/20/2021 12:23:45 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: I want the USA back

They did not win. He will find that he did not NEED this job. He is going to live his life his own way, following his own lights. They no longer have control over him.

He may find, as I have, that FEAR and GREED are poor masters. This life is yours, until you give it away.

He is doing the opposite of what you say, and leaving them holding an empty dog collar.

I wish all could make this choice.


48 posted on 09/20/2021 12:24:34 PM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: Hostage

Those lakes and roads depend on good weather forecasting.The UP is heaven on earth.


49 posted on 09/20/2021 12:28:13 PM PDT by cnsmom
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To: Hostage

When I was a kid we had a local weatherman who was like a trusted fixture, everyone was sad when he finally retired..

His name was Don McNeely KFVS TV. His daughter then became the weathergirl and carried on the family tradition...


50 posted on 09/20/2021 12:29:16 PM PDT by Bobalu (The plan must be to distract from Afghanistan by doing something even more stupid )
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To: Hostage

Very well said. I hope someone with some sense hires him with all his experience.


51 posted on 09/20/2021 12:29:29 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: Hostage

I’ll be damned...there IS still a man left in America.


52 posted on 09/20/2021 12:31:13 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: dpetty121263

I had heard rumors about General Dynamics but there was never any real verification. They depend on government contract which makes me question the rumors.


53 posted on 09/20/2021 12:32:51 PM PDT by heylady
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To: pepsi_junkie

“Wow. A fellow like this spends a whole career as a local weatherman while a complete moron like Don Lemon has a national daily show.”

As to why - VERY SIMPLE. THEY own the media, so we get whatever crumbs, if any, that THEY choose to give to us.


54 posted on 09/20/2021 12:33:13 PM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: BobL; pepsi_junkie

aka “Dumb Lemming”


55 posted on 09/20/2021 12:35:19 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: dpetty121263
Saw where employees at General Dynamics took and stand and said no we will not take the Vax...Company backed down.

Oh, I don't think so. GD and its other companies love the government gravy train, and if they want to continue feeding from that trough, they'll play the game. How many within GD will walk (or get fired) vs. how many are not vaxxed are two different animals. When someone's livelihood is on the line in industries that are rare in private industry, I think people will choose the vaxx. I hope I'm wrong.
56 posted on 09/20/2021 12:35:27 PM PDT by tenger (And we let the Government padlock the church doors...)
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To: VastRWCon

57 posted on 09/20/2021 12:35:38 PM PDT by Bobalu (The plan must be to distract from Afghanistan by doing something even more stupid )
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To: Hostage

...so exactly WHO at GRay Television put this mandate in place...don’t let the true villain(s) hide behind faceless corporate skirts. Man up, cowards.


58 posted on 09/20/2021 12:37:20 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: Hostage

Sacrificed his livelihood to SAVE HIS LIFE. Selfish old coot!

[/sarc off]

I’d do the same thing, but I’m already retired, so pffft!


59 posted on 09/20/2021 12:42:40 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Hostage; bitt; numberonepal

“I have the right to choose — we all do. If we do nothing, we will lose that right.”
- Karl Bohnak

But, we are in a Democracy, Karl.
The majority of us want you to get vaxx’d.
You have no choice.

“That is dangerous to our Democracy.”
- America’s Media


60 posted on 09/20/2021 12:43:00 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Patriots, stop looking at the politicians as enemies. Look at the complicit Legacy Media.)
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