Miami TV weatherman gives $25,000 to DNC and $5,000 to DCCC

[ringmastery]

This is pretty cool.

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/issues/2004-06-03/kulchur.html

Still the biggest surprise has to be the discovery that one of the Democratic Party's most generous Miami contributors is hiding in plain sight. WFOR-TV (Channel 4) weatherman Bryan Norcross has given $25,000 to the DNC and $5000 to the DCCC in just the past election cycle, with a $1000 kicker to Dean. Pundits such as Ann Coulter and Bernard Goldberg have fashioned lucrative careers from their shrill allegations of liberal bias in the media, but Norcross's case poses a thornier question.

Can a weather forecast be, ahem, politically slanted? Is there such a thing as meteorological bias? Kulchur embarked on a rigorous study of Norcross's recent televised forecasts: Did gentle, uplifting winds always seem to blow in from the left? Did property-destroying gales gust in from the right? Were Norcross's predictions of rain always arriving on the eve of a Bush visit?

The results so far have been inconclusive. But ever the dedicated journalist, Kulchur is willing to follow this story all the way through hurricane season. (We smell a Pulitzer!)

A WFOR spokesman curtly informed Kulchur that Norcross preferred not to discuss his political views, but we're pretty sure we could hear a certain weatherman rolling his eyes in the background.