Meteorologist Receives Homophobic Email from Disgruntled Viewer

metroweekly.com:

A local meteorologist in New Orleans, Louisiana, was recently accosted by a homophobic email sent to him by a disgruntled viewer.On July 17, David Bernard, the chief meteorologist at WVUE Fox 8, one of the larger multi-media news platforms in the southeastern Louisiana region, posted an email from a viewer named “Stephen LaFrance” on his Facebook page.

The email, brief in its statements, said “nice job predicting the weather f***t,” proceeding to complain about power outages despite a forecast of light rain.“I received a disturbing email yesterday from a person who was upset about the forecast.

After 30 years I can stand and accept the criticism when I get it wrong. What I won’t accept are personal attacks about me,” Bernard, who is openly gay, wrote in the Facebook post.

Bernard said that the individual who sent him the homophobic message used his company email, which Bernard elected not to expose since he didn’t know if the company was owned by the individual ‘or owned by others.”He then added: “And by the way, the word f****t has two G’s.” Bernard followed up his initial post with a comment beneath the screenshot of the email.