Jeremy Kappell, fired over racial slur on TV, now peddles right-wing misinformation Kappell, who worked in TV news for two decades, condemned the violence at the Capitol, but said he was "in the middle" on the message of the QAnon conspiracy. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle Most Rochesterians remember Jeremy Kappell as the weatherman who was fired for uttering a racial slur while mispronouncing "Martin Luther King Jr." during a broadcast on Jan. 4, 2019. Kappell never apologized for the mistake, insisting instead that it was merely "garbled words that had been the utterance of sounds." He cast himself as the victim of a vindictive "social mob" and quickly found solace on the far-right reaches of the internet.