Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rhino Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,alt.tv.game-shows Subject: Re: "Wheel Of Fortune" Host Pat Sajak s Last Show Will Be June 7 Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2024 14:40:39 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 82 Message-ID: <20240406144039.0000691d@example.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2024 18:40:41 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="1fa95039d72a36a2dcd0f997b0b566ad"; logging-data="2339424"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19/vslFRy88K1YXBYAaNjljuftNvHHZWjo=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:yRxKnZ7565ekMR1lf4RBFT77FRM= X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 240406-2, 4/6/2024), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.2.0 (GTK 3.24.41; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Bytes: 4922 On Fri, 05 Apr 2024 22:09:35 -0400 Ubiquitous wrote: > The iconic host of =E2=80=9CWheel of Fortune,=E2=80=9D Pat Sajak, who bec= ame the=20 > longest-running host of a game show in television history in 2018, > will appear as the host for the last time on June 7. >=20 > Sajak started hosting the show in 1981, when he took over from Chuck=20 > Woolery; he has received 19 nominations for the Daytime Emmy Award > for Outstanding Game Show Host and won three times. >=20 > He announced his impending retirement last June, tweeting, =E2=80=9CWell,= the=20 > time has come. I=E2=80=99ve decided that our 41st season, which begins in= =20 > September, will be my last. It=E2=80=99s been a wonderful ride, and I=E2= =80=99ll have=20 > more to say in the coming months. Many thanks to you all. (If nothing=20 > else, it=E2=80=99ll keep the clickbait sites busy!)=E2=80=9D >=20 > Sajak was born in Chicago in 1946, went to Columbia College, then=20 > served in the U.S. Army as a disc jockey during the Vietnam War for=20 > American Forces Vietnam Network. He later worked as a weatherman > before becoming a weather reporter for KNBC in Los Angeles. >=20 > Merv Griffin fought for Sajak to become the host of =E2=80=9CWheel of > Fortune=E2=80=9D to succeed Chuck Woolery, he took over as host in 1981. = In > the 2018-19 season, he became the longest-running host of any game > show, passing Bob Barker, who had hosted The Price Is Right. >=20 > Sajak, a staunch political conservative, has served as an external=20 > director of Eagle Publishing and served on the board of directors of=20 > the Claremont Institute. >=20 > Sajak=E2=80=99s rapier wit on Twitter has endeared him to conservatives f= or=20 > years. Targeting the non-stop coverage of Great Britain=E2=80=99s Prince > Harry and his wife Meghan Markle amidst ferociously incessant > coverage of the woke couple because of Harry=E2=80=99s new memoir, =E2=80= =9CSpare,=E2=80=9D > Sajak tweeted, =E2=80=9CHaving trouble finding information about Prince H= arry > and his wife (Meghan, I think). Any sources you might suggest?=E2=80=9D >=20 > In November 2019, Sajak, then 73, took notice of the unhinged climate=20 > alarmists on the Left who had decided to avoid having children in > order to save the planet. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) > pontificated, =E2=80=9COur planet is going to hit disaster if we don=E2= =80=99t turn > this ship around and so it=E2=80=99s basically like, there=E2=80=99s a sc= ientific > consensus that the lives of children are going to be very difficult. > And it does lead, I think, young people to have a legitimate > question, you know, =E2=80=98Is it okay to still have children?=E2=80=99= =E2=80=9D >=20 > Offering his own hilarious solution for the problem. Sajak tweeted,=20 > =E2=80=9CIn order to save our planet, I=E2=80=99m asking everyone in Amer= ica who=E2=80=99s 73- > years-old or older to join me in pledging not to have any more=20 > children.=E2=80=9D >=20 I would probably have been considerably more direct after AOC's pontification and observed that it was truly unfortunate her parents had not had the same concerns before she was conceived.=20 > Sajak had lanced the self-importance of celebrities before as well. > In October 2017, he issued a tweet in the wake of the plethora of=20 > uninformed opinions offered by celebrities (in response to the Las=20 > Vegas massacre), writing, =E2=80=9COK, let me explain this again: We=E2= =80=99re > celebs. We=E2=80=99re wiser & more empathetic than you. We are famous. Pl= ease > take our opinions more seriously.=E2=80=9D Is a Sajak Presidential run for 2024 completely out of the question? --=20 Rhino