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Subject: Re: "Wheel Of Fortune" Host Pat Sajak s Last Show Will Be June 7
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2024 14:40:39 -0400
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On Fri, 05 Apr 2024 22:09:35 -0400
Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> 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