Who Gives A Flying Fuck Through A ROlling Doughnut What Pat Sajak Says?

[titaniumsalute]

I mean really? The old, plastic-faced has-been is grasping for straws. That would be as valuable as a tweet from Zsa Zsa Gabor. Who gives a fuck what he thinks. Most of the people who watch his show are about 88 years old anyway.

What ever happened to actors, musicians, artists, personalities...just doing their jobs and staying out of politics? I go to work everyday. I don't discuss politics with my clients...some are Dems and some are Reps. Either way I think it is very unprofessional to discuss politics at work...even if you are a game show host.

[GusBob]

1. A has-been game show host

A game show host

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

2. I'd like to solve the puzzle Pat,

'You are a doofus'

[madokie]

46. I remember when he was going to put an end

to all the other talk shows when he launched his own talk show
What a pencil head, someone writes it, he says it

[MFM008]

3. I need a few vowels

[titaniumsalute]

5. At Sajak's age he probably needs to buy a bowel...

...movement.

[billh58]

4. And 88 year old people

are insignificant how? How about 77 year old people -- are they insignificant too? Or, maybe 66 year old people no longer count in your world? Is 55 years old acceptable to you?

What exactly is the age cut off point where an individual no longer matters?

[titaniumsalute]

6. Well if Sajak wants to make a political statement to 88 year olds

then that is his prerogative. Especially rambling statements like his that made no sense at all.

[billh58]

7. Sajak isn't the issue here.

You implied that 88 year old people are incapable of discerning the truth for themselves? What is the basis for your bigotry against elder Americans?

[titaniumsalute]

8. The truth of what?

What Sajak said? Exactly what truth was that? What does racism have to do with climate change?

[billh58]

13. So you don't want to own

your bias against the elderly, or defend your ageism? As a mater-of-fact I don't give a flying fuck what Pat Sajak says, but I do give a flying fuck about bigotry and discrimination directed toward ANY group of people based on race, ethnicity, religion, mental capacity, gender, or age.

[titaniumsalute]

17. Yup ya got me...I hate 88 year olds.

87...fine. But 88...just too old for me.

Abe Vigoda...Betty White...Carl Reiner...just too old.

Ok, obviously I'm being facetious. I'm sorry I didn't spell it out to you BILLH. Shows like Wheel obviously cater to a much older audience. Certain older Americans have a need to be entertained of course. Do you really think that the older audience wants to be doused with political statements about climate change and global warming at the end of their game show? Do you think the average senior citizen "picked up" on Sajak's closing remark and understood his rambling remarks? Hell my kids couldn't understand his remarks when I showed them.

The point really is who cares what Pat Sajak, a talk show host, cares about. And who is his "activism" really impacting? A bunch of people watching a stupid game show?

Now I fully expect you to keep calling me a bigot against seniors because frankly no matter what anyone posts on DU we just attack each other ad nauseum anyway. Have at it.

By the way I don't like children, teens, or forty somethings either.

[billh58]

19. I am relieved to find that you

are not bigoted against the elderly, and I was attempting to point out that 88 year old people are just as capable of calling bullshit on whatever bile is spewed by Sajak as 28 year old people. That was the point of my remark about "discerning the truth."

I agree that Sajak should not be using his show as a platform to spout right-wing political propaganda, but unfortunately it his right until his sponsors and/or producers cut him off at the knees.

BTW, get off of my lawn...

[titaniumsalute]

20. No worries...

I've had a long day and I was grumpy. Smiles back to you...now bed.

[Lex]

9. Ah the obligatory "who cares what X says anyway" thread.

Well done.

[titaniumsalute]

10. Thank you for posting to the obligatory "who cares" thread

Well done.

[Lex]

12. You are quite welcome.

..........

[pinboy3niner]

11. sshle. And I'd like to buy a couple of vowels, Pat. :)

[vanlassie]

14. I just want to commend you for using one of my favorite phrases

Although I have always said "Why don't you take a flying leap at rolling donut." I think adding the "F" word is just fine too!

[old guy]

51. I always liked,

"an aeronautical seduction of a motivated particle of perforated pastry"

[vanlassie]

56. Good one!

[longship]

15. Wink Martindale?

Maybe he cares.




Or maybe Monty Hall...


Or, maybe the sleaziest of all, Jack Berry...

(Here shown with contestant Van Doren during the quiz show cheating scandal.)

My favorite will always be... that's right:

It's Gene Rayburn. One wild and crazy guy.

[liberalhistorian]

27. Damn you, now I've got the

Match Game theme stuck in my head and I can't get it out!

[Trajan]

16. I don't agree

All publicity is good from this ... it has the 'optics' in our favor ... it's like a Democratic Party commercial for free ...

No sweat ...

[titaniumsalute]

18. Good point

[IDemo]

21. For that fact, who gives a flying fuck

What Bryan Fischer, Glenn Beck, Pat Robertson and others of their ilk say? Correcting their logic on an online discussion board is going to convert precisely zero of their listeners to the Democratic side.

[Corruption Inc]

22. There are a lot of knee-jerk repuke propaganda responders

It's a lot easier to blame others than actually trying to solve problems or face the reality of the culture of corruption the entire country is enveloped by now.

[MADem]

23. OK, what the fuck is this all about?

I really like DU, but one thing that bugs the living shit out of me is when there are these hot-breathed OPs that rail about something and don't explain what happened. Like we're all supposed to KNOW, and if we don't, we're at the nerd table in the lunch room!

I watch Wheel of Fortune. I enjoy it. It comes on right before JEOPARDY! with the Insufferable Alex Trebec, which is my favorite game show of all time. Yesterday, though, I went to the dentist and missed the damn shows...so apparently that's the one day that something happened, and I had to miss it! Damn the bad luck!

I really don't care if Pat Sajak said that Ronald Reagan was the Second Coming of Christ, I watch the show for the puzzles, not the personalities, but I am curious to know "what the fuck is this all about?"

Link, explanation, anything....?

[Lex]

24. .

The answer:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=pat+sajak

[MADem]

32. Another passive agressive thing I find uncivil is the "single period" as a non-responsive reply.

It's impossible to click on, necessitating that the person click on the previous post and scroll down. It demands that the post be opened, even when the information transmitted could be contained easily within the "reply title."

And I'll bet you spent more time LMGTFY-ing that than you would have just saying "Pat Sajak had a halfassed opinion about global warming" in your subject line, and moving on.

But hey, do what you feel. Thanks for the help.

[Lex]

38. Breathe.

It helps with the feeling of helplessness and anger.

[MADem]

41. You are an expert in that "coping" stuff, are you? I'm not surprised!

Hope you can get it to work, soon! Beats posting replies that read "." to get your kicks...!

[titaniumsalute]

43. Wow so this is what DU has come to huh?

So much anger and attacking others. It used to be a much nicer place. This saddens me.

[MADem]

45. Tell that to Little Miss Sunshine who attacked me with his "." and LMGTFY just because

I didn't know what the "topic" referenced.

[titaniumsalute]

47. You were attacked with a period?

I don't even know what that means. I don't really care either.

[MADem]

48. If you didn't care, why did you bother to carp at me in the first place?

At this point you're just looking for thread kicks.

Here's one more, and have a nice day.

[titaniumsalute]

49. Yeah, ya got me. Kicks. You take this stuff a little too seriously my friend

[MADem]

50. Honestly? Not at all.

I just don't think it's terribly "cool" to get snarked at for simply not knowing, and that's what that other poster did. It's just...unnecessary. I don't take it "seriously" but I also don't think it's nice to pull that childish, passive-aggressive shit, and I'm going to point it out.

FWIW, I wasn't yelling at YOU; you jumped in and became part of the subthread conversation between me and someone else, and YOU took, for whatever reason, what I said to someone else personally. That's your right to jump in, fine and dandy, too, it's your thread, after all, but I think we should be encouraging more civility around here, not less. Playing the "." game with a subject line and LMGTFY are--like it or not--ways of fucking with people. If a person doesn't know a basic fact, like "Who is the President of the United States?" LMGTFY might be appropriate, but throwing attitude because I didn't know WTF Pat Fricking Sajak said on "twitter" or his television show? That's just lame.

[titaniumsalute]

54. OK. No problem. Thanks for clearing it up. Happy weekend to you!

[Tom Ripley]

25. When I want penetrating social analysis I go to Wink Martindale

[Aristus]

26. I don't agree 100% with you.

Actors, musicians, artists and other media personalities are just as entitled to offer an opinion on, well, anything, as much as anyone else.

All I ask of anyone, including and especially in this case, Pat Sajak, is that it be an informed opinion. If one is spewing nonsense because a bunch of other knuckleheads are, that's not a valuable part of the national conversation; that's just noise pollution.

If Sajak was going to offer an informed opinion on climate change, first of all, he would have left race out of it. That was just irrelevant and idiotic. Second, he would have sided with the 89% of climatologists who assert, with evidence, that climate change is caused by human activity, instead of siding with the 11% of 'scientists' (regardless of their stated scientific discipline) who are being funded by the fossil-fuel industries.

So, yeah. An over-the-hill, not-too-bright game show host can state an opinion if he wants. But I would prefer he get the facts first, instead of just spewing.

[MADem]

42. Now that I know what this thread is about I kinda have to play devil's advocate but only just a bit

If he were yammering on the Jimmy Kimmel show, SURE--he could even give me his UNINFORMED opinion. But his job is to host the game show, spin the wheel for the final puzzle, and tell the contestant to stand on the spot for the last big puzzle.

I don't really want to hear Alex Trebec's views on reproductive rights or equality, either. It's just not in their charge. They're supposed to host the game show.

I think when you're in the entertainment or customer service spheres, you have to keep your views to yourself. I changed auto mechanics because I got sick of the rightwing bullshit the guy kept spouting--he just wouldn't shut up, even when he knew that I wasn't enthralled with his POV. I found a better mechanic; he might be a progressive, he might not--but he keeps that to himself.

[arcane1]

28. There was a time when actors, musicians, artists, personalities didn't talk about politics?

Plus, I don't think he said this at work, wasn't it a tweet?

That said, I don't give a rat's ass what he said. It's a moo point. A cow's opinion. It's moo

[titaniumsalute]

44. Actually he signed off his show with this rambling BS

[11 Bravo]

29. P_t S_j_k is _n ignor_nt _sshole. I'd like to buy an "A", Pat.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

30. really, he's no different than any other

has-been celebrity who spouts off about anything and yet it still makes the news. no one should care about any of it.

sP

[MADem]

33. I'll bet he wishes he kept his big fat mouth shut.

He and Vanna used to drink between tapings. Sometimes a LOT. Maybe they had a few belts before he opened his big trap!

[ProdigalJunkMail]

40. Hahahaha... n/t

[jwirr]

31. Exactly.

[Romulox]

34. Here's my thing: they give you like 1/2 second to look at the puzzle.

Then it's all herky-jerky camera pans to Pat, Vanna, the contestants, back to the puzzle for a split second, then focus on the wheel!

The game is actually quite easy if you get a chance to look at the puzzle without all the dizzy-making camera work. Say what you want about Jeopardy, but you get to see and hear the question at home in its entirety, the same way the contestants do.

[Go Vols]

35. Sajak was a weatherman

here in the '70's and spews this shit as truth.

:/

[raccoon]

36. I'd heard the first part of that expression....not the second. It's rather catchy. nt

[AgingAmerican]

37. At least Zsa Zsa was clever

She came across as ditsy, but she was very calculating. Pat Sajak? Not so much.

[riderinthestorm]

39. Dixie Chicks?

Your comments are veering into "shut up and sing" territory.

[Whisp]

52. Has anyone posted this yet? lol:

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[MADem]

55. Hahahahahaha!

Being a nerd, I'm looking and saying "It can't be ASShole, because you get R,"S" T, L, N, E, as your starter letters!!!"

But damn, first impressions!

I'm thinking "MANHOLE" ... but who knows?

[3catwoman3]

53. I heard this on the radio...

...this morning on the way to work -

"Brought to you by the letters "F" and "U".

[kwassa]

57. I care deeply about what Pat Sajak says.

I thought he was a very witty weatherman on local Los Angeles television.

But I haven't watched him much since then.