Close your eyes and imagine being a game show host.
Readers of a certain age will see Pat Sajak; gentle but witty, benign but imperturbable, handsome enough without being also attractive.
The Americans happily invited Wheel of Fortune they welcome into their homes every night of the week for four decades.
In the mid-1980s, the puzzle show with the Ferris wheel and showgirl assistant attracted more than 40 million viewers every night. And it holds the record for being one of the most-watched syndicated shows in history.
It is quite an achievement for a program stuck in a deplorable situation.
Yes, that is correct. Sajak is MAGA and probably voted for Donald Trump.
On Friday night, when Sajak, 77, takes his final bow in a pre-recorded episode (ending the longest broadcast ever by a nationally syndicated game show host), liberal fans will find themselves forced to deal with the fact that for four decades I have been deceived.
They thought Pat Sajak was safe.
Americans happily invited the Wheel of Fortune host into their homes every weeknight for four decades.
In the mid-1980s, the puzzle show with the Ferris wheel and showgirl assistant attracted more than 40 million viewers every night.
But they’ve also been told that Trump voters are knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing, drooling buffoons intent on destroying democracy.
Imagine their confusion, because Sajak is none of those things.
The ordinary vowel salesman with a sparkling smile was so on his knees that the slightest hint of personality or subversion would send the audience into hysterics.
Remember the episode where Sajak turned to co-host Vanna White for some pre-scheduled banter and asked her, ‘Are you an opera fan?’
“I’m not a fan, but I like opera,” Vanna replied.
Have you ever seen opera in the flesh? “I’m just curious,” Sajak joked.
The joke falls somewhere between Knock-Knock and Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? That was all part of Sajak’s appeal.
As ‘Ed Grimley’, Martin Short’s character on Saturday Night Live, said in the 1980s: “I think (Sajak) would be a pretty decent guy, I must say.”
Truer words were never spoken.
Sajak is the regular guy who tries his best to keep up, the friendly neighbor with the tidy yard and well-behaved kids, the person you’d like to live next door.
Sure, the dynamic of a mostly mute Vanna nodding and smiling along with Pat’s musings may have seemed a little dated in the 2000s, but the show got a pass.
Sajak and Wheel of Fortune It provided something Americans increasingly needed: a respite.
In a world of light beer culture wars, it was a half-hour (minus the commercials) breath of freedom from acrimony.
The ordinary vowel salesman with a sparkling smile was so on his knees that the slightest hint of personality or subversion would send the audience into hysterics.
Sajak and Wheel of Fortune provided something Americans increasingly needed: a respite.
Sure, the dynamic of a mostly mute Vanna nodding and smiling along with Pat’s musings may have seemed a little dated in the 2000s, but the show got a pass.
Who doesn’t long for the days when The price is good Did host Bob Barker close each episode by advising viewers to “spay and neuter” their pets?
Nowadays, we are lucky that we are not told to spay and neuter our children.
Sajak’s presentation was a throwback to that simpler time: what American entertainment used to be, what it was supposed to be, and what it was before mainstream progressivism infected our minds and made every waking moment an exercise in virtue signaling.
Maybe that’s why liberal Americans were so shocked and horrified to learn that their lovable puzzle master was (gasp) a Trump-loving monster in 2016.
But it wasn’t until Sajak announced last year that he planned to retire that the liberal media exploded.
“You might want to hold back and not offer one to the familiar face,” The New Republic wrote in June 2023. “It turns out that when he wasn’t busy gracing our television screens, he was on the front lines of a right-wing advance.” -wing agenda.’
Who knows? Very few, I can safely assume, because Sajak never gave viewers any clues as to what his policies were.
In his private life – as is the right of every American – he pursued traditionally conservative causes.
Sajak has served as a board member of prominent right-wing institutions and spoke at a Christian university.
He questioned the wisdom of “climate change scaremongering,” criticized the growing influence of politics on public school education, and even attended dinners with people like Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
After Sajak announced last year that he planned to retire this year, the liberal media couldn’t help it.
His biggest sin for those who see life through blue-tinted glasses is that he once took a photo with Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.
‘First Chuck Woolery. Now Pat Sajak. Are all game show hosts trash? spat at BET host Marc Lamont Hill on Twitter in September 2022 – reference wheels first presenter in history, who was also declared a Republican.
Woolery and Sajak are not the problem here.
Your critics are lunatics.
Sajak’s loving embrace by millions of Americans over the decades proves that the left’s snobbish caricature of its political opponents is complete and utter nonsense.
Goodbye Pat – we will miss you at 7:30 pm local time.
