Good grief: Pat Sajak apologizes for introducing Keith Olbermann to America.

[Kalyke]

Wow the host of “America’s Game” has it in for Keith Olbermann.

“Wheel of Fortune” host Pat Sajak is delivering an online mea culpa for introducing Olbermann to a national TV audience. In the late 1980s, Sajak hosted a late-night show on CBS. Today on the website Ricochet, an online conversation platform that says its members are politically “spread across the right of center,” Sajak writes, “I thought Keith was pretty funny on the air, and I suggested we have him come on the show and talk sports. This was the first of several appearances he made on the show, and he always did a nice job.”

Sajak continues:

I’m not sure how he morphed into the bitter-sounding, hate-mongering name-caller he’s become, but I’m sorry he did. I liked the guy, and he was always a good guest. Maybe it’s just show business and trying to find a place in it and building an audience, but I don’t know. We were never friends away from the show, so I can’t even guess what drives him.

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/category/msnbc


Maybe eight years of a stupid-sounding, war-mongering, nickname-caller like Bush put the bitter on Keith's tongue. Or it could be that Keith is simply patriotic: speaking up about the country's ills so we can better them.

Or, most likely, it's because Sajak is a jealous has-been (ever was?)!

[Dappleganger]

1. Wanker...

the 80's called and wants their hairstyle back.

[n2doc]

2. Hey, Pat fill in the letters:

F_ck _ff, Pat

Care to buy a vowel?

[jbfam4]

7. Thanks for posting

You made my day.

[Ian David]

8. Here you go...

[me b zola]

28. Ian....

I think I love you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4vh-JHj0fY&feature=related

:hi:

[Ian David]

30. ..

[Gidney N Cloyd]

3. Pat Sajak has a million friends. He doesn't need Keith.

:)

[Ian David]

4. Pat Sajak is a total bag of douche, I must say.

[Kalyke]

9. Well... if you're in the 80s, might as well pick a good 80s character

like Ed Grimley and not like Pat "Turn Me a Letter" Sajak.

[Blasphemer]

5. Pat is just trying to become relevant again

There aren't many news stories into which he can insert himself.

[era veteran]

6. The vapid Sajak is particularly well suited to interview the

dullard Rand Paul.

[Bluebear]

10. SH_T TH_ _ _CK _ P.

[sakabatou]

11. What an asshole

[Danger Mouse]

12. Danger Mouse apologizes for ever watching Wheel of Fortune.

[AndrewP]

13. I'm sorry Pat Sajak was never introduced to any personality or charisma

That right winger's Late Night show was just painful.

Anyone remember that?

[LynneSin]

14. How long did that talk show last Pat? About 14 months

Stick to spinning the Big Wheel - politics is not your forte!

[ProgressiveProfessor]

15. I remember when KO was doing weekend sports and such

He does politics much better

[kctim]

21. Respectfully disagree

KO kicked ass with sports. now? meh. same old crap offered by other channels.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

33. OUr differences may lie in the fact I have a distain for professional sports

and even many collegiate ones.

[deutsey]

16. Sajak is very cozy with Inside-the-Beltway Rightwingers n/t

[Ian David]

17. Rush Limbaugh covering for Pat Sajak on late 80's talk show

Rush Limbaugh covering for Pat Sajak on late 80's talk show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-f84iNhsx0

[AnArmyVeteran]

22. I've never liked Sajak. He often joked about only working 2 hrs a week & making millions.

The guy is a total incompetent fool. I dont know anyone who likes him. And his tv talk show was a complete flop. If Merv Griffin hadn't hired him Sajak would be washing windshields on street corners. Hell, I doubt if he can even do that.

[mediaman007]

18. A little over the top, I'd say.

"...bitter-sounding, hate-mongering name-caller..." makes it apparent that Sajak has never taken the time to watch an entire show. And its also is clear that Sajak has never moved beyond the age of 25 as far as intellectual challenges. He and Vanna make a great living by being milquetoast. Besides I'm sure that they both make a high six figure income. So I imagine it didn't take much for Sajak to take the anti-Obermann position.

[Permanut]

19. Didn't know about Sajak....

Another entertainer I enjoyed watching until I found out they're part of that creepy neocon hatefest - along with Ben Stein ("anyone, anyone?") and Terry Bradshaw.

[Kalyke]

47. Terry Bradshaw??? Really??? Since when?

:wow:

I dated a guy in college whose parents lived next door to Terry. He always seemed so sweet.

I knew he was center right, I guess - or I suspected it - but I didn't know he'd turned into a creepy neocon.

[devilgrrl]

20. Wouldn't it be nice if Merv Griffin's corpse apologizes for 'Wheel of Fortune'?

eom

[CLANG]

23. Pat Sajak is a teabagger. Almost to the Nazi level.

[defendandprotect]

35. Really .... ??? Is he politically active ....?

[CLANG]

42. From Wikipedia:

Sajak is an active supporter of conservative political causes and has written a number of columns for the conservative magazine Human Events.<16> According to NEWSMEAT, Sajak has donated over $17,000 to candidates and election committees all associated with the Republican Party.<17> Sajak is also a regular poster and podcast participant on the conservative blog ricochet.com.<18>

[defendandprotect]

49. Thanks for the info -- sad ...!!

[sally cat]

24. So what? It's Pat Sajak for cripessake.

[Zephie]

25. I never knew that about Sajak. It certainly explains why so many elderly white men like Wheel.

[mikeytherat]

26. In college in the 80s, some friends - while drunk and watching "Wheel" - sent Pat a letter.

They stated that they wanted to start a chapter of the Pat Sajak Fan Club at Virginia Tech. Two weeks later, a HUGE box of "Wheel" paraphernalia shows up, including dozens of Sajak photographs (which we used as dart boards).

mikey_the_rat

[SoCalDem]

27. Pat who?

:rofl:

keep spinning that wheel, Doofus...

[demwing]

41. Exactly! /nt

[hfojvt]

29. people please

try not to prove Sajak's point, would ya?

[Flubadubya]

32. Yeah, like how...

supporting Keith?

Otherwise, I don't know WTF you're talking about! :eyes:

[hfojvt]

38. Well I was trying to make people think

Think about what they are saying, what they are doing.

What did Sajak claim. He said KeithO has "morphed into the bitter-sounding, hate-mongering name-caller"

And the response of KO's fans? To bitterly call Sajak a bunch of hateful names.

Supporting Keith and attacking Sajak are not necessarily the same things. When somebody says or does something that you disagree with, even strongly disagree with, it is not necessary to go directly to hate. Especially not when the other person is accusing you of being hateful.

[Blue Owl]

31. Pat Sajack

Pfffft.

[defendandprotect]

34. Wow ... that's amazing .... Pat Sajak ... a right wing fruit cake .... ???

[A-Schwarzenegger]

36. Wheel of Horsecrap.

[petronius]

37. I suspect that theres about a 0% overlap between people who care what Sajak says

and people who are interested in what Olbermann says.

[Liquorice]

39. A long time ago, Pat Sajak was on the Tonight Show and he had the nerve

to complain that he had to work one week per month. He said the show (they tape five shows per day for a week each month), made it to where he could never vacation for more than three weeks at a time. The audience actually booed him for this complaint, but he didn't seem to get why they were booing. I never forgot that interview because I couldn't get over just how bad Sajak sucked. I always knew he kind of sucked, but wow. He sucks BAD.

[Buns_of_Fire]

43. Sounds like the premise for a whole new game show!

"How Bad Does Pat Sajak Suck?" (Hosted by Simon Cowell.) Weeknights at 7/6 Central. Much hilarity ensues.:evilgrin:

[Raine]

40. Once long ago Sajak was a newsreader here in Los Angeles

then he decided that he rather be a "quizmaster" instead :rofl: sounds like now he's jealous and maybe regretting it. :yoiks:

[ThatsMyBarack]

44. Pat should quit Wheel....

And work for FUX NEWS.

[Kalyke]

45. Keith Tweeted

Keith Olbermann
Just to clear up this "Pat Sajak introduced me to America" bull****: http://bit.ly/cM8fCa

Pat Sajak did not introduce me to America. I started on CNN the same year he started on “Wheel” (1981) and by the time I guested on his show in 1989, I’d already spent three years as a national sports correspondent for CNN, had a feature done on me by The Today Show (1986), been on the CBS Evening News (1988), and begun guest-hosting on ESPN (1989).

I think if he needs to apologize for anything it needs to be that talk show. When he was canceled, he was replaced by a crime-and-skin series called “Silk Stalkings,” for God’s sake. Obviously we guests must’ve really stunk.

[Kalyke]

48. Past edit stage...

Kicking so that folks will see his tweet and statement.

[marmar]

46. I've always said he was a complete idiot. I think I underestimated his idiocy.

nt

[Puregonzo1188]

50. He's my neighbor! Sort of. He lives inside a gated community on the water.

I live couple miles outside of it. People sometimes spot him at the local grocery store though.


Perhaps if I ever see him i'll thank him for introducing Keith Olberman to the world.

[Stevenmarc]

51. Hey Pat ......go buy a vowel ..... F*CK YO*

[Vinca]

52. ROFL.

:rofl: