Legendary game show host Pat Sajak has helped contestants buy vowels and win glamorous prizes for over forty years. He’s been doing it so long that over half this country was born after he first hosted in 1981, though he now plans on retiring from the “Wheel of Fortune” role he has held for more than four decades when the show’s 41st season ends in June of 2024.
He’s also been a long-time supporter of conservative values and has not necessarily shied away from them. In fact, since 2003 he has served as a board member for Hillsdale College, one of the most prominent conservative, Christian higher educational settings in the country. Hillsdale famously takes no federal aid so that it can run the school as it sees fit, rather than bowing to the federal government’s woke diktats.
Still, leftist cancel culture doesn’t play by any set of rules; it merely attacks when the time feels right. And they are attacking in full force after a photograph of Sajak and firebrand congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, along giwht Right Side Broadcasting reporter Bryan Glenn, was snapped in 2022. That photograph can be seen below:
To her credit, MTG immediately swooped in and put an end to this online madness, writing, in a “Wheel of Fortune”-themed attack on those trying to cancel Sajak for taking a picture with her, “There is nothing more pathetic and hypocritical than the left’s whiny cancel culture. I’d like to solve the puzzle please. M-A-K-E A-M-E-R-I-C-A G-R-E-A-T A-G-A-I-N.”
Fortunately, though the attempt to cancel Sajak was launched, the show’s hosts didn’t go along with it and cancel the program just because people online were losing it over Sajak’s picture with MTG and Bryan Glenn. That is fortunate as, otherwise universally-beloved, half-hour television program that has aired every weeknight for over four decades could suddenly be derailed and canceled over a single photograph with an opponent of the powers that be.
As was mentioned, it’s not like Sajak’s politics have been heretofore unknown. His board membership at Hillsdale aside, Sajak has lit Twitter up with hot takes for years. He flipped the script once and declared anyone who opposed charter schools was racist. Since black students largely benefit from their escape from government school monopolies in blighted urban communities, that isn’t untrue.
Emily Slack, executive director of media relations and communication for Hillsdale, speaking to the New York Post, said, “For decades, Pat Sajak has been an icon of radio and television. There are few things more intimate than appearing in the living rooms of countless Americans every evening.” She then added, “We know that he will be missed and congratulate him on his well-deserved retirement.”
Slack went on to add, the NYP reports, “…. We have benefitted from his wisdom, intellect, and good humor as chairman of Hillsdale’s board of trustees and we look forward to continuing our important work together and to what we are sure will be a bright future for Mr. Sajak and his family.”
"*" indicates required fields