‘Wheel of Fortune’ Host Pat Sajak Cracks Subtle Obama Joke During Show
"Wheel of Fortune" host Pat Sajak (AP Photo/Peter Kramer)
On Wednesday’s edition of “Wheel of Fortune,” host Pat Sajak seemingly jabbed at President Barack Obama ever-so sneakily over the president’s now infamous “you didn’t build that” remarks.
After a contestant named “John” successfully guessed the phrase “A Thriving Business” in the “Thing” category, Sajak delivered his quip:
“Did you build that?” he asked the contestant before quickly moving on. It is unclear whether the contestant or the audience caught the joke.
“Our big winner — $13,000! John! John!” Sajak said.
Watch the video of Sajak’s Obama joke here:
To be sure, Sajak is one of those rare Hollywood conservatives you hear about from time to time. The host was extremely critical of Obama when he initially told America “you didn’t build that.” Here’s what he said about the comments back in July:
“It’s as if President Obama climbed into a tank, put on his helmet, talked about how his foray into Cambodia was seared in his memory, looked at his watch, misspelled ‘potato’ and pardoned Richard Nixon all in the same day. It’s fun to imagine the hand-wringing that must be going on within the White House as staffers try to figure out how to undo the damage their boss has done with his anti-entrepenurial riff. Defining moments in politics are strange beasts. Sometimes they’re only recognized in hindsight, while sometimes they throw the train off the tracks before a sentence has been completed. Sometimes their effect can be contained and minimized, while sometimes their effect on the political narrative mestastasizes. This one is very bad for the White House.”
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JUSTANOTHEROPINION
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 6:42amWho gives a crap. I’m still trying to remember when it is celeberties became so important in politics and why people actually give them more credience than their own common sense.
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Carpy1
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 11:12amWell said!
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Minnaloushe
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 11:45amBut it’s heartening that when conservative celebs do speak out they are actually rational, articulate and come across as reasonably learned.
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Old_Bones
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 11:47amYep!
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lisalake
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 12:03pmThank You!!
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drphil69
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 12:36pmProbably started with JFK – Marilyn Monroe…
Just curious… are you also sick of the non-stop Hollywood liberals, or just the conservatives? It just seems that when 99% of the Hollywood crowd is crowing about how great their dear leader is, you decide to post this against a conservative…
Frankly, I like it when conservatives in Hollywood become vocal – it takes COURAGE TO BE CONSERVATIVE IN HOLLYWOOD… THEIR LIVELYHOOD IS ON THE LINE.
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ERP
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 1:51pm@JUSTANOTHEROPINION
So in your little world, a person who is labeled a “celebrity” doesn’t have free speech, huh? Last time I checked Pat Sajak is an American whether he is famous or not.
Time to get over yourself…
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sillyfreshness
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 1:57pmObama can make as many gaffes as he wants. The “chosen people” controlled Marxist Media will just not report on it and simply focus on Romney’s gaffes.
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doomytram
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 3:07pmEat Your Peas!
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chingachgook
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 3:38pm100 years ago singers and entertainers were considered one step above criminals and now the people look at these same self centered egotist as political gurus. We have come a long way, but the wrong way. Give me my obama phone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and obama money!!!!!!!!!!
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Kalish
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 5:07pmWell Pat is a member of MENSA so I would take his word over obuma’s since everyone of o’s supporters THINKS he is a genius, (Which he is not) …..
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VictoriaRoberts
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 6:20pmIm making over $7k a month working part time. I kept hearing other people tell me how much money they can make online so I decided to look into it. Well, it was all true and has totally changed my life. This is what I do, http://Zap21.com
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topperj
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 8:40pmHead over to Nationalreview.comn for a very interesting interview with Sajak and Peter Robinson of the Hoover Institution.
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1947
Posted on September 28, 2012 at 12:23amHe speaks for all who have a part in building America…….. Not Obama and Warren
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mjdean33
Posted on September 28, 2012 at 2:25amyou teabaggers are morons, Pat Sajak? Also a moron. And none of you are true Christians, or you could see how evil Romney is. But ya just cant stand the black guy. Dumbasses
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Jim_Raue
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 4:56amI watch Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy each night…disabled with some neurological issues and have to try to keep the brain sharp…at least I can still shoot straight!!!
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loriann12
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 6:35amAmen, brother! right there with you….although I just started doing the Khan Academy to keep my brain sharp. And, like you, at least I can hit a bull’s eye with an SKS still….
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red_white_blue2
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 8:50amGod Bless you Jim_Raue. Just keep your ammo handy.
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Old_Bones
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 11:48amA gun owner with ” with some neurological issues” COOL!
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SpokaneNinja
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 4:30pmOLD_BONES–Just a little fyi: Neurological is quite different from psychological.
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Chancellor
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 3:17amWell Pat…….. First the View will talk very badly about you………
Then you will probably be asked to leave the show for some really stupid reason but the Liberal lame street media will tell everyone why on the QT.
Then all of a sudden for no reason the IRS will want to see your last 22 years of tax returns…….
And someone said we still haave a Republic…….No what you have NOW is a Democracy and they never last and ALWAYS fail in bloodshed!
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concho
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 8:22amThen his pants won’t fit right.
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Maurice125
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 8:32amThe last two lines are so TRUE thanks
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Redwood Elf
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 1:12pmI like Todd Schnitt’s take: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-WhQ7sSGPE
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Tree_of_Liberty
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 1:50amInterestingly, I think Barack himself would be a good game show host or perhaps news anchorman. He has a pleasant voice, etc. He might earn more for his family that what he makes now, and have much less stress.
Should start a new thread:
“Let’s help Barack find a NEW job… what are your suggestions, everyone?”
I love what Mitt said in 60 min interview regarding reducing gov departments. Something like:
“Is this department so important that we need to borrow money from China to keep it?”
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this1can
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 2:14amThis guy isn’t half as stressed as the people of this great country. Who cares about his stress. And as far as a good job let him clean toilets Love/pray
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burnteye86
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 2:23amHe can get a job in the prison library or the prison laundromat or the prison kitchen.
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palmettopalflorida
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 8:10am“Earn more for his family!!!???” Riding on our backs the guy has become a capital “M” multi-millionaire. Personally, I wish him into obscurity, knowing he’ll never arrive there. But still I live with hope that one day I will never have to hear his, or his wife’s, voices or see their faces again. You had better straighten up your thinking cap.
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betsyyoung
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 8:56am@palmetto……..WOW, I am right there with you!
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willbedone
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 9:41amHow about a job cleaning the basement of outhouses for the prison system?
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lawrench
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 10:42amYou may be onto something there. He does know how to read from a teleprompter, so he could do news, weather, or sports on the local news in New York.
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RufusEdinwhirl
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 11:41amHe stutters and stammers too much, uh, uh, uh, ah, ah, ah off teleprompter. He can’t think on the fly and he doesn’t have 1% of the dry wit that Pat Sayjak has had forever. I can’t see him doing any actual job really. He’s unskilled and not very smart, that makes politics and teleprompter reading his only forte.
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LVNPATRIOT
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 12:13pmI say we appoint him next Ambassador for Libya.
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conservativemom99
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 12:38amWow…that was slipped in there stealthily…go Sajak!
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Totally Domestic
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 11:25amSorry, stealth just doesn’t cut it! Be BOLD Sajack……41 days left of freedom.
Tiptoeing through the tulips will never get America wrestled fm the Devil.
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I SPY
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 11:42pm” I’d like to solve it, please…. NOBAMA” ” You are correct for 16 trillion dollars and an official I Am Not A Socialist shirt pin! Congratulations!”
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Jackal7130
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 11:38pmThe polls are LYING we have got to VOTE ROMNEY. Make sure to VOTE AMERICAN!!!!!!
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copatriots
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 9:38amI pray you are right, JACKAL, but I fear the LSM is telling us it’s a tight race so it won’t be as obvious to the sheeple when 0′s minions steal the election.
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Jackal7130
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 11:37pmThey didnt edit it? I just watched my local CBS affiliate do a network based fed story about the polls. NOW its the WOMEN are voting THREE times the amount THIS TIME for Barry and showed some DIMWIT with 2 teeth and three in her pocket say,”they said ON THE TV that Romney took peoples small businesses away, so I am gunna vote for blobama “( I wont call him by his alias)! They said ON THE TV????? What that box with pictures and voices coming out that is tuned to SOAP OPERAS ALL DAY????? MY GOD
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YAHUSHUAHRULES
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 11:56pmPretty much every ill can be traced to the AGENDA of dumbing down the populace so not only do they want big government but they will not survive without cradle to grave government care. Raising a generation so dumb they can’t govern themselves, they can’t critically think, they can’t serve on juries competently and can’t vote intelligently. Useful idiots for the state – A complicit media, captured Hollywood and forcing normalization of homosexuality and all manner of perversion, war against Judeo/Christian values, pledging allegiance to the earth rather then the flag of the US and the Republic for which it stands, environmentalism a tool of totalitarianism, a corrupt, amoral, godless generation and its not their children – for the most part they abort theirs – its co-oped indoctrinated “our” children and much more and I can not post a direct link per Blaze censors so you have to go through the Youtube extended trailer – but worth it -it is every bit as germane as 2016-Obama’s America.
AGENDA: GRINDING AMERICA DOWN. get it. watch it. share it the hour is late and darkness closing in from all sides…if we lose America the world will be in darkness for a very, very long time…
so http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-dkKoJ3kT8
w w w h t t p://a g e n d a d o cu m e n t a r y.c o m
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this1can
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 2:22amIf I was a attorney and had to defend someone, when it came time to pick the jury I would ask one question. Who did you vote for in the 2012 election. I would choose the obummer voters Love/pray
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louise
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 8:27amYAHUSHUAHRULES,
Great post and link. Here is another link to a video I watched just yesterday that was posted by ASHESTOASHES on another story.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjmFm8PIz8M
This one dovetails with yours. Maybe you have already seen it, also. Everyone should watch both videos. Alongside with your bibles, you then get the big picture of what is really happening and why.
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TelepromoterNChief
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 11:32pmYou want a good joke?
“president Obama”
Totally hilarious.
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tradcatholicgirl
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 11:47amIt works as an oxymoron too
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Copper Catfish
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 2:33pmI don’t like dirty jokes!
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Fitzzz
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 11:16pmnn
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Small World
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 11:13pm@truelib.I will donate with a check if you can give me an address. I don’t do facebook.
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crusaderx9
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 11:12pmSupport Pat Sajak! :)
ROMNEY/RYAN 2012!
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MajorLeagueInfidel
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 11:05pmThe real question Blaze should have asked was did Pat place that puzzle on that show to make that point.
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lwnmwrmn
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 11:40pmhmmmmmm
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ambrosia
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 9:05amHa !
If it was purposely said, as a political twist-
here’s hoping Sajak continues the subliminal steamroll.
Thanks to his “Wheel” gig,
he is a very smart & savvy businessman,
owns a lot of radio stations, etc.-
if anyone knows how to build a business & prosper, he would.
Romney & America MUST keep POUNDING
at the opposition with Oblameo’s “You didn’t build that” gaffe.
They have let up on it
and it was one, huge, arrogant gaffe, that proved its weight in gold.
Oblameo & his henchmen couldn’t define or defend it.
It left them all waffling, looking for the escape key.
DON’T give them any respite !
The left never gives up on anything-
the press is still nailing Romney on the 47% crap,
even though it was perfect logic, on his part.
That the Bleedia-Schmedia
continue with that & ignore the Libya screw-up mess
is indicative of how shallow & insane, they truly are !
Keep hammering them, keep reminding America
how incompetent, ignorant & arrogant
this administration is-
eventually, they’ll kill themselves with their OWN poison.
What’s it going to be, America ?
“Wheel of Fortune” with Romney & Ryan
or
“Wheel of Despair” with Oblameo & Bazooka Joe….
All you good, American Folks KNOW what you have to do !
Get BUSY & GET to the voting booth.
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TelepromoterNChief
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 10:43pmDidnt think Pat’s career would end like this.
Does he have any other skills?
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Stoic one
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 1:54amI am sure he has lot & lots of money in offshore accounts that have already been taxed…
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ShyLow
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 10:26pmI’ll take Obama’s zars for a thousand, Alex
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sligresda
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 11:42pmI was there to match my intellect on national TV
Against a plumber, oh, and an architect, both with a PhD
I was tense, I was nervous, I guess it just wasn’t my night
Art Fleming gave the answers
Oh, but I couldn’t get the questions right, -ight, -ight
I lost on Jeopardy, baby (oooh)
I lost on Jeopardy, baby (oooh)
Well, I knew I was in trouble now
My hope of winning sank
Oh, ’cause I got the Daily Double now
And then my mind went blank
I took Potpourri for one hundred
And then my head started to spin
Well, I’m givin’ up Don Pardo
Just tell me now what I didn’t win, yeah, yeah
I lost on Jeopardy, baby (oooh)
I lost on Jeopardy, baby (oooh)
That’s right, Al–You lost. And let me tell you what you didn’t win: a twenty volume set of the Encyclopedia International, a case of Turtle Wax, and a year’s supply of Rice-A-Roni, the San Francisco Treat. But that’s not all. You also made yourself look like a jerk in front of millions of people. You brought shame and disgrace to your family name for generations to come. You don’t get to come back tomorrow. You don’t even get a lousy copy of our home game. You’re a complete loser!
Don’t know what I was thinkin’ of
I guess I just wasn’t too bright
Well, I sure hope I do better
Next weekend on The Price Is Right, -ight, -ight
I lost on Jeopardy, baby (oooh)
I lost on Jeopardy, baby (oooh)
I lost on Jeopardy, baby
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Hiswill
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 10:21pmWhy do Obama jokes need to be subtle? The left sure doesn’t mix words when it comes to Romney jokes.
Thanks Pat.
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oldguy49
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 11:01pmobama jokes tend to get visitors from the doj or irs…………….
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sligresda
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 11:45pmbecause humor is best found in the anti-joke, the sublime, relation, or sarcasm.
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everydaywoman
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 3:27am“Why do Obama jokes need to be subtle? The left sure doesn’t mix words when it comes to Romney jokes.”
Understandable – but you also don’t want to sink down to their level.
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Fonz777
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 10:03pmI like Pat
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katy
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 10:02pmLOL!!!!!! Did you build that. BWAAAHAAA!!
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Delores at CH WV
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 9:59pmSorry to have missed Pat. He is just on the wrong network………
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alex22892
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 10:06pmIt’s nice to see that even the conservative, republicans, and centric celebrities are speaking out against Obama. It’s a good indication of the attitude of the rest of the country is right now even if the news won’t report it.
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Goldi
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 9:59pmSyajak and his wife are good people and have donated a lot to a hospital in Anapolis. In fact one of the wings of thr hospital is named after him. BTW, he did build that!
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OlefromMN
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 10:13pmOutstanding! These are items we need to hear about. There are so many great deeds that go unnoticed and it is refreshing to hear about communities that have benefited from private charity.
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Inlightofthings
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 9:48pmNice dig. To rank up there with the Mahers, Colberts, Stewarts etc he really needed to introduce a few expletives and vulgarities. Perhaps a comparison to female anatomy or something catchy…at least then the 47%’ers would have caught the joke.
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Git-R-Done
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 9:48pmThat was funny. Anybody who didn’t find it funny has no sense of humor.
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RightThinking1
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 9:39pmJeopardy is loaded with pro-liberal stuff. Happens all of the time. Trebek, who is conservative, apparently has to take whatever is served up. He did seem to take some pleasure in slapping down Chris Matthews (which was easy to do…, Matthews is an ignorant doofus) when he was on the show.
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 9:46pmDidn’t see that show, but have seen a number of clips of Matthews. Did he ever get a single answer, well question right?
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The-Monk
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 9:59pmHi RJJ,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SwNXQMoNps
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RightThinking1
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 10:20pmRJJ,
Pretty sure he finished last. It was embarrassing to watch. What a complete idiot. I’m pretty sure he blurted out one answer without bothering to buzz in.
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Cosmos102
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 9:38pmSo many people are shockingly ignorant about politics in this country that I doubt anyone got it. That’s why I feel we so are close to the edge of the cliff sometimes.
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Saving_the_Republic.com
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 9:34pmWaiting patiently for rabid proggies feeding frenzy in personal attacks at Sajak calling him a racist, telling him he didnt build show he has been hosting for 20yrs(yes Im very much aware Woolerly hosted before him; I use to watch it when ppl bought prizes), calling for his head/firing, calling for boycotts of the show/advertisers, demanding an apology and whatever else the destroyers of this nation will conjure up!
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mokyfellow
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 9:47pmThe libs had better not attach two TV personilities.
1) Pat Sajak on Wheel of Fortune
2) Alex Trebek on Jepordy
Mess with them and Obama will get trounced. They both rank up there near Andy Griffin.
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RightThinking1
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 10:37pmMoky,
And, THEY are still alive…
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drs1969
Posted on September 26, 2012 at 11:50pmI used to watch Wheel until they started stacking it w/blacks who win at least 3 out of 4 times even though they’re usually outnumbered 2 to 1.
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Copper Catfish
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 2:41pmWho is Andy Griffin?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Griffin
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