Pat Sajak Smacks Down Internet Shamers
After Wild 'Wheel of Fortune' Segment
Goes Viral
Red State,
by
Sister Toldjah
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
3/3/2022 6:44:30 AM
I know I’m preaching to the choir a bit here, but just to reiterate a point made by many people on both sides of the aisle in the past, longtime “Wheel of Fortune” host Pat Sajak – who is a conservative – is an absolute national treasure. He proved it again Wednesday in a pretty epic Twitter thread where he dunked on Internet shamers for piling on contestants of the show over a wild and frustrating-to-watch series of spins during the Tuesday episode that went viral.The segment in question was about a common phrase that people who may not have known it at the time of the show’s airing
Reply 1 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 3/3/2022 7:08:57 AM (No. 1088296)
One of the most generous Americans around. Along with Mike Lindell
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
KayJayMac 3/3/2022 7:28:48 AM (No. 1088310)
Anyone remember Pennsylvania Witch about 30 years ago? Lol
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Quigley 3/3/2022 7:38:26 AM (No. 1088314)
How nice to read some 100% sound statements. Twitter is like a nasty highway bathroom- you just don’t want to go there unless you have to.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
homefry 3/3/2022 7:41:07 AM (No. 1088318)
Sorry Pat, but anyone who cant get that puzzle just aint very bright.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Birddog 3/3/2022 7:48:17 AM (No. 1088325)
Sum people doesn't knows their Yanky, from their doodle.
It's actually 2 different phrases, if you aren't familiar with the macaroni song "cap" would seem an arcane and unfamiliar term.
5 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
jimboscott 3/3/2022 7:49:55 AM (No. 1088329)
This has more to do with culture than intelligence. Those who have heard the phrase (likely 99% of the population) know it instantly. Those who have not... are not stupid. They have not heard it.
Now, if you don't mind I need to put another feather in my gap.
20 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Laotzu 3/3/2022 8:05:01 AM (No. 1088340)
Today's young adults are the most culturally and historically illiterate in the history of the Nation. To ignore that, is to ignore one of the principal reasons we are in the situation we are now in, where the party of slavery, Jeff Davis, the KKK, and segregation has spent two years violently assaulting America and calling us all racist because we won't pay up.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
msjena 3/3/2022 8:06:16 AM (No. 1088343)
It's a generational thing. Many younger people have never heard the expression feather in your cap. If you don't know it, it does sound weird.
13 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
lakerman1 3/3/2022 8:12:06 AM (No. 1088350)
South Park did a classic episode where Randy, a Ph.D. Geologist, and generally a scamp, marijuana farmer, went on Wheel of Fortune, and in the big money end of the show, is offered a puzzle, with the phrase an annoying person, and the letters N (blank) G G E R.
And Randy blurted out, using I, and N, G, G, E, R, and became N*ggerman.
He had some problems because of that. And it was funny.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna 3/3/2022 8:19:52 AM (No. 1088359)
Say Jack acts snarky and bored and makes fun of the game players.
In terms of cultural literacy the world can be divided into wheel players and jeopardy players.
2 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
Paperpuncher 3/3/2022 8:34:54 AM (No. 1088375)
#8 got it right. The rest of you geniuses should chill out.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 3/3/2022 8:37:06 AM (No. 1088379)
We saw the segment. The contestants especially the woman had no clue. Must be generational. But I still hear the phrase being used from time to time. Go figure.
8 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 3/3/2022 9:22:41 AM (No. 1088446)
A phrase seldom used by me but I guarantee my thirty something year old youngest daughter would not know it. Her head and face are spent on her I-phone screen every hour she is awake. I don't think my youngest daughter has ever read a book but she sure can text on that I-phone. That generation has never heard a Beatle song so don't call then dumb they are just unaware.
6 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
rikkitikki 3/3/2022 9:23:53 AM (No. 1088451)
The first response, "hat", was the correct: the Wheel of Fortune producers made a mistake.
Think about it. There was a time when Victorian women, and before that, men who could afford it (think, Renaissance France) put feathers in their hats as fashion statements. The phrase as an idiom likely dates to those times.
No one has ever put a feather in their cap...at no point in history has a feather in one's cap been even remotely popular enough to sponsor a widely recognized idiom.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
sikupnfed 3/3/2022 9:26:05 AM (No. 1088455)
Agree with above commenters. This is a generational thing mostly, but there is a lot of reading done in school if the right books are being read, which would introduce some of these sayings. I have tons of little quips that make people go "Huh?". Those books are probably on some ban list somewhere.
On another note - in some schools they no longer teach cursive writing, nor do they teach where Mickey's big and little hands are on the clock face. It's all digital now, baby.
5 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
OZZCAR 3/3/2022 9:51:07 AM (No. 1088490)
The state of public education exposed on a TV game show. A shocking number of American adults between 20 and 50 suffer huge deficits in practical and general knowledge. They are a product of public education and an attachment to the teat of electronic technology and pop culture. It is even more shocking to know that many of these geniuses have a college degree.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 3/3/2022 10:28:25 AM (No. 1088544)
I'm always amazed when Wheel of Fortune ends up in the news. Someday there will be an episode where 'bankrupt' and 'lose a turn' will occur 15 times in a row. At times the contestants cannot seem to get away from them. Would think the contestants would learn to spin the wheel in such a manner to avoid them, but apparently easier said than done.
What's really sad is the epidemic of internet trolls out there. So many of them. Saw a post commemorating Black History Month, which was February, however the people only announced what they did on the very last day of the month. It was cringeworthy. The post generated 600 responses. 400 of the responses were deleted before a moderator closed the thread. It was that bad.
So many people have to be trolls. It's unbelievable. Get a life.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
cor-vet 3/3/2022 10:57:33 AM (No. 1088586)
I tend to think it's a generational mistake. Try watching some old 'Jaywalking' with Jay Leno or Waters World when they ask questions of the 20 to 30 year olds, and college students. The lack of knowledge, regarding geography or history, is mind numbing. What baffles me the most, is when someone says, I'm a teacher and then says something totally stupid.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/3/2022 11:16:07 AM (No. 1088605)
From Sing Out Loud Traditional Songs:
1. Yankee Doodle went to town riding on a pony, stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni (CHORUS) Yankee Doodle keep it up, Yankee Doodle dandy! Mind the music and the step, and with the girls be handy!
https://americanenglish.state.gov/files/ae/resource_files/6-doodle-lyrics.pdf
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Buckrog 3/3/2022 11:22:42 AM (No. 1088608)
Anyone play Apples to Apples? We bought a new game and I didn't know a good chunk of the names listed on there. Got out the older box for us older people. Made a big difference. I did watch this segment on WOF....it was hard to watch.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/3/2022 11:22:51 AM (No. 1088609)
On the idiom “a feather in one’s cap”:
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/feather+in+(one%27s)+cap
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/feather+in+(one%27s)+cap
It was never “a feather in one’s hat”.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/3/2022 11:25:43 AM (No. 1088610)
For those wringing their hands, there are some really meanspirited people (insecure?) hanging out on internet forums and such where they can be anonymously nasty. We have them here. Breitbart has them. Try to name a place that hasn’t...
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
lynngirl122 3/3/2022 11:47:08 AM (No. 1088631)
My two thirty-something kids are so culturally illiterate it's not even funny. My daughter when in high school after watching the movie said, "Pearl Harbor did that really happen?" And both when questioned what is the most solemn holiday in the Roman Catholic church both said Christmas. Oh my goooddddd....
3 people like this.
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