Wheel of Fortune confirms no one is watching CNN

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[stephydan]

Was anyone else watching Wheel of Fortune Thursday night?

The phrase on the board was completely exposed except for two letters. It looked something like this:

CNN ANCHOR _OL_ BLITZER

What happened next was hilarious. The contestant guessing letters couldn't figure it out and guessed "D". Now that's pretty bad, but it gets worse, the next contestant didn't know what it is either and guessed "S".

After the second person couldn't figure out the puzzle, host Pat Sajak (who has a show on FOX News) chimed in "well, I guess that confirms the ratings!

[pierrem15]

Saw that-- Sajak's comment was hilarious, but seemed to go by most of the audience.

[thoughtomator]

Story of the game show contestant that didn't cry "Wolf"?

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[BunnySlippers]

Funny story.

[Texas Eagle]

Classic ! ! ! ! ! I love it!

[lainie]

lol !

[stands2reason]

[dead]

Can I buy a vowel?

[Timesink]

Schadenfreude

This is the New York Times CNN Schadenfreude Ping List. Freepmail me to be added or dropped.

[doug from upland]

Pat is a great conservative. A decade ago I went to a dinner for Clarence Thomas, and Pat was one of the featured speakers.

[I got the rope]

Now that's funny!

[Texas Eagle]

Hole Blitzer?

[GOPJ]

LOL

[July 4th]

Dolt Blitzer?

[redhead]

"Dolt Blitzer?"

"Sold" Blitzer?

[July 4th]

This would be perfect for replay on Brit Hume's show on Monday.

[Tall_Texan]

I once watched in amazement as the threesome of contestants could not get:

_ITTY _ITTER

Must not have been pet owners.

[DoughtyOne]

C N N - S _ C K S

;-)

P A T - R _ C K S

[stephydan]

_ITTY _ITTER


If the missing letters are T and H, this could be referring to Arnold. :)

[Tree of Liberty]

Useless trivia: Rush Limbaugh made his TV debut as a guest host of Pat Sajak's late-night talk show on CBS back in '90.

[SAJ]

Sorry, 'T' is already on the board (g!)

[Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy]

Maybe they just had a rare crop of morons on the show.

Plenty of people know who Wolf Blitzer is, without having watched CNN.

[MarkL]

You know, this has nothign to do with this thread on CNN, but...

If they get rid of the government, which is what Anarchy is all about, who's going to make the welfare payments?

Mark

[ETERNAL WARMING]

LOL Any old Freepers here? Remember "Cottonballs for Wolfie?" LOL

[NewRomeTacitus]

For real horror check out Jay Leno's "Jaywalking" skits where he asks (usually collegiate-claiming) people serious history questions. Ten minutes before the hour for the West-side brethren.

[Tall_Texan]

I don't know. I'm still not sure what a bunch of Libertarians are doing drumming up money for a conservative website.

[mewzilla]

LOL. Thanks for the post :)

[Pharmboy]

Uhhhhh...Donner and Blitzer! Yeah...that's it!

[watchin]

The only problem with the story is that this is SOP for the show. They have the dumbest contestants on the planet.

L_ttle Red R_d_ng Hood

"Can I buy a vowel?" ....... "A?"

[watchin]

Nearly every show. It's almost made my head explode. I can't watch it anymore.

[FreePaul]

No, that wouldn't work. There was no "A" in the phrase.

[VOA]

bump

[MarkL]

I don't know. I'm still not sure what a bunch of Libertarians are doing drumming up money for a conservative website.

I don't know what you mean by that, but when I see something like that photo, or see anything about "anarchists," usually they're very hard left wingers, and actually support huge and powerful government. I don't know... Maybe they think that they'll be in charge, so it will be OK for them.

Mark

[FreedomPoster]

Pat Sajak is a conservative, is on the board of Hillsborough College (a conservative classical-liberal arts college), and has an in-depth interview show Sunday nights on FNC. Good stuff.

Besides all that, I also like the guy because my wife won a trip to Australia on the Wheel about 17 years ago. We had a great time. 5-star hotel up the hill from the Sydney Opera House, spending money, airfare. Far beyond our means at the time.

[watchin]

Hahaha!

[TX Bluebonnet]

Seems to me that if you abolished the state and let anarchy reign, you would then have the most brutal mafia-style capitalism imaginable. Am I wrong?

[Smile-n-Win]

when I see something like that photo, or see anything about "anarchists," usually they're very hard left wingers, and actually support huge and powerful government.

Of course. To them, "the State" means the capitalist state. They abhor all authority, especially a righteous authority.

Besides, don't forget that the other thing they abhor is consistency.

[Smile-n-Win]

Seems to me that if you abolished the state and let anarchy reign, you would then have the most brutal mafia-style capitalism imaginable. Am I wrong?

Capitalism means freedom, and what you would get if you let anarchy reign would be everything but freedom. It would be oppression by a number of mafias, as opposed to oppression by one central despot. (And sooner or later one of the clans would overcome the others, and centralize all power).

[Tribune7]

ping

[honeygrl]

The people who work at CNN aren't even watching what they put on TV.. 18 times the speed of light??

[VU4G10]

LOL!

[river rat]

_uck _ance

Semper Fi

[sweetliberty]

ROTFL! I don't watch game shows, but that confirms what I pretty much always believed anyway about those who do. Out of deference to FReeper game show devotees, I will keep my opinion to myself. Pretty funny post though. Thanks.

[Psycho_Bunny]

I was at a friends place once and he was watching "Championship" Jeopardy.

The three "top" players competing were all men.

Under the subject of "Kipling" the hint "A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a _____" came up.

Now, this is probably the most famous sexist statement ever made...and all three of the contestants missed it.

But what made it funny was Trebek's reaction:  he couldn't contain his disdain for these three guys.  He stared at them with his mouth hanging  and slowly - with a condescending tone - said 

"Smoke.  A good cigar is a smoke......................gentlemen."

 

[bvw]

Wheel of Fortune is a fun show, more now than it was ... there are at least seven puzzles to solve, and in the current season which started a few weeks ago, the puzzles have jumped up a noth or two in difficulty. It's a joy to watch Mr. Sajak's deft handling of the flow of the game, he is very sensitive to the nuances of personality. I notice he usually gives subtle, yet discernable clus as to what letters to pick in the final round, whether to pick up the "Bankrupt/500" wedge (which could result in either winning a car or going bankrupt), whether to spin again or solve, and some others.

[sweetliberty]

I've just never been much of a fan of game shows. I find them annoying. A matter of personal preference I reckon.

[perfect stranger]

Did you see this?

[GOPJ]

bump