Pat and K.O.

What could be even worse than Keith Olbermann's regular hate-mongering rants on television - maybe Pat Sajak's reflective anger over the past?

Pat seems to be tired of being the "forgotten one-time late night talk show host" (sort of late night TV's equivalent of George Lazenby in the 007 universe!) and so now he vies for some sort of renewed fame and credentials as "the man" who injected some form of viral poison onto the airwaves of cable news TV - when he gave old K.O. his first chance at an initial salvo!

Of course, Pat is not exactly a very humble dude (somewhat hard to grasp why, given that he has not been successful at all independently from Wheel of Fortune and Vanna White...!) as he claims on his website, tongue firmly in-cheek (I hope) that his is the best site of all. His website is the center of the universe or something like that, verily...! Sure...

And, of course, K.O. is making waves now as his self-proclaimed mentor never could have (not with his meek, some would say gentle, amicable persona and on-air style - but that is besides the point right now, surely!)

For K.O. is, save for one or two rivals for the title, the undisputed "doberman of the airwaves" right now: I myself like to call him "Keith Dobermann" all the time, or "K.O." for short (usually, though, the only person he administers the K.O. to are himself and his network execs, perhaps - as ratings dip after each foot-in-the-mouth controversial moment he generates - but that is another story too!)

K.O. looks more victim than aggressor indeed, paradoxically enough, as one can see right here:

Now, Pat Sajak, famous game show host and one-time talk-show host, was told to be sad and somewhat dejected, even, over the fact that he is responsible for having given the self-made dobermann of the news realm his first start in broadcast TV, lo, those many years ago...

Random observers (like those commenters and bloggers on dimewars.com - just click on the picture above) were quick to point out that this was probably deflected anger - since Pat has many other far more suitable targets to go at it with. Like network TV - CBS to name it - and the way they dropped him quicker than 1-2-3 when his talk show failed miserably to gain even a fifth of Leno's and Letterman's audiences... (And it is even more pathetic now than it ever was before in the light of the accomplishments of the likes of Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Comelatelies -meaning every other try-out host at Later or Late, Late Night...! But those are other stories, too...)

Yet, that was many years ago - right.
Pat is way past that now - sure.

One particularly vicious commenter targeted Sajak's HAIR, going as far as saying Pat was a "fashion emergency" ultimately! Granted, Pat has not changed his hairstyle in over... 30 years, perhaps. He has found something he is comfortable with and sticks with it, that is all there is to it. He is serene in that follicular lethargy that he is immersed in and none should criticize the man for it, though it may be extremely tempting to do so, surely. The fact is, in the field that he is stuck in for the rest of his "career" (game show hosting) there are not many choices of looks that one can go for... And aside from the short (very much so) break from game show hosting chores that he had, when he did have that talk-show on CBS' fledgling late night grid, the man never had a single chance to branch out for any significant amount of time - enough time indeed for, maybe, sporting a new look! He played it safe and stuck with what he knew worked best for him and was more widely acceptable in all of media: it is not his fault the hairstyle and clothes that go with it are like something out of a 1980 time warp!

Cut him some slack; heck, cut him some Sajak slack!

The hairstyle bit should not even be discussed, truly - for it is an old topic, at least thirty years-old, as previously mentioned...!

But the fact of the matter is... Sajak may deserve it after all. Because his Olbermann comment comes in the wake of very old news too indeed: the time he gave old K.O. his first break into broadcast media, way back in the late eighties or something!

Thus, perhaps old man Pat gets what he perennially deserves from his "fans" when they knock on his hairstyle or lack of charisma or something...!

Me, I think both men here deserve only one sort of put-down, on a regular basis: for their evidently low I.Q. and their lack of tact on or off the air, whatever the case may apply to each...!

Forget the Wheel of Fortune, buds: The Wheel In The Sky Keeps On Turning - as one famous luso-descent artist sang so well way before *both* of your "careers" got started! And your vain attempts at holding on to a niche for yourselves will not mean much in the Final Broadcast - LIVE from the true center of the universe!

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