Famed Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak is set to retire from the show at the end of its 41st season.
Sajak has been an outspoken conservative, and in his upcoming departure from the evening game show, Sajak will continue to serve as Hillsdale College’s Board of Trustees chairman.
Hillsdale College, a prominent conservative college in Michigan, announced Sajak’s promotion to chairman in 2019, following the announcement that William Brodbeck would be retiring.
“Pat is a brilliant mind. He brings a sound knowledge of the school,” Brodbeck told the Hillsdale Collegian at the time. “He can dramatically move Hillsdale forward, both on campus and around the country.”
Sajak said in his promotion to chairman from vice president, a role which he had served since 2003, said he wanted to see Hillsdale’s national reach continue to spread.
“Our funding comes from people who have never stepped foot on campus,” he said. “And that’s the challenge: the outreach.”
“I’m in an industry where we’re always patting each other on the backs for different awards we’ve won,” he said, “but this one is at the top of my list.”
Sajak was previously branded a "MAGA fascist" by leftists after a photo emerged in 2022 of the television gameshow host posing alongside Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Right Side Broadcasting Network reporter Bryan Glenn.
Sajack has also written columns for Human Events in the past, slamming those who attack people that were opposed to Obamacare in a 2010 piece.
Sajak slammed Frank Rich of the New York Times for a piece drawing a connection between people opposed to Obamacare and racism, writing, "So that’s it. It’s just a bunch of scared, white males who would yelp about anything this gang came up with. As Rich makes clear, this is merely a replay of the opposition to the Voting Rights Act of 1964. You get it? If you express opposition to the bill, you’re a racist, sexist homophobe."
"Welcome to post-racial America, where those who oppose a piece of legislation must defend themselves against the scurrilous charges of a man who seems much better suited to reviewing 'Cats,'" Sajak added of the reporter who frequently reviewed theater shows.
"This was a particularly shameful column, and the millions of Americans who oppose this legislation are owed an apology. Are they right? Are they wrong? Let’s discuss it. Let’s debate it. Let’s yell and scream if we want to. But would it be too much to ask that we approach the matter based on its merits and leave the psychobabble to Dr. Phil?"
In a 2005 piece, Sajak outlined why he had stopped arguing with liberals, saying, "Every time I argue with a Liberal, I'm reminded of quarrels I used to have with my parents. The battles never seemed fair because my folks decided what the rules were and what was out of bounds."
"Recently, for example, I was discussing the United States Supreme Court with one of my many Liberal friends out in Los Angeles when she said, without any discernable embarrassment, that Justice Anton Scalia was worse than Hitler," he wrote.
"Aside from being rhetorically hysterical - and demeaning to the memory of those who suffered so terribly as a result of Hitler and the Nazis - it served to remind me of how difficult it is to have serious discussions about politics or social issues with committed members of the Left. They tend to do things like accusing members of the Right of sowing the seeds of hatred while, at the same time, comparing them to mass murderers. And they do this while completely missing the irony," he added.
