Showing posts with label Alex Trebek. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alex Trebek. Show all posts

Saturday, January 23, 2021

Katie Couric's "Jeopardy" gig in jeopardy after disgusting remarks against half the country


It's becoming increasingly disgusting how many celebrities and politicians on the left constantly defame, slander and insult the millions of Americans who think differently than they do.

After the great Alex Trebek died of cancer in early November last year, "Jeopardy" producers have been looking for his replacement, a very difficult task for one so loved by so many. One of the people they thought might fit the bill is Katie Couric.

However, last week, Couric appeared on "Real Time with Bill Maher" where she bad-mouthed former President Trump in his final days in office. That isn't unusual for the left, who pretend to do such a thing is "brave." What she did that made headlines were her statements about Trump's Capitol Hill backers who supported his election challenge.



"It is so shocking. ... Not only are they not conceding, Bill, but their thoughts -- that there might have been some collusion among members of Congress, some are refusing to go through magnetometers ... to check for weapons, they're not wearing masks during this siege," Couric began.

"I mean, it's really bizarre, isn't it, when you think about how AWOL so many of these members of Congress have gotten. But I also think some of them are believing the garbage that they are being fed 24/7 on the internet, by their constituents, and they bought into this big lie. And the question is how are we going to really almost deprogram these people who have signed up for the cult of Trump."

"Deprogram." She said "deprogram."

According to the New York Post's "Page Six," some of the heads of "Jeopardy" were "immediately worried" about her gum-flapping.

Page Six reports that, according to a source, the "Jeopardy" audience is "very conservative" and the game show had "always steered clear of politics."

Why can't people keep politics out of everything? I know, I know, Brain Flushings is about politics, but that's the purpose of the blog. The purpose of "Jeopardy" is to entertain.

"Katie’s comments so soon after she was announced as a host are very concerning to the producers. They are worried there will be a backlash against her. There has already been some complaints," the anonymous source told Page Six.

"Jeopardy viewers are quite a traditional bunch, and there’s fears she might be too polarizing after this. At the very least, she already appears to have ruled herself out of becoming the permanent host of the show," the source continued.

Well, you have to give the producers credit for understanding their audience. Couric is now tainted and anyone who follows the news and watches the show will know that. 

It's ironic and almost funny [but not funny] that Couric and other journalists do not want opinions that differ from theirs. In fact, journalism in its pure form, is not supposed to unveil the opinions of the journalists. That's why we have opinion journalists as differentiated from pure journalists. 

One should never know how a pure journalist votes in an election. Brett Baier comes to mind as a pure journalist while Sean Hannity is clearly an opinion journalists and admits it--unlike the opinion people at the Compromised News Network [aka CNN].

Couric's comments about how the GOP needs to be "deprogrammed" did not go unnoticed.

Joe Concha a columnist for "The Hill," told Fox News:
"This sort of rhetoric from Couric — which comes across as so condescending and elitist — underscores the divide between our media, which primarily resides in New York and Washington, and the rest of the country, which is moderate to center-right, per multiple polls. And it’s why the industry is so mistrusted and frowned upon."
Hopefully Couric talked herself out of the job.  

Others set to guest host include "Jeopardy!" champion Ken Jennings, actress Mayim Bialik of the "Big Bang Theory," and NFL Quarterback fo the Greenbay Packers, Aaron Rodgers.



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Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Alex Trebek is not a sexist pig

They need to fire him. Throw him off the air forever. Maybe put him in an all-women's prison. Perform an orchiectomy on him.

"Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek had the balloons to ask a female contestant if her job as an Army Master Sergeant was difficult because she's a woman. This drew immediate ire from the morally superior social media mavens, those people who scour the Internet looking for something, anything, to offended them. 

And find it they did.

Ironically, the question by Trebek didn't offend its recipient.

Trebek made the comment as he posed questions to the three contestants basic questions about their lives in order to introduce them to the audience. 

Lisa Beth Davis, a retired Army Master Sergeant was okay with the question by Alex: "That must be really tough for a woman because a master sergeant is giving orders most of the time. How was it for you?"

Davis responded that she was "pretty bossy" but as the eldest in the family, she knew "how to tell people what to do."

Fortunately for Trebek, nobody ran onstage to punch him in the face for asking such an insensitive question. How dare him ask a woman a question like that? It might offend her feminine sensitivities, cause her to have the vapors.

One social media recluse tweeted: 
"Um, Alex Trebek just said it must have been hard for a woman to be an Army Master Sergeant because she was a female....really?? Why not ask her what she accomplished in her position. Do better."
Another tweeted:
"Alex Trebek: 'Being a master sergeant must be hard for a woman because you have to give orders all the time.' That sexism isn't even subtle."
Personally, I don't usually watch "Jeopardy!" but I've seen it in the past. Trebek is an older man who comes from a generation where soldiers would have likely had difficulty taking orders from a woman. I seriously doubt that he meant it as a sexist statement or to embarrass her.

People are so quick to attack others, especially on the hatred cesspool known as Twitter, and when it's not face-to-face or when the recipient can defend him- or herself.

Lighten up, people. She's obviously a tough woman. She can take it, but she didn't apparently see it the way the PC Nazis did.


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