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In reply to the discussion: Who Gives A Flying Fuck Through A ROlling Doughnut What Pat Sajak Says? [View all]Aristus
(72,666 posts)Actors, musicians, artists and other media personalities are just as entitled to offer an opinion on, well, anything, as much as anyone else.
All I ask of anyone, including and especially in this case, Pat Sajak, is that it be an informed opinion. If one is spewing nonsense because a bunch of other knuckleheads are, that's not a valuable part of the national conversation; that's just noise pollution.
If Sajak was going to offer an informed opinion on climate change, first of all, he would have left race out of it. That was just irrelevant and idiotic. Second, he would have sided with the 89% of climatologists who assert, with evidence, that climate change is caused by human activity, instead of siding with the 11% of 'scientists' (regardless of their stated scientific discipline) who are being funded by the fossil-fuel industries.
So, yeah. An over-the-hill, not-too-bright game show host can state an opinion if he wants. But I would prefer he get the facts first, instead of just spewing.