It's hardly news that "Wheel of Fortune" host Pat Sajak is an ardent conservative. He wrote, for instance, several articles with headlines like "Opposed to Obamacare? Then You Must Be a Racist" for the website Human Events between 2007 and 2013. But his latest rhetorical flourish is the most bizarre yet. 
 
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 Sajak's unhinged denialism -- throwing wild allegations of racism against the overwhelming majority of scientists, for instance -- exists only within the context of his own Twitter feed and writing online, where he's perpetually making purposefully incendiary remarks wildly at odds with his sunny on-air personality. 
 
 But Sajak's hardly alone as a prominent conservative who saves his vitriol for the off-air hours. Alex Trebek, of "Jeopardy!," cited, in a recent New Republic profile, someone speaking approvingly of the Tea Party: "Somebody was saying on television a few days ago that the Tea Party is a reflection of the people. There are a lot of people out there who are not happy with the way things are going, and they’ve banded together." He seemed curious about the arch-conservative movement if not explicitly approving, describing himself as apolitical even despite having reportedly hosted a 2010 Republican fundraiser. 

 The internet blew up this afternoon over one weird ranting climate change tweet by one weird game show host. Here was the offending(?) statement: 
 
 I now believe global warming alarmists are unpatriotic racists knowingly misleading for their own ends. Good night. — Pat Sajak (@patsajak) May 20, 2014 
 
 And while it prompted some clever responses... 
 
 ...turns out, this is Pat Sajak's whole shtick. As the episode went viral, Sajak added this explanation to the mix. 
 
 Sometimes it's fun to poke a stick in a hornets' nest just to hear the buzzing. — Pat Sajak (@patsajak) May 20, 2014 
 
 O rly, Pat? Well, while it's difficult to tell whether Sajak's efforts to seem edgy on Twitter are sincere or not, we do know that this isn't new. 
 
 But like the climate, Sajak has been heating up. Lately, he seems to have really gotten into blasting short missives about climate change and general tidbits of annoyance at liberal things to his roughly 50,000 followers. Here's a recent sampler: 
 
 Prods at climate change: 
 
 Very hot weather: "We're all going to die!" Very cold weather: "There's a difference between climate & weather, moron!" — Pat Sajak (@patsajak) May 11, 2014 
 
 Traveled from Caribbean to East Coast today. Climate did change. That settles it; I'm a believer. — Pat Sajak (@patsajak) January 2, 2014 
 
 I miss the pre-climate change days when it didn't get too hot or cold, or too wet or dry, or too stormy or calm or... — Pat Sajak (@patsajak) January 7, 2014 
 
 In East with more snow. Miss pre-climate change days growing up in Chicago. Always 65-70 with occasional gentle rain. — Pat Sajak (@patsajak) March 25, 2014 
 
 General smarm directed at liberal sacred cows: 
 
 Skeet shooting in Hillsdale, MI. (Don't worry...they were free range skeet.) pic.twitter.com/YHUPc1k0nA — Pat Sajak (@patsajak) May 9, 2014 
 
 My interest in Al Gore's pronouncements could fit into a gnat's navel & still leave room for a Liberal's sense of humor. — Pat Sajak (@patsajak) May 7, 2014 
 
 Hired Wendy Davis PR firm to redo my bio. Turns out I was orphaned. Then reform school, migrant worker. Very inspiring. — Pat Sajak (@patsajak) January 21, 2014 
 
 Critiques of the liberal media or whatever: 
 
 Reportedly, msnbc streamlining apology process by creating computer template for on-air staff. — Pat Sajak (@patsajak) January 13, 2014 
 
 NY Times: All the news that fits, we print. — Pat Sajak (@patsajak) December 31, 2013 
 
 Well, whad'ya know? Turns out Putin is also a community organizer. — Pat Sajak (@patsajak) March 5, 2014 
 
 Happy birthday tomorrow, George Washington. Your father thought if he liked his cherry tree, he could keep it. Period. — Pat Sajak (@patsajak) February 21, 2014 
 
 Met a nice woman who said she'd check my tax return for free. Says she's an expert. Name is Lerner, I think. — Pat Sajak (@patsajak) April 11, 2014 
 
 And one paranoid 4/20 tweet: 
 
 George Orwell was right, other than missing by 30 years. — Pat Sajak (@patsajak) April 20, 2014 
 
 In addition to this slight libertarian bent, Republicans and Congress in general seem spared from Sajak's Twitter ire. Maybe he assumes this is his audience. But also, who cares? 
 
 Ultimately, this is a totally unremarkable revealing of a public figure's private side. But, I suppose, if we're collectively going to isolate and react to one Sajak tweet, we might as well glance at his whole dumb digital oeuvre and realize that it, like much of Twitter, isn't terribly interesting.
– Pat Sajak: fun-loving game show host and, apparently, prolific tweeter of anti-liberal jokes. This came to much of the world's attention on Monday night, when the Wheel of Fortune host tweeted: "I now believe global warming alarmists are unpatriotic racists knowingly misleading for their own ends. Good night." But it's nothing new, as the Wire determined when it took a closer look at Sajak's Twitter feed: The thing is full of similarly pro-conservative sentiments, including: "Very hot weather: 'We're all going to die!' Very cold weather: 'There's a difference between climate & weather, moron!'" "Skeet shooting in Hillsdale, MI. (Don't worry...they were free range skeet.)" "Met a nice woman who said she'd check my tax return for free. Says she's an expert. Name is Lerner, I think." "Republicans and Congress in general seem spared from Sajak's Twitter ire," writes Adam Chandler. "Maybe he assumes this is his audience. But also, who cares?" Well, quite a few people; Sajak's outburst sparked a number of outraged responses. On Salon, Daniel D'Addario points out that Sajak's political leanings are no secret; between 2007 and 2013, he wrote articles for Human Events with titles like, "Opposed to ObamaCare? Then You Must Be a Racist." As for why Sajak thinks climate change believers are racists, he didn't have enough Twitter characters to clarify, but on Mother Jones, Chris Mooney explains that there's a conservative argument that eco-activism imposes the views of wealthy people on poor "Africans, Asians, and Latin Americans."