Posted on 10/12/2005 10:50:00 AM PDT by Pantera
I doubt it, but check snopes.com just to be sure.
No....
This is debunked on snopes, he didn't say it.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/rooney4.asp
"I Got It In An Email" PING
The one and only Andy Rooney who stated he would go and see "Passion of the Christ" just to have a good laugh.....
;-)
It was Ted Nugent... or was that Robin Williams?
I believe it's a George Carlin piece.
Moreover, Rooney himself denied it in 2003, saying:
About a year ago, I became aware of a more serious theft of my name and it is so hurtful to my reputation that it calls for legal action against the thief. Hundreds of people have written asking if I really wrote the 20 detestable remarks made under my name that have had such wide circulation on the Internet.
[...]
Some of the remarks, which I will not repeat here, are viciously racist and the spirit of the whole thing is nasty, mean and totally inconsistent with my philosophy of life. It is apparent that the list of comments has been read by hundreds of thousands of Americans, many of whom must believe that it accurately represents opinions of mine that I don't dare express in my column or on television. It is seriously damaging to my reputation.
It doesn't take a whole village to raise a child right,
It was George Carlin.
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And if you get any emails about something George Carlin wrote you can similarly disregard it.
And this is even more true for Andy Rooney.
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