[Mr. Mojo]

I doubt it, but check snopes.com just to be sure.

[Always Right]

No....

[Mount Athos]

This is debunked on snopes, he didn't say it.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/rooney4.asp

[Jokelahoma]

If this were Andy Rooney, I'll eat my hat, with my shorts on the side.

[martin_fierro]

"I Got It In An Email" PING

[auto power]

The one and only Andy Rooney who stated he would go and see "Passion of the Christ" just to have a good laugh.....

[dead]

Andy Rooney said this over Andy Rooney's dead body.

[cspackler]

I can pretty much dag-darned guarantee you that Rooney did not write this.

[dighton]

Mickey Rooney, in a somewhat eccentric marriage proposal.

;-)

[Trampled by Lambs]

It was Ted Nugent... or was that Robin Williams?

[hiramknight]

I believe it's a George Carlin piece.

[Always Right]

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.

[SwinneySwitch]

Fiction

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/a/andyrooneycommentary.htm

[dead]

It doesn't take a whole village to raise a child right,

[Constitution Day]

Oh, boys! Looky what we got here!

[radioman]

It was George Carlin.
.

[Mr. Mojo]

And if you get any emails about something George Carlin wrote you can similarly disregard it.

[ClearCase_guy]

I believe Yogi Barra said: "I didn't say half the things I said."

And this is even more true for Andy Rooney.

[TravisBickle]

You can pretty much guess that unless it's some leftist looney crap, Andy Rooney, George Carlin or Robin Williams didn't say it!

[Artemis Webb]

He did not say it. But his comments concerning France (written in 2003) are a gem even for those of us who support the war on Iraq:

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"You can't beat the French when it comes to food, fashion, wine or perfume, but they lost their license to have an opinion on world affairs years ago. They may even be selling stuff to Iraq and don't want to hurt business.

The French are simply not reliable partners in a world where the good people in it ought to be working together. Americans may come off as international jerks sometimes but we're usually trying to do the right thing.

The French lost WWII to the Germans in about 20 minutes. Along with the British, we got into the war and had about 150,000 guys killed getting their country back for them. We fought all across France, and the Germans finally surrendered in a French schoolhouse.

You'd think that school building in Reims would be a great tourist attraction but it isn't. The French seem embarrassed by it. They don't want to call attention to the fact that we freed them from German occupation.

I heard Steven Spielberg say the French wouldn't even let him film the D-Day scenes in "Saving Private Ryan" on the Normandy beaches. They want people to forget the price we paid getting their country back for them.

Americans have a right to protest going to war with Iraq. The French do not. They owe us the independence they flaunt in our face at the U.N.

I went into Paris with American troops the day we liberated it, Aug. 25, 1944. It was one of the great days in the history of the world.

French women showered American soldiers with kisses, at the very least. The next day, the pompous Charles de Gaulle marched down the mile long Champs Elysee to the Place de la Concorde as if he had liberated France himself. I was there, squeezed in among a hundred tanks we'd given the Free French Army that we brought in with us.

Suddenly there were sniper shots from the top of a building. Thousands of Frenchmen who had come to see de Gaulle scrambled to get under something. I got under an Army truck myself. The tank gunners opened fire on the building where the shots had come from, firing mindlessly at nothing. It was a wild scene that lasted, maybe, 10 minutes.

When we go to Paris every couple of years now, I rent a car. I drive around the Place de la Concorde and when some French driver blows his horn for me to get out of his way, I just smile and say to myself, "Go ahead, Pierre. Be my guest. I know something about this very place you'll never know."

The French have not earned their right to oppose President Bush's plans to attack Iraq.

On the other hand, I have."