[BluesDuke]

Ahhh, Mr. S, of nattering nabobs and congenital liar fame..............Rooney couldn't carry his thesaurus......... 8:}

Well, nobody asked Rooney to write a regular language column, period, never mind whether he could write one that actually entertained and taught.

(I still remember when Safire zapped Spiro Agnew---for whom he came up with the "nattering nabobs of negativism" alliteration---over the execrably anti-Semitic The Canfield Decision and ended by saying, "Now, Mr. Agnew has become what we once took such pleasure in deriding---a nattering nabob of negativism.")

P.S. you do be a poet......

P.S. I have my moments . . . ;)

[AwesomePossum]

Rooney was a print journalist for most of the 40s, then went into script writing for TV "variety shows", later went to work for CBS, and, while there off and on wrote columns for print publications............while at CBS, of course, his work was considered opinion pieces..........most of his work was on the tube, but there was a fair amount in print.........

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