COUNTRY ROADS
Posted on 11/22/2004 8:33:37 PM PST by Mike Fieschko
Speaking at Tufts University on Thursday night, CBS's Andy Rooney attributed the motivation behind CBS's hit on President Bush based on forged documents to the political agenda of CBS News staffers. "There's no question they wanted to run it because it was negative towards Bush," the Tufts Daily's Keith Barry quoted Rooney as revealing during his remarks. Rooney shares that ideological hostility to Bush, as Barry related how "Rooney also attributed voters' reliance on religion in the recent election to ignorance" and "said Christian fundamentalism is a result of 'a lack of education. They haven't been exposed to what the world has to offer.'" In addition, "Rooney said he also could not understand how 'men who work with their hands voted for George Bush,' and again attributing the phenomenon to a lack of education."An excerpt from the November 19 Tufts Daily article by Keith Barry which was highlighted by Romenesko ( www.poynter.org ):
Andy Rooney, the "60 Minutes" correspondent who turned "curmudgeon" into a job title, spoke at the Fletcher School of International Law and Diplomacy last night....
Second year Fletcher student Jeremy Harrington asked Rooney to "skewer people outside our borders," to which Rooney deadpanned, "There's bound to be a conservative in every crowd."
Rooney responded by referring to the American failure to win the support of Iraqis and the world community in the Iraq war. He said the United States started the war "for good reasons," but he did not think the rest of the world agreed....
Rooney also attributed voters' reliance on religion in the recent election to ignorance. "I am an atheist," Rooney said. "I don't understand religion at all. I'm sure I'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but I think it's all nonsense."
He said Christian fundamentalism is a result of "a lack of education. They haven't been exposed to what the world has to offer."
Rooney said he also could not understand how "men who work with their hands voted for George Bush," and again attributing the phenomenon to a lack of education. "The labor force is conservative," he said. "How in the world did that happen?"
Rooney said that he hoped Bush's re-election would give him the "confidence" to end the war in Iraq. "I think if George Bush said tomorrow, 'I was wrong, I ask for an apology,' I bet the American people would thank him, and they would like him," he said....
Rooney's own show, "60 Minutes," was involved in a public and politically charged flap when it unwittingly used false documents in a Dan Rather piece on Bush's National Guard service.
"I am very critical of some of the people at CBS who make it apparent what their political leanings are," Rooney said. "That's what happened to this thing of Dan Rather's that got out. There's no question they wanted to run it because it was negative towards Bush."
The veteran reporter said the news business "has been taken over" by 'the moneychangers.'"
"I feel bad about the news business," Rooney said. "It has the prospects of being stronger than ever. There are good young people in the news business," he said, praising his fellow commentators Jon Stewart and Al Franken
Rooney said he enjoys watching television news, "partially because I have a drink of bourbon with it."...
Sophomore Spencer Hickok questioned Rooney's inclusion of Columbus' discovery of America in his list of the greatest moments in American history when, in Hickok's words, it resulted in the "genocide of Native Americans."
"I'm not hearing you," Rooney began. He appeared caught off guard, and then conceded, "I can't answer your question."...
i.e. Me superior Them stupid. (He doesn't understand religion, so he says)
We've seen too well what the world had to offer and we aren't interested,.
"I think if George Bush said tomorrow, 'I was wrong, I ask for an apology,'
Uh, why would President Bush admit he's wrong and then ask for an apology? Ha! I know what it is, the part of Rooney's brain that works properly and has been suppressed all this time is trying mightily to break out.
There are good young people in the news business," he said, praising his fellow commentators Jon Stewart and Al Franken.
Andy, these youngsters are comedians not fellow commentators.
Equating Rooney with a maroon would be kind at this point.
"He said Christian fundamentalism is a result of "a lack of education. They haven't been exposed to what the world has to offer."
Andy, could you please give me an example of exactly what you are talking about? To what exactly have I not been exposed?
"There's no question they wanted to run it because it was negative towards Bush,"
No $hit, Sherlock.
DUH..He's still a bigot.
It's long past the time for looney Rooney to retire to France or Canada.
Hear, Hear!
How would rooney know? He sits in his sh_t waiting for someone to come and clean him up.
Say it with me Andy..."Lake of fire"...Like it or not, buddy boy, your knee SHALL bow to whose name you tacitly curse.
Thanks for that Breaking News story Andy. Now go back to your applesauce and peas.
Soon there will be a group saying those who vote for President Bush are "Poopy Heads."
Rooney is intellectually short sighted. He should be grateful to God that he had managed to make a hansom living out of little witty sayings.
Pray for W and Our Troops
I don't understand that part: if he says he was wrong why would he ask for an apology and from whom?
LOL! Perfect Timing!
And with any luck, I won't be exposed. And I'll live to see many more grandchildren, and die at home in the arms of my family, just like Dad.
As opposed to dying from what the world has to offer.
I've seen it. I don't want to be exposed to it.
/john
When will we get the results of CBS's "internal investigation" of "Rathergate"? Who forged the documents? Whose hands did the documents pass through? Who knew about them and when? Who will be held accountable? Most of these questions aren't that difficult to answer if your Rather or Mapes. Shouldn't they be cooperating with the investigation? If so, shouldn't it be about done? Can CBS give us an update? Let's email CBS and see if we can get them moving: 60m@cbsnews.com
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