Perhaps we've been OVEREXPOSED to "what the world has to offer"!!
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."...
He said Christian fundamentalism is a result of "a lack of education. They haven't been exposed to what the world has to offer."
Folks, there you have it...
THIS is exactly why the elitists of the Left hate George Bush, American honor and tradition.
We remind the Andy Rooneys of the world that there IS accountability to an American legacy and to God.
That's why the high school dropout demographic votes so overwhelmingly republican.............not!
lol.....loved your 10,000 list!
Cover story....
And, although the dates obviously do not work, the STORY that the CIA founded CBS is essentially true. No one at CBS has addressed that. I think someone at CBS needs to address that.
My computer is not seeing the bottom picture but I clicked on the link and saw the whole beautiful webpage!!
Andy needs to be reminded again about the Election 2000 fiasco in Florida, where his enlightened and educated voters couldn't figure out a simple butterfly ballot.
Gee, yeah that's a real winner, Andy. Then we'd all be "smart" and "educated" like you, huh?
One thing about liberals, they're always 100% sure they're right, and anyone who doesn't believe exactly like they do are wrong.
"I meant CBS TV"
It's the same company.
They actually started out making phonograph records, then radio, and then moved into TV in the late 40's - early 50's.
The William Paley family bought up CBS in the late 1920's and the family owned it until they sold it to GE in 1995.
He said Christian fundamentalism is a result of "a lack of education. They haven't been exposed to what the world has to offer."
I was in a rural courthouse in eastern Washington state last week and noticed the final election tally thumb tacked to a wall by the clerk's office. Republicans averaged 10% more votes for every position. I looked out the window and saw farms and wheat fields, and wondered why these people voted differently than city dwellers. It occurred to me that they almost all were self-employed, and their fortunes rose or fell solely based on their own labors. They also raise animals, then kill and eat them. These are people with a fundamental understanding of life itself and what is required to sustain it, without illusion or synthetic security that is based upon prosperity extracted from the labor of others. It is pretty clear to me where the ignorance lies.
:And, although the dates obviously do not work, the STORY that the CIA founded CBS is essentially true. No one at CBS has addressed that. I think someone at CBS needs to address that."
Define 'essentially true'
CBS was owned by the Paley family from the late 20's until 1995.
Or should I be looking for an /sarcasm tag here somewhere.
Perhaps we've been OVEREXPOSED to "what the world has to offer"!!
I've been around this world, I know what the world has to offer, and I don't want any part of it. Rooney is the real ignoramus.
You got it.
The Erudite Atheist. Now, who is he calling "uneducated"?
Whenever the so called elites spew their wisdom that verse comes to mind first.
I used to laugh at fundamentalist prognostication back in the early '70's, but now that so many predictions have become a part of history, the mirth had died down.
I don't know but it was confounded by FOX
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