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 guess it's too hard for someone of such superior knowledge to figure out that a good number of people have become Christians because they have been exposed to what the world has to offer!
'Scuse me while I drag my knuckles back to my cave.
Also, we find out (and apparently this is how the core at CBS also believe) - that 'Christians' or 'religious' people are nothing but ignorant idiots (for voting for Bush).
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I thought andy rooney was dead...
Does that statement even need a comment?
It does, but words fail me.
No. It was founded by William Paley long before the CIA was formed in 1947.
Where in the world did you get that info? Or was that irony?
He really doesn't understand. So many of us have been. And all the pretty things the 'world' offers turned out to be less than nothing.
It's a pretty much FR-wide "inside" joke, considering the whole forgery thing was broken here.
Don't do </sarcasm>. Not gonna do it. Wouldn't have comic impact. Not at this juncture. Way too stupid looking.
Rooney is an arrogant a**hole. This old S.O.B. is the type that trashes God & religion his whole life long and ends up begging God for mercy while on his death bed. What a sad, empty suit he is.
His brain has been for years, but his mouth hasn't found out yet.
Roonie is such an ar$ehole. I never have liked his pessimistic attitude and view of things.
Ping
"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."
Rooney is an intellectual idiot.
Rather, Rooney, Wallace
All young bloods
Like Nightline on ABC I see a seachange a'comin' at 60 Minutes/CBS
I knew a slew of those "intelligent" liberal types going to college at different stages of my life. They all had/have a sneering contempt for anyone who doesn't share their far-left radical lib vision of how the world should be run. Many of these people are very charming and pleasant and even knowledgeable on certain issues. But they all have that leftist utopian, IRRATIONAL AND UNREALISTIC!! view of how things are and how they ought to be. Many times I sat in class and wished I could voice my opinion without getting penalized for doing so. And that was when I was still a Democrat voter. These people are on average much further left than your average Dem kool-aid drinker. Rooney wouldn't know (or associate with) a common, average working man if his worthless life depended on it.
Good to have Rooney around these days.
He's now just senile enough to let the actual truth slip out occasionally.
Rooney has to be one of the luckiest men alive. Paid millions a year for over 20 years to spew out 4 minutes of sophomoric leftist bile.
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Matthew 16:26
I'm Andy Rooneys worst nightmare. A practicing Catholic who works with his hands and managed to obtain a BSEET along the way thanks to the US Army who voted for Bush with overwhelming pride.
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