Posted on 11/23/2004 11:43:49 AM PST by raccoonradio
Veteran "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney blamed political bias at CBS, and the fact the news business has been taken over by people he called "moneychangers," for the network's decision to air forged documents on President Bush's National Guard service in September.
"I am very critical of some of the people at CBS who make it apparent what their political leanings are," Rooney said in a speech to Tufts University last week, in quotes picked up by RatherBiased.com.
"That's what happened to this thing of Dan Rather's that got out," he explained. "There's no question they wanted to run it because it was negative towards Bush." In the next breath Rooney complained that TV journalism "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."
The CBS star said he was chagrined over reports that religious values played such a critical role in this year's election.
"I am an atheist," Rooney told Tufts. "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 accused Christian fundamentalists of being ignorant, saying Christians turned to religion because of "a lack of education."
"They haven't been exposed to what the world has to offer," he explained.
Rooney also admitted to being mystified over how "men who work with their hands voted for George Bush."
"The labor force is conservative," he said. "How in the world did that happen?"
I think he read it somewhere in the Bible.
Perhaps Mr. Rooney is accusing the higherups at CBS of running the news division for profitable sensationalism rather than accuracy.
Or maybe he's just being anti-Semitic. Who knows?
Pray for W and Our Troops
Well, atheist or not, Rooney at least had the stature to stand up and tell it like it is about CBS and their fraudulent reporting. Very few in the media have the guts to do what is right ---
Rooney and his ilk can say what they want about Christians..Christians, I for one, know who and what we believe in and certainly have to make no excuses or give any explanations to anyone, especially in the far-left criminal media. Again, anyone, or anything, that relates to any FORM OF VALUES OR ETHICS is bad news for the "anything goes" pinko left.
I often wonder why God choses to let people like Rooney and so many other God hating Hollywood elitest become succesful?
I mean if it's a test, it sometimes seems cruel. . .
I think he was told someone else read it somewhere in the Bible.
Rooney - ""They haven't been exposed to what the world has to offer," he explained."
Guys like Rooney, Artest & co have shown us all the world has to offer that we care to see. Rooney is the mental equivalent of Artests physical barbarity and arrogance.
Thanks, but no thanks.
Uhmmm, could you be a bit more succinct?
More likely the precise opposite is true, ironically.
This man belongs in the same padded room as the other bitter venomous vitiolic has beens like Walter Cronkite, Helen Thomas and Daniel Shore
If that is the case, he could start by criticizing himself!!!
Moneychangers = latter day codeword for Jews.
[Hey Andy, your slip is showing!]
Money-changers...It's a more polite term than the one Hillary Clinton uses.
Its not the people you have to worry about offending.
"The labor force is conservative," he said. "How in the world did that happen?"
Because unlike his rich neighbors in Greenwich,CT,they
weren't lucky enough to inherit millions.
So,as a result,these people know the meaning of "a full
day's work"!
Well, Andy. For one thing, people who work with their hands are not holding their hands out for others to fill. Think that would make a difference? Doing SOMETHING for a living, instead of sucking the government's nipples dry....
PS to Andy, that is NOT the government's money to start with, it's called tax dollars.
Shakespeare play : "The Merchant of Venice" For those of you that are not familiar with it, it is a story about a merchant who borrows money from a 'moneychanger' named Shylock.
Moneychanger...code word. Andy, tell us what you REALLY mean.
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