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Posted on 11/05/2011 8:12:43 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative
Andy Rooney, whose prickly wit was long a mainstay of CBS News and whose homespun commentary on “60 Minutes,” delivered every week from 1978 until 2011, made him a household name, died Friday in New York City.
He was 92 and lived in Manhattan, though he kept a family vacation home in Rensselaerville, N.Y., and the first home he ever purchased, in Rowayton, Conn.
CBS News said in a statement that Mr. Rooney died after complications following minor surgery.
In late September, CBS announced that Mr. Rooney would be making his last regular weekly appearance on “60 Minutes” on Oct. 2. After that, said Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News and the program’s executive producer, he would “always have the ability to speak his mind on ‘60 Minutes’ when the urge hits him.”
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I guess you didn’t read far in the thread, huh?
Telling stories of bravery is what some men contribute to a fight. When guys in the Mighty Eighth were dying by the thousands in nasty ways, he told their story. I don’t see why that shouldn’t be honored.
Maybe you could pray for him on New Year’s Eve, as you look back at the last year.
Dang straight, Bubba.
People who even have a tiny grasp of what Hell means wouldn’t be glad anyone has gone there.
We just see it differently. No foul.
No, unfortunately, I’m all booked up that night.
Andy Rooney on his going into battle:
“”I was just looking to get a good story in the paper”
I have. Have you?
Drafted.
Where have I slander AR?
Noted. But he got his butt on a B-17 when thousands of people who flew in B-17s were dying messy deaths. I see you say you served...how many combat hours?
As for me, I served from ‘89 to ‘94 in the USAF. No combat time.
Agree to disagree. Have a great weekend.
1. Cite your source.
2. If he said that it was modesty. One does not go on a raid into Germany lightly. He was serving in a war in which 16 million Americans were serving; he did not need to fly with the Eighth to get a good story. I never claimed he was Captain America, I claimed he had combat time.
I said he was a vet. Deal with it.
Jury duty. There is always half a day wasted waiting for.them to decide you are too conservative to stand duty when you get called for jury duty.
You can pray for Andy Rooney during the time you spend this year waiting at the courthouse.
"He was a socialist anti-war propagandist, NOT a soldier."
AR had the discharge papers to prove otherwise. And while he may have written in opposition to war, there is a vast difference between doing so many years after a conflict and doing so while the conflict is going on, which has been the consistent context of your comments...like this one:
"He was an anti-war socialist correspondent."
Let it be noted this was in the context of you again claiming he was not a veteran.
"Most pacifist, socialist-loving correspondents aren't exactly known for accurate reporting."
Then you accuse him of inaccurate reporting without providing any evidence. Got any?
Oh, and then there's the fact that even after it was pointed out to you that he described himself as being ashamed at his former pacifism, you double down and claim he was only angry because Hitler attacked the USSR:
"Most American socialists hated Hitler when he attacked the 'homeland' ... "
Well, not only is that more slander (show me the evidence, sparky) it shows you don't know squat about WWII history. Hitler attacked the Soviets almost six months before we entered the war, two months before Rooney was drafted and a full 18 months before he flew his first bomber mission. Seems like your timeline makes no sense. You probably think Operation Barbarossa was a Jane Fonda movie...or maybe you write for Politico. Do you have a story about the rock ay the end of the driveway at Rooney's hunting lodge?
Rooney was a liberal jerk, but he's a liberal jerk who flew over Wilhelmshaven on a plane that got shot up. I'm still waiting for the tales of your WWII combat hours. Your repeated crapping upon his honorable service is dishonorable and shameful.
George McGovern served also. Nothing good to say about him either except that he served. Same with Candy Andy here. Way way way way way back I watched him a few times. Then finally one day I said enough and have not even watched 60 minutes in decades.
For the record, about two-thirds of US servicemen in WW2 were draftees.
No such thing as 'minor surgery' on a 92-year-old.
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