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Andy Rooney, Mainstay on ‘60 Minutes’, Dead at 92
The New York Times ^ | Published: November 5, 2011 (20 minutes ago) | RICHARD SEVERO and PETER KEEPNEWS

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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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 60minutes; andyrooney; dbm; deadlib; notbreakingnews; obituary; rooney
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To: macquire
Rooney was a liberal and an atheist.

I bet he is neither right now, especially the atheist part. I am sure he would love to have Lazuras dip his finger in cold water and just put it on the tip of this tongue... but there is a great gulf between Heaven and Hell and for Andy Rooney, it is too late.

141 posted on 11/05/2011 7:17:08 PM PDT by rcrngroup
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To: ContraryMary
May he rest in peace.

Too late for Andy now. There is no peace in Hell... just torment & anguish & wailing & knashing of teeth. He needed to make that decision before departing this life. Instead he chose socialism & atheism. I don't think he is an atheist any longer.

142 posted on 11/05/2011 7:28:14 PM PDT by rcrngroup
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To: Paleo Conservative

Although I figured the only way that whiney vile ba$tard would retire was after being removed from the set with a sheet draped over his corpse, I didn’t think it would be very long after he left C-BS he’d assume room temperature.


143 posted on 11/05/2011 8:05:53 PM PDT by RasterMaster ("To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Mr. Silverback

It’s impossible to respond to your garbage. Please quote me directly and show any errors in my posts. You cannot so you intentionally present a garbage post that muddies the waters as you have done on other posts to me. I have earlier reposted my statements. Please respond to them DIRECTLY. Thanks.


144 posted on 11/05/2011 9:20:10 PM PDT by NewinTexsas
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Apparently, the doctor was trying to remove Andy’s head from his rectum. It’d been up there too long, alas.


145 posted on 11/05/2011 10:21:28 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: Paleo Conservative

Rooney is a testament to the old saying “ only the good die young “


146 posted on 11/06/2011 5:16:00 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: NewinTexsas
It’s impossible to respond to your garbage.

Nice try.

Go back to post 134 and answer what I've written. There's nothing there you can't respond to and you know it.

Now tell me, how much combat time do you have, again? Doing what? Some of it is in the B-17, right?

147 posted on 11/06/2011 7:14:49 AM PST by Mr. Silverback (Anyone who says we need illegals to do the jobs Americans won't do has never watched "Dirty Jobs.")
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To: NewinTexsas; Bender2; 2nd Bn, 11th Mar; morphing libertarian; crazydad; KeyLargo; ClearCase_guy; ...

Check post 134 and the ones following. Look how the expert suddenly can’t figure out how to answer any questions...


148 posted on 11/06/2011 7:23:33 AM PST by Mr. Silverback (Anyone who says we need illegals to do the jobs Americans won't do has never watched "Dirty Jobs.")
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To: Mr. Silverback

RIP, you old curmudgeon.


149 posted on 11/06/2011 7:45:45 AM PST by LibsRJerks
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To: Mr. Silverback

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2803305/posts


150 posted on 11/06/2011 8:23:13 AM PST by Charlespg
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To: Mr. Silverback
Go back to post 134 and answer what I've written. There's nothing there you can't respond to and you know it.

Your post if full of insinuations and misrepresentations. As I said, post my ACTUAL statements, refute them properly and I will repond. Since you cannot refute me directly, please stop with the misrepresentations.

151 posted on 11/06/2011 9:40:38 AM PST by NewinTexsas
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To: Mr. Silverback
he did not need to fly with the Eighth to get a good story.

Yes he did.

152 posted on 11/06/2011 9:44:04 AM PST by NewinTexsas
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To: Mr. Silverback

I think you have them by the short hairs.

I was just positing that the guy is a vet of the big one, as was my dad. I didn’t know I would have to defend things I never said.

Fell like I picked up the tar baby.

Best wishes!


153 posted on 11/06/2011 10:05:26 AM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: Mr. Silverback

fEEl like.


154 posted on 11/06/2011 10:06:02 AM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: CrazyIvan

Was this an actual regarding Rooney by her?


155 posted on 11/06/2011 10:07:23 AM PST by princeofdarkness (The Obama Administration is circling the wagons. But the Truth Indians are using flaming arrows.)
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To: CrazyIvan

Was this an actual quote regarding Rooney by her?


156 posted on 11/06/2011 10:07:55 AM PST by princeofdarkness (The Obama Administration is circling the wagons. But the Truth Indians are using flaming arrows.)
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To: Paleo Conservative

I have it on very good authority that Rooney on fact died over eight years ago.


157 posted on 11/06/2011 10:12:18 AM PST by Ted Grant
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To: princeofdarkness

Yes. I may not have it verbatim, but I read it in a book on Patton. It was a reply she wrote to 60 Minutes.


158 posted on 11/06/2011 10:45:45 AM PST by CrazyIvan (Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
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To: Ted Grant
"I have it on very good authority that Rooney on fact died over eight years ago."

C-BS could prop his rotting corpse up in his chair, lean him over his desk, and nobody would notice other than the stench. The show must go on!

159 posted on 11/06/2011 10:52:18 AM PST by RasterMaster ("To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: morphing libertarian
I was just positing that the guy is a vet of the big one, as was my dad.

He was drafted into service. He had considered filing CO but reconsidered. Purely coincidental that he, like many of his socialist buddies reconsidered AFTER Hitler attacked their homeland. He served as a correspondent and was quoted as saying that he was only after a good story.

160 posted on 11/06/2011 11:29:50 AM PST by NewinTexsas
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