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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Also, what "misrepresentation" is there in me asking this question, which you have failed to answer several times now?...
When and where did you serve combat time, and was any of it in a B-17?
Let's hear it, champ.
Thanks!
I have flown in a B-17 but not in combat. The B-17 was retired from service a little before my time.
Sixteen million men served under arms for the US in WWII. How many of them were in the European theater? How many were within close proximity to London in '43? How many stories about allies or domestic UK events would have been of interest to Stars and Stripes readers?
Also, take Edward R. Murrow. He flew with RAF raids, but certainly those reports, though excellent, are barely remembered compared to his other reports of life in a wartime capital. Rooney couldn't do the same sort of thing in print that Murrow was doing on radio, and for a different audience?
Your assertion that Rooney would not have been able to find a good story otherwise as a beat reporter in a foreign capital in a time of war is, to be frank, moronically ignorant.
Best to you. Is your Dad still around?
My Grandads served in Italy and the Solomons. One volunteered, one was drafted. Both Army, both in major combat. My next door neighbor was landing boat crewman for the Navy and served in both the Med and the Pacific, I told him he may have taken both my grandfathers in to the beach!
Cite your source. Explain why you say he was a pacifist acting against the war when he flew the Wlhelmshaven mission one year and eight months after the invasion of the USSR.
From Andy Rooney's own mouth. I did it to get a good story.
Why is this relevant? You already said you didn't serve combat time.
Wrong answer, champ. To cite the source you must identify where Ronney said it. I've noticed every time I ask where you got information you change the subject. Where did Rooney say it, and in what context. Cite your source.
Also, explain why you say he was a Hitler-sympathizing pacifist acting against the war when he flew the Wilhelmshaven mission one year and eight months after the invasion of the USSR.
Cite your source. Also, ErniePyle and Ed Murrow put themselves in danger "just to get agood story" too. So what?
Please source my quote that you are misrepresenting.
Andy Rooney's book, My War.
It's relevant because you're a loudmouth talking about how a guy with B-17 combat time is a traitorous wimp who doesn't even get to be called a veteran. It's relevant because you're dishonoring the service of millions and making veterans look bad. Let's see what your record is like, shall we?
Let's hear it, Mr. Truth: When and where did you serve combat time?
You have said that he was a pacifist who was against the war. You have said that socialists like him were fine with Hitler until he attacked the USSR. If you’re enough of a moron to think that you have to have written “he was a Hitler-sympathizing pacifist” before it’s fair for me to say that is how you described him, you should quit now and head back to elementary school.
Where in that book did he say his motivation to fight in WWII was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Hitler?
He never said he was motivate to fight in WWII. In fact, he was an anti-war pacifist/socialist drafted into the army and served as a correspondent.
Ah, so when you imply (at least!) that he was motivated to be in our armed forces because Hitler invaded the USSR, are you lying or incompetent?
Ah, so when you imply (at least!) that he was motivated to be in our armed forces because Hitler invaded the USSR, are you lying or incompetent?
When and did you serve combat time?
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