But Wayne Rooney is ok?
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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Below is your post. You are challenging me by saying that if I had not served in combat I would not be a real soldier:
You: If you really served in combat in a way that makes it clear you were a real soldier/sailor/airman or Marine,
Some of my friends didn't live long enough to become vets.
As I recall, Jesse Helms asked that question of Jim Hunt in the 1984 Senate race. Hunt still went on to serve two more terms as governor but never made it to the Senate.
Nice try.
I was holding you to your own standard. You said Rooney was not a soldier. Explain how he was not.
Mickey Rooney passed at 93 yesterday.
But Wayne Rooney is ok?
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