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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Ruth Ellen Patton
He used to be funny, but then he got political and simply MEAN.
Rooney must make his peace with God. Not me. His passing simply means a detestable man is no longer with us. That’s a good thing. I wonder who his replacement will be.
Do you really believe that?
He made me laugh sometimes. RIP Andy Rooney.
He made me laugh sometimes. RIP Andy Rooney.
God Bless him for his work During WW2, he actually went on Missions with the 8th Airforce.
Without Patton Bradley’s alleged battle plan would have been nothing more than squiggles on a map.
It is a fact that the battles Bradley commanded resulted in more dead and wounded American soldiers (percapita) then the battles Patton commanded.
I can understand ilk like Rooney not liking Patton. But to say he was over rated is ignorent. What the hell did Rooney know about generalling anyway? For people like Rooney likable average people are always preferable to unlikable superior people. Feelings,you know?
Thank you.. I feel the same. And Unlike Chronkite he did not lose the Vietnam war single handely..
“Now, an army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of crap. The bilious bastards who wrote that stuff about individuality for the Saturday Evening Post, don’t know anything more about real battle than they do about fornicating.”
General George Patton, Jr May 31, 1944
Yep, touchy, feely feelings. Patton was the general the Germans feared the most.
Touchy, feely doesn’t win wars and save lives.
He was funny back when ‘60 minutes’ was good. ‘60 Minutes’ now is 59 minutes 59.9 seconds to long. In the old days he had some funny comments about ladies dresses, lunches and the New york Boat Show, but recently.. he was mean and I’d rather watch The Simpsons than ‘60 Minutes to long’. (Homer is smarter than the panel of 60 minutes!!)
“He served in WWII”
On which side?
;)
Good!
When I had the rare occasion to see him over the years...sometimes I would laugh with him...sometimes at him. RIP.
From Gilbert Godfried:
Right now in Heaven, Andy Rooney is saying, “Did you ever notice how skinny Jesus is? And why doesn’t he shave?...”. RIP Andy Rooney
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