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People don't write letters much anymore. Too bad. A personal letter from a friend is one of the good things in life. In the last few days I've received hundreds of letters that were not from friends and weren't so good. In response to a statement I read about Pat Robertson saying he'd heard from God, I said on "60 Minutes" that God had called me, too. According to Pat, God told him that President Bush was going to be re-elected "in a walk." I quoted what God had said to me about both Pat Robertson and Mel Gibson. For...

'I'm not going to spend $9 just for a few laughs' -- CBS's Andy Rooney to Don Imus on why he won't see PASSION OF CHRIST....

I"m not going to spend $9 just for a few laughs"-Andy Rooney on why he won't see The Passion Of The Christ. Andy Rooney on Imus Thursday morning to deal with controversial statements about Mel Gibson being nuts may have made things worse. When asked by host Don Imus whether he was going to see The Passion Of The Christ, Roonet replied, "I"m not going to spend $9 just for a few laughs. Rooney had already been talking about the hate mail he had recieved for claiming God had talked to him and told him that Pat Robertson and Mel...

Andy Rooney lashed out Sunday night, using his 60 Minutes platform to do some name-calling, in the name of God, against Pat Robertson and Mel Gibson. Claiming to be relaying what God wanted him to say after Rooney had a conversation with him, Rooney passed along how God delivered insults as he said that “I wish you'd tell your viewers that both Pat Robertson and Mel Gibson strike me as wackos. I believe that's one of your current words. They're crazy as bedbugs” and “Mel is a real nut case. What in the world was I thinking when I created...

<p>NEW YORK (AP) -- Andy Rooney set the phone and e-mail lines at CBS buzzing over his commentary -- in which he said God was speaking through him -- calling Mel Gibson and the Rev. Pat Robertson "wackos."</p> <p>CBS said Monday it received its heaviest audience response to a "60 Minutes" report since Rooney's commentaries on the Iraq war last spring.</p>

Admirers of Mel Gibson will be happy to know that the New York Times has sunk to snotty new lows in its attacks on him. And Andy Rooney has one-upped it. The Old Gray Lady whines that "Gibson is viewed not as an artist flouting convention and mainstream Hollywood orthodoxies, but as a lobbyist for the fundamentalist religious movement in the United States at a time when its clout is unmistakably on the rise." Viewed so by whom? The Times fails to say. The answer: viewed so by the Times and its ilk. The Times frets: "Critics worry that Mr....

NEW YORK (AP) — Andy Rooney set the phone and e-mail lines at CBS buzzing over his commentary — in which he said God was speaking through him — calling Mel Gibson and the Rev. Pat Robertson "wackos." CBS said Monday it received its heaviest audience response to a "60 Minutes" report since Rooney's commentaries on the Iraq war last spring. The network wouldn't specify how many calls or e-mails were received. "60 Minutes" spokesman Kevin Tedesco said it was "several times the normal feedback." On Sunday's broadcast, Rooney commented on Robertson's January statement that he believes God has told...