Andy Rooney dies.....11/05/2011

[123tim]

I liked a lot of what he said. Not always, but a lot of the time:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBowSYaKgFM


Former '60 Minutes' commentator Andy Rooney dies
http://news.yahoo.com/former-60-minutes-commentator-andy-rooney-dies-111209786.html

NEW YORK (AP) — Andy Rooney so dreaded the day he had to end his signature "60 Minutes" commentaries about life's large and small absurdities that he kept going until he was 92 years old.

Even then, he said he wasn't retiring. Writers never retire. But his life after the end of "A Few Minutes With Andy Rooney" was short: He died Friday night, according to CBS, only a month after delivering his 1,097th and final televised commentary.

[Bruno]

Good clip of Andy, + rep for posting.


RIP, Mr. Rooney!

[muh_roads]

Let us also memorialize the retarded shit he said while we're at it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDW4CAAbvA4

[Napolitanic Wars]

Let us also memorialize the retarded shit he said while we're at it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDW4CAAbvA4

I remember that episode. My jaw hasn't shut since.

[Bruno]

Lol, he did say a bunch of stupid shit for sure. :D

[donnay]

Let us also memorialize the retarded shit he said while we're at it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDW4CAAbvA4


That was my first thought upon hearing this news-- I wondered if Mr. Rooney ever got that microchip he so advocated for. :rolleyes:

He always reminded me of the Wizard of Oz character--"Pay Not Attention To The Man Behind The Curtain."

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[Anti Federalist]

Not wanting to speak ill of the dead, I'll let somebody else do it.

This sums up my thoughts rather neatly.


Andy Rooney, RIP

Posted by Charles Burris on November 5, 2011 08:23 AM

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/98163.html

CBS News 60 Minutes commentator Andy Rooney has died. Laudatory tributes from his mainstream media colleagues are beginning to surface. Granted that Rooney was not the usual regime stenographer, he competently fulfilled his designated role as the nation-state’s curmudgeonly uncle whose largely banal observations on life and its oddities seldom challenged the conventional wisdom and pieties of the establishment. Each weekend he delivered his Sunday evening philippic soothing and reassuring the American sheeple that all’s well in the heartland, and that while often inconvenient or quirky, tyranny is bracing and good for the soul.

[123tim]

I'm not sure that I want to read any of the above negative posts.

I see that most are negative. I don't want to have another of my favored "pre-awakining" media personalities turn out to be someone that would I totally despise.

This happened to me with Walter Cronkite who I grew up watching. I thought that he was the greatest man in the world at one time.

Maybe ignorance is bliss once someone is gone?

Be aware of who people are while they can still influence the world (and you).

[Bosco Warden]

I dont even care, I liked Andy Rooney, he was an entertainer and he was very entertaining. Job well done Sir!!

Andy Rooney, RIP

[Vessol]

I'm reminded mainly of The Onion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SBxuHTlw98

[Jack Bauer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KglSPl7g14Q