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Usually, I watch and laugh at his rants. I can't ssay I disagree with one of his latest though....

Andy Rooney said on "60 Minutes" a few weeks back:

I don't think being a minority makes you a victim of anything except numbers. The only things I can think of that are truly discriminatory are things like the United Negro College Fund, Jet Magazine, Black Entertainment Television, and Miss Black America. Try to have things like the United Caucasian College Fund, Cloud Magazine, White Entertainment Television, or Miss White America; and see what happens...Jesse Jackson will be knocking down your door.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

I believe they are called the Boy Scouts for a reason. That is why there are no girls allowed. Girls belong in the Girl Scouts! ARE YOU LISTENING MARTHA BURKE?

I think that if you feel homosexuality is wrong, it is not a phobia, it is an opinion.

I have the right "NOT" to be tolerant of others because they are different, weird, or tick me off.

When 70% of the people who get arrested are black, in cities where 70% of the population is black, that is not racial profiling, it is the Law of Probability.

I believe that if you are selling me a milkshake, a pack of cigarettes, a newspaper or a hotel room, you must do it in English! As a matter of fact, if you want to be an American citizen, you should have to speak English!

My father and grandfather didn't die in vain so you can leave the countries you were born in to come over and disrespect ours.

I think the police should have every right to shoot your sorry ass if you threaten them after they tell you to stop. If you can't understand the word "freeze" or "stop" in English, see the above lines.

I don't think just because you were not born in this country, you are qualified for any special loan programs, government sponsored bank loans or tax breaks, etc., so you can open a hotel, coffee shop, trinket store, or any other business.

We did not go to the aid of certain foreign countries and risk our lives in wars to defend their freedoms, so that decades later they could come over here and tell us our constitution is a living document; and open to their interpretations.

I don't hate the rich. I don't pity the poor.

I know pro wrestling is fake, but so are movies and television. That doesn't stop you from watching them.

I think Bill Gates has every right to keep every penny he made and continue to make more. If it ticks you off, go and invent the next operating system that's better, and put your name on the building.

It doesn't take a whole vil lage to raise a child right, but it does take a parent to stand up to the kid; and smack their little behinds when necessary, and say "NO!"

I think tattoos and piercing are fine if you want them, but please don't pretend they are a political statement. And, please, stay home until that new lip ring heals. I don't want to look at your ugly infected mouth as you serve me French fries!

I am sick of "Political Correctness." I know a lot of black people, and not a single one of them was born in Africa; so how can they be "African-Americans"? Besides, Africa is a continent. I don't go around saying I am a European-American because my great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather was from Europe. I am proud to be from America and nowhere else.

And if you don't like my point of view, tough. DON'T PASS IT ON.

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why do i suspect that you didn't actually watch him say these things.


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It's time somebody walked Andy Rooney to the back of the barn.


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why do i suspect that you didn't actually watch him say these things.


not this particualr session, no...I dont go out of my way to watch 60 minutes....the times I have watched, i have laughed him off as a crazy old koot.

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I bumped into Andy Rooney a few times during the DNC in Chicago. The guy must've thought other people were: aliens, germ-ridden, out-to-get-him, or malicious, as he literally would jump back and run when someone approached him for an autograph. Not an impolite "I don't sign autographs" or a brush-off, but plain and simple terror, like Eddie Murphy's "Kit" character in Bowfinger.


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why do i suspect that you didn't actually watch him say these things.


not this particualr session, no...I dont go out of my way to watch 60 minutes....the times I have watched, i have laughed him off as a crazy old koot.
so you're saying that you perhaps got this missive as a chain email.


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Crack shouldn't you be knee deep in hops right now?

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ali g's interview with andy rooney is hilarious. he didn't last 2 minutes with rooney!

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Crack shouldn't you be knee deep in hops right now?
this afternoon after the dreaded run...of 4 blocks. then the walk of shame back wheezing and praying for death.


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This guy has crack Wrote:
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why do i suspect that you didn't actually watch him say these things.


not this particualr session, no...I dont go out of my way to watch 60 minutes....the times I have watched, i have laughed him off as a crazy old koot.
so you're saying that you perhaps got this missive as a chain email.


Actually, I read it on Genesimmons.com (no snickering please), and thought it was interesting enough to share.....you saying, this is not one of his diatribes?

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maybe it is and maybe it isn't, but it's worth checking.


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nah...have already lost interest....lets CBS sue me for libel if I'm wrong....does sound like stuff he'd say though.

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...only you can't read his slurring.

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http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/rooney4.asp

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crack Wrote:
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good, good. we also would have accepted "tirade."


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PostPosted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 3:34 pm 
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there is no way that is Rooney
horrible impersonation.

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DumpJack Wrote:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/rooney4.asp


thank you. i've been corrected...

still sounds like some stuff he would say!

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crack Wrote:
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good, good. we also would have accepted "tirade."


How bout 'Verbal Diarea'?

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NOTHINGFACE Wrote:
DumpJack Wrote:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/rooney4.asp


thank you. i've been corrected...

still sounds like some stuff he would say!


not at all.
it doesn't have his cadence or his philosophy.

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What a large collection of asinine, incorrect bullshit. :roll: If Andy did say it, it'd just be one more reason to write him off as a completely pointless old fogey.

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I think the police should have every right to shoot your sorry ass if you threaten them after they tell you to stop. If you can't understand the word "freeze" or "stop" in English, see the above lines.


Yeah it seems unlikely that he would say "see the above lines" on television.

These also sound like the statements of a 13-year-old young republican incapable of deeper analysis than to follow his initial emotional reaction.


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HaqDiesel Wrote:
crack Wrote:
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good, good. we also would have accepted "tirade."

haq's response here reminded me of mr. garrison from southpark:

Mr. Garrison Wrote:
Okay children, so what other sexual positions have we talked about? Yeah, the wrap-around butt grab. Sure, can't forget that. Uh huh, reverse cowgirl. Good, Kevin. Hot Lunch, sure, she likes that. Donkey Punch, uh huh. Glass-bottom boat. Good one, yes. Fish-eye. Good, Jenny. Chili dog. Mm-hm.


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Rooney turned 87 over the weekend. Ate Tea Frickin Seven.


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i cant believe someone would agree with this stuff. pat roberterson might have said it, though. i would check snopes on that one.

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rparis74 Wrote:
i cant believe someone would agree with this stuff. pat roberterson might have said it, though. i would check snopes on that one.


ummm, scroll up?

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