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Andy Rooney Quotes/E-mail (Merged)

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jlb1705 said:
To bring this thing full circle...

Not only is that fake, as TheMile points out, but that stuff has also been falsely attributed to George Carlin.

I am a big George Carlin fan, and I saw something from the original post in this thread that I recognized from Carlin's act - the whole idiot/maniac drivers thing. I know it's on one of my Carlin recordings somewhere, and perhaps in one of his books too. Maybe he lifted it from Rooney, or Rooney lifted it from him. Or maybe neither of them is all that original. I know I've seen or heard that one elsewhere before though.
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I was all set to look up the fakeness issue on that right-wing-social-rant one but it was resolved in the next post; that was blatantly bad.

The remark attributed to Rooney about putting coffee grinds in an envelope with your bill payment is from Carlin too. I saw him say it in 1993 at the Ohio Theatre and it stuck with me. . . It certainly sounds like something Rooney would say though. Who knows. . .
 
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Good for him!!!
Surprised CBS let him get away with this even though he's right


AMEN ANDY ROONEY !




Right on, Andy Rooney!

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 UnitedCaucasianCollege 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?

< /B>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.
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</SPAN>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. <FONT face=Verdana color=red size=5>
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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.

</SPA! N>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 village 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 <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>; so how can they be "African-Americans"? Besides, <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place> 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 <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place></S PAN>. I am proud to be from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place> and nowhere else

And if you don't like my point of view, tough... <FONT! size="5" color="red" face="Verdana">

I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG, OF THE <st1:country-region w:st="on">UNITED STATES OF AMERICA</st1:country-region>, AND TO THE REPUBLIC, FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">LIBERTY</st1:City></st1:place> AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!
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I was asked to send this on if I agree or delete if I don't. It is said that 86% of Americans believe in God. Therefore I have a very hard time understanding why there is such a problem in having "In God We Trust" on our money and having "God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. Why don't we just tell the 14% to Shut Up and BE QUIET!!! [/FONT]



This is an email I recieved the other day but was hesitant to share. I was aftaid I might offend someone by posting it, But screw it. It completely sums up how I feel.


 
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[FONT=Trebuchet MS,Bookman Old Style,Arial] Claim: Commentator Andy Rooney explains his political views.

<noindex> Status: False. </noindex>[FONT=Trebuchet MS,Bookman Old Style,Arial]

Origins: Curmudgeonly 60 Minutes commentator Andy Rooney may have delivered a vituperative essay on French politics in 2003, but this piece elaborating on his own politics is not his creation. The text quoted above is too reactionary even for the acerbic Rooney, and the language used doesn't sound like him. ("Shoot your sorry ass" just isn't the kind of phrase Andy Rooney employs on television.) Just to be thorough, we checked the transcripts of all of Andy Rooney's <nobr>60 Minutes</nobr> pieces from the last ten years, and nothing like this item turned up.

Moreover, Andy Rooney himself denied it in 2003, saying:

About a year ago, I became aware of a more serious theft of my name and it is so hurtful to my reputation that it calls for legal action against the thief. Hundreds of people have written asking if I really wrote the <nobr>20 detestable</nobr> remarks made under my name that have had such wide circulation on the Internet.

Some of the remarks, which I will not repeat here, are viciously racist and the spirit of the whole thing is nasty, mean and totally inconsistent with my philosophy of life. It is apparent that the list of comments has been read by hundreds of thousands of Americans, many of whom must believe that it accurately represents opinions of mine that I don't dare express in my column or on television. It is seriously damaging to my reputation.

Mr. Rooney disclaimed the above-quoted piece again in his 60 Minutes segment of <nobr>23 October</nobr> 2005, saying of it:

There's a collection of racist and sexist remarks on the Internet under a picture of me with the caption ‘ANDY ROONEY SAID ON <nobr>60 MINUTES.’</nobr> If I could find the person who did write it using my name I would sue him.

The final two items on the list are probably a good tipoff that either this collection was written (by an as-yet unidentified author) as a parody of the "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney" spots on <nobr>60 Minutes,</nobr> or someone appended Andy Rooney's name to an unattributed piece because it "seemed like something he would say." Either way, whoever created this version appears to have lifted some parts from an earlier <nobr>piece</nobr> known as "Yes, I Guess I am A BAD American" and falsely credited to comedian George Carlin.

Last updated: 1 November 2005 <!-- April 21 2003 - original 9 November 2003 - added Rooney denial 23 November 2004: reformatted 1 November 2005 - added Rooney denial -->
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I'm offended by large, boldface, red letters.

Oh yeah. As soon as the first paragraph went the White entertainment Televison route, I knew it was fake. Nobody, in any position, can say that on television. Even on a show that has become as irrelevant as 60 minutes has become.
 
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IronBuckI said:
I'm offended by large, boldface, red letters.

Oh yeah. As soon as the first paragraph went the White entertainment Televison route, I knew it was fake. Nobody, in any position, can say that on television. Even on a show that has become as irrelevant as 60 minutes has become.
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The glaring error is "If you can't understand the word 'freeze' or 'stop' in English, see the above lines." Certainly an odd way to reference something you said verbally.
 
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