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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In one of the shows he did on the second world war, he said something to the effect that "The worst thing Hitler ever did was to prove for all time that any peace is not better than any war."
And to the political constituency of which Andy Rooney is a part...killing millions of people wasn't worse than that.
Butchering human beings and tanning their skin wasn't worse than that.
Raining bombs out of the sky to reduce neighboring countries to dead wastelands wasn't worse than that.
What Rooney and his ilk hated most about Hitler is that he taught people that fighting and dying is sometimes the only option to not fighting and dying horribly anyway.
That is something Rooney and the left could not and can not forgive Hitler for. He made them work so much harder for dictatorial control.
The new attempt to mitigate this is the so called "Godwin's Law." It is neither intellectual nor conservative in nature. It is just a shorthand form of jumping up and down on the table screaming.
Sorry, I just can't muster any regret that he is gone. He needed Christ, but chose secularism in its most extreme form.
It was clear from his final show, he did not want to retire. RIP.
Rooney probably hated Patton for wanting to take out the enemy the US befriended, the Communists.
About time this libtard got off the freakin’ stage for good.
I will l miss him very much. Sixty Minutes has not been the same without him. R.I.P.
I would rather say nice things about Mike Wallace and Morley Safer when they pass. For all of their well-advertised libtard faults, I’d have a beer with either of those men right now. Andy Rooney was bitter scum, and his lame camera-pointed-at-his-desk job was no kind of improvement on Point/Counterpoint. Rot in hell, Rooney.
The article states a non-definitive “complications after minor surgery” as the cause of deeath. Well, we want to know MORE! We check into Drs’ offices and clinics all the time for minor surgery. In fact, what used to be considered major surgery is now onsidered minor surgery. So, we want to know which “minor surgeries” kill you?
Was this a colonoscopy gone wrong? A blood clot that formed after some minor operation that broke loose and killed him? Septicemia? Inquiring minds...
One less vote for 0bama.
May he rest in peace.
He’s one member of the MSM I will miss. Will there ever be another like him?
“I detested Patton and everything about the way he was. It was because we had so few soldiers like him that we won the war. Patton was the kind of officer that our wartime enlisted men were smarter than. It was the independent action of the average GI that made our Army so successful, not the result of the kind of blind, thoughtless devotion to the next higher authority that Patton demanded.”
Andy Rooney to Carlo D’Este, 1995
Prayers for his family. They probably need the Lord too.
Rather than rejoicing, I find it very sad that someone who has rejected his Creator meets Him face to FACE in judgment.
“I for one, will not miss him.”
This and the rest, well-stated. I had no respect/liking for him.
He is probably complaining its to hot in heaven right now!
Didn’t enjoy him. Sorry for his family. How could he ever see through those eyebrows anyway?
Geez..... That’s lovely from Rooney....
Sad day for his family, why would anyone else care?
Rest in peace Andy.
He was the father of the snark, he might not have called it that, but no one has ever been snarkier than Rooney on a roll.
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