Anyone know where to get a transcript of this? It was incredible.

Lots of people are tone-deaf these days: Bill Maher, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, most of Hollywood, and now, apparently, Andy Rooney. The world changed and they just haven't recognized that yet. They'll start losing their jobs as the world tunes them out, and eventually, they might figure it out.

Amen! Mrs. lodwick asked me to leave the room - I was screaming down that goofy lefty(I still believe that "they" can hear me.) - they hate it when events make them Come Correct with the real America!

ABC=American Brainwashing Center+Andy Rooney= Loonytoons!

Andy Rooney thinks he is a sage and a funnyman. He is neither.

I couldn't listen to him......what I did hear was disgusting!

Rooney can get by with this because the general audience is so ignorant. Rooney knows this fact in my opinion.

What it says on the transcript is:

"He threatened to close our enemy's harbors.

"Well, not too smart either. Afghanistan is landlocked, it doesn't have a harbor."

The question I have is: did Bush actually say that, and if he did, was he necessarily talking about Afghanistan?

I'm delighted that someone else noticed this appalling gaffe by Andy Rooney. Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary provides the following as the FIRST definition of "harbor": "a place of security and comfort: refuge". Mr. Rooney displayed his own ignorance and I'd like to let him know this but I haven't been able to find his e-mail address at the CBS site. Anyone help? (Lurker, too furious to learn how to html just now so this will have to be as sent.)

I see sarcastic humor can escape even the quick minded.

Well, a few weeks ago, Rooney did his segment on how annoying he found the phrase "God Bless America" to be. That was before the attacks.

For the past two weeks, he must have very angry. That phrase is EVERYWHERE.

A weekly commentary by CBS News Correspondent Andy Rooney:

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Nothing's funny these weeks. I was going to say something about President Bush before he spoke Thursday. After he spoke, what I was going to say seemed wrong. The speech was good. He was good and no one's in the mood to be critical.

He's not Winston Churchill but he has an appealing way of being and he knows we need a leader.

You wonder why anyone smart enough to BE president would want to be President. George W. Bush is getting a college education in how to be president. White House 101 and he's learning.

Last week, we all cheered his go-get'em speech two days after the attack. “There’s an old poster out west as I recall that said, “Wanted Dead Or Alive,” He said.

Well, he didn't sound like an intellectual president. I felt vengeful, too, but I hoped there were other people in government too smart to be driven by vengeance alone.

He threatened to close our enemy's harbors.

Well, not too smart either. Afghanistan is landlocked, it doesn't have a harbor.

Neither does Afghanistan have a building worth as much as one of our bombs would cost to destroy it.

Only one of three of the 25 million people in Afghanistan can read. How can we understand people so different?

One in a hundred owns a car.

They have 10 television sets for every thousand people. We have about a thousand television sets for every ten people.

The Country is smaller than Texas. Do we really want to kill Afghans?

It's convenient for us to lay this all on Osama bin Laden because we'll get him eventually but our enemy is more than one man.

The Taliban, the fundamentalist Muslim ruling partym is the enemy. Its leaders make Jerry Falwell look like an atheist. They tore down the great Buddhist statues because they're intolerant of any other religion.

In August, they arrested 24 people for teaching Christianity.

The 19 men who killed themselves killing 7,000 people didn’t think they were evil. They were religious. They were assuring their entry into heaven by getting in good with Allah. How do you bomb that?

President Bush was careful to be politically correct about Islam in his speech.

"It’s teachings are good and peaceful, and those who commit evil in the name of Allah blaspheme the name of Allah," he said.

The fact is though, a small minority of fundamentalist Muslims are more fanatic about Islam than most fundamentalist Christians are about Christianity.

I hope we aren't about to do more harm to ourselves than the terrorists did to us.

We're massing weapons for an attack without knowing what to attack. We're initiating security measures that will restrict our freedom without making us secure.

If we lose our freedom to move freely, I'm not going anywhere and neither, I'm afraid, is our country.

Source

Andy Rooney is a fraud. What more be said?

Libya has a harbor, so does Egypt and Lebanon. I saw it too, Andy Rooney is a small man and a big moron.

The question I have is: did Bush actually say that, and if he did, was he necessarily talking about Afghanistan?

I did a quick "Find" on the speech transcript at NRO, and neither the word "harbors," nor "ports," nor "port" appear.

The word "harbor" does appear, but with the other meaning: "From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime."

Gee, Andy. You're not a filthy stinking old liar, are you? I'm so disillusioned.

I see sarcastic humor can escape even the quick minded.

Guess I am just dense. I don't understand your point.

Nurse!

Come quickly!

Change Rooney's diaper -- Please!

He's stinking up the ward!

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Time to FReep CBS. These guys just don't get it. We are sensitive to stupidity, not free speech. And here we are struglling with some loser nations trying to get them on board and we have schmucks like Rooney running their bovine scattalogy on national television. We can show unity, if, and only if the mindless morons on the left can just shut their damned mouths every now and then. Their adverstisers will hear from me tommorrow.

Rooney is a legend in his own (what's left of a) mind.