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Clash leaves Andy (Rooney) with a bad taste
NY Daily News ^ | August 12, 2004 | Ralph R. Ortega

Posted on 08/12/2004 6:48:02 AM PDT by Area Freeper

Andy Rooney offered a cranky commentary yesterday about the two Taxi & Limousine Commission officers who arrested his "60 Minutes" pal Mike Wallace. "I just hate petty authorities," Rooney told the Daily News, reserving his ire for the duo and not for all of the TLC. "I do think that the TLC has done a good job," Rooney said. "New York is one of those places where you can depend on cab drivers being honest."

He did have some curmudgeonly comments about Wallace's using a hired driver and buying meatloaf at a restaurant. Rooney said he personally sticks to driving himself - and that he eats only his own meatloaf. "I would say that I have better taste in food than Mike," joked Rooney, who noted he is a year younger than the 86-year-old Wallace.

But "I admire him," Rooney said. "It could have been me."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: andyrooney; mikewallace; pompousasses
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1 posted on 08/12/2004 6:48:03 AM PDT by Area Freeper
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To: Area Freeper
I always wanted to stick a mike in Wallace's face and ask
"Have you stopped beating your wife?"
2 posted on 08/12/2004 6:51:23 AM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (Liberals are like catfish ( all mouth and no brains )(bottom feeders))
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To: Area Freeper

Mike Wallace had a "do-you-know-who-I-am" moment. Whadda's he think he is, a Kennedy or something?


3 posted on 08/12/2004 6:52:51 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Take Luca Brazzi, make him an offer he can't refuse.)
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To: Area Freeper
Dispatching a limosene to buy some meatloaf???????

Wallace should be keel hauled for his lack of class. A kid on his bike who came here from Indonesia will gladly deliver your meatloaf to your door for a two buck tip.

4 posted on 08/12/2004 6:57:28 AM PDT by blackdog (Hell is an endless hayfield needing to be raked, baled, and put up.)
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To: Area Freeper

That must be some meatloaf, to risk jail and all...


5 posted on 08/12/2004 6:59:00 AM PDT by Mikey_1962
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To: Area Freeper

Is there anyone at 60 minutes that isn't an octagenarian?


6 posted on 08/12/2004 7:01:06 AM PDT by blanknoone (Kerry, if you were running for the socialist party, how would your platform be different?)
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To: Area Freeper
There REALLY should be a law against using the word 'taste' and 'Andy Rooney' in the same sentence, since they're mutually exclusive.
7 posted on 08/12/2004 7:04:33 AM PDT by MamaTexan (Democrats are just Communists in metrosexual clothing)
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To: Mikey_1962

For those residing in Manhattan, raw ground meat should be thrown at the CBS building.


8 posted on 08/12/2004 7:05:26 AM PDT by blackdog (Hell is an endless hayfield needing to be raked, baled, and put up.)
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To: blanknoone
Is there anyone at 60 minutes that isn't an octagenarian?

Or all of CBS News for that matter?

9 posted on 08/12/2004 7:07:06 AM PDT by jpl ("Go balloons, go ballons! Confetti, confetti, where's the confetti?" - Don Mischer)
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To: Area Freeper

"I just hate petty authorities," Rooney told the Daily News,...

Odd, his entire career seems to be built on petty "journalism."


10 posted on 08/12/2004 7:08:27 AM PDT by maggief
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To: Area Freeper

Rooney hasn't died yet?


11 posted on 08/12/2004 7:09:33 AM PDT by nonliberal (With Specter as Judiciary Chair, how do the Bushbots propose we get a conservative onto the Court?)
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To: nonliberal

No, unfortunately.


12 posted on 08/12/2004 7:09:52 AM PDT by Area Freeper (PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN!!!)
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To: Mikey_1962

Maybe Wallace was participating in a blue collar scavenger hunt? You know, where obnoxious people rent a limosene and have a list of things to obtain. Stuff like meatloaf, a half drank bottle of MD 20/20 and some hair from a bum, some food stamps, instant coffee, a thighmaster, and some old spice aftershave.


13 posted on 08/12/2004 7:10:10 AM PDT by blackdog (Hell is an endless hayfield needing to be raked, baled, and put up.)
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To: blackdog

Ohh that Mike!!! what a scamp!!


14 posted on 08/12/2004 7:13:41 AM PDT by Mikey_1962
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To: jpl

I don't think it's a matter of being an octagenarian that bothers me as much that the whole CBS News operation acts like they should be working for the Beijing People's Daily, or for Moscow Pravda when the Communists ran the USSR>


15 posted on 08/12/2004 7:15:20 AM PDT by HARBER
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To: Area Freeper

I no longer watch 60 minutes and Looney Rooney.I could care less what happens to any of them. 60 Minutes has turned into a Bush Bashing show.


16 posted on 08/12/2004 7:16:10 AM PDT by Piquaboy
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To: jpl

(This is a correction of my previous post):
I don't think it's a matter of being an octagenarian that bothers me as much as the fact that the whole CBS News operation acts like they should be working for the Beijing People's Daily, or for Moscow Pravda when the Communists ran the USSR.


17 posted on 08/12/2004 7:18:11 AM PDT by HARBER
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To: HARBER

Wallace & Rooney are typical Manhattan limo liberals who think they are above the rest of us and the law...
Wallace just got a rude awakening...
There's no fool like an old fool...


18 posted on 08/12/2004 7:26:45 AM PDT by kellynla (U.S.M.C. 1/5 1st Mar Div. Nam 69&70 Semper Fi http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnkerry.com)
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To: Area Freeper
Rooney criticizing someone for being petty? Hahahahahaha.
19 posted on 08/12/2004 7:34:01 AM PDT by savedbygrace
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To: nonliberal
"Rooney hasn't died yet?"

No.

As I understand it, he and Helen Thomas are in a race to see which of them can continue to live the longest with severe brain atrophy.

20 posted on 08/12/2004 7:38:36 AM PDT by chs68
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