Subject: ANDY ROONEY ON TARGET AGAIN  !!!!
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>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 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 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!!
     

He's an ass! I thought he died already.

Tanya

Dare I say it. I agree with some of that.

However, as much as we have a right not to be tolerant, we also have a right to learn from other people's experiences.

I agree with a lot of this, but I have also thought for a long time that Andy Rooney has a giant bug up his a**.

I often if Andy Rooney's head will explode just like in Scanners!!!  ;D

I often if Andy Rooney's head will explode just like in Scanners!!!  ;D
I'd like to see a couple of men in white suits go barging into the studio, tackle Andy Rooney, pin him down, bend him over and pull his pants down. Then one of the men would pull a set of Vise-Grips out of his pocket, reach down, and yank that huge bug out of Rooney's a**. Rooney would then stand up (suddenly looking 20 years younger) and turn to the men in white suits and say, "Thanks, fellas! I haven't felt this good in years!!!"
;D ;D ;D

Andy Rooney never said any of this.  Snopes debunked this ages ago.

Andy Rooney never said any of this.  Snopes debunked this ages ago.

Phew! Thanks for breaking the news, Chucky, I thought I was going to have to do it!  The mock-editorial wasn't even a good hoax.  The phraseology doesn't even match Rooney's, let alone the manner of subject!
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Here's the link:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/rooney4.asp

Well that's that sorted.  :)

Well, Alrighty then!

tanya

Before even reading ChuckyG and Maxwell's post I knew this was not Andy Rooney.  To much common sense.

Before even reading ChuckyG and Maxwell's post I knew this was not Andy Rooney.  To much common sense.

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I second that  ::)  ::)

>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

Can't fault the arithmetic there... but in the same vein, when 90% of those arrested are black, or only 10% of the population are black, then you'd have to admit that it is

...also when 90% of black defendents are convicted, but only 40% of white defendents, that's... Florida?

btw, who is Andy Rooney?

I remeber some other email that was attributed to Robin Williams and George Carlin which were also debunked..but I'm glad SOMEBODY SAID IT... 

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I agree!

Tanya

btw, who is Andy Rooney?


Rooney is a very old journalist with eyebrows that could conceal a school of whales. He has a segment on a popular CBS news programme called "60 Minutes" where he lays out rules that he thinks should be in place and in doing so, attempts to set the record straight. A grumbly old fart, sure, but he's entertaining.

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ANDY ROONEY
"Democrats (I think to myself) are liberals who believe the people are basically good, but that they need government help to organize their lives. They believe in freedom so fervently that they think it should be compulsory. They believe that the poor and ignorant are victims of an unfair system and that their circumstances can be improved if we give them help. Republicans (I think to myself) are conservatives who think it would be best if we faced the fact that people are no damned good. They think that if we admit that we have selfish, acquisitive natures and then set out to get all we can for ourselves by working hard for it, that things will be better for everyone. They are not insensitive to the poor, but tend to think the poor are impoverished because they won't work. They think there would be fewer of them to feel sorry for if the government did not encourage the proliferation of the least fit among us with welfare programs.
--Andy Rooney (b. 1919)

TVM, Maxwell - sounds like he knows what he's talking about.

...MOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

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ANDY ROONEY
"Democrats (I think to myself) are liberals who believe the people are basically good, but that they need government help to organize their lives. They believe in freedom so fervently that they think it should be compulsory. They believe that the poor and ignorant are victims of an unfair system and that their circumstances can be improved if we give them help. Republicans (I think to myself) are conservatives who think it would be best if we faced the fact that people are no darned good. They think that if we admit that we have selfish, acquisitive natures and then set out to get all we can for ourselves by working hard for it, that things will be better for everyone. They are not insensitive to the poor, but tend to think the poor are impoverished because they won't work. They think there would be fewer of them to feel sorry for if the government did not encourage the proliferation of the least fit among us with welfare programs.
--Andy Rooney (b. 1919)



This political division between left and right is described in exactly this way in the earlier chapters of Anthony Burgess's novel "The Wanting Seed." A teacher is explaining to his class the way in which the pendulum swings in Western society between the Pelagian (liberal) phase, and the Augustinian (conservative) phase. How it's a sort of viscious cycle where one phase's shortcomings will always lead to the growth and eventual re-establishment of the other phase, over and over again. The teacher explained each side exactly how Rooney does in this quote.

Has anyone else read this book? I have only gone through the first ten chapters, but I've put it off for a while, mainly because I am tired of constantly having to bust out the dictionary. Burgess's vocabulary was incredible. Many of the words he uses don't even appear in most desk dictionaries.

This political division between left and right is described in exactly this way in the earlier chapters of Anthony Burgess's novel "The Wanting Seed." A teacher is explaining to his class the way in which the pendulum swings in Western society between the Pelagian (liberal) phase, and the Augustinian (conservative) phase. How it's a sort of viscious cycle where one phase's shortcomings will always lead to the growth and eventual re-establishment of the other phase, over and over again. The teacher explained each side exactly how Rooney does in this quote.

Has anyone else read this book? I have only gone through the first ten chapters, but I've put it off for a while, mainly because I am tired of constantly having to bust out the dictionary. Burgess's vocabulary was incredible. Many of the words he uses don't even appear in most desk dictionaries.

Like so many people, the only Burgess I've read is "A Clockwork Orange," but I've heard wonderful things about the rest of his canon.