Andy Rooney 60 Minutes on CBS Sunday night


Andy Rooney risked his job Sunday night by an amazing speech he wrote for Bush (though the
president didn't ask for it). It was a statement of apology to the American people in which he outlined
many of the falsehoods presented to the American people to gain support for the war in Iraq,
presented the casualties caused by the unwise occupation, after he declared victory after a spectacularly
staged landing on an aircraft carrier. He mentioned the vast sums of money being spent there, with very
little results, and pointed out how it would have been much wiser to spend that here at home keeping the promises he made while trying to get elected. Bush never used the speech. The true American does not want to oppress the other people in the world. They want only the right to live free, to be able to better their way of life, and to be able to enjoys the fruits of their labor. If they are called to help others, not as blessed, they are willing to extend a helping hand. But Bush is not sorry. His aims and objectives are not those of the citizens of this country. He seems determined to gain control of oil for his friends. He seems determined to deplete the treasury, social security, medicaire, and is succeeding better than any other president. He is bankrupting the United States in three short years from a position of annual surplus to our greatest national debt in history that our children may never be able to pay. Our unemployment figures are the largest in history. He has reduced funding for every program that his corporate backers oppose. The veterans administration has had to cut services for lack of funds. Injured soldiers have been required to pay for their meals while being treated in hospitals. He has alienated our allies all around the world. None are willing to support our aggressive actions. We are in a deep pit in Iraq with the death toll getting more unbearable every day and he hasn't found a thing he went in there for except OIL. We are hated more than any other nation, because of Bush. But you can't really put the blame all on him. He's really not very smart and the people who have put him in office have manipulated him for their own objectives. So he and his sponsors have become truly our greatest peril in this country and unless action is taken immediately to remove him from office, we have lost our democratic nation and our rights tp live free and prosper. We cannot afford to wait until the next election to get rid of his band. We must seek his immediate removal from office. I call for his IMPEACHMENT. Papers have already been drawn up. We must bombard our congressmen with demands that they be acted upon.
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Well, only a matter of time until he Rooney gets fired now...

Seriously though, if they do fire him, I'm hoping for bloodshed.

He's getting up there in years...I wouldn't be afraid to bet they will "put him out to pasture" in about a year anyway. I like Rooney, He's a straight-shooter, but I'm fairly sure the white shirts at CBS don't like getting this kind of attention. Look at their ratings, then look at Fox's ratings. Every network knows that if you want to survive, you have to adopt a more conservative approach. (MSNBC anyone?)

Rooney needs to do a bit more research however. The war in Iraq was not about oil so much as it was about Saladin, the actions taken in the 3rd crusade, and the supposed burning of the one true cross.

Those fundamentalist Christians are a shady bunch they are. (Spoken in a bad Pirate voice)



[Edited on 4-11-2003 by Kai-Raega]

People who have careers ahead of them won't do this for fear of their jobs. Old guys like Rooney have nothing to worry about for speaking their mind. I'm more surprised it took him this long.

Originally posted by Kai-Raega
Rooney needs to do a bit more research however. The war in Iraq was not about oil so much as it was about Saladin, the actions taken in the 3rd crusade, and the supposed burning of the one true cross.

Heh...there were multiple motives.

Now that I think of it, I'm not so sure CBS would push it's luck after cancelling the Regans. To do that and fire Rooney would make them look too much like FOX news. Even though they probably aren't any better.

Originally posted by Flinx
I'm not so sure CBS would push it's luck after cancelling the Regans. To do that and fire Rooney would make them look too much like FOX news. Even though they probably aren't any better.

If you were to say that to the head of CBS, they'd probably snap back, "And what exactly is wrong with that?"

I read a lot....probably more then a man my age should. One thing I've noticed is that whenever a conservative wants to drive home the belief we have a liberal media (Another topic for another time) they cite two stations as proof:

CNN and CBS

CBS knows the kind of stigma they have been saddled with. You can't honestly think they don't want to dump it, do you? If they ditch Rooney and apologize for the Reagan Biopic (which they did already) then they can start walking down the same road MSNBC has taken.

Tell you the truth, all of the "Big Three" are predominately liberal, it's the cable news outlets and the radio that are conservative. It's a delicate balance.

I like Andy Rooney he's funny i mean not comedian funny but lets humourous.

So do you think the Cable news networks or the "big free 3" (ABC, NBC, CBS) have more viewers?

Originally posted by Flinx
So do you think the Cable news networks or the "big free 3" (ABC, NBC, CBS) have more viewers?

Combined? Yes, combined they have a much larger audience then either Fox or MSNBC (CNN has dropped too far to even count it)

Seperately? I'd say no.

Things have changed in TV during the past few years. Too many kings, not enough paupers I guess. You have so many cable news sources (Cspan, Cspan 2, CNN, MSNBC, FOX) that people have begun to believe that since they are flashier and have those wonderfully delightful little news crawls at the bottom of the screen that their 24 hour coverage is somehow superior to the "Big 3's" 2 hour weekday coverage.

CBS, probably more then the other two, depserately want to win viewers back...and they know that their Liberal leanings hurt them. Me, personally, I am a Liberal and I enjoy ABC and World News Tonight, but I know that not very many people do anymore.