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Former ‘60 Minutes’ Commentator Andy Rooney Dead at 92
- Posted on November 5, 2011 at 7:17am by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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NEW YORK (AP) — CBS says former “60 Minutes” humorist Andy Rooney has died just a month after his final commentary aired.
He was 92. CBS says he died Friday night in New York.
Rooney spent more than 30 years wryly talking about the oddities of life for “60 Minutes.” He would rail about how unpleasant air travel has become, question why banks have important-sounding names or just talk about the old clothes in his closet.
He joined CBS in 1949 and wrote for numerous shows and stars over the years. He teamed up with newsman Harry Reasoner in the 1960s, and they collaborated on several news specials. One was an Emmy-winning report on misrepresentations of blacks in movies and history books.
Rooney and his late wife, Marguerite, had four children.
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Comments (137)
bhosux
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:32amHe finally bored himself to death. Maybe his ear hair will stop growing finally. They will probably put his crusty desk in a National Museum and supply stench sniffers for his following to smell. I will really miss him!
Report Post »amagaux
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 10:54amFinally………….
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 11:02amHe’s the perfect example of why I never aspired to be a leftist. They’re just miserable people overall. If they happen to become wealthy and gain fame, they become even more miserable and take it out on those that found success and embraced the American way.
R.I.P.
Report Post »sissykatz
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 12:04pmR.I.P. Andy….Thanks for your Military service.
Report Post »I actually did enjoy some of your commentaries.
kathleenlee
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:37pmyour ears and nose grow throughout your entire life…don’t worry though, because you do shrink. lol
Report Post »Thomas
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 6:29pmOne more communist sympathizer gone from this planet.
Report Post »Your Sensie
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 10:32pmPlease disregard my posts. When I take the proper amount of medication and can think sensibly I realize liberalism is a mental disorder. I always bring up sexual organs because I am both a man and a woman depending on my hormone levels. I must go, I think I may have said to much already.
Report Post »village idiot
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:29amThank you for your millitary service. After that he became the waterboy for the left wing. I wonder if he belives he is with god now?
Report Post »Bum thrower
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:36amExcellent; Thank him for his selfless WWII service; orther than that….‘good riddance to bad rubbish’.
Report Post »robert
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:41amGood riddance to an old, crusty leftist athiest.
Can you imagine how suprised he is right now if he’s floundering around in the netherworld trying to make sense of it all.
I wonder if athiests understand that it’s a bigger leap of faith to dismiss spirituality altogether than it is to accept it, because “something” has to be responsible for the awsome orderliness operating at precise mathmatical certainty.
I’m agnostic, but I think it’s the work of fools to dismiss the possibility of a higher power.
Report Post »AloysiusKnight
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 10:32amHe was left-wing during his military service. He hated Patton (who arguably, was probably the best killing general on the Allied side) and talked poorly about him every chance he had.
The only thing I can thank him for was his military service, the rest of it, well, I think extremely poorly for the man and doubt he’s in the higher plane, if you get what I am saying.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 10:54amI wonder if he is doing a commentary now…….You ever wonder why hell is so hot? I have….
Report Post »JMorcan
Posted on November 6, 2011 at 1:55am@Robert – Sorry, but agnostics are the real fools. There’s more than enough information out there to make a mature decision.
Report Post »Thomas
Posted on November 6, 2011 at 5:51am@Jmorcan: I am not a agnostic but I think you are wrong. They have yet to have an experience with God and until then why would one just go out and join a religion? God is not a religion or a belief but a person (not a man) whom you get to know personally and then trust. They are at least open to God wooing but an atheists has completely been sealed with the self to the point of deliberate ignorance.
Report Post »Secessionista
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:28amI thought he was funny when I was a kid. Once I grew up, I realized he was a liberal who didn‘t think and couldn’t do math. It was sad from that point forward. He was just a grumpy old rich liberal elite who had a lot of complaints. And now I see from the comments that he was an athiest too. That’s REALLY sad, he died all the way. No Andy Rooney in heaven. He’ll never be enlightened.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 9:15amWell, he had until the last breath, and last twinkling of consciousness to repent and be saved. We don’t know if he did or not, only God knows that.
But yes, it‘s sad that he didn’t use that great wit for conservatism. Can you imagine how much he could have done?
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 10:01amLorainn, if he had been a conservative, you would have never heard of him. You think CBS would have had a conservative commentator on the air for 30 years? I hope he enjoyed his one month of retirement.
Report Post »amagaux
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 10:57amAsk not who he was, but why he was…………….
Report Post »nowhereman
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 2:41pmLuke 6:42
Report Post »dantom
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:28amO ok.
Report Post »ireport uderide
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:28amSorry, I don’t live on the East Coast. What‘s a ’60 minutes’?
Report Post »I do love the, “tree falls in the forest”, comment.
drago
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:22amSo looney rooney gets to meet his maker now………wait……….
Report Post »italy2007
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:03amI hope he finally realizes there is a God
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:07amSorry he died, but the man was a clown who promoted installing microchips under your skin so the government can track you.
Mark of the Beast moron whom’s editorials sometimes made me turn the channel.
Report Post »chazman
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:25am… I never stayed up late at night contemplating anything Rooney ever said. I guess the only thing I ever liked about the guy was his car. He had a 1966 Sunbeam Tiger that he bought brand new and drove it to work every day until the day he died. He did a story about that car … ever see it? Anybody care?
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:03amHe had a great carrer during his military days…and he did do a few interesting things, he wrote for: Stars and Stripes, Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts, to name a few before they let him have a spot on the tube.
It’s like movie actors should not make political statements sort of carrer.
I don‘t understand why GB didn’t cover his better years…Bronz star and all of the other recognitions till he got his own spot on the tube. LOL
Report Post »Space Cadet
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 11:46amWhat’s a carrer?
Report Post »stashu394
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:01amWhen a tree falls in a forest and no one is there, does it make a sound?
So then, when an atheist dies….
Report Post »dissentnow
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:24amAnd people say that atheists are full of hate…….
Report Post »mrsmileyface
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 10:43amGOD loves all his creatures….even the crusty old athiest codgers like Andy Rooney.
Report Post »Rajabear1
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 2:17pmI‘m not so sure it’s hateful, as much as it is real. Why would any atheist take offense or think it’s hateful if they feel there is no Heaven or God? I would think that they would find it humorous for people of faith to think they were facing a nonexistent God and being thrown into a nonexistent lake of fire after death. I would THINK they would find these comments irrelevant. Then again, if they do find them ‘mean’, it could be that deep down inside they do fear there is truth in what is said.
Report Post »burnteye86
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 7:52amEver wonder?
Report Post »Gunonesis
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 7:51amGood riddance!
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 7:44amI. cant say anything nice…..so
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 7:58amI can, he was a harmless old fart
Report Post »badbarber54
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 10:16amHe may have been an old fart,,,,but he smelled like a fresh fart.
Report Post »gmoneytx
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 7:44amRIP Andy Rooney, they don’t make them like that anymore! Any of the new upstarts out there can’t hold a candle to these good ole boys! That’s when the media had more balls! Now look what we’re stuck with!
Report Post »Tea Party Animal
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 9:22amTrust me….he ain’t “resting in peace”. He now knows there IS a God!
Report Post »chazzyok
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 7:39amRIP Andy…. Loved your shows and sense of humor.
Report Post »Pugfriend
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 7:37amR.I.P Andy.
Report Post »50Caliber
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 7:36amWow….he retired just in time!
Report Post »4xeverything
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 7:36amGood night Andy.
Report Post »YoungBloodNews
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 7:34amAnd not a single ^%$& was given… Enjoy your corner in hell you shill
Report Post »BigConserv
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 7:33amI only wonder why he lasted that long on such a Politically Bias show?
And really who ever listened to his commentary on anything anyways
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 7:30am“Some of the most well-known and widely listened to news commentators and political leaders have advocated the use of RFID chips for societal and government purposes. Andy Rooney, news commentator on CBS’s 60 Minutes, said on February 10, 2002: “Something has to change. They have to find a better way to identify the bad guys or the rest of us are gonna’ stay home and watch the world go by on television…. We need some system for permanently identifying safe people…. I wouldn’t mind having something planted permanently in my arm that would identify me.””
Read more… http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/3193-national-healthcare-will-require-national-rfid-chips
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 7:29amHe’s been dead for years. Somebody must have just told him he needs to lie down and quit breathing.
Report Post »YepImaConservative
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 9:52amLol.
Report Post »GTH
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 7:28am92…He can’t complain.
Report Post »jeffrey7112
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 7:26amAnd now you know. If you have anything that even resembles a job, never retire. It’s not good for your health.
Report Post »bestartist
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 12:53pmJeffrey….I was going to post something very similar…….see what happens when one stops working! A word to wise about 99 weeks of unemployment and why it‘s good for ones’ health to “Occupy a job”!!!!!
Report Post »Brooke Lorren
Posted on November 6, 2011 at 1:20amThe same thing happened to my grandpa. He was a workaholic; even working on the day of my great-grandma’s funeral. He worked into his 80s… when his kidneys went bad, he had to spend so much time in dialysis that he couldn’t work any more (he owned his own company). Shortly after he stopped working, he went downhill and died.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 7:26amA funny guy… but a miserable, liberal, self important, human being!
Report Post »Pugfriend
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 7:34amAs someone once said …if you can‘t say anything nice about someone don’t say anything at all!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 7:55am@PUGFRIEND
Report Post »Read the words: I did say something nice… then, I said something true that Andy said about himself on Television! Wake up!
badbarber54
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 10:28amYeah like Andy always said glowing nice things about conservative people,,,NOT. He was A sarcastic old man with a far left tilt. Bless his Armed forces. But the rest is a waste.
Report Post »HowardSternIsABigot
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 7:23amyou know what I hate? tributes to senile leftist whiners.
Report Post »Pugfriend
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 7:31amYour an Idiot!
Report Post »drago
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:23am@pugfriend aka encinom
Report Post »So you like dogs now, or you are one, which is it?
HowardSternIsABigot
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:27am“your”? and I am the idiot? haha
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