Stan Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 Longtime CBS News commentator Andy Rooney has died, CBS News reported Saturday. He was 92. He had been hospitalized after suffering "serious complications" following minor surgery last month. Rooney got his start in journalism during World War II, when he wrote for the Stars and Stripes, and he joined CBS in 1949 as a writer for Arthur Godfrey's radio and television entertainment show. He went on to collaborate between 1962 and 1968 on a series of essays with his friend, the late newsman Harry Reasoner. He joined "60 Minutes" in 1978, according to CBS, beginning decades of show-ending essays on topics as varied as looking for a job ("We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers. More college graduates ought to become plumbers or electricians, then go home at night and read Shakespeare."); his bushy eyebrows ("I try to look nice. I comb my hair, I tie my tie, I put on a jac ket, but I draw the line when it comes to trimming my eyebrows. You work with what you got."); the "shock and awe" campaign that started the Iraq War in 2003 (the phrase "makes us look like foolish braggarts.") Rooney announced on October 2, 2011, in his 1,097th essay for "60 Minutes" that he would no longer appear regularly. Quote If you receive benefit to being here please help out with expenses. https://www.paypal.me/clubadventist Administrator of a few websites like https://adventistdating.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Shane Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 I read this this morning. I hope I am blessed with as many years. Unless Jesus comes before than. Quote Pastoral Family Counselor... Find me at www.PostumCafe.com Author of Peculiar Christianity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottie Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 I always liked that he may have been wrong in some of his opinions, one he never was, and that was "PC." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olger Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 translation please.... Quote "Please don't feed the drama queens.." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Gail Posted November 6, 2011 Administrators Share Posted November 6, 2011 One thing about outspoken guys like him- when they are gone they are missed. In Vancouver we had one stodgy ol' Scottish radio announcer whose style was similar to Rooney's but maybe a level more abrupt. His name was Jack Webster. Even if you didn't agree with him everybody knew him and he was respected throughout the city. Quote Isaiah 32:17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottie Posted November 7, 2011 Share Posted November 7, 2011 I read that tonight, and it didn't make any sense to me, either. Maybe what I was trying to say, is that one thing he never did was try to be politically correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted November 10, 2011 Members Share Posted November 10, 2011 I never considered him outspoken, just saying what's on his mind. Not a blowhard like many others on TV. Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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