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EXTRMBT
10-27-2005, 07:47 AM
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I'm surprised CBS let him get away with this...AMEN ANDY ROONEY !
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>Right on, Andy Rooney!
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>Andy Rooney said on "60 Minutes":
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>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.
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>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?
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>I have the right "NOT" to be tolerant of others because they are
>different, weird, or tick me off.
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>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.
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>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!
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>I don't hate the rich. I don't pity the poor.
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>I know pro wrestling is fake, but so are movies and television. That
>doesn't stop you from watching them.
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>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.
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>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!"
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>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!
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>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
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>And if you don't like my point of view, tough SH*T...!!

Havasu_Dreamin
10-27-2005, 08:01 AM
Uhhhh, not really true. (http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/rooney4.asp) Oddly enough, on this post Sunday's 60 minutes Andy Rooney addressed some of these exact items attirbuted to him and vehemently denied them.

RiverToysJas
10-27-2005, 08:04 AM
This one is true though....
"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done."
Andy Rooney
RTJas :D

riverroyal
10-27-2005, 08:05 AM
it was Jesse Jackson who said that :D

RiverToysJas
10-27-2005, 08:06 AM
it was Jesse Jackson who said that :D
Jesse Jackson is still mad that he had to use the white courtesy phone at the airport!
RTJas :D

dirty old man
10-27-2005, 08:08 AM
He said if he found out who did this he would sue them. but I mainly agree with what they said. they should have taken credit

olbiezer
10-27-2005, 08:13 AM
even if its not true .....i like it lol

soupersonic
10-27-2005, 08:14 AM
Uhhhh, not really true. (http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/rooney4.asp) Oddly enough, on this post Sunday's 60 minutes Andy Rooney addressed some of these exact items attirbuted to him and vehemently denied them.
Maybe he didnt wtite it but it sure makes better reading picturing andy rooney's voice :D

BrendellaJet
10-27-2005, 08:14 AM
maybe he didn't say it, but he should have! :devil:

Havasu_Dreamin
10-27-2005, 08:28 AM
Maybe he didnt wtite it but it sure makes better reading picturing andy rooney's voice :D
Oh, definitely. And it all makes sense to me as well. But you know some left wing liberal would not say any of that.