Andy Rooney: why is it bad to be withdrawn
Andy Rooney: why is it bad to be withdrawn
Andy Rooney: why is it bad to be withdrawn
Those people know who they are. In his blogs is called "McCrankster irritable." Witty. They are appalled that he said in an essay he did not know that Lady Gaga is. So what - knowledge of popular culture not wisdom itself. Doing so Snooki rule the world.
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Yes, perhaps he has been calling in a few years. And using a landline phone in that. A few years ago, visited the auto show in New York and reported its finding that the cars are big business in America.
"We have a total of 200 million vehicles. If all the cars and trucks on the road, from tip to tip, at the same time - well, none of us are surprised," he said.
We are still sad that Mr. Rooney left "60 Minutes" as a regular contributor to broadcast next Sunday. Here's our reasoning:
His replacement will be worse. What do you think CBS will do with the final segment? You can bet they will not comment on the relevance of Greek tragedy in the modern world. Probably there will be no screaming, because that is what they do on cable news these days. Two weeks, and was homesick for Rooney's plan to bottle water from a drinking water source and sell it to CBS coworkers.
It is a bridge between generations. Not many people from the age of Rooney still in the public eye, and that's too bad. Many have much to offer. Remember that when the ice came from the ice man? Us neither, but Rooney, and he will tell, and perhaps the children to learn something. People today mourn the loss of Oldsmobile and Pontiac. Rooney memory includes Hupmobile car expired. Do you even know there was a Hupmobile company? It does now.
It was a giant. The experience does not make you great. Being big makes you great. Rooney was a giant in the field. Remember: The "60 Minutes" concert is the final act, the gradual path to retirement. Before that, he was a pioneer of broadcasting. He wrote and produced lengthy essays with Harry Reasoner. He was a close friend of writer and Arthur Godfrey, when Mr. Godfrey and his variety show was the biggest thing on the radio and television.
Above all, he was a correspondent legendary World War II, the writing of the stars and stripes on the front. He was a friend of Ernie Pyle, one of the first reporters to see the liberation of a concentration camp and the allied forces entered Paris.
Flying in a U.S. bomber in 1943, Rooney described the feeling of being part of an armed attack air:
"As a football team pick up a Saturday morning, which grew in strength as it flew, until the whole of England seemed to be covered with terrorists."
Let's finish with this: We used to work with Rooney's contemporary, a fellow named Richard Strout, who had been in business long enough to have an opinion about Calvin Coolidge. D-Day covered the deck of a U.S. destroyer and always spoke of it when the sun rose, it seemed that the whole English Channel was full of ships to France.
We pay tribute to Mr. Strout quote each year. One of our favorite sayings is: "Summer in Washington pressed a hot wet thumb."
That is a year more to do. And thanks for writing, Mr. Rooney.
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