Talk:Andy Rooney
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[edit] 'liberal bias'
This line was changed. It is now "He has admitted on Larry King Live to having politically progressive views.". The line was "He has admitted on Larry King Live to having a liberal bias." I suspect someone changed it thinking it was POV. No, I saw that episode, he admitted having a liberal bias, those were almost his exact words. His 'progressive' views were already well known, he didnt have to admit anything we didnt already know. If I dont hear a counter arguement I am going to change it. user:Pzg_Ratzinger
EDIT: Found it from CNN transcripts, added it back and sourced
Seeing as "progressive" is a recent newspeak term I doubt that it applies to Rooney. His statement that he has a "liberal bias" is far more truthful than the whitewash of "progressive views" . And have to see the guy? He is about as open to progress as Uncle Joe!
[edit] Dead?
The article states that Rooney died yesterday (Aug.28). I have found nothing corroberating this online and was wondering if we should delete it until someone can cite a source. Any thoughts?
[edit] When the "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney" segment began
Article should state this.
[edit] Rooney's religious beliefs
Rooney is popularly thought to be an atheist based on a series of comments he made regarding Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ. In public comments, he has described himself as an agnostic. He has admitted on Larry King Live to having a liberal bias.
If he said that he was agnostic then I'm guessing he's agnostic. The atheist bit is unneccesary and probably used by someone who doesn't understand the differences in agnosticism/atheism. -User:Kugamazog
[edit] Da Ali G Show
I believe we should add a segmenet on here concerning a very short interview he had with Ali G (Sacha Baron Cohen) in which he made rather silly comments, including trying to correct Cohen's use of the word "racialist," even when Cohen already commented on the differences between American and British English. --70.186.192.13 01:39, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
I agree!
One note on the differences between American and British English. In American English, "the media has" is correct. "the media have" can also be used, but is rarer.
- No it's not. "Media" is plural.
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I dont understand why this line is included in the trivia section ; In anger, Rooney also claimed that the press could never print election results before the election took place. He isnt claiming anything, he is stating an obvious, logical fact. Unless I am missing the joke (?) I think that line should be removed from the section, as it doesn't make sense.
Perhaps note also in the trivia section that Andy Rooney is the first person to pull Ali up on his terrible grammar, as all of Ali's previous interviewees over a 5 year+ period have just smiled and accepted Ali's mangled English.. As I think this illustrates nicely Andy's professional, investigative and 'I-dont-buy-any-BS' attitude. But also, I think, it should be noted that he does offer to loan Ali G a book on the English language, as this shows that he wasn't just being a prick (for lack of a more encyclopedic appropriate descriptor) in his criticism of Ali's syntax. And lastly, Andy Rooney's page here at wikipedia deserves to be larger than it is.. as he is a deeply respected journalist with a career spanning six decades and has done a large amount of good in his life fighting corruption and evil. Dirk Diggler Jnr 01:59, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
I couldn't disagree more. He was being a prick when correcting his english since ebonics is considered by at the very least to be a dialect of american english by the african american communities that rooney revealed at best to have complete contempt for and at worst to be completely ignorant of. [User:A Hung[ydefined]]
The trivia section, to me, doesn't seem like it holds an awful lot of trivia.--DarthKobold 04:53, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] supposed comment
I would like to see some better citations before working the following incident into the biography, but I think it bears mentioning if both sides can be found and cited. Below is copied from a 'this day in history' thingy used in lots of places:
Feb 8 1990
After "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney expresses his view that "blacks have watered down genes because the less intelligent ones are the ones that have the most children", he is suspended for a month by CBS. Rooney claims the remarks are fabricated.
66.191.6.169 22:05, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Cynic?
I think that it should also be noted that Rooney has a very cynical point of view.
[edit] Image
Any chance we could get a different image? This one is kind of fuzzy and, in my view, misrepresentative of his appearance.--Lord of the Ping 04:50, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
- Trust me, it could be worse. User:BricksFromEurope is currently trying to replace it with this monstrosity, and is in danger of breaking the 3RR doing so. GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 20:51, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Trivia
In the trivia section there is this line: "Andy Rooney has willed his eyebrows to the Smithsonian where they will be displayed next to Fonzie's leather jacket." Is there a source for this?--Lord of the Ping 04:54, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] YouTube links
This article is one of thousands on Wikipedia that have a link to YouTube in it. Based on the External links policy, most of these should probably be removed. I'm putting this message here, on this talk page, to request the regular editors take a look at the link and make sure it doesn't violate policy. In short: 1. 99% of the time YouTube should not be used as a source. 2. We must not link to material that violates someones copyright. If you are not sure if the link on this article should be removed or you would like to help spread this message contact us on this page. Thanks, ---J.S (t|c) 05:21, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
