Andy Rooney!!!!

[thedrifter]

BRAVO ANDY ROONEY!!!!

Right on, Andy Rooney! Andy Rooney said on 60 minutes a few weeks back:
(for those of you that don't know Andy Rooney, he is an 82 year old US TV commentator)


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.

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?

I think that if you feel homosexuality is wrong, it is not a phobia, it is an opinion.

I have the right "NOT" to be tolerant of others because they are different,weird, or tick me off.

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.

I believe that if you are selling me a milk shake, 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!

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 self 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.

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.

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.

I don't hate the rich. I don't pity the poor. I know pro wrestling is fake, but so are movies and television. That doesn't stop you from watching them.

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. Ask your buddy that invented the Internet to help you. (Al)

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!"

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!

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.

[usmc4669]

Andy Rooney!!!!
Now Roger you hit the nail on the head, I beleive what old Andy said.
Any black who were born after 1885, that's if he's stil alive,
He was born in America right? So why do they put up such a big fight.
Jessie Jackson is a "RAT", he's the leader of the LEFT WING PACK.
Now don't you call me whitey my hair is black, then I wouldn't want you to call me that.
If you were born in America, American you should claim, not from the country your ancestors came.

Roger,
"African American" was used by a Caucasian Boy, don't remember just where he lived here in the United States, he was born in Africa. It seems as some "Black Aficran American" got very upset about this, then if you think about it, he really was an African American, the ones that was complaining about hin was Americans.
I have many friends that are of color and I look at them as my brothers not African American, Native American, Asian American.

GySgt Marvin Bush USMC Retired

[namgrunt]

Andy Rooney is one of the few honest people who get past the politically correct Network TV censors. Love him or hate him, he is honest and forthright in his analysis. I hope he lives to be 120, and stays on the air the entire time. Andy was a reporter on the front in Europe during WW2. I'd say he's paid his dues.

I can't say the same for his co-worker, Dan Rather. There is a guy who claims he joined the Marine Corps twice. His SRB was checked out by a former army officer, B.G. Burkett, who wrote the book "Stolen Valor", about outright phonies and military wannabe's who claim military service and/or awards they didn't earn. According to the book, Rather never completed Boot Camp. Therefore, he was never declared a Marine upon graduation. Sorry Dan, being a war correspondent in Vietnam doesn't qualify you as a combat Marine.

If I'm wrong about D.R., please show me the goods.

namgrunt