![]() I don’t understand why people who didn’t know him should stop and mourn a man who never cared for people he didn’t know. Andy Rooney Game for 6/1/08 episode of 60 Minutes.(RULES TO THE ANDY ROONEY GAME: Remove everything but the first and last sentences from Andy Rooney's segme. (RULES TO THE ANDY ROONEY GAME: Remove everything but the first and last sentences from Andy Rooneys seg. In every TV appearance of his that I saw, he came off to me as intellectually incurious, and he happily took a paycheck from CBS for 60 years while brushing away the fans who sent him letters or tried to approach him in public. Andy Rooney Game for 11/1/09 episode of 60 Minutes. Andy Rooney Game for 10/4/09 episode of 60 Minutes. ![]() His view of America was essentially a collection of Rockwell paintings, and he complained about any facet of life that strayed from that impossible vision. When technological developments improved commerce or people’s lives, Rooney only saw the inconvenience of learning something new. ![]() Took me all of fifteen seconds of Snopesing to find out that, indeed, this post was false. Rooney was an unremarkable, cranky bore whose bitching about simple annoyances struck a nerve with other aging white people who were frightened by or opposed to change. Especially as Rooney died in 2011, and therefore was unlikely to speak about the silent majority winning in 2019/2020. In honor of his passing, I’ll be just as respectful about his death as he was about Kurt Cobain’s. Crotchety rambler Andy Rooney has passed away, just one month after his final “60 Minutes” appearance and slightly more than a week after suffering complications from minor surgery.
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