Freeper Andy Rooney email being passed as real

[julialnyc]

My husband just got this email that is being passed around as real, he needed to check with me to make sure it was fake (which I am assuming! Please don't say I'm wrong!)
 
  
Ya gotta love andy!!!
 
Surprised CBS let him get away with this, even though many of us think he's right.AMEN, ANDY ROONEY !Andy Rooney ! said on "60 Minutes" a few weeks back:


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 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!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 a_ _(bottom) 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.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.And if you don't like my point of view, tough... DON'T PASS IT ON...

[DelawareValleyDem]

1. Snopes debunked it a while ago.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/rooney4.asp

[julialnyc]

2. Thank you!

Now he can email back that link!

[never cry wolf]

5. LOL, I like this part from snopes, Andy responds

Moreover, Rooney himself denied it in 2003, saying:
About a year ago, I became aware of a more serious theft of my name and it is so hurtful to my reputation that it calls for legal action against the thief. Hundreds of people have written asking if I really wrote the 20 detestable remarks made under my name that have had such wide circulation on the Internet.

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Some of the remarks, which I will not repeat here, are viciously racist and the spirit of the whole thing is nasty, mean and totally inconsistent with my philosophy of life. It is apparent that the list of comments has been read by hundreds of thousands of Americans, many of whom must believe that it accurately represents opinions of mine that I don't dare express in my column or on television. It is seriously damaging to my reputation.

[Terran]

3. Be sure to send that Snopes link to whoever sent this to your husband

People have to have this BS shoved back at them hard.

[shenmue]

8. Fake one is very transparent

It's full of cliched, hackneyed nonsense that would look bad in a poorly photocopied pamphlet. It's also been attributed in similar form to at least one other person before, George Carlin. Of course it was equally fake in his case. He refuted it on his website.

If extremists want to write something dopey, can't they at least be original?

:nopity: :boring: :spank:

[johnaries]

4. Reply with the Snopes link DelawareValleyDem supplied, and then

say that this is what Andy REALLY said:
I'm not really clear how much a billion dollars is but the United States — our United States — is spending $5.6 billion a month fighting this war in Iraq that we never should have gotten into.

We still have 139,000 soldiers in Iraq today.

Almost 2,000 Americans have died there. For what?

Now we have the hurricanes to pay for. One way our government pays for a lot of things is by borrowing from countries like China.

Another way the government is planning to pay for the war and the hurricane damage is by cutting spending for things like Medicare prescriptions, highway construction, farm payments, AMTRAK, National Public Radio and loans to graduate students. Do these sound like the things you'd like to cut back on to pay for Iraq?

I'll tell you where we ought to start saving: on our bloated military establishment.

We're paying for weapons we'll never use.

No other Country spends the kind of money we spend on our military. Last year Japan spent $42 billion. Italy spent $28 billion, Russia spent only $19 billion. The United States spent $455 billion.

We have 8,000 tanks for example. One Abrams tank costs 150 times as much as a Ford station wagon.

We have more than 10,000 nuclear weapons — enough to destroy all of mankind.

We're spending $200 million a year on bullets alone. That's a lot of target practice. We have 1,155,000 enlisted men and women and 225,000 officers. One officer to tell every five enlisted soldier what to do. We have 40,000 colonels alone and 870 generals.

We had a great commander in WWII, Dwight Eisenhower. He became President and on leaving the White House in 1961, he said this: “We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. …"

Well, Ike was right. That's just what’s happened.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/09/30/60minutes/main892398.shtml

[Bill McBlueState]

7. wow, cool

And the best part of it all is you've got a link to the CBS transcript. That's the kicker for these fake e-mails: they use phrases like "a few weeks back," when the originator could easily have provided more specific information if it were true.

[Raster]

9. this email is a blatant disinformation attempt to counter Andy's WONDERFUL

on air editorial/commentary at the end of Sunday evening's "60 Minutes." Andy may be many things--the old curmudgeon comes to mind--but he is not racist pig. Send that pile of shit back to whoever sent it to you and let them know that Mr. Rooney is SERIOUSLY interested in suing ANYONE that passes that crap around in his name. If that person continues to send you this drivel, disassociate yourself from them. They are an asshole and not worth your time. And if they live close enough, you could always journey to their home, ring the doorbell and then slap the motherfucking shit out of them. But hey, that's just me.

[never cry wolf]

6. Make sure he hits "reply all"........n/t