"Thank you too for all the endless advice Andy Rooney has given us. I can live a better life now because he's told us how to fix everything."
I haven't seen the email or Internet information that is attributed to him. However, here's a current blurb that appeared on Comcast.net quite by accident today...From:
http://www.comcast.net/entertainment/index.jsp?cat=ENTERTAINMENT&fn=/2006/12/05/535095.htmlAndy Rooney Is Internet Hoax Victim
By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer
3 hours ago
NEW YORK - Andy Rooney has never been shy about his opinions, but now he's being bedeviled by somebody else's words being circulated under his name.
Rooney said on Tuesday that a racist commentary falsely attributed to him is circulating over the Internet and through e-mails. The "60 Minutes" essayist wants anyone who might have seen it to know he had nothing to do with it.
"I suppose it's not important, but I hate the fact that people think I've been writing these things," he told The Associated Press. "That's hurtful to me."
The missive, which Rooney said had been passed along to him via e-mail several times, is a list of several anti-minority statements. One of the printable ones: "I have the right not to be tolerant of others because they are different, weird or tick me off."