Holy Andy Rooney!!!

[meganmonkey]

Here he goes!

Edit to add transcript/link (Thanks Florida Pat!!):



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.

--snip--

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.

(much more...)

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/09/30/60minutes/main892398.shtml

[laruemtt]

1. details please, mm! n/t

[Benhurst]

9. He showed famous Eisenhower military/industrial complex clip.

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[highplainsdem]

22. He was great tonight!

:toast:

[meganmonkey]

2. "Bloated Military Establishment"

Saying we need to stop cutting healthcare and Amtrak and NPR and stop the war to pay for it :)

Good for him!

[meganmonkey]

3. I can't believe how political he has been lately

Now he is playing Eisenhower quotes about misuse of power...

Wow.

[Field Of Dreams]

4. Railing against Military Industrial Complex

showed footage of Ike and his warning!

[bahrbearian]

10. Way Cool.. can't wait till it air's here.

[don954]

5. I LOVE THAT GUY!

and i love that someone, finaly, had the balls to say it on national TV..!

[Harry S Truman]

6. 60 Minutes is a total joke

I can't understand how ANYBODY can watch this dreck anymore.
They are so lost.

[The Kicker]

21. Did you see Andy tonight?

That is the most truth I have seen on network television in years. The quote from Eisenhower that the American citizens need to guard against the military-industrial complex taking control. Andy followed up with this-"It has already happened".:wow: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[0007]

50. This drecky loves Andy!

[The Kicker]

55. drek on

Fellow truth lover! "Ain't no good gonna come to them til they do right by us".( Paraphrased from The Color Purple )

[cynatnite]

7. He blew me away tonight!

The quote from Ike shocked the hell out of me!

[oldtime dfl_er]

44. I suppose better late than never

..and old Andy has been picking up the ball lately. I just wish it hadn't taken so long, and so many lives lost -- in Iraq, in New Orleans, in despairing unemployed people everywhere. Not to rain on the Andy parade, of course!

http://www.cafepress.com/scarebaby/658010

[cynatnite]

56. I agree it should have been a hell of a lot sooner...

I don't watch 60 min regularly, but decided because of Chalabi and Elian.

It's nice to hear, but I wish more in corporate media would speak out as bluntly as Andy did tonight.

[FloridaPat]

8. 2 years too late for the war and 5 years too late for the military

industrial complex. Our MSM at it's finest.

[jrthin]

11. And AMEN! Andy. nt

[CC]

12. Go Andy

:woohoo: Went after the military spending, a bit on the unnecessary war in Iraq, and the military industrial complex.

[AlinPA]

13. He showed the clip of Eisenhower saying "Beware of the Military

Industrial Complex", a reference of course to Halliburton (Rooney did not say the H word) but lambasted the money being spent on Iraq. He compared military budgets of other countries, where we are 10x.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

14. I'm old

And this is comparable to Walter Cronkite making his "get out of Viet Nam" statement.

I have chills. That was amazing. Even the Ike clip was amazing.

"The anchorman for the CBS evening news, Walter Cronkite, traveled to Vietnam and filed several reports. Upon his return, Cronkite took an unprecedented step of presenting his "editorial opinion" at the end of the news broadcast on February 27th. "For it seems now more certain than ever," Cronkite said, "that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate." After watching Cronkite's broadcast, LBJ was quoted as saying. "That's it. If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost middle America."

http://tinyurl.com/82dda

[meganmonkey]

18. They've definitely lost Andy Rooney, and mid america is well on it's way

past the point of no return.

Tide is turning, turning, turning.

Finally.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

30. No one realized it

at the time, when Cronkite delivered his editorial.

It turns slowly.

We gotta have hope.

[nadinbrzezinski]

38. taht is exactly what came to mind

and I am not old, just a good historian... the other moment, have yuo got no shame Sir?

[hang a left]

43. And I am sure you either watched or read about Cronkite on with

Larry King this last week.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

45. No, I don't watch Larry King

What did I miss, please?

[hang a left]

47. here is the original thread....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4940560

Basically Cronkite says what a disaster it is and we need to get out NOW. I just read all about it, I didn't see it. Go have a look.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

51. Thank you very much!

That's awfully nice of you.

I appreciate it.

[AirmensMom]

15. I'd like to get a transcript of that.

I could swear he said we have enough nuclear weapons to destroy all of mankind.

:wtf:

[zippy890]

19. He did say that!

Rooney didn't mince words on that one

[OKDem08]

23. he said we have 10,000 nuclear weapons,

enought to obliterate humanity

[RC]

54. Here ya go...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/09/30/60minutes/main892398.shtml

[FloridaPat]

16. Here's the transcript:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/09/30/60minutes/main892398.shtml

[AirmensMom]

20. Thanks!

:hi:

[kywildcat]

Thank you for the Link

:yourock:

[annabanana]

17. They allow him to say this stuff

because everybody knows he's an eccentric old crank..



(i.e.: easy to discount)

[Benhurst]

25. He was great tonight. And you can take it from me because

I'm an eccentric old crank. :bounce:

[JoZbean]

24. His 'boys' get bigger each week..........

and I know some republicans who think Rooney is next to God. Right now, in my book, he is.

[proud patriot]

26. Bless him n/t

[intheflow]

27. What time zone are you in?

I'm watching a movie, but will interrupt it when it comes on. It says on my mountian time stamp you posted at 5:55. Was that 7:55 EST?

[meganmonkey]

29. Yep - it's at the very end of 60 Minutes which is on 7-8pmEST

On CBS.

His weekly 2 minute rant, only super political - strightforward and biting.

I love the grumpy old bastard!

[intheflow]

Thanks!

That's what I suspected, but I don't watch much network tv (or cabe, which I don't have). I find it keeps me much saner overall. :)

[rodeodance]

28. kick -go andy go!

[The Kicker]

31. One more vote needed for Greatest

This is worthy of being viewed by many. The truth in all of its stark bluntness, finally!

[Sydnie]

32. vote done n/t

[The Kicker]

33. The truth will out!

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[abluelady]

34. I was Amazed

So much of what he says is soooo conservative. This really bodes well for us.

[Bushknew]

35. Quick time please anyone if possible. nt

[Pirate Smile]

36. Does anyone have the video? Please!

[meganmonkey]

37. dzika pulls through again! LINK TO VIDEO here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4953336

[The Kicker]

39. kick n/t

[Freedomfried]

40. If the drunken monkey has lost Andy Rooney, than he's lost America's...

silent majority.

Let go get the bastard, nobody likes him now!

[Lena inRI]

41. He's been jabbing at B* Crime Family all along. . .

but tonight he came out swinging a left hook.

He outta get even tougher next time since he knows full well what McCarthyism did to the media. . .looking around at the young media whippersnappers cowering for the corporate pro-B* boss should make him absolutely livid.

Please, Mr. Rooney. . .start doing a Murrow on Rumsfield-Meyers-Cheney-Rove. . .Bush is just a puppet on a string. . .go after the real rotten core.

:kick:

[meganmonkey]

42. Yep - And he is totally an opinion guy, not 'news', so he can say

whatever the hell he wants. Everytime I see him lately he seems to be talking politics, rather than complaining about computers vs typewriters or how food has too much packaging :P

I'm totally in awe of the guy!

[tlsmith1963]

46. I Remember Hearing...

...that Rooney is an atheist, so I doubt he has ever had any love for Bush & his religious-fanatic pals. I'm not surprised that he has been attacking them.

Tammy

[delete_bush]

59. he IS an atheist, but I doubt few fundies know this...

bits of wisdom from Andy -

Rooney also attributed voters' reliance on religion in the recent election to ignorance. "I am an atheist," Rooney said. "I don't understand religion at all. I'm sure I'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but I think it's all nonsense."

He said Christian fundamentalism is a result of "a lack of education. They haven't been exposed to what the world has to offer."

Rooney said he also could not understand how "men who work with their hands voted for George Bush," and again attributing the phenomenon to a lack of education. "The labor force is conservative," he said. "How in the world did that happen?"

[tinfoilinfor2005]

48. Andy = Yoda

One letter's difference.

He is very old and very wise and he is giving us the benefit of his wisdom. Should attention pay to word's his.

[ultraist]

49. Glad to hear he said this and not another racist remark.

Wasn't he suspended a couple of times for making racist comments?

[young_at_heart]

52. Thank you.........thank you..........thank you

There are a lot of us seniors who believe as you do Andy. It was good to feel like an American again!

[raysr]

53. "I love Bush, but....."

Was what a guy on NBC nightly news said. Loved Bush but * had to do something about the gas prices. (Guy was a car collector, his '59 Caddy only gets 8mpg). "I love Bush" I fucking near shit!

[2bfree]

57. I saw that!

I never knew he had it in him!

[FizzFuzz]

58. it was a rare TV watching night for me--I saw it--YAYYY!

felt like a breath of fresh air. Like stepping out of Bizarro World for a moment! Ahhhhhh!!!

Rock On, Andy!!!!!

[Lifelong Protester]

60. Thanks for the link to the video

It is on too early here (in the fall and summer when I am still outside doing chores) so I rarely get to see it anymore (60 Minutes). I agree with all the comments made here about how middle of the road CBS is (look at what happened to Dan Rather), and Andy I could usually take or leave. However, when he begins to abandon his normally fluff comments (well, maybe not fluff, but not really about life or death topics) and really starts to hammer on the BLOATED MILITARY, I think we can rightfully start to believe we have reached a tipping point.

[Catchawave]

61. His books are wonderful too!

Go Andy Go !

[dhinojosa]

62. Andy kicks ass

Go 4 it

[FourStarDemocrat]

63. He's definitely makin up for some inane comments he's made in the past

...like blaming lingerie models for sexist attitudes about women, and disparaging Kurt Cobain's memory..but those were relatively minor infractions years ago. Now, he's taking on bigger things and making sense. Bravo!