The New York Post has a story under the headline CBS 'HOAXER' BROKER that concludes with this ridiculous assertion by Andy Rooney. He was on Imus in the Morning talking about Dan Rather when he said it. "He gives the impression of falseness sometimes that does not exist in his character," said Rooney. "I think he is a first-class guy, a good guy and an honest guy. And yet, there is something about the way he behaves sometimes that makes people suspicious of him, and it's too bad."
That statement was just one of a string of absurdities by Rooney. A first class guy. I heard part of that broadcast yesterday morning, and I've been hoping to find a transcript of it. If I could find the transcript I would post more of it verbatim. Understandably it's not the featured interview of the day on WFAN. Here is a little of the flavor of what Rooney said as best I can remember.
Imus using the example of a cowboy from New Mexico, asked if people might be uninterested in the details of the RatherGate scandal and simply conclude that Rather is lying to help Kerry. Rooney's answer was that those cowboys aren't very smart anyway and do we really want people like them voting?
Discussing journalism and journalists, Rooney announced his belief that journalists are generally more honest than people of other professions. Oh really.
He went on to relate a humorous (to him) story about some lesser mortal meeting a famous journalist and saying, being a journalist you must get to meet the most interesting poeple. The exalted newsman said, well yes but they're mostly other journalists.
I wonder if anybody else heard the same Imus in the Morning broadcast. I'd love to find that transcript, but if I were Rooney I'd demand that any and all copies of it be destroyed. Doesn't it give a remarkable picture of a mindset, from one who would certainly know.
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Posted by: lonqkuj | July 19, 2007 at 07:10 PM