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October 15, 2003
Andy Rooney: Long Past His Prime
Jeff Jarvis, fisking Andy Rooney:
Andy Roony sez:
I wish President Bush would try to make this country less hated. He could do it if he set his mind to it. To begin with, we should change our attitude toward the United Nations. There has to be some power in the world superior to our own - for our own sake.
You want there to be some power superior to our own? Well, try being really, really nice and pretty soon, Osama bin Laden will be a power superior to ours. The U.N. as a superior power? Pardon me, I have to stop typing now; my palms are sweating at the thought and I'm afraid I'll short out the laptop. I'm not a U.N. paranoid; I believe the U.N., properly run, has a role in the world to help mediate disputes. But as superior power? No, thank you. That's a frightening prospect. That's the EU-ification of the world.
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Andy Roony sez:I was opposed to going into Iraq without the approval of the U.N. Things went well at first and I decided I was wrong and apologized. Now I want to apologize again. I want to apologize for apologizing.
Whew. Can you instead just apologize for taking up air and airwaves?
Andy Roony sez:
- We should not have attacked Iraq without the OK of the United Nations. It wasn't all President Bush's fault. U.N. delegates were infuriating - sitting on their hands. It's an ineffective, namby-pamby organization. The French and the Germans were against attacking Iraq because they do a lot of business there.
Andy, ... make up your mind. You want to hand over power for the world to an "ineffective, namby-pamby organization" that sits "on their hands"? Why?
Why indeed.
Let's face it, Andy Rooney is an incoherent old man who should have been down-sized by CBS back in '91. I knew he had lost it when he dissed Rain-X during his monologue, complaining that he couldn't see the difference between a windshield with Rain-X and one without. Only an unobservant dolt would not be able to tell the difference! It's like night and day.
But then, the whole program is just a big geritol commercial. Can't they find someone (anyone!) younger than 70 to work for the show?
Posted by crandal at October 15, 2003 02:25 PM