Andy Rooney Finally Says Goodbye To Walter Cronkite
The most memorable moment from last week’s Walter Cronkite memorial service was Andy Rooney’s heartbreaking inability to say much about his longtime friend after his emotions got the best of him. Last night on American 60 Minutes, he tried again.
The friendship between the two men spanned a length of time, 65 years, that exceeds many lifespans, so we can only imagine how difficult it must be say goodbye to someone whose been a presence in one’s life for so long. Aided by the familiar setting sitting behind his old desk and with CBS’ cameras rolling, Rooney handled saying goodbye publicly much better than he did at the memorial service. Then again, we have no idea how many takes it took him to get it right.
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@Pope John Peeps II: I'm 34 you cock smoke. But thank you for this. Watching you completely lose your shit was entertaining.
trayday
@Pope John Peeps II: Whoa man. Take a breather.
It's unanimous. Pope Peeps is a dick.
StarkRavingMan
@Pope John Peeps II:
You're just jealous that ancient, decrepit Rooney is a better woodworker than you are!
Greasy Thumb Guzik
@mattchew03: Old people love timestamps...
@lacieca01: Weren't you banned for being a hysterical cuckoo? When did you get let back into the fold?
@momo:
Haha. Look at all the miserable people just waiting to get a dig in at me, why... Because I had the temerity to INSULT someone? On GAWKER? Holy fucking gay sparkle christ. I can't believe I insulted somebody on Gawker. I can't believe I took someone's obvious flaws and made them into caricatures. That never happens
But just because it's somebody you aging, wrinkled crones all seem to admire, because he embodies the time that you took your lithe bodies out on the town to celebrate youth and life because hey, the Japanese surrendered and there's no better way to celebrate your twenties!
Haha man this is so rich. You're all so ridiculous and hypocritical. There aren't any lines to cross until I cross YOUR lines and then suddenly I'm a dick.
@trayday: @TheRtHonPM:You poor sad, shitty little weasels. All this time insulting anyone and everybody on the planet.
Did I offend all of you? I'm really so very sorry. Hypocrites and toadies get so sensitive as they start to age.
Fuck all of you.
@Pope John Peeps II: Geez this was a wack ass comeback. Totally unoriginal and uncalled for. You very much are a dick.
trayday
@Pope John Peeps II: Yeah, it's the comments system's fault. If you're going to attack someone for supposed lack of wit, you really should be working from a basis of stronger material than "older than agriculture."
You're a dick.
@Pope John Peeps II: Here's a news flash for you: you're not in Rooney's target demographic. You're basically saying that you're entitled to be shitty to old people, just because you find them uninteresting. I'm wondering if you can explain how that doesn't make you a dick?
@Pope John Peeps II: Yeah, why couldn't old Andy Rooney and Rocketansi come up with really clever ideas like the name "Pope John Peeps II"? Solid gold!
@Pope John Peeps II: No, you're a dick.
Wow. You totally sound like Andy Rooney.
PaoloHaruhism
A perfect tribute. I feel for Andy. It's not easy dealing with the end of a beautiful friendship.
wow. comment system is messed up tonight, rather.
@Rocketanski: And you're nothing. You aren't funny. You aren't even funny anonymously. You're a sort of idiotic lazy kind of cancer that can't speak, can't write, can't really do much of anything. Even when you see something you want to respond to, like poor mean old me, the most you can do is breathe out a sad little farting breath like a cranky old peasant woman. It's almost adorable how little effort you put into that. You're like a sad, stupid, retarded child, trying to bite me through his protective visor.
But just out of curiosity, why should I be nice to andy rooney? He's old. He's incredibly old. And the idiotic things he says haven't interested me since I was 15, when he was only archaic. Now he's downright antideluvian. Why should I be nice? Why should I care? If I want to enjoy the things that Cronkite did and said, I'll go look at THOSE things. Why should I bother with andy rooney at all?
I'm sure whoever promoted you just wanted to see what would happen, cause it's pretty fun. But in case you guys do have an issue with me, you're more than free to liven up this comment thread.
That's just unsnarkable. It's a reminder that a man who meant something to so many in the world, meant the world to Andy Rooney.
And with that, I'll be applying for that job at Hallmark!
doctorzizmor
Walter Cronkite was a national treasure. So is Andy Rooney.
I wonder if the historians will put moments like these in their books, when they write about how journalism died and came back as its weird undead cousin, back in the early 21st century.
Even a black heart can have a soul.
jorel845
@mattchew03: I know, right? It made the entire segment in my mind.
@Pope John Peeps II: Wow. You really are a dick.
Rocketanski
The video footage of Andy and Walter on the boat was so cute/funny.
Maybe it just took Andy a couple of days to remember it wasn't him who died.
Dude is older than agriculture...