Andy Rooney is dead

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MSNBC - '60 Minutes commentator Andy Rooney dies (http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/45173371/ns/today-entertainment/#.TrU4FbIzAYw)

Andy Rooney so dreaded the day he had to end his signature "60 Minutes" commentaries about life's large and small absurdities that he kept going until he was 92 years old.

CBS News Andy Rooney dead at 92 (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57319150/andy-rooney-dead-at-92/)

Andy Rooney, the "60 Minutes" commentator known to generations for his wry, humorous and contentious television essays - a unique genre he is credited with inventing - died Friday night in a hospital in New York City of complications following minor surgery. He was 92, and had homes in New York City, Rensselaerville, N.Y. and Rowayton, Conn.

Requiescat in pace

[Platapus]

I liked reading some of his books. He had an entertaining way of looking at every day things/events.

[Gerald]

RIP Sir.

[vienna]

Rooney was truly one of a kind, a true American original in the mold of Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, and other commentators/humorists who hold up the foibles of life, make us look at them, and either laugh at them or give us pause as to why we hadn't noticed them before. In an environment where all we seem to have are teleprompter-reading talking heads, commercially-driven sound and/or vidoe bites of "information", or web-based vanity execises, the passing of one more of the last remaining human beings in the media is a sad occasion, indeed. Agree or disagree with him, love him or hate him, it can not be denied he was always true to himself and we are less for his passing. I can almost see him asking St. Peter at the Pearly Gates, "Did you ever notice how the haloes don't seem to sit quite right? And what's the deal with the wings?..."

[soopaman2]

Slowly but surely we lose the last of the true journalists...

And are left with agenda driven people like Limbaugh, Beck, Maddow, and Scarborough.

[Jimbuna]

A credit to his profession...RIP