Gibson vs Rooney, round 1... FIGHT!

[Dregor Thule]

NEW YORK - Andy Rooney certainly knows how to stir the passion in his viewers. The "60 Minutes" curmudgeon said Sunday he got 30,000 pieces of mail and e-mail in response to his Feb. 22 commentary, in which he called "The Passion of the Christ" filmmaker Mel Gibson a "wacko."

It's the biggest viewer response ever to a segment on the CBS newsmagazine, which has been on the air since 1968, a spokesman said.

Rooney also called the Rev. Pat Robertson a "wacko" for saying he had a conversation with God, but not many people noticed that, he said. Most of his mail concerned Gibson.

"I think the mail was a good indication of how bitterly divided our country is right now," Rooney said on his Sunday "60 Minutes" commentary. "I hope I'm not contributing to that — even though I'm right and everyone else is wrong."

He read some of the mail on the air, including one letter that called him an "asinine, bottom-dwelling, numb-skulled, low-life, slimy, sickening, gutless, spineless, ignorant, pot-licking, cowardly pathetic little weasel."

Rooney, 85, noted that many of his critics took shots at his age. Even Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly said he was too old.

"That wasn't nice, Bill," he said. "I didn't get old on purpose. It just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you."

I don't watch 60 minutes, so don't really know Rooney's disposition at all, I just found this hilarious. It was almost an IRL peekay threat!

[masteen]

I got $50 on Mel. Anyone who could lead the Scots to victory over England, AND protect the roads from villany in a near-future post-apocalyptic wasteland can certainly take one 80 year old man. Even one as grumpy as Andy Rooney.

[Aaeamdar]

HAHA. I love that O'Rielly wieghed in. I love that the best he could come up with was Rooney is too old. Robertson and Gibson are wackos. I hope they take advice from Bill and sue Rooney - with equally hillarious results.

[Voronwë]

Bill O'Reilley is a genious of parody

[Dregor Thule]

You know you spelled genius wr... ohhhhhh, I get it!~

[Voronwë]

yeah pretty brilliant i must say!

ie; i spelled it wrong

[Vetiria]

Voronwe works for the elite media. His opinion is as useless as anything that comes from CNN or PBS, because they're the elite media. The elite media is everything that is wrong with the country.

[kyoukan]

Bill O'Reilley is a genious of parody

sometimes I think o'reilly and coulter are just really clever leftists propagating this gag to see how long they get away with it.

[Xzion]

Bill O'Reilley is a genious of parody

sometimes I think o'reilly and coulter are just really clever leftists propagating this gag to see how long they get away with it.

godamn, that would make so much sense
no one can possibly be as fucked up in the head as coulter portrays herself to be

[Mplor]

Bill O'Reilley is a genious of parody

Parody of genius?

[Voronwë]

i dont know Kyo, i think they are probably republican now cause they are so rich.

but i think yeah they have adopted a political persona that they know will sell lots of books / get them a TV show, and they know people will buy it.

[masteen]

O'Reilley is a pretty good conservative political commntator. He's not rabidly biased, but he does tend to bully the weaker debaters that appear on his show.

Coulter is off the fucking deep end. She makes some of the other hacks on Fox News look like happy moderates.

[Krimson Klaw]

You can tell when O'Reilly is losing, he starts yelling and won't let the other person speak. Watch for a daily pattern. He's funny though.

[Lalanae]

I don't watch 60 minutes, so don't really know Rooney's disposition at all, I just found this hilarious. It was almost an IRL peekay threat!

Rooney. He's where Stossel will be in about 20 years.