CBS' Andy Rooney calls Gibson "nuts" "wacko!" What does he call Muslims?

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  1. Orson

    Orson New Member

    On CBS' 60 Minutes program, 22 February, satirist Andy Rooney called Pat Robertson and Mel Gibson "crazy" "nuts" and "wacko."

    Any guesses about what Rooney would call the five times a-day worshipping Muslims?

    --Orson
    (atheist who gets away from the secular navel-gazing socialist nabobs of the US Northeast - unlike looney Rooney.)
     
  2. Jeff Hampton

    Jeff Hampton New Member

    I completely disagree with Rooney's depiction of Gibson.

    However, I wonder what you think Rooney would call the "five times-a-day worshipping Muslims."

    I'm not up on my racial/religous epithets, so I'm not sure what you are implying. Is there some clever insult that belittles Muslims for having the gall to worship five times per day?
     
  3. Tom57

    Tom57 Member

    I don't get it. I understand if you're an atheist then perhaps any worship seems pointless, but that's what they do. That's a part of their religion. Nothing wacky about it at all. :confused:
     
  4. uncle janko

    uncle janko member

    The worst part of this is not what Rooney does or does not call Muslims. The worst part is generalizing his invective against Robertson and Gibson as though it applied to all Christians, thus setting up the silly question of what he calls (all) Muslims. He can call Robertson and Gibson anything he likes. They do not represent me or my religion in any way.
     
  5. Tom57

    Tom57 Member

    I'm guessing Rooney would agree. His beef was with Robertson implying that God speaks directly to him about such mundane and earthly matters as who is going to win the presidential election. I guess the beef with Gibson is similar, though I confess I haven't followed all the blather about his movie and so I don't really know what the issue is.

    I don't think Rooney has any problem with Christianity or Islam in general, just with those kooks who seem to think they've figured out how it all works, while the rest of us are left shuffling around in the dark.

    I admit I'm in the dark, but I have to believe that if God were really talking to Robertson directly, they wouldn't be talking elections. God would be telling him to quit trying to make money and fame off his name (God's that is). :)
     
  6. Dr. Gina

    Dr. Gina New Member


    Hey listen up OKKKKAAAAAYYYYY! God only talks to Tammy Faye! He has been talking and talking and she just won't change that eye makeup!:D
     
  7. amused

    amused member

    Does this have anything to do with distance education?
     
  8. uncle janko

    uncle janko member

    Hey Gina: Thanks for the pix. You're cute when you holler. Even a Carpathian monk can appreciate that.

    (This is a cross-thread wowser-confuser post.)
     
  9. Bruce

    Bruce Moderator

    No, that's why it's posted in "Off-topic discussions".

    If you don't want to read off-topic discussions, it would be a really good idea to not read the "Off-topic discussions" forum.
     
  10. uncle janko

    uncle janko member

    Speaking of Muslims, the University of Sharjah (UAE) has the cutest little fellow as the icon for their faculty-staff portal on their website.

    http://www.sharjah.ac.ae/
     
  11. Deb

    Deb New Member

    Robertson and Falwell

    I don't know about Gibson but I will agree that Robertson and Falwell are nuts - in their opinion 9/11 was caused by the People for the American Way, ACLU, gay, socialist and liberals.
     
  12. David Boyd

    David Boyd New Member

    Re: Robertson and Falwell

    Could you give us a citation that documents where they said these things? Not a broad generalization but the actual quotes, time and place?
     
  13. Deb

    Deb New Member

    Falwell and Robertson quotes

    You seriously didn't hear this? My goodness, it was all over the news for days afterward. Course, there was a lto going on....

    Normally 700 Club broadcast are on their website for a week, this one was taken down by 9/15.

    This is the report from snopes.com. You can find a report on the archives of the Washington Post and most other major newspapers as well as the People for the American Way website. After reading about it in the Tampa Tribune I went and watched the at that point still available broadcast. It was truly amazing.

    +++++

    During a September 13 appearance by Jerry Falwell on the Christian Broadcasting Network's TV program "700 Club," hosted by Pat Robertson, the following exchange occurred:

    JERRY FALWELL: And, I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way - all of them who have tried to secularize America - I point the finger in their face and say "you helped this happen."

    PAT ROBERTSON: Well, I totally concur, and the problem is we have adopted that agenda at the highest levels of our government. And so we're responsible as a free society for what the top people do. And, the top people, of course, is the court system.

    The story was covered in the next day's Washington Post, and a partial transcript of the broadcast was published on the web site of People for the American Way.

    In a disingenuous attempt to put a good face on this one, Pat Robertson and CBN subsequently issued a press release in which they maintained that the whole thing was Jerry Falwell's fault, claimed that they didn't understand what he was saying, and blamed People for the American Way for "taking statements out of context and spinning them to the press for their own political ends." (If Mr. Robertson truly didn't understand Mr. Falwell's remarks, one has to wonder why he responded to them by saying "I concur totally" and then elaborating on the remarks he supposedly hadn't understood.)

    ++++

    Deb
    (A heathern, not a pagan.)
     
  14. DL-Luvr

    DL-Luvr New Member

    The Rev


    LOL :D
     
  15. DL-Luvr

    DL-Luvr New Member

    Tammy Faye

    I ran into her in a store in Palm Springs a number of years ago - she is very funny. Yes she was wearing her trademark eye make up. Guess God didn't win that argument. :D
     
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  16. Guest

    Guest Guest

    Well, to quote Archie Bunker, Rooney's statement about Gibson is like "Calling the kettle pot.":D :D :D :D
     
  17. Orson

    Orson New Member

    Re: Re: CBS' Andy Rooney calls Gibson "nuts" "wacko!" What does he call Muslims?

    That's what I'm wondering.

    I mean, if Christians are somehow worthy of withering invective, what's worse?

    If Rooney is consistent he ought to find what's satirically insulting about Muslims, only more so than Jesus Believers. Yet these liberal secular people are so sanctomoneous (sp?) about being tolerant!

    My, the self-rightous hypcrites do wheeze from on high.


    Tom57 says: "I don't think Rooney has any problem with Christianity or Islam in general, just with those kooks who seem to think they've figured out how it all works, while the rest of us are left shuffling around in the dark."

    I entirely disagree with you; that's why he thinks he can dump on the religious or their champions.

    Rooney and the Northeast media elites do have a problem with religion - any religion except politics, that is. For example, Bernard Goldberg could not find any Republican voting, Bible believing conservatives among an entire class of grad students at Columbia School of Journalism (according to his latest book)! And yet these are THE top new hires in media - those from the #1 J-school in the US. (Remember: Rooney works for CBS in New York City.)

    How utterly blindly are we lead by those charged to "inform" us!

    --Orson
     
  18. Anthony Pina

    Anthony Pina Active Member

    Re: Tammy Faye

    I used to see her quite a bit at the mall in Palm Desert. I was surprised at how tiny she was...but you could see that makeup a mile away.

    Tony
     
  19. BLD

    BLD New Member

    Elite hypocrisy: 'Passion' hysteria proves Christians will always be targeted

    By BETSY HART, Scripps Howard News Service
    February 27, 2004

    Why the elite dislike 'The Passion'
     
  20. Zengo

    Zengo member

    Muslims

    dear Orson

    I am a muslim. And we do not worship, we pray for the good of all.

    Worshiping is when you have a picture in front or some sort of statue. We do not have one. We do not pray in front of statues etc.

    And I suggest you leave this topic alone.


    Regards


    Zengo
     

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