jonwright
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posted April 03, 2003 12:09 PM
Andy Rooney Sums It Up
Yeah, I know this isn't a joke forum, but I think this sums up right nicely what's up with the French.
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> >If you missed Andy Rooney on 60 Minutes this past
> >Sunday night, read on. Most that heard him couldn't
> >believe their ears. A special thanks should go to CBS
> >for allowing him to voice his opinion.
> >
> >*---------------------------------------------------------------*
> >
> >(CBS) A weekly commentary by CBS News correspondent
> >Andy Rooney.
> >
> >You can't beat the French when it comes to food, fashion, wine or
> >perfume, but they lost their license to have an opinion on world
> >affairs years ago. They may even be selling stuff to Iraq and don't
> >want to hurt business.
> >
> >The French are simply not reliable partners in a world where the good
> >people in it ought to be working together. Americans may come off as
> >international jerks sometimes but we're usually trying to do the
> >right thing.
> >
> >The French lost WW II to the Germans in about 20 minutes. Along with
> >the British, we got into the war and had about 150,000 guys killed
> >getting their country back for them. We fought all across France, and
> >the Germans finally surrendered in a French schoolhouse. You'd think
> >that school building in Reims would be a great tourist attraction but
> >it isn't. The French seem embarrassed by it. They don't want to call
> >attention to the fact that we freed them from German occupation.
> >
> >I heard Steven Spielberg say the French wouldn't even let him film
> >the D-Day scenes in "Saving Private Ryan" on the Normandy beaches.
> >They want people to forget the price we paid getting their country
> >back for them.
> >
> >Americans have a right to protest going to war with Iraq. The French
> >do not. They owe us the independence they flaunt in our face at the
> >U.N.
> >
> >I went into Paris with American troops the day we liberated it, Aug.
> >25, 1944. It was one of the great days in the history of the world.
> >French women showered American soldiers with kisses, at the very
> >least. The next day, the pompous Charles de Gaulle marched down the
> >mile long Champs Elysee to the Place de la Concorde as if he had
> >liberated France himself. I was there, squeezed in among a hundred
> >tanks we'd given the Free French Army that we brought in with us.
> >Suddenly there were sniper shots from the top of a building.
> >Thousands of Frenchmen who had come to see de Gaulle scrambled to get
> >under something. I got under an Army truck myself. The tank gunners
> >opened fire on the building where the shots had come from, firing
> >mindlessly at nothing. It was a wild scene that lasted, maybe, 10
> >minutes.
> >
> >When we go to Paris every couple of years now, I rent a car. I drive
> >around the Place de la Concorde and when some French driver blows his
> >horn for me to get out of his way, I just smile and say to myself,
> >"Go ahead, Pierre. Be my guest. I know something about this very
> >place you'll never know."
> >
> >The French have not earned their right to have an opinion about
> >President Bush's plans to attack Iraq.
> >
> >On the other hand, I have.
  
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VincentHill
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posted April 03, 2003 01:17 PM
I like him and I heard this! Andy is correct!
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deathpulse
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posted April 03, 2003 03:40 PM
BUMP! Make this a sticky!!!! MAN, I ALWAYS liked Rooney, now he will live on as an even GREATER hero in my mind. The man is a genius.
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Zhooligan
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posted April 03, 2003 08:17 PM
Pretty funny and true.
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phingersniffer
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posted April 03, 2003 10:43 PM
That tired old fuck can lick my sweaty balls. I'm so sick of him. He should stick to complaining about the amount of coffee in a one pound tin or the size of the cotton balls in his aspirin bottle. Fuckng keel over and die. Charles groden can fuck off while he's at it too.
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VincentHill
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posted April 04, 2003 12:40 PM
For a person that does not like him, you seem to know some of his topics!
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phingersniffer
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posted April 04, 2003 03:22 PM
Keep your friends close.....
Keep your enemies closer..
BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHA
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deathpulse
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posted April 05, 2003 08:01 AM
OMG an Andy Roony hater! I've never met one before... thats pretty interesting  .
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