Andy Rooney was an unabashed leftist (I hate it when the word liberal is misused) who admitted his bias but was critical of Dan Rather for being too transparent in the promotion of his agenda.
Andy Rooney delivered his final commentary Sunday night at the end of 60 Minutes and while the now 92-year old curmudgeon’s pieces usually dealt with non-serious topics, he should be credited for being able to recognize, unlike many of his prominent peers, that the media are liberal – even conceding his own “liberal bias.” He declared Dan Rather “transparently liberal” and quipped people in the news business “were almost evenly divided” in 2004 – “half of them liked Senator Kerry; the other half hated President Bush.”
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Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2011/10/02/andy-rooney-recognized-media-s-liberalism-and-espoused-it-himself#ixzz1ZmpCSAMY
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2011/10/02/andy-rooney-recognized-media-s-liberalism-and-espoused-it-himself
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