Comments on: Let's Vote... On Everything!

Andy Rooney Wonders If We Are Voting Enough

[davidmonty1]

I would love to be able to vote on everything, would that include when a certain news commentator retires. I use to love to watch Andy Rooney till I seen how far left he is and not very fair to people that do not hold is position on something like the war.

[dallison7]

I VOTE WE TAKE THIS TRAITOR DOWN, REMOVE HIM FROM OFFICE, CONVICT AND HANG!

[japerry40]

Ok, let's try this. How about we all stop spewing out the chewed up facts the media feeds us and do something for ourselves. I challenge everyone to read the Constitution, the real one, not the one the media has invented that includes separation of church and state ( this is not in the official documents of our county). Also, find out what really happened in Vietnam. Especially if you were born after 1980.
How sad we forget the mess the Clinton's made in the White House. We also forget that the situtation we're in now didn't begin when President Bush took office just as Pres. Reagan inherited the Iran Hostage affair, so our Pres. inherited Clinton's blunders and massive mistakes.
God help us if we bring everyone home and close down. Unless we move to the moon, terrorism is here to stay and I'd rather be on the offensive then being on the defensive after thousands of Americans have died.

[cboersie]

Mr. Rooney - You hit the nail on the head. What happened to "We the People"?? Funny we all knew there was no "weapons of mass destruction" before they declared war. Did you ever have the opportunity to be in Iraq? I'm sure we wouldn't be in all these disatrous mishaps if we could only voice our opinion. This is OUR country. Let us have a say over what happens here.

[fascistusa]

Yet, strangely WE THE PEOPLE have NO VOTE in our FASCIST COUNTRY.

THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT REPRESENT US.

OUR GOVENMENT DOES NOT REPRESENT US.

OUR GOVERNMENT IS A FASCIST TYRANNY RULED BY THE ELITE.

FREE AMERICA!!!

[zoroastor]

Further, Rooney's comments are clearly labled as opinion and commentary. Not to be taken as "fact". News organizations are supposed to serve three primary functions 1. To report facts 2. To entertain 3. To provide a public forum for the expression of different opinions engineered to spark discussion and thought.
From the begining of journalistic history, very few outlets have been truly "unbiased". The best one can hope for is the objective reporting of facts in the "news" portion.
I don't like everything I see on the news - particularly in the opinion portion. It's just the way it is. I have to live with John Stossle (sp?) and you have to live with Andy Rooney. Neither indicates a conspiracy on the part of the media toward one political leaning or another.

[zoroastor]

Surfsup,
I particularly like your reference to Fox News "fair and balanced". Fox is, by far, the most biased, unbalanced "news" network going. It just happens to fit your point of view, so you say to yourself "oh yeah, that seems about right."

Who cares if he is biased? Are you afraid of watching someone who has a different opinion than you? CBS should fire him because he doesn't agree with you? Personally, I find his segments very interesting. He brings up subjects that others do not. Anyway, he never even answered the questions he brought up. Is he against legal immigration? Does he want to double the number of troops? How are those questions biased?

[surfsup_23]

I created an account here on cbs just so I could comment on what I saw last night. Andy Rooney's comments were ridiculous. It was a gross misuse of a primetime slot to try and put across his bias views.

And it's simply not true that we wouldn't be in Iraq if the public had voted on it. We had full bi-partisan consent in the mobilization of troops. Pulling out all our troops right now would not only be foolish, it would disastrous to that region and consequently to our own nation.

All I wanted to do was watch Amazing Race, but instead I was met with liberal agenda...again. Is fair and balanced such a hard concept for the media to grasp?

[surfsup_23]

I created an account here on cbs just so I could comment on what I saw last night. Andy Rooney's comments were ridiculous. It was a gross misuse of a primetime slot to try and put across his bias views.

And it's simply not true that we wouldn't be in Iraq if the public had voted on it. We had full bi-partisan consent in the mobilization of troops. Pulling out all our troops right now would not only be foolish, it would disastrous to that region and consequently to our own nation.

All I wanted to do was watch Amazing Race, but instead I was met with liberal agenda...again. Is fair and balanced such a hard concept for the media to grasp?