http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111105/ap_on_en_tv/us_obit_rooney
Andy Rooney, wry '60 Minutes' commentator, dies
By DAVID BAUDER,
AP Television Writer
November 5, 2011
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November 5, 2011
March 23, 2011
Stalin and Hitler, One-Sided Forums as Debates
The argument that NYU's H. Bruce Franklin makes ("I used to think of Joseph Stalin as a tyrant and butcher who jailed and killed millions . . . But, to about a billion people today, Stalin is the opposite of what we in the capitalist world have been programmed to believe.") to praise Stalin applies to Hitler. Millions of Muslims today to hate Jews just as Hitler taught his youth. The same pattern of one-sided forums is a regular occurrence on Boston's PBS station where the daughter of 60 Minutes icon (Andy Rooney), Emily Rooney presents what she calls "debate" with only one side represented. Logic is not a strong point with liberals or propagandists.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/university_soft_spot_for_stalinists_p6sL36DlbrJKP3seb923zN
University's soft spot for stalinists
By RONALD RADOSH
New York Post
Last Updated: 12:21 AM, March 23, 2011
Posted: 10:03 PM, March 22, 2011
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/university_soft_spot_for_stalinists_p6sL36DlbrJKP3seb923zN
University's soft spot for stalinists
By RONALD RADOSH
New York Post
Last Updated: 12:21 AM, March 23, 2011
Posted: 10:03 PM, March 22, 2011
April 15, 2009
PBS Hate Speech
[Video here until it is posted elsewhere on the Greater Boston Site within a few days.]
http://www.wgbh.org/gb/
On Tueday April 14, 2009 Emily Rooney, daughter of 60 Minutes'
pundit Andy Rooney, had as a guest on her PBS show Greater Boston, the
Mayor of Boston Thomas Menino. She showed pictures of construction
sites on the MBTA subway stations at Arlington, Kenmore, and Copley to
make those stations wheelchair accessible, She said to the Mayor,
"They are eyesores." It made me wonder, "Is Emily Rooney an eyesore?"
This is the same journalist (former news director at WCVB-TV, ABC
Boston affiliate) who I repeatedly petitioned to have on her show
persons with disabilities to discuss discrimination against them. She
ignored my requests although she did write a patronizing letter to me
after three requests.
After I wrote to the president of WGBH-TV in Boston, she had two
persons on her show to actually discuss denial of access for persons
with physical disabilities, and barriers to enjoying basic rights. I
congratulated her on this breakthrough, and reminded her that persons
accused of mental illness continue to be ignored by WGBH. She lamented
that "No good deed goes unpunished" adding that she would see that I
was banned from Boston.
Now she shows her true colors ignoring the inability of persons
who use wheelchairs to use the MBTA a public transit system. The
Rehabilitation Act of 1973 mandates that the subway be accessible. The
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 requires that public transit
be accessible. Legal aid lawyers sued the MBTA and in 2008 a judge
ordered MBTA to make the stations accessible in spite of much
opposition from citizen groups in Boston.
None of these groups or Emily Rooney would object to allowing
black people, homosexuals or women to use the subway stations to ride
the MBTA. But they have no concern expressing bigoted positions toward
persons with disabilities. They usually say "It never entered my mind."
Rooney cannot say that I did not bring this issue to her attention.
In her case it appears that she believes that persons with
disabilities should not enjoy equal rights as other citizens. She is
like the one-party conformist politicians she embraces, shameless and
clueless.
[Video here until it is posted elsewhere on the Greater Boston Site within a few days.]
http://www.wgbh.org/gb/
On Tueday April 14, 2009 Emily Rooney, daughter of 60 Minutes'
pundit Andy Rooney, had as a guest on her PBS show Greater Boston, the
Mayor of Boston Thomas Menino. She showed pictures of construction
sites on the MBTA subway stations at Arlington, Kenmore, and Copley to
make those stations wheelchair accessible, She said to the Mayor,
"They are eyesores." It made me wonder, "Is Emily Rooney an eyesore?"
This is the same journalist (former news director at WCVB-TV, ABC
Boston affiliate) who I repeatedly petitioned to have on her show
persons with disabilities to discuss discrimination against them. She
ignored my requests although she did write a patronizing letter to me
after three requests.
After I wrote to the president of WGBH-TV in Boston, she had two
persons on her show to actually discuss denial of access for persons
with physical disabilities, and barriers to enjoying basic rights. I
congratulated her on this breakthrough, and reminded her that persons
accused of mental illness continue to be ignored by WGBH. She lamented
that "No good deed goes unpunished" adding that she would see that I
was banned from Boston.
Now she shows her true colors ignoring the inability of persons
who use wheelchairs to use the MBTA a public transit system. The
Rehabilitation Act of 1973 mandates that the subway be accessible. The
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 requires that public transit
be accessible. Legal aid lawyers sued the MBTA and in 2008 a judge
ordered MBTA to make the stations accessible in spite of much
opposition from citizen groups in Boston.
None of these groups or Emily Rooney would object to allowing
black people, homosexuals or women to use the subway stations to ride
the MBTA. But they have no concern expressing bigoted positions toward
persons with disabilities. They usually say "It never entered my mind."
Rooney cannot say that I did not bring this issue to her attention.
In her case it appears that she believes that persons with
disabilities should not enjoy equal rights as other citizens. She is
like the one-party conformist politicians she embraces, shameless and
clueless.
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