Rooney Responds to Gibson 'Wacko' Furor

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

NEW YORK - Andy Rooney certainly knows how to stir the passion in his viewers. The "60 Minutes" curmudgeon said Sunday he got 30,000 pieces of mail and e-mail in response to his Feb. 22 commentary, in which he called "The Passion of the Christ" filmmaker Mel Gibson (news) a "wacko."

It's the biggest viewer response ever to a segment on the CBS newsmagazine, which has been on the air since 1968, a spokesman said.

Rooney also called the Rev. Pat Robertson a "wacko" for saying he had a conversation with God, but not many people noticed that, he said. Most of his mail concerned Gibson.

"I think the mail was a good indication of how bitterly divided our country is right now," Rooney said on his Sunday "60 Minutes" commentary. "I hope I'm not contributing to that — even though I'm right and everyone else is wrong."

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[Kooperman]

The last contemporary that Andy Rooney saw eye-to-eye with was Winston Churchill...

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both were probably bleary-eyed

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