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PEOPLE, Page 103Andy Rooney's Forked Tongue
By MICHAEL QUINN/Reported by Wendy Cole
And who is that curmudgeon hopping down the corridors of
cbs? Why, it's Andy Rooney with his foot in his mouth -- again.
Suspended in 1990 after dismissing the death of gay men from
AIDS as "self-induced," the 60 Minutes commentator has now
outraged American Indians with a newspaper column that defended
athletic teams with names like the Washington Redskins while
belittling Native American religion ("meaningless
superstitions"), culture ("There's no Indian art") and
grievances ("They can't have their country back. Next
question"). Says an Indian-rights activist: "It's a David Duke
column about Indians." Though Rooney cites "a good number of
Indian books" as sources, his ideas seem shaped more by F Troop.