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- PEOPLE, Page 103Andy Rooney's Forked Tongue
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- By MICHAEL QUINN/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- 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.
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