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- <title>
- Apr. 20, 1992: Andy Rooney's Forked Tongue
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Apr. 20, 1992 Why Voters Don't Trust Clinton
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 103
- Andy Rooney's Forked Tongue
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- <p>By Michael Quinn/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- <p> 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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- </body></article>
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