Les Moonves, president and CEO of CBS Corporation, called Rooney an icon. “The person you saw on television was the real person,” he said. “He had this kind of bluster but he was the nicest, sweetest guy you could ever begin to possibly imagine.”īut Rooney always remained true to himself, Safer said. “The interesting thing about Andy is, he pretended to be this curmudgeon but he really wasn’t,” Arnot said. “His essays struck a chord in viewers by pointing out life’s unspoken truths or more often complaining about its subtle lies,” the statement said.īut former CBS correspondent Bob Arnot said underneath that gruff exterior was a nice man. He wore his curmudgeon status like a uniform, said a CBS statement Saturday. It does not occur to me walking down the street that anyone on the street recognizes me and it bugs me when they do.” “Part of my success,” he said, “is how average I am. He thought of himself as an ordinary guy and wanted to keep it that way. On the “shock and awe” campaign that started the Iraq war in 2003: The phrase “makes us look like foolish braggarts.” I comb my hair, I tie my tie, I put on a jacket, but I draw the line when it comes to trimming my eyebrows. On his bushy eyebrows: “I try to look nice. More college graduates ought to become plumbers or electricians, then go home at night and read Shakespeare.” We have too many bosses and too few workers. On looking for a job, he said: “We need people who can actually do things. Rooney got his start in journalism as a writer in the Army and went on to spend nearly six decades at CBS, half behind the camera as a writer and producer and then as an on-air commentator in 1978 when he joined “60 Minutes.” His commentaries earned him the title King of Grouch.
“He was the most popular member of our team, loved by the audience, and far more loved by all of us than he knew.” “He was the Oracle of West 57th Street, an everyman if everyman wrote like a dream,” she said. “What a life: ninety-two years of doing what you love to do while engaging and entertaining millions and millions of people,” he said.Īnd Lesley Stahl, also Rooney’s colleague on the show, called him “our poet laureate.” “The only thing better than three weeks would have been three minutes.”Ĭorrespondent Steve Kroft reflected on the length of Rooney’s storied career. Rooney’s colleague and longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent Morley Safer told CNN Saturday that Rooney worked to the very end and that he would not have wanted it any other way.
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