New York -- The legendary and stingy TV commentator Andy Rooney offered his concluding comments Sunday on the news show "60 minutes", capping a career that lasted more than six decades.
In his latest essay, delivered approximately 8:15 pm, Rooney said: "this is the moment I have awful.
"I wanted to do this forever. But I can't, "he said. "But I'm not retiring. Writers do not retire, and I will always be a writer. "
CBS announced on Tuesday that the upcoming program, after five days, will be the last for the 92-year-old award-winning writer, columnist and commentator. It operates in the network-first as a writer for Arthur Godfrey's talent scouts "from 1949, and was part of the" 60 minutes "Crew from 1978 onwards.
"There's nobody as Andy, and there never will be. He would hate to learn about this, but it's an American original ", CBS News President Jeff Fager said in a release out Rooney.
Original essay Sunday was 1097-Rooney for the program.
In it he called himself simply, not as "newscaster", but rather as "a writer who reads that it is written".
"The work of the writer to speak the truth," he said. "I know, I was horribly wrong sometimes, but I think I was right more than I was wrong".
Earlier in the show, Morley Safer-89-year-old journalist and "60 minutes" since 1970, the main-Rooney interview about his personal and professional life.
Rooney attended Colgate University, until he was conscripted into the army in 1941. In February 1943, he was one of six correspondents who flew on the 8-th air force on the first American bombing raid over Germany. Last year, Rooney received the Overseas Press Club of America President's award on these reports be similarly publicized.
TV commentator admitted on Sunday that he does not sign autographs and rarely respond to mail from fans, saying he did not "want to safely respond to idiot, which would be a bad idea to write me a letter." Rooney also spawned controversy, such as his weekslong pendants in 1990, "60 minutes" for the comments that some gay viewers took umbrage.
But he is more known for his harsh comments and public persona, as someone bothered to have everything: from the desktop to make chocolate cookies on door handles.
In his time on "60 minutes, Rooney has also made many deep parts as a result of events such as in 1986, space shuttle Challenger explosion, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and" shock and awe "to launch a campaign in 2003, the war in Iraq-Phrase he bitingly said that" makes us look silly hvastunov ".
Safe described his longtime colleague as "favorite American Grouch Chief" by saying Rooney used his "loud plaksivyj voice ... speaking for all the citizens are fed up.”
"There have been many curmudgeons on television during its long history," safe affectionately said. "None of them have served in this role, as Mr. Rooney".
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