CBS commentator Andy Rooney dies at 92

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BULLETIN - "ANDY ROONEY, '60 MINUTES' COMMENTATOR, IS DEAD AT 92" -- CBS News release: "Andy Rooney, the 60 MINUTES commentator known to generations for his wry, humorous and contentious television essays - a unique genre he is credited with inventing - died [Friday] night in the hospital in New York City of complications following minor surgery. ... Rooney had announced a few weeks ago in his 1097th essay for 60 MINUTES on Oct. 2 that he would no longer appear regularly on the broadcast. ... 'He loved his life and he lived it on his own terms,' ... said Jeff Fager, chairman of CBS News and the executive producer of 60 MINUTES. Rooney wrote for television since its birth, spending nearly 60 years at CBS, 30 of them behind the camera as a writer and producer, first for entertainment and then news programming, before becoming a household name ...

"Each Sunday, Rooney delivered one of his 60 MINUTES essays from behind a desk that he, an expert woodworker, hewed himself. ... Rooney asked thousands of questions in his essays over the years, none, however, began with 'Did you ever...?' ... Comedian Joe Piscopo used it in a 1981 impersonation of him on 'Saturday Night Live' and, from then on, it was erroneously linked to Rooney. ... Andrew Aitken Rooney was born January 14, 1919 in Albany, N.Y. ... Rooney resided in Manhattan; he also kept a family vacation home in Rensselaerville, N.Y and the first home he ever purchased, in Rowayton, Conn. ... He is survived by his four children Ellen, a photographer; Brian, the longtime ABC News correspondent; Emily, the original host of 'Greater Boston,' a local public affairs television program on PBS; and Martha Fishel, chief of the Public Services division of the U.S. National Library of Medicine ... Funeral services will be private; a memorial service will be announced at a future date."

The English had ****ens. America had Andy. He hid a philosopher's genius behind the honest prose of Everyman. Apparently, God needed a writer."

FAVORITE ANDY ROONEY SEGMENT? mallen@politico.com - will run a few tomorrow

My he R.N.P...he was the best part of watching 60 Minutes. (smile)