The Easter Bunny, Santa Clause, The Tooth Fairy and honest reporting at CBS
are all
fairy tales. I think the National Inquirer gets it right more often than "60
Minutes".
Just my unsolicited 2 cents worth.
Steve in N.Id.
----- Original Message -----
From: Theodore Brown<mailto:tbrown@midcoast.com>
To: tigers@autox.team.net<mailto:tigers@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 7:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Andy Rooney's Tiger
Hello All:
The Andy Rooney piece that ran Sunday night on 60 Minutes was a repeat of
one that
originally ran last November. I did not see it when it ran then, but both
my daughter and
my brother mentioned it to me and told me that Andy had shown a picture of
his Tiger.
I was curious, so I tried to get on the 60 Minutes web site and download
the video.
Unfortunately, I only have dial-up (change comes slowly in Maine) so I gave
up and
tried again last Spring, when I was finally successful. When I was
eventually able to view the video, I was amazed to see that the picture
that Rooney claimed was a picture of his car is actually one of MY car,
taken by me in my back yard, in front of a lovely maple
in its full Fall foliage. Apparently, someone at 60 Minutes (I'm guessing)
must have been
looking for a pic of a (BRG) Tiger and found the picture that was used in
the video on the
NY Times web site where I had placed it some time back. The Times allows
subscribers
to put up pictures and info about their classic cars, which I had
done. The link for my
Tiger is
<http://collectiblecars.nytimes.com/View_Listing.asp?ListingID=COL609221<ht
tp://collectiblecars.nytimes.com/View_Listing.asp?ListingID=COL609221>> if
any of you are interested. If you compare one of the pics I put up, you'll
see it is the
same photo that was used by 60 Minutes.
When I discovered this little bit of false attribution, I sent an email to
Mr. Rooney in which
I chided him for his misrepresentation and indicated that he owed me. I
suggested to
him that in compensation he might do me the favor of attending the annual
"Sunbeams
in Maine" get-together that my wife and I host here in Maine in October
(see the TE/AE
web site and newsletter for more info). In fact, I even offered to put up
Andy and his
entourage in my big old farmhouse. Regrettably, I never heard back from
Mr. Rooney -
one more blow to the integrity of CBS News! In a later piece on 60
Minutes, Andy
revealed that he never replies to emails, so that may be the
reason. However, I still
feel that his lack of response was a little bit discourteous.
Cheers,
Tod
B382002384LRXFE (the one in the photo)
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