Andy Rooney spoke to students at Tufts University recently and had the following pearls of wisdom to offer:

Rooney also attributed voters' reliance on religion in the recent election to ignorance. "I am an atheist," Rooney said. "I don't understand religion at all. I'm sure I'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but I think it's all nonsense."

He said Christian fundamentalism is a result of "a lack of education. They haven't been exposed to what the world has to offer."

Rooney said he also could not understand how "men who work with their hands voted for George Bush," and again attributing the phenomenon to a lack of education. "The labor force is conservative," he said. "How in the world did that happen?"

Translation: you people are freakin' morons, especially those of you who believe in God. Now go back home, but don't drive too far or you'll fall off the edge of the Earth.

Nice little assnugget, this Mr. Rooney. I guess my degrees in physics and nuclear engineering, my background as an engineer in aerospace alloy development and my current career as a computer programmer are all illusions. After all, someone that believes in God can't be educated, right? Anyway, the old pusbag does make one valid point, which might surprise his friends at See BS:

"I am very critical of some of the people at CBS who make it apparent what their political leanings are," Rooney said. "That's what happened to this thing of Dan Rather's that got out. There's no question they wanted to run it because it was negative towards Bush."

I think that Rooney and the Dan are going to have a chat soon.

: Paul is already on the case.

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