Rooney's 60 Minutes segments were amusing to watch once..when they were about consumer type frustrations. And by that I really mean once. Because he just wasn't that funny. The joke, repeated, ad nauseum week after week was his only gimmick.
Then, and I don't remember when it exactly happened, he changed from being a grumpy old curmudgeon to an angry (and pathetic) old liberal who was pretty much crabby about anyone and anything that wasn't left wing.
I can't remember him ever portraying himself as happy or joyful about anything in life. Not once.
Heck of a legacy. Heck of an epitaph.