This summer I wrote about social media sites and made note of several celebrities I talked to at press tour who said they were not on Facebook or Twitter at that time. But people posting under their names were on these sites.
This week a friend pointed out a fake that's particularly funny: A faux Andy Rooney, confirmed as fake by CBS, on Twitter.
Some of his tweets are just parodies of things you could imagine Rooney saying ("The fragrance industry rakes in billions of dollars
every year, but none of them smell any good at all.") but the funniest/cruelest ones are Fake Andy's denunciations of the late Don Hewitt, creator of "60 Minutes."
"Don Hewitt intimidated his subordinates and cowered before his superiors. He was a
petty man who got where he was through sheer luck," Fake Andy tweeted on Aug. 19, just before adding, "Miss you, Don."
Hilarious and awful at the same time. But mostly funny. Kudos to the clever/evil person responsible for Fake Andy Rooney.
Posted
Nov 20 2009, 01:58 PM
by
Rob Owen