Andy Rooney didn’t just break a rule in 1972—he walked into CBS with a sentence sharp enough to slice his career in half and dared the network to blink. That morning, he rolled it from his typewriter like a live wire, sat back for a heartbeat, and muttered, “If I won’t say it, why am I here at all?” Then he folded the page, carried it down a hallway thick with silence, and placed it in the control room like a fuse ready to burn. A producer read the line. Once. Then twice. He finally exhaled, “An

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