Do you know what CNN stands for?

Constantly Negative News. 

I'm not surprised Andy Rooney would say something like this. He's always going off about something. Madtv makes him look like a mad man in their skits. lol.

I thought it was Clinton News Network.

For a lot of people, and this includes most working slobs, the lottery offers hope that they can stop being a working slob, and in most cases, that's about the only way they could do that.

People like Rooney, who we can be sure is paid very well, have no concept of living paycheck to paycheck, or if they ever did, 'how soon they forget'.

Rooney could have said something like a lot of people who play the lottery shouldn't spend as much as they do on it, but to say lottery players are stupid doesn't say much for him.

Apparently Andy Rooney likes to hear himself talk, but he doen't always listen to what he is saying all of the time. His statement was one man's opinion, and it kind of sounded like a jealousy outburst over the fact that people that he considered as "poor" one day came into riches over night when he has worked so hard for so many years for what he has.

I wonder if anyone approves his statements before he makes them on air.( apparently not)

litebets

I'm a bottom line type person, so here it is...

Who really gives a fat rats arse what Andy Rooney says about anything ?

 DD

I don't know, Todd.  I always liked Clinton so I really have a hard time swallowing that!

BTW, either nobody read my first post (or cares) but I meant "6 digit income" not double digit income, when I was referring to people who make a good living.  Sometimes my fingers don't type what my brain tells them. Maybe I should start a thread with the topic of "how many times have you screwed up your post on LP?"

I missed it like most shows on CBS. I don't watch much tv especially shows that are aimed at the "Depends" market like 60 minutes.

CNN considers itself a stateless "International" news network serving planet Earth.  That explains a lot about their viewpoint.  Personally, I call them the Crescent News Network because they favor the Arabs and run down Israel. 

ABC, the Arab Broadcast Company, is especially bad about their little asides on Nightline.  Terry Moran is a sicko leftist stooge and I don't know where they dug up that moron who is anchoring it now. Some raghead with a British accent.

Peter Jennings used to date a "lady" who eventually became a spokesperson for the Palestinian Liberation Organization.  He only became a U.S. citizen a year or two  before he died of cancer.  Guilty conscience, I guess.

Don't even get me started on Chrestian Amandor!  She is an apologist for the Iranians!  Could be because she is half Iranian . . . duh . . .

If the Arab agents on Nightline say "It is a Sign of the Times" one more time I am going to reach through the TV and strangle somebody. 

Orangeman                                   

Andy needs to check his resources. Jack Whittaker was a self made millionaire he won over $300 mil, there was another man in Illinois he was also a  extremely wealthy person he won  over $200 million. So it's not just the poor that play the lottery, if Andy would have gone through the archives of past lottery winners there is more of majority that  were well off that have won, leaving the social players and the ones that will spend thier last penny on tickets. It's a mixing pot of people that play the lottery because as they say you can't win if you don't play. You'll never know if your numbers are finally coming up if you don't buy that $1.00 ticket.