http://www.nationalreview.com/node/419631/print Dirty Jobs Star Delivers Devastating Rebuke about America’s Work Ethic
By Mark Antonio Wright — June 12, 2015
Mike Rowe’s successful Discovery Channel show Dirty Jobs gained a following thanks to being exciting, vivid television: He joined workers as they wrestled alligators, cleaned septic tanks, and rounded up yaks on a ranch in Montana. But it also became something of a tribute to America’s blue-collar work ethic, and as Rowe finishes his second season with a new show on CNN, some can’t help but take exception to his hard-working creed.
Rowe was recently moved to make the case for his message after getting a viewer e-mail: “Craig P.” was upset with Rowe’s constant “harping on the ‘work ethic’” and accused the Somebody’s Gotta Do It host of maligning the working class.
Rowe’s response, a rousing defense of his worldview and indictment of work-averse American culture, has now been shared more than 90,000 times.
“Hey Mike … Just because someone’s poor doesn’t mean they’re lazy. The unemployed want to work!” Craig P. wrote. “Rather than accusing people of not having a work-ethic, why not drop the right-wing propaganda and help them develop one?”
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