Have you ever watched “Dirty Jobs”? I don’t know what his politics are, but it’s hard to imagine a smug elitist doing any one of those jobs for even five minutes.
Just found an interesting article about him at http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2010/03/12/dirty-jobs-mike-rowe-works-hard-and-smart/ :
“I don’t know that a 4-year degree is the golden ticket anymore. I would never say anything against education,” he says. “But why is there the 4 year degree and everything else is ‘alternative’?”
On the jobs bill that is lumbering through Congress, Rowe doesn’t take a particular political stance, but he has a viewpoint. The Mike Rowe you see on TV is the same Mike Rowe in conversation. He’s chatty yet thoughtful, and definitely opinionated.
“I just don’t think you can create jobs. I think you can create opportunities. I think people will avail themselves of them. People on “Dirty Jobs” span the political spectrum but they see work in the same way. If [Obama] is going to create 3 to 4 million shovel-ready jobs, it would be nice to make sure those are jobs people want and not jobs people have been disparaging for the past 30 years.”