Maybe Mike Rowe can help a Left Coast comedian grasp reality.
In a lengthy social media post published Sunday, the champion of skilled blue-collar labor and former host of the shows “Dirty Jobs” and “Somebody’s Gotta Do It,” host and champion of skilled labor, hit back at late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel for Kimmel’s snide putdown of President Donald Trump’s new secretary of Homeland Security.
And he did it the way only Mike Rowe can.
With the measured logic of a master craftsman, Rowe summed up Kimmel’s by-now infamous, snearing condescension toward Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin’s background as a plumber, delivered as part of his monologue March 24.
To the laughter of the kind of people who would actually attend an episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” (lives that empty are more to be pitied than scorned), Kimmel had mocked Mullin as a former mixed-martial arts fighter who was also a plumber.
“That’s right, we have a plumber protecting us from terrorism now,” Kimmel said.
In short, to Kimmel and his audience, a man who worked with his hands and built up a successful business is an object of ridicule, not admiration.