Mike Rowe and Manual Labor

"Clint Eastwood made headlines with his now famous performance with an empty chair at the Republican National Convention in Tampa earlier this month, and Scarlett Johansson delivered an impassioned plea to the Democratic proceedings in Charlotte. But it was a star of the small screen that has provided the most substantive entertainment-industry contribution this election season. Mike Rowe, the host of Dirty Jobs and narrator of The Deadliest Catch from The Discovery Channel, penned an open letter to the Romney campaignhighlighting what he calls a generational “change in the way Americans viewed hard work and skilled labor.”"