Anyone got a McCain $50/hr. job offer transcript/video audio?

[bunkerbuster1]

I've found news stories citing this, but it'd be very good to nail this out-of-touch asshat to the cross with actual footage.

Failing that, I'd like a direct quote from a transcript.

So far all I have found are references to McCain's job offer:

http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/8281.php

He offered anybody in the crowd $50 an hour to pick lettuce.

Shouts of protest rose from the crowd. "I'll take it!" one man said.

"You can't do it, my friends," McCain retorted.

Text

This could be a very, very big deal.

Ok, it could at least be the next Quayle "Potatoe"...

[bunkerbuster1]

1. self-kick--anyone?

I do think vast swaths of Americans would take umbrage at the notion that they wouldn't do hard physical labor for what would amount to ~$100K/year.

[Klukie]

2. Sorry, first I heard of it.

I hope this can be spread far and wide. The American worker will tear him a new one. What an Asshole!

[bunkerbuster1]

3. This needs to come up EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. he shows his mug

You can't get much more out of touch than imagining most Americans wouldn't jump at a $100,000 job, menial or not.

Good god, that's more than double the national household median income! I realize DC is expensive and entry level gigs pay higher than they do in much of the country, but damn. That's just monumentally out of touch with one's constituency.

[acmejack]

5. More references!

http://www.newsone.ca/westfallweeklynews/stories/index.php%3Faction%3Dfullnews%26id%3D171037">many, many more

[bunkerbuster1]

8. But still no audio, video, or transcript

I googled a similar list earlier.

I do NOT want this to slide down the damn memory hole.

[Klukie]

6. Totally agreed!

This definately needs to get out there. Especially to his base. A well prepared soundbite would decimate him. One thing the American worker has left (since all the jobs are gone) is their pride and I daresay this pompous ass just trampled all over it.

[bunkerbuster1]

7. and say buh-bye to the Gooper's best shot at the White House in '08

FIFTY DOLLARS AN HOUR?

A hundred grand per year?

McCAIN DOESN'T THINK YOU'LL WORK HARD FOR IT!

[twiterpatted]

4. If we could just keep slaves, we would not have an immigration

problem. .... this is Mc Cains' logic.

I'm sure he meant to say $5.00 an hour and not $50.00.

[bunkerbuster1]

9. Because "Five" sounds just like "Fifty?"

I don't think so.

[twiterpatted]

10. I'm not making excuses for McCain. He may have read the

$5.00 in the speech provided to him by his staff and thought $50.00. I think he did this to deny himself the reality that immigrants are treated like slaves. Either way the guy is out of touch.