Republican Senator Conrad Burns of Montana (the guy at right in the cowboy hat) is in a bit of hot water over some insensitive remarks he made about a man working on his house. In a speech at a campaign stop, he referred to the worker as "a nice little Guatemalan man" and recalled a conversation he had with the worker about whether or not he had a green card.While that has the senator in trouble with his constituents, I'd say the real trouble will come when others realize that he gave away at least one of the plot lines to the hit TV series 'LOST.' Can you spot the spoiler:
A new video released this week by his Democratic challenger, Jon Tester, shows Burns, 71, joking to a crowd in June about how a "nice little Guatemalan man" fixing up his house might be an illegal immigrant. "Could I see your green card?" Burns tells the crowd he asked the man. "And Hugo, says, 'No.' I said, 'Oh, gosh.' "
A Burns spokesman said the senator never really doubted the legal status of the handyman, Hugo Reyes. But it wasn't the only time Burns -- a critic of illegal immigration -- has poked fun at the immigrants doing work around his house.
Well, what do you know? Apparently the folks who crashed on that mysterious island get rescued sometime before Summer, 2006 (in the show, the crash happened in August, 2004), because amiable fat guy Hugo "Hurley" Reyes (the one waist deep in the ocean at right) is now a handyman in Montana. Seems like quite a change from being a hard-luck multi-millionaire, but that's why Hollywood writers get paid the big bucks.Forget about Senator Burns's insensitivity. Can you trust the judgment of someone who hires a clinically depressed morbidly-obese slacker to work odd jobs around his house? Maybe Reyes was a major contributor to Burns before Oceanic 815 crashed and the Senator feels like he owes Hurley one...
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