It's a Motherfuckin' Walk-Off!

This happened minutes from my home—and I really can't even properly describe how blub-inducingly awesome I think it is. We are the blue corner of Indiana, but still:

Some three dozen workers at a telemarketing call center in Indiana walked off the job rather than read an incendiary McCain campaign script attacking Barack Obama, according to two workers at the center and one of their parents.

Nina Williams, a stay-at-home mom in Lake County, Indiana, tells us that her daughter recently called her from her job at the center, upset that she had been asked to read a script attacking Obama for being "dangerously weak on crime," "coddling criminals," and for voting against "protecting children from danger."

Williams' daughter told her that up to 40 of her co-workers had refused to read the script, and had left the call center after supervisors told them that they would have to either read the call or leave, Williams says. The call center is called Americall, and it's located in Hobart, IN.

"They walked out," Williams says of her daughter and her co-workers, adding that they weren't fired but willingly sacrificed pay rather than read the lines. "They were told [by supervisors], `If you all leave, you're not gonna get paid for the rest of the day."

The daughter, who wanted her name withheld fearing retribution from her employer, confirmed the story to us. "It was like at least 40 people," the daughter said. "People thought the script was nasty and they didn't wanna read it."

A second worker at the call center confirmed the episode, saying that "at least 30" workers had walked out after refusing to read the script.

"We were asked to read something saying [Obama and Democrats] were against protecting children from danger," this worker said. "I wouldn't do it. A lot of people left. They thought it was disgusting."

The people who walked out need those jobs. Many of them will have been black and Latin@. Most of them will have been working poor. All of them mean nothing more to John McCain and Sarah Palin than whatever mileage they could have gotten out of a folksy anecdote about "Joan the Telemarketer." And every last one of them has more integrity than the presidential and vice-presidential nominees of the Republican Party. Combined.

[H/T to Shaker Amish451, who got it from The Littlest Gator at Group News Blog.]