Montana's junior senator has certainly said some doozies in the past (called Arabs "ragheads," wasn't sure how he could live in Washington DC "with all those niggers," told women flight attendants that they should stay at home with their kids if they lose their jobs, and asked a woman with a nose ring what tribe she was from). But these are almost child's play compared to his latest tirade accusing wilderness firefighters of being "lazy":

Report: Burns called firefighters lazy
Original account revealed; senator issues apology for altercation at airport

By CHARLES S. JOHNSON
Gazette State Bureau
HELENA - U.S. Sen. Conrad Burns pointed across the Billings airport Sunday and accused a member of an elite firefighting team of not doing "a God damned thing" and charged that crew members just "sit around" on the job, the original version of a state report said.

Most of Burns' highly critical comments, made to state employee Paula Rosenthal, were omitted from the version of her report released to reporters Wednesday and Thursday.
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"See that guy over there? He hasn't done a God-damned thing. They sit around. I saw it up on the Wedge fire and in northwestern Montana some years ago. It's wasteful. You probably paid that guy $10,000 to sit around. It's gotta change."

Rosenthal wrote in both versions: "I offered to the senator that our firefighters make around $8-$12 per hour and time-and-a-half for overtime. He seemed a little surprised that it wasn't higher."

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