NBC's Saturday Night Live has added blind New York Governor David Paterson to their starting lineup of political victims during this past Saturday's taping...
The governor told reporters in Albany yesterday that he found last weekend's "Saturday Night Live" skit "pretty degrading," while a spokesman for the National Federation for the Blind called the skit "absolutely wrong."
Still no comment from "SNL" - not surprising as the show is not in the habit of apologizing for anything, ever.
The governor said, "I think that humor is the essence of life. ... But, we have to remember that only 37 percent of disabled people [are] working. ... So, why don't they get jobs? Probably because [employers] have the kind of attitudes about the disabled that was portrayed in that skit on ‘Saturday Night Live,' meaning that people, because of their disability, ... are unable to manage [and] they walk around in a disoriented state. ... I don't think that reflects reality.
"I thought that the way it was portrayed - like a bunch of third-graders making fun of how someone looks - was pretty degrading."
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