Let’s keep the jokes away from handicapped and disabled people
I’d like to make a comment on a Saturday Night Live sketch that has gotten massive media attention. The sketch was about New York Governor David Patterson who is legally blind. SNL’s Fred Armisen portrayed Paterson as a bumbling man who is completely unqualified.
Now, I have a heart about the size of a peanut, but for some reason I have a really big spot for people who are disabled or handicapped. I do not even have a family member who is disabled. But, people that don’t have a disability have no idea what it would be like to be blind, deaf, missing a limb, or an arm. They have no idea what it would be like to not be able to READ or HEAR MUSIC! Or having a family member help them everyday with taking a bath, getting in and out of bed or having to use a wheel chair. These people try to live as normal as a life as possible and to them it is a normal life. And I give them a lot of credit for handling their lives the way they do. Actually this is one of the reasons why I don’t believe in a god.
Let’s keep the jokes away from disabled and handicapped people.
Read the story and watch the video here.
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Tags: blind, david patterson, deaf, disabled, fred armisen, governor, handicapped, new york, saturday night live, snl
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December 15th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
So we can laugh at a cartoon blind man make a fool of himself but not a sketch of a real blind man doing the same thing?
December 15th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
About your article on “War on Drugs”, I enjoyed very much but here is the deal. I have experience some things in life related to your article but I don’t need to exposed my message on this subject, However I would share with you personally some information via email. Thank you
December 15th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
@Charlie P. - Are you talking to me or Kevin Colby?
December 15th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
@Charlie P. - I’m guessing Kevin…I’m a fucking idiot….