Girlieman of the Week - NY Governor David Paterson

From Politically Incorrect Gazette --

Girlieman of the Week
Date Awarded: December 19, 2008

Girlieman: N.Y. Governor David Paterson
Antics: He can’t take it.

The non-negotiable fact of Elected Tormentor life is that, sooner or later, someone is going to make you the butt of a joke. The higher on the political ladder you climb, the more allegedly-humorous hits you take. It’s demonstrably true for the likes of Juan McCain, Vicente W. Bush, Dick "Darth" Cheney, Teddy "The Swimmer" Kennedy, Bubba & Hillary, and, especially Sarah "I’m hotter than Tina Fey" Palin.

That Elected Tormentor bull’s-eye is affixed to all comers, but some handle it better than others. That brings us to NY Governor David Paterson, who is determined to cloak himself in Messiah Barry class joke punch-line immunity. He’s blind and, he insists, that aspect of his life should be off-limits. The folks at Saturday Night Live, beg to differ.

The skit -- which aired on Saturday [December 13] -- featured SNL actor Fred Armisen as Paterson, who is faced with the task of appointing someone to replace Sen. Hillary Clinton. Armisen said he was looking for three characteristics in candidates for the job: economic experience, upstate influence and someone who is disabled and unprepared for the job -- like himself. The actor then held up a chart illustrating the state's job losses upside down.

"Come on, I'm a blind man who loves cocaine who was suddenly appointed governor of New York, which is an actual plot from a Richard Pryor movie," Armisen said in the skit. (Fox News)

The Paterson bit was a running gag, throughout the show, that had him, blundering around in the background during the SNL news skit. It was fun stuff, and the kind of thing that an Elected Tormentor should expect. Obviously, Paterson - and his minions - didn’t get the memo on that element of political life.

"The governor engages in humor all the time, and he can certainly take a joke. However, this particular Saturday Night Live skit unfortunately chose to ridicule people with physical disabilities and imply that disabled people are incapable of having jobs with serious responsibilities. The governor is sure that Saturday Night Live with all of its talent can find a way to be funny without being offensive. Knowing the governor, he might even have some suggestions himself." (Paterson spokeshole, Errol Cockfield)

In other words, we think it's much funnier when you use Bush, Cheney, Palin and McCain for target practice.

For being so thin-skinned...for his failure to understand that, where political humor is concerned, everything about him is fair game...for trying to hide behind the ‘disability’ card, New York Governor David Paterson is the Politically Incorrect Gazette’s Girlieman of the Week.