“I can take a joke,” Paterson told reporters.

Your response to this would suggest otherwise.

Are you calling Palin's bimbo-ness a disability?

Yes, it is clear that the fact she is a bimbo was a disability.

Most of the conservatives who abandoned McCain's candidacy did so because of Palin. It was precisely Palin's weakness on the basic facts of governance, history, and geography (ie. her bimbo-ness) that offended them.

Had she not been a bimbo she would have strengthened the ticket because she is hot and likes to shoot guns. Conservatives like hot chicks and guns; but many of them also don't like nimrods. In Palin's case, the prejudice against bimbos outweighed her gun-totin' hotness.

Like Patterson's blindness, the whole "hockey mom" "Joe Sixpack" moron persona is a fundamental part of Palin's makeup.

Her essential bimboness was the main platform that she was running on.

And people rejected her for it.

Had she actually been conversant with the policy problems facing the country, she could have had a chance. Instead her disability caused her and McCain to tank.

Actually this is sort of a cultural point that was raised a few years back in a study on international brands of humor. Americans tend to make fun of stupidity, the Brits enjoy wordplay, etc. I think the problem here was that SNL equated blindness with stupidity.

I don't think I'm particularly PC, especially in private, and some of the stock blind jokes still amused me (the upside down employment growth). But again, he's an unprepared freak because he's blind? Perhaps I don't know enough about Paterson - if he's acted completely incompetently, then maybe it was all fair. Or more likely, I'm just analyzing all this too much.

Gov. Paterson didn’t see the humor in a “Saturday Night Live” bit that mocked his blindness.

Uh, what am I missing here? How does a blind person get offended by something they "see" on TV? Sounds like an oxymoron to me.

The PC polie had no problem letting SNL parody Sarah Palin for being a bimbo. But now they are up in arms over Patterson's own disability.

In each case, they were just dealing with the reality of the people they were portraying.

Watch opening sketch. Fast forward if not funny.

Watch opening monologue. Fast forward if not funny.

Fast forward until arriving at political sketch or Weekend Update.

Delete episode.

I watched more than usual last night because Laurie was on. Big Mistake. The writing absolutely blows.