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Paterson Does Gymnastics, Mocks Everyone at Charity Dinner
4/20/09 at 10:20 AMComment 00Comment 00Comments
Governor Paterson may not have laughed when SNL made fun of his blindness, but he apparently has no qualms skewering other people's disabilities. At the LCA dinner on Saturday, an annual event held by the Albany press corp featuring humorous appearances by politicians, Paterson portrayed an extremely whiny version of the wheelchair-bound man from those TV ads criticizing health care budget cuts a couple of months ago — while also taking shots at Malcolm Smith, Sheldon Silver, and the Post's Fred ****er. Paterson ended the skit with a semi-successful cartwheel that, as Newsday reports, landed him "inches from the edge of the stage." Thanks to the Daily News' Elizabeth Benjamin, that moment, and the rest of the four-minute act, has been preserved for posterity. You'll laugh! You'll cry! You'll puzzle over the obscure inside-Albany references! See it all!


Paterson's LCA Response from Elizabeth Benjamin on Vimeo
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Paterson's Sight Gag [Daily Politics/NYDN]

By: Dan Amira

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30342904
Paterson's Blind Reversal?

By Victoria Cavaliere
NBCNewYork.com
updated 1 hour, 32 minutes ago


Gov. David Paterson has raised some eyebrows for a skit he performed over the weekend in which he skewers a political attack ad by impersonating a man in a wheelchair.

Earlier this year, Paterson, who is legally blind, slammed Saturday Night Live for making fun of his disability, calling it “third grade humor.”

But Paterson seemed to reverse his stance when he rolled out on stage at the Legislative Correspondents’ Association show in a wheelchair, dark glasses and oversized silver necklace.

His skit was aimed at an infamous TV ad that criticized him for proposed cuts to hospitals and healthcare.

"These are difficult economic times, Governor Paterson. I can't pay my bills. I can't put food on my table. I may lose my home. And the reason, Governor Paterson, is because of you. It's because you haven't given the state transparency!”

Paterson’s wheelchair assault also took aim at the media, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Leader Malcolm Smith.