Gov. Paterson says he'd happily go on SNL to show he doesn't walk into walls

From The Daily Politics blog in the NY Daily News:

Gov. David Paterson (pictured) Jan. 13 brushed off his son's run-in with the NYPD, chalking the situation up to little more than teenage indiscretions and calling the fact the he was found with someone else's bank card a "non-issue".

The governor wasn't nearly as magnanimous about his skewering yet again at the hands of "Saturday Night Live" on which he has repeatedly been portrayed as a blind, bumbling New Jersey hater by Fred Armisen.

"By the way, I don’t bounce off walls," Paterson said. "…If 'Saturday Night Live' would like to have me on we could find out. Maybe I could bounce a few left hands off of them."

Employing a defense against SNL that he has used before, Paterson accused the show of being insensitive to disabled people and contributing to the fact that nearly 70 percent of blind and legally blind people nationwide are unemployed.

"These kind of insinuations that are made on 'Saturday Night Live', on the lower frequencies of society this is what stops small business owners or bosses from hiring people who would be a effective employees," the governor said.