mspurlin's Blog

I write that because i think it merits pointing out in light of THIS RECENT STORY where he criticized the recent cover of the New Yorker.

Now I don't want to get into whether or not the cover is racist of an accurate attempt at satire.  Personally I think most people that would not get this cover as satire, the people who actually believe Obama is a secret muslim or some sort of terrorist sympathizer do not regularly read the NEW YORKER.  But whatever.  Maybe I am wrong.  Maybe there is somebody somewhere with issues of NASCAR weekly and the NEW YORKER on the back of his toilet.  But I doubt it.

What surprises me about this whole thing is that the BLIND governor of New York is somehow able to evaluated whether or not images are appropriate.  I am sorry, but I just don't think he can. 

I know that he can see certain things through his right eye.  But looking at and evaluating images is not something he does on a regular basis.  Sorry, but he just does not have the visual library of images to determine whether or not this is funny or offensive imagery. 

So if the NAACP wants to condemn this, fine, most their members can actually see.  But the blind N.Y. Governor, come on, he needs to wait and let others discuss this because he does not have the ability to properly judge the impact of this imagery.