Were there no 15 - year - olds in the audience to at least guffaw at this? (jezebel.com)
Last night at the Empire State Pride Agenda's Fall Dinner for New York City's gay elite, keynote speaker Governor David Paterson thanked his embattled chief of staff, Charles O'Byrne, for attending the gala, adding that the former Jesuit priest «brought his own minstrel corps this evening,» to a round of guffaws from the dandyish crowd. (nymag.com)
The move was greeted with skeptical guffaws from some members of New York's institutional left, who charge Cuomo has been absent from efforts to bring Democrats to control in the state Senate, and from the National Republican Congressional Committee. (politico.com)