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>>>Blind<< Federation takes aim at Disney for reviving Mr. MagooBY
>ROXANA HEGEMAN
>Associated Press Writer
>NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The National Federation of the >>Blind<< asked
>Disney on Wednesday to stop making a new Mr. Magoo movie,
>complaining that reviving the hapless, nearsighted cartoon
>>>character is an insult to the blind<<.
>The resolution, which was passed unanimously by 3,000 delegates to
>the group's convention, urges Disney to abandon production of the
>live-action comedy, set for Christmas release with Leslie Nielsen
>in the title role. It says the stereotype of Mr. Magoo is as
>offensive to the >>blind<< as Little Black Sambo and Amos 'n' Andy
>are to blacks. ``The Disney people have dragged Mr. Magoo back from
>richly deserved obscurity in the hope that Americans will think
>it's funny to watch an ill-tempered and incompetent >>blind<< man
>stumble into things and misunderstand his surroundings,'' said Marc
>Maurer, >>president<< of the organization.
>While the measure stops short of boycotting Disney products, it
>called on the 50,000 members of the nation's largest >>blind<<
>group to take ``whatever action appropriate'' to protest the return
>of Mr. Magoo. The federation is the second national organization to
>target Disney this year. The Southern Baptists last month urged
>their 15 million members to boycott Disney, calling the company's
>policies immoral and gay-friendly. Mr. Magoo, whose nearsighted
>wanderings took him to the threshold of tragedy, but never quite
>over it, first appeared in the 1949 cartoon ``Ragtime Bear.''
>With the cheerfully chuckling voice of Jim Backus, Magoo went on to
>appear in 39 theatrical shorts, 130 half-hour cartoons shows on
>>>>>NBC<< and CBS<<, and two hourlong shows: ``Mr. Magoo's
>Christmas Carol'' and ``Uncle Sam Magoo.''
>The character was retired 32 years ago, but Disney bought the
>rights in 1995.
>For many of the >>blind<< delegates, word of his return brought back
>painful childhood memories of classmates calling them Magoo when
>they stumbled or dropped something.
>``Mr. Magoo did a great deal of damage to my image of myself as a
>human being,'' said Marie Cobb of Baltimore.
>Barbara Pierce, of Oberlin, Ohio, said the cartoon kept her ``from
>trying to do new things or reach out to try to do more because I
>was so afraid I would miss a visual cue and behave like Mr. Magoo.''
>Ms. Pierce said it would be foolish for the >>blind<< federation to
>call for a boycott because their membership is too small to make a
>difference. But the group will probably contact theaters to urge
>them not to show the film.
>``If the Southern Baptists were not able to do much, what can we
>do?'' she said.

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assistant: Personally I thought that the Mr Magoo cartoons were hilarious.  It
never even crossed my mind that the show was making fun of the
blind.  I am afraid that the idea that we all have to be
politically correct at all times is going to kill the art of humor.
I mean we can no longer make fun of race, religion, national
origin, sexual orientation, handicap, hair color etc etc.  What is
next, no making fun of stupid people.  Then what will happen to
Americas Funniest Home Videos.
                            Jim
    I had a dislocated funny bone, <OUCH> but it's better now