Tea Parties? Racism? No Way!
The Tea Party-endorsed Republican gubernatorial candidate for New York, Carl Paladino, has been sending out emails that you will not freaking believe.
WNYmedia.net has an exposé of Paladino’s work, and be aware — it’s not work-safe. It’s actually not even human-safe, and I mean that literally. NY Gubernatorial Candidate Carl Paladino’s Racist and Sexist Email History.
(If that link won’t load due to high traffic, here’s Google’s cached version.)
Here’s a screenshot of a video he forwarded (now deleted from YouTube for terms of use violation), titled “Obama Inauguration Ceremony,” which was posted at the neo-Nazi site Stormfront (the link goes to a Google search page).
(Hat tip: Balloon Juice, whose DougJ also reports that Paladino is not exactly a fringe candidate.)
TPM has a statement from Paladino’s campaign manager:
Paladino’s campaign manager, Michael Caputo, would not comment on specific emails, but acknowledged to TPMmuckraker that Paladino had sent emails that were “off-color” and “politically incorrect,” saying that few such emails represented the candidate’s own opinion. Caputo accused Democrats of wanting to change the subject from substantive issues to “having sex with horses.”
Oh brother.
Frank says: