Carl Paladino, the Tea Party–supported candidate for N.Y. governor, sent e-mails to party supporters filled with graphic racist images, hard-core bestiality and pornography, according to an online news outlet.
Paladino, a wealthy Buffalo real estate developer, launched his long shot bid for governor last week, after aligning himself with Tea Party movement leaders in the state. Paladino is extremely conservative and is opposed to abortion rights and same-sex marriage.
But it will be the nature of the e-mail he sent to businessmen and political cronies that will earn Paladino at least a moment of media attention in this election.
The e-mails, revealed by WNY media.net, represent the worst the Internet has to offer in racist and pornographic attempts at humor, some of which are directed at President Barack Obama.
In one 2008 e-mail, titled "Obama Inauguration Rehearsal," a video of African tribesmen perform a dance.
In a 2009 e-mail, a picture of a women having sex with a horse is titled, "Easy Steady Big Fella...XXXX."
Another 2009 photograph shows President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama (see below) attending a formal White House event dressed as a pimp and prostitute.
For the record, Paladino has denied being a racist and said he didn't originate any of the e-mails but was careless in forwarding them on to associates.
Paladino first raised eyebrows with New Yorkers by saying the health care reform package passed by Congress would kill more people than the 2001 terrorist attacks on 9/11.
This isn' t the first time the Tea Party, a conservative outgrowth of the Republican party, has been associated with openly racist behavior.
During the heated debate over health care reform championed by President Obama, members of the Tea Party spit and hurled racist and anti-gay slurs at black and openly gay members of Congress at a Capitol Hill rally.
While the disclosure of the smutty racist e-mails is shocking, at least it might represent a final nail in the Tea Party political movement. Of course, Tea Party supporters will claim the e-mails are just the work of one candidate and don't represent the thinking of the entire Tea Party leadership.
But anyone with even half a brain knows better.
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By: sheila on 4/14/2010 12:50AM
Why would you even report something like this?
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By: KW on 4/14/2010 4:10AM
I have never seen anyone person or group attack a sitting President as much as the Republicans and Tea Party candidates have done Michelle and President Barack Obama. It is always good to put racist and sexist public leaders on blast for being the bigots they really are! Good job, BV!
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By: altha cutright on 10/10/2010 11:26PM
If Obama sit back and let those jealous, morons say thing about him and his wife and he say nothing then so be it.
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By: ooozzzzz on 4/14/2010 8:46AM
I just love this!
Since the election of President Obama, the Republicans and far right wing conservatives have been spinning in place trying to find some formula that will work for them in order to upstage Obama & regain back power and control. Despite all their lies, claims, schemes and critiques of Obama & the Dems, that's their end goal and right now it's looks like a circus.
And along the way since the Repubs never had a plan, a message, an agenda (all they know how to do is say no and filibuster) or someone to lead the party, these new Tea party idiots like Carl Paladino to go along with the other current fools, the tea bag protestors, Palin, Steele, militia groups etc are continuning to come out of the wood work thinking that they have a chance to offer some leadership and revelance to the Republican Party since they can't seem to offer anything revelent help the people of America & Democrats work to dig this country out of this massive economic hole that they helped Bush/Chaney put us in.
You notice that the D.C. Repubs politican won't claim or acknowledge the Tea Party or militia groups as supporters out in public for all to see but behind the scenes, will rally with them for their support and donations. They use the term "outside fringe groups" or "upstart" as they try to distance themselves. They're not fooling anybody. They're all Repubicans and are all in bed together.
Fools like this idiot and the rest of these crazies? Let them have the microphone. Give them all the media and air time that they want because all it does is mke them look stupid everyday nd further weakens the Republican's chances of winning in November.
The Republicans are stuck with only have one course of action: the support of the far right White wing conservatives that will only vote for them. It won't be enough.
They are so racist, ig'nant and stubbon that they have eliminated any and all Repubs who are in the center, moderate and have scared off Independents. They don't want Blacks, Hispanics, Asians or any other ethnic group for voter support since they can't recruit any of these people (Steele tried but they stopped him from trying) so they re stuck with only these far right wing White idiots who run around and just keep talking, doing and saying the stupidest things.
Media, give them all the opportunity & time they need to keep putting their foot in the mouths and their heads up their azzes.
As the saying goes: Some people think that people are laughing with them when they are actually laughing at them.
Morons like Carl Paladino, the Tea Party, militia groups, Sarah Palin and Miss Gov Haley Barbour?Please don't stop! Keep it up and watch the Republican shock on their faces (the same one they had when their world changed: the night Obama won) once again in November!
Oh by the way, for Republicans. Can any of you here explain why the militia groups are out in the wood, valleys and mountains all over America playing soldier; conducting military style training and tactics with regular civilians with either some young, freckle faced, incomptent, only 3 years in military service Army/Marine private training them or some middle aged, big gut, out of shape, seasonal deer/turkey/squirrel hunter who thinks that he knows what's he doing?
These people don't have the balls or guts to sign up in the military and go fight in Iraq or Afghanstan war but they can buy up all the gun and ammo, run around with those guns and bullets and play toy soldier in the woods all day?
What is that all about? Who are they trying to scare?
Exactly who, what, when and why are they training for? Somebody please enlighten me.
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By: Sedated on 4/14/2010 9:26AM
Your comments are no less bigoted than anyone else has shown. Take a look. You have lumped not only all Republicans, but all white people into a single group of evil beings. "people who live in glass houses..." remember the rest? I will agree with a few points that you raise. Our secret societies, our citizen militia, even a majority of our police forces are manned by a bunch of beer swilling pot bellied idiots. It's the groups that you don't see, you don't hear about, that you should be worried about. Those fat losers are out there as media bait, and the media continues to gobble it up.
People of all races,colors, and creeds are busy buying up firearms and ammo, because they are afraid of Obama re writing the Constitution with his band of bullies in Washington. Once we lose the right to keep and bear arms, it will be nearly impossible to get that right re enacted. Then the people that you really don't want having guns will be the majority ownership.
This can go on and on, but I will end it by saying that this Carl Palodino is too stupid, even to be a politician. His actions should prove his ineptness and should result in his dismissal. While I am at it, as a previous poster has asked, why was this even posted as a valid article, if not only to inflame an already sensitive wound?
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By: Princess Iris on 9/02/2010 9:59PM
U'r reply to this article definitely hit it on the nail, cuz all these Right Winged Conservatives want to do is bad mouth everybody & give speeches, which make a person like myself want to shoot a cannon up their ass, instead of focusing on business, which is what they intend to do for the country & it's people. They don't mention any ideas of how to improve the economy, how they're gonna create jobs, etc. Right Wingers are all talk & no action. Look what happened for 8 yrs. when them Republicans were in the White House. Before Bush got in office, look at what this country had. During his term, I was saying, God help the person who has to get in there to clean up his mess. When it came to the Democrat Primaries in 2008, I was undecided on which way to go & said, "Well hey, there's gonna be so much mess to clean up, it will take both of them to do it. Both Obama & Hillary would have to be President to clean up the whole damn mess." And u know what, it most likely does. Obama has done everything he could to put this nation back together & the only reason not much shows is the country is so messed up & out of order, it will take years to even get it back to normal. In addition, there are still Conservative Wetbacks in the Senate for him to go thru, before anything can get done. We're having the same issue here in the State of Kentucky. Gov. BeShear has put out every proposal on the table to being jobs to this struggling state & all right winged conservatives like David Williams wants to do is shoot it down. This David Williams shot every idea to improve living standards for people in this state to the point where Kentucky is being bought down & back to what it once was. What it was before Democrat politicians worked hard to bring this state up & now Bush & Fletcher get in there just to get it back to the Jobless state it once was. That's a Right Winged Conservative Politician for this country & all they care about is their Pro-white conservative agenda, cuz I've been there & mentioned, "How about improving the economy & bringing jobs here?" That's when voters say, "Well, jobs & economic growth being a lot of problems we don't want." I ask them, "What's that?" They're like, "Our hick town is starting to look like Africa." I can say, "That tells me a lot then." These Right Winged Conservatives claim to not be racist, but we can see right thru them.
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By: putbridbreath on 4/14/2010 9:16AM
This right-wing tea party trash is DISGUSTING. These anti-American twits have entirely too much time on their hands.
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By: Micah on 4/14/2010 3:40PM
It's funny that you would call people who are right-wing anit-American. When our military is mostly "right-wing" and the left-wingers are constantly trying to change the constitution. Sure, the right-wingers are the anti-American ones...you clueless people need to wake up, stop following mainstream media, and believing everything that you hear.
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By: ooozzzzz on 4/14/2010 10:43AM
Sedated, and yout point is what? That people like
Carl Palodino is a ruse? A set up? A deflection used to sway people away from the "really effective people" in the Republican people?
Your quote: "It's the groups that you don't see, you don't hear about, that you should be worried about".
Well Sedated, exactly who are those people behind the scenes that others need to worry about? The Republican politicans in D.C.? Big money CEO's, investors and lobbyists from major corporations? The pipe smoking, wine swilling, caviar eating Wall Street types? All these and other "shadow people" who are working the levers and pushing the buttons in the background, like the Wizard of Oz behind the scenes, who push idiots like Palin, Barbour, Steele, Tea Partiers, militia groups and this Palodino guy out front, center stage in order to fake a frontal assault and on the edges out flank everybody?
Please tell me and the uninformed who they really are? Why hide their identities?
This is no different than the bait-in-switch done by Republican Senator Mitch McConnell from Kentucky who went to Wall Street yesterday, had a corporate meeting and sucked up to the big banks and Wall Street fat cats, offering them his support and then returning around the same day, went back at the Senate, stood up and and said that we have to stop the finance reform & new rules that's being proposed by the Dems for Wall Street.
In other words, another collective "party of no" vote by the Republicans.
Sedated, that being a hyprocrite.
I guess for us uninformed here, Senator McConnell and all the D.C. Repubs politicans are all ruses & deflectors who are being controlled by those real Republicans, "the people that we don't see or hear about" that you mentioned?
Support big banks with bailout money is not something that the Dems, Repubs or any taxpayer wanted to do, it was a unnecessary evil but overall necessary because in the panic & worry of this beginning recession. Just like when 9-11 happened, everyone was confused, scared to death and all jumped on board because everyone knew that this was a major disaster. Bush dropped the security ball and avoided detailed CIA/FBI data and info about Bin Laden from the previous adminstration.
On the front end under Bush, 9-11 happened. In the middle, he lied, took us to war in Iraq and killed milllions. And on the back end, Bush screwed the economy and the American people.
And in the end, he got a pair of Iraqui shoes thrown at him. A President for the history books!!
They knew that our last idiot President Bush f'up big time and the economy was about to fall off the cliff. Now, after 14 short months, the economy is slowly recovering (and yes it will take time), now it's time for the Repubs to play politics once again.
They lost the fight with Heath Care Reform, now the old stragety as new again: the politics of fear once again.
Sedated, just admit it. This is all about only one thing: regaining power and control in Washington and the use of all these ruses, tactics, "the people that you can't see ot hear" and the scare tactics are all about regaining what the Repubs have lost after 8 years of failure and it's back to business as usual: supporting the rich with tax cuts, jobs moving oveseas, lining their pockets with lobbyist money and spending trillions of taxpayers dollars with no regard for helping the average American citizen, eventhought they are using the average Republican citizen "Joe & Jane" to stand out front, protest and rally their causes all across the country while they sit back in the plush mansions or cruising the seas on their mega-yachts, swilling wine, smoking stogies, sun tanning, checking on their huge investments and laughing at all the poor, dumb azzes out standing in the cold and heat, hating everyday on President Obama.
Your quote: "Your comments are no less bigoted than anyone else has shown. Take a look. You have lumped not only all Republicans, but all white people into a single group of evil beings"
I am not lunping all White people together, I am only talking about hard core, right wing White Republicans which constitute 99.99% of the Party. They have a sprinkle of pepper here and there of other races but White Republicans are all they have to work with since they refused to engage or accept other races.
Why aren't Repubs recruiting and holding rallies and meetings in the Black neighborhoods? Asian neighborhoods? Hispanic neighborhoods? Indian neighborhoods? Native American neighborhoods?
Why are White Republicans only considered "We The American People" "Americn people" or "true Americans" each and every time that term is mentioned by Republicans?
I am not being bigoted. I am calling it as I see it and with the Republican analogy, Democratic & Indepedent Whites that don't agree with the Republican agenda and it's politics are shunned, pushed aside and critiqued as well and they constitute a large majority of White Americans who don't buy the Republican agenda and talking points.
And IMO, this post is valid because it shows the true colors of many Republicans, their hyprocritical political nature and sheer desperation that they have when their backs are against the wall.
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By: TERRY on 4/14/2010 11:18AM
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