NY Gubernatorial Candidate Forwards Racist, Pornographic E-mails (Potentially NWS)

You just can't make this stuff up, folks.

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It’s been written countless times that Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino is something of a walking contradiction. But let’s take him at his word that the tragic death of his son Patrick in 2009 caused him to re-assess his life, his past, and his values...

Paladino purports to be the values candidate, but what will values voters say when they discover that he enjoys sending hardcore pornographic and racist emails around town?

I don't know. What would they say?

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Some of the emails and associated content are provided after the jump, since they’re dramatically unsafe for work. Frankly, a few are unsafe for anywhere.

1. In December 2008, Paladino forwarded a message entitled “Obama Inauguration Rehearsal” including a video clip showing African tribesmen dancing in a village.

2. January 6, 2009, Paladino sent this email around to his elite email list, and titled it, “Proof the Irish discovered Africa”: [Imbedded image of chimps standing in a line]

3. Here’s an email marked as “XX” that Paladino annotated as “a keeper” to his recipients. It contained a 3MB .wmv video entitled “Miss France 2008 fucking”.

4. Here’s a cute email from October 4, 2009, which portrays President Obama and the First Lady dressed in 70s pimp/prostitute/blaxploitation garb...

8. Lastly, the most disturbing one of all. Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino sent around a bestiality video. Seriously.

I mean...the racist humor is one thing (it's not funny, but comparatively speaking it's mild). But this guy forwarded a video of a woman having sex with a horse. Who the hell forwards that? Who would admit to even receiving it in the first place?

Now, the first response to this was "everyone does it", delivered by his campaign manager.

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Carl Paladino has forwarded close friends hundreds of email messages he received. Many of these emails he received were off color, some were politically incorrect, few represented his own opinion, and almost none of them were worth remembering.

I'm sorry...but if you can't remember fowarding beastiality porn, you're either lying or have the memory of a goldfish.

Then they accused Democrats of "hacking" his e-mail to smear him.

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On the heels of GOP gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino’s claim that someone “hacked” his computer, stole hundreds of sexually and racially explicit e-mails and released them to the media comes a charge by the candidate’s spokesman that presumptive Democratic gubernatorial nominee AG Andrew Cuomo is behind the leak.

"I did it, yes. But it's their fault for telling you I did it!."

And finally, there's the candidate himself.

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To any of the ladies I’ve offended, I apologize. I say this to the men out there who have never opened a graphic image on the Internet: Don’t vote for me. For those who have, I welcome your vote.

Absolutely mind-boggling, ain't it?

Spotts1701 wrote:

I mean...the racist humor is one thing (it's not funny, but comparatively speaking it's mild).

Um, actually, that'd be the thing that would influence my vote. If he gets his jollies from bestiality porn but is otherwise OK, it wouldn't bother me so much. The racism is inexcusable in a leader.

Ah, the hacking defence. I love the way that politicians don't seem to understand how computers work and believe they can be magically hacked by any old liberal evildoer.

Oh, noes, I got caught! Quick, blame my opponent!

Why are you laughing? It's not my fault I forwarded all those e-mails! Those damned liberals made me do it! I have values! And some of my best friends are black people and women and horses!

Good to hear bistromath007 did something with his life.

I am both surprised and disappointed that certain people haven't rushed in to defend him.

"Whiny libtards, how dare you point out when someone from my party does something incredibly stupid and worthy of being ridiculed!?"

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To any of the ladies I’ve offended, I apologize. I say this to the men out there who have never opened a graphic image on the Internet: Don’t vote for me. For those who have, I welcome your vote.

Well, this is the first candidate I've seen who openly appeals to the bestiality-porn viewer demographic of his constituency. Points for (insanity-and-horse-dong-fueled) originality, I guess?

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I say this to the men out there who have never opened a graphic image on the Internet

Ah, appealing to the ten-and-under demographic. Wise move.

DarthDarthington wrote:

I am both surprised and disappointed that certain people haven't rushed in to defend him.

"Whiny libtards, how dare you point out when someone from my party does something incredibly stupid and worthy of being ridiculed!?"

I think the horse-fucking video really crossed a line for the knee-jerk defensive portion of the party.

*revives dead thread*

He just won the Republican nomination for Governor.

This should be fun...

Considering the state of the GOP these days, I wouldn't be surprised if he actually WAS the best Republican to choose out of the lot