Paladino scuffle with reporter 'Tony Soprano-like'

[sonomak]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/09/30/carl.paladino/

Paladino scuffle with reporter 'Tony Soprano-like'
By Ed Hornick, CNN

(CNN) -- A recent confrontation between New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino and a newspaper columnist illustrates the multimillionaire's brash and unpredictable nature, a political observer said.

"He's got to control himself," said Doug Muzzio, a professor of public policy at Baruch College in New York. "This guy wants to be the governor and is going to start beating up or having reporters hit? It's a Tony Soprano-like quality to it."

On Wednesday, Paladino got into a near-physical altercation with New York Post statehouse columnist Fred Dicker that was captured in an exclusive cell phone video by CNN affiliate YNN Albany. "You send another goon to my daughter's house and I'll take you out, buddy," Paladino said in an apparent reference to the the New York paper's coverage of a daughter Paladino had out of wedlock.

Muzzio, a New York political observer, said that Paladino should never have gone after Dicker using violent language because it "makes him sound like a thug."

[arbusto_baboso]

1. Paladino wishes.

If he tried that shit with any reporter who is a veteran, he'd get his fucking clock cleaned.

[chaska]

2. Hey, we elect boardroom criminals all the time. Why not...

a physically violent one. Welcome to the end of the empire.

Hello fascism, pleased to meet ya.

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[Bunny]

7. !

:spray:

:rofl:

[Renew Deal]

4. But he IS a thug.

:shrug:

[gratuitous]

5. Sounds like it's getting a mite warm in the kitchen

Did Paladino think nobody would delve into his past? Fuhgeddaboudit!

[ejpoeta]

6. well he is a thug. the guy's an asshole who couldn't care less about anyone

but himself. my neighbors with the signs and my family members are crazy if they think this guy does.