Paladino: I'm Owed Apology over Anti-Gay Remarks

[TomCADem]

Source: CBS News

New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino ignited a firestorm Sunday, telling Orthodox Jewish leaders that he doesn't want children "brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality" is acceptable. But the would-be governor thinks he's the one who is owed an apology after the media reported on comments he never actually uttered.

Paladino, who has received strong support from conservative-libertarian "tea party" activists, spoke at a synagogue in Brooklyn's Williamsburg section while trying to strike a contrast between himself and his Democratic rival, state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.

In his remarks, he criticized Cuomo for marching in this summer's gay pride parade, saying "that's not how God created us and that's not the example that we should be showing our children."

He added that children who later in life choose to marry people of the opposite sex and raise families would be "much better off and much more successful."


Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/10/11/earlyshow/main6946736.shtml

[sharp_stick]

1. I can't believe there is now

someone I'd like to slap the shit out of more than Sean Hannity but here we are.

This guy is a fucking loon, I can't wait until November 3'rd just so he can crawl back under his rock and we won't have to listen to his idiocy anymore.

[Roland99]

2. What is in the political water this cycle?

[HillbillyBob]

6. Ersatz konservatives have been drinkin the drizzlin koolaide/piss

the corpses have been pushin for 30 yrs and this is what you get when a bunch of fools follow a series of cult figures instead of science,reality and real news.

[polmaven]

8. Tea!

n/t

[joeybee12]

3. How ironic, he shows up at synagogue and doesn't know the meaning of chutzpah..

what a major, major POS.

[CanonRay]

4. Play the victim

after being an asshole. The new GOP strategy.

[LongTomH]

5. Waiting for an apology?

Don't hold your breath, asshole! :grr:

[xchrom]

7. oh no -- i want him to hold his breath.

for a really, really long ass time. like as in for ever.

[TomCADem]

16. I Understand That He Changed His Mind And Apologized

...though it was a bit mealy mouthed...

[SOS]

9. Carl Paladino is disgusting.

There. I said it.

Now I await my apology from Carl Paladino.

[madinmaryland]

10. Mr. Paladino: This is all that you are owed...

[krispos42]

17. Here's one with better color

:hi:

[Matariki]

11. I'm with Rachael Maddow on this guy -

he's a performance artist. Bet he keeps pushing the envelope right until the elections.

[Shallah Kali]

12. Anti-Gay Rabbi Handling Carl Paladino’s Visits to Synagogues

http://barthsnotes.wordpress.com/2010/10/12/anti-gay-rabbi-handling-carl-paladinos-visits-to-synagogues/

Levin’s vicious monomania on homosexuality rivals that of Fred Phelps: in 1997 he urged http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/5700/edition_id/106/format/html/displaystory.html a boycott of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, because the museum had dared to mention homosexual victims of the Nazis, and in 2005 (as the Times notes) he described a gay rights march in Jerusalem as the “spiritual rape” of the Holy Land. In 2006, his invective against gays in Jerusalem included an apparent threat of violence. As was reported: http://www.inthemix.com.au/news/intl/29120/Jerusalem_pot_activists_preach_for_peace

Much more ominously for Jerusalem, thousands of orthodox jews protested this week about the Supreme Court’s decision to allow Gay Pride to go ahead on November 11

…”I promise there’s going to be bloodshed, not just on that day, but for months afterwards,” New York rabbi, Yehuda Levin of the Rabbinical Alliance of America said in July at a joint meeting of Muslim, Jewish and Christian clerics, “In America, we are outraged and disgusted over this event.”

I blogged on this at the time http://barthsnotes.wordpress.com/2006/08/10/rabbi-tells-us-christians-not-to-%E2%80%9Cturn-the-other-cheek%E2%80%9D-over-jerusalem-gay-protest/ . So, Paladino doesn’t want “to hurt homosexual people in any way”, yet he’ll take advice on what to say on the subject from someone shows no interest in making such a distinction.

[blogslut]

13. OK, Mr. Paladino

I'm sorry that you're a slimy, racist, homophobic shitheel.

How's that?

[gort]

14. Dear Mr Paladino. I am sorry.

I am sorry that you are a racist, sexist, homophobic bigot. There, feel better now?

[Rex]

15. Well way to go smart guy! You just showed everyone that you will

lie about something you believe was taken out of context! Are you really that stupid? Who was brainwashed again? That Karl Rove Kool-aid still tasting great?