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Old Men Yelling at Each Other: The Carl Paladino Campaign is Awesome
Good times in New York State politics. Republican nutter Carl Paladino is making Buffalo proud this morning. The relevant quote being, to a reporter: "You send another goon to my daughter's house and I'll take you out, buddy!" (And this is the definition of stalking horse, for you young people who weren't around in the Boss Tweed days.) His other relevant quote being: "Has anybody asked Andrew Cuomo about his paramours?"
In the next installment, the stalking horse's head ends up in someone's bed.
Just wish Dicker would have decked him.
Video removed :(
Although the clip from it was a nice start to the Today Show this morning.
I will, however, continue my rant here that the suicide of the gay student from Rutgers was relegated to about 20 minutes in, after the rest of Today's Headlines, while the Phoebe Price etc. bully->suicide was the lead in for what felt like months.
Yes, the headlines using "Gay" bother me. It's about invasion of privacy and broadcasting of intimate moment. The fact that it was homosexual intimacy might be relevant if this were to be considered some sort of hate crime, but we don't know that yet. The Twitter comment "making out with a dude. Yay." seems ambiguous at best. So until more facts are known, I question whether this should be headlined as a "gay sex" story or just a "sex" story.
I love it. I thought this was going to be a colorful campaign, but I wasn't expecting mob threats before October even hits us.
To be fair, the Pheobe Price scandal was a much meatier story.
Meant as a reply to garge.
On Tuesday, the crazy-eyed photo in the NYT of Cuomo trying to affect a smile made me think that this gubernatorial race wasn't going to get any better. Wrong again.
Here's another copy of the yellingness.
I wonder why the Post isn't fawning all over Paladino. He's got vampire eyes, an Australopithecan world-view, and an abundance of white-hot rage. All he needs is a capo named "Rocco."
Apparently, he can't get himself elected with one phone call.