The Crowbar

Meet upstate NY (read: geographically conservative area) Gubernatorial Candidate Carl Paladino. He’s a disgusting racist sexist political opportunist who is attaching himself like a leech to whichever party happens to be popular.

The folks at WNYmedia obtained extremely damning emails sent & forwarded by Paladino. Their report is not for the faint of heart.

So, when you have a smarmy narcissist who claims to be a Tea Party kinda guy and he gets caught doing what smarmy narcissists do, how does the depraved liberal blogsphere respond? A: It gets giddy with glee.

Think Progress:

One of the newest heroes of the Tea Party movement is “outspoken” Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino, a multimillionaire who has railed against “liberal elites.” Earlier this month, he officially declared his Republican candidacy for New York’s gubernatorial race. However, WNYMedia.net reveals that Paladino has “regularly forwarded pornography and racially degrading material to friends on the Internet.”

Charles the Cowardly King of Little Green Footballs:

The Tea Party-endorsed Republican gubernatorial candidate for New York, Carl Paladino, has been sending out emails that you will not freaking believe.

WNYmedia.net has an exposé of Paladino’s work, and be aware — it’s not work-safe. It’s actually not even human-safe, and I mean that literally. NY Gubernatorial Candidate Carl Paladino’s Racist and Sexist Email History.

Daily Kos:

NY-Gov: Bestiality, porn and racism from the tea party candidate

Of course there’s something else that [Paladino] brings to the table … his habit of “sending hardcore pornographic and racist emails around town.” They include:

But, even the New York Times – the paper that never misses an opportunity to slander the Tea Party – does NOT mention the Tea Party connection to Paladino.

Gosh, could it be because Paladino is a FORMER DEMOCRAT? NYT:

He is running against Rick Lazio, a former congressman, and Steve Levy, the Suffolk County executive and, like Mr. Paladino, a Democrat who switched to the Republican Party.

So Paladino was a racist sexist narcissistic Democrat before he switched parties out of political opportunism. No wonder the NYT didn’t bite!

Yes, this means that the sleazy lefty blogs really ARE shamelessly attempting to smear the Tea Party, which is really a slightly-right-of-centrist movement that threatens liberal-progressivism to the core.

The obnoxious freedom-hating lefty blogsphere must be exposed for what it is.

ThingProgress people like Ian Millhiser love to fan the flames when it comes to race conversation in US politics. Further, Millhiser and the TP Team would love to have false villain to distract from Sotomayor’s hard-left resume. Has Jeff Sessions made mistakes in his political career? Yes, but the TP Team would have you believe ridiculous things like Sessions is on some “lifelong crusade against civil rights.” That’s just preposterous.

Why does Millhiser think Sessions is so villainous?

Sessions has focused his attacks on Sotomayor’s past service on the board of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (PRLDEF), a leading civil rights organization that Sessions calls “extreme” because it “brought several race discrimination lawsuits for minorities” while Sotomayor sat on its board.

Millhiser wishes accusations of extremism were “absurd,” but the truth is that PRLDEF has taken some pretty extremist views, one example:

In 1989, PRLDEF signed on to a Supreme Court amicus brief in Ohio v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health that argued that an Ohio law that generally required (subject to a judicial-bypass exception) that one of the parents of a minor be notified before the minor underwent abortion was unconstitutional. In its own statement of its interest in the case, PRLDEF again declared that it “opposes any efforts to overturn or in any way restrict the rights recognized in Roe v. Wade.” The two dozen or so other signatories on the brief included an abortion clinic, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, various other feminist groups, and the World Workers Party. The Supreme Court rejected PRLDEF’s position by a 6 to 3 vote, with the majority including Justice O’Connor and even Justice Stevens (who joined nearly all of the majority opinion and who concurred in the judgment).

The Supreme Court is the end of the line. Sotomayor’s connections with an extremist group are fair game. Millhiser and the TP Team would (and should) be all over a conservative nominee’s connection to an extremist group. Millhiser’s credibility is damaged by his pathetic assertions.

To most of the left, the only people who should have their civil rights protected is anyone who doesn’t have white skin. To lefties like Millhiser and the TP Team, white people don’t REALLY have civil rights, those rights were forfeited as reparations for America’s past racist sins. And, if someone who has white skin, like Sessions, investigates allegations of fraudulent voter registration (that happen to take place in a black community), then that person is automatically “crusading against civil rights.” What base thinking.

Instead, think how different the world would be if everyone were actually treated equally under the law, regardless of skin color or ethnicity. Sotomayor disgracefully opposes that world where blacks, whites, Asians, Latinos, etc. are respected as equals in society. Her judicial viewpoint would help ensure future generations are afflicted with victimhood psychology. Her nomination should be thusly opposed.