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Carl Paladino, a western New York builder, one-time Republican candidate for governor of New York and political ally of President-elect Donald J. Trump, came under fire on Friday for racially offensive comments about President Obama and the first lady, who Mr. Paladino said should be “let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe.”

Mr. Paladino’s comments were published in Artvoice, a weekly Buffalo newspaper. They came in response to an open-ended feature in which local figures were asked about their hopes for 2017.

“Obama catches mad cow disease after being caught having relations with a Herford,” said Mr. Paladino, who ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2010, making an apparent reference to the Hereford cattle breed. He said he hoped the disease killed the president.

Asked what he most wanted to see “go away” in the new year, Mr. Paladino — who has a reputation in New York political and business circles for speaking in an unfiltered manner reminiscent of Mr. Trump’s — answered, “Michelle Obama.”

“I’d like her to return to being a male and let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe where she lives comfortably in a cave with Maxie, the gorilla,” he said.

Condemnation of the remarks was swift on social media and among elected officials around the state. The local county executive called for Mr. Paladino to immediately resign his post on the Buffalo school board.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat who defeated Mr. Paladino in 2010, called the comments “racist, ugly and reprehensible.” He said in a statement that Mr. Paladino had a “long history” of making similar comments and that he had “embarrassed the good people of the state with his latest hate-filled rage.”

Mr. Trump did not personally step to the defense of Mr. Paladino, who served as a New York co-chairman of the president-elect’s campaign and describes himself as a personal friend of Mr. Trump’s. “Carl’s comments are absolutely reprehensible, and they serve no place in our public discourse,” Jessica Ditto, a spokeswoman for Mr. Trump, said.

Mr. Paladino conducted several media interviews, framing his comments about the Obamas as “old-style humor” in an interview with a Buffalo television news station and as an effort to draw attention to the president’s “transgressions” in a telephone interview with The New York Times.

“I did it to wake people up; I did it to get people’s attention,” he said in the telephone interview. He pointed to a page-long statement, published after the comments were made, in which he outlined his grievances with the Obama administration. “He couldn’t care less about the people,” he said of the president in the statement.

In an interview with The Buffalo News, he berated editors there for focusing on what he had said.

“Tell that Rod Watson I made that comment just for him,” Mr. Paladino told the newspaper, in what the paper said was a reference to an editor and columnist for The News who is black.

Mr. Paladino, in the interview with The Times, said he was “not politically correct,” though he disputed the notion that his comments were racist. Asked why he wanted to see the first lady live with a gorilla in Africa, he paused for a long time, then said: “What’s wrong with that?”

An email and phone call to Artvoice were not immediately returned.

Mr. Paladino was not the only respondent to the Buffalo paper’s survey to infuse their hopes for the coming year with politics, though most kept clearer of controversy, offering wishes for world peace and for the disappearance of such things as high taxes and State Route 198.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/23/nyregi...obama.html?_r=0


Doesn't this just give you the warm and fuzzies right before Christmas? Where the hell did these people come from?

That is really tasteless.

Hi, Candy.

I may not be a national figure in America's media landscape, but I've more than once been interviewed, on a local scale...

I've expressed strong feelings about issues that are political, social, and personal- and never once have I ever felt compelled to issue statements as reprehensible as these. In other words: I've never lowered myself to such depths. My family (and my upbringing) would never forgive me for being so vile.

Please understand this fact about me: I was raised in the Christian Church Tradition by good people, who followed the precepts and principles of the Southern Baptist Faith. It's not in us to to issue statements such as these. MLK and my grandfather, Jiles Johnson were my mentors/examples, and they'd never never advocate hearing me verbally lash out on the same base level that this miscreant spoke.

But please be under no misconceptions about "People Like Us," when it comes to statements like these:

This is not the voice of God, speaking unto America.

When you hear this man's voice, you are listening to the voice of Satan, ministering to his flock- through one of his disciples.

God's adversaries seek to find their voice through the Language of Man... and Satan has found just such a voice- in this vile human being.

Politics be damned- this man represents the antithesis of what we are supposed to be about, as Americans, and as a species.

Be ye Democrat or Republican, Liberal or Conservative, Leftist or Rightist...

...a man such as this does not represent the views or values of a country that has dedicated itself to Godly principles.


I will fight people like this with my dying breath... because such a fight is worthy of my last breath on Earth.


What a reprehensible example of Human Life On Earth.


_________________


Personal note to all: If you are a Cleveland Browns fan, and you have shared time&space with me on these boards... if you fit these 2 criteria, and believe as this man does-

-there is no way that you and I could ever be friends.

It doesn't matter what party you assign yourselves to- you are NOT an American citizen who shares my values. At all.

I consider myself a pretty 'open' person. Open to new ideas, new ways of thinking.... but a philosophy that allows views such as this is antithetical to the teachings of Jesus, God, the Bible, every other major world religion ... and countless generations of Clems and Findlays who have come before me.

If you believe as this... 'person' does, well...
You're one of Life's azzh*les.

...and your words will never reach me.

______________

Mankind is supposed to be worth more that this.
God wanted better for His Children than this.

I'll try to reach His standards, even if this example of human-based effluent wont. But I will not remain silent when 'liquid slurries of crap' like him gain headlines.

America is supposed to be made of better stuff than he. If Good American People don't stand up to the likes of him, we risk becoming a nation comprised of the scum that he represents.

Not on my watch.
And I'm younger than he is.

The sewer, the bowels of a country boys septic tank, or maybe just the depths of hell?

What did he expect?

Hes just like trump..... Although, I hope not even Trump is this dumb to say it out loud. You can't stop people from thinking this way, but damn,, it's pretty sick

this thread is unsurprisingly empty.

The Government.

Elite K-8 school teaches white students they’re born racist

An elite Manhattan school is teaching white students as young as 6 that they’re born racist and should feel guilty benefiting from “white privilege,” while heaping praise and cupcakes on their black peers.

Administrators at the Bank Street School for Children on the Upper West Side claim it’s a novel approach to fighting discrimination, and that several other private New York schools are doing it, but even liberal parents aren’t buying it.

They complain the K-8 school of 430 kids is separating whites in classes where they’re made to feel awful about their “whiteness,” and all the “kids of color” in other rooms where they’re taught to feel proud about their race and are rewarded with treats and other privileges.

“Ever since Ferguson, the school has been increasing anti-white propaganda in its curriculum,” said a parent who requested anonymity because he has children currently enrolled in the school.

http://nypost.com/2016/07/01/elite-k-8-school-teaches-white-students-theyre-born-racist/

Eh.. I disagree, he's not just like Trump.. but HE thinks he is. He saw that Trump had success being impolitic, un-PC, and loud and at times obnoxious.

This guy is trying to be a copycat. Thing is, Trump was very specific about what and how and why he said certain things. Most of the outrageous stuff Trump said on the campaign trail was often dialed back and folded in to some sort of policy talk... immigration, terrorism, etc.

This guy thinks he can just say the most asinine things and it'll get him where he needs to go.

Ain't happenin

Right now politically people on the Left are still trying to figure out how Trump won. There's people on the other side that don't understand it either, although they think they do. Don't be surprised if we see other incidents of these idiots.

"It seems that Scum by any other name would smell as rancid."
-40

Democrats are unable to see that no one likes HRC and Bill's credibility took major hits during the 2000's. The writing was on the wall when Jeb lost the GOP. The American people do not want another family to control the White House.

Oh, she also had no plan for the American people.

But, Democrats are pretty stupid to begin with.

This happens more and more. I understand people that don't like being PC. I'm actually not a PC type person myself.

However, people think they can cover hate filled speech by claiming they aren't being PC. No, there's a difference. There's a difference between being a complete a$$hole and not being PC. I'm tired of seeing people use that as some excuse for pure hate.

What a revolting man. All I can say is...his life must be sad that he has to walk around with so much hateful venom.




Yet, they voted in the Trump's. Since day one his family, and in particular Ivanka, are more and more involved with the WH. She even sat in on a meeting with the Japanese PM, will apparently have an office in the East Wing and her husband is being tipped for some position.

I e not chimed in because it's just so disgusting I can't even begin to put into words my disappointment in humanity as a whole.

What's not surprising in this thread is 40 chiming in, not with words of shouting down such foul rhetoric, but with an article that has nothing to do with the conversation being had. One that only fans the flames. 40, keeping it classy as usual.

Racism is Racism and it matters not who is pointing the finger.


"It seems that Scum by any other name would smell as rancid."
-40

The Trumps who have never? held office since they immigrated as the Drumpfs... Sure they've all been heavily involved in politics since forever. You have to be, to be a good business man. But the perception is, he's outside the oligarchy sphere that is the Bush, Clinton, Kennedy, etc., etc.

I agree... Ridiculous....

What a frickin' idiot. Did he actually think anyone with gray matter would support these statements or find them amusing?

As Glenn Beck would say, a waste of skin. I would add, a waste of good oxygen that could've gone to someone else.

I can't think (off the top of my head) of a thing the President has done that I agree with (there may be something), but to talk about a person, let alone a persons wife like this is beyond-beyond.

Drexel professor draws ire after posting 'White Genocide' tweet on Christmas

A professor from Drexel University in Philadelphia is likely in hot water after professing on twitter that all he wanted for Christmas was “white genocide.”

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/12/26/dre...-christmas.html

Feel free to start a thread on that topic 40.

Is this thread not about racist comments made by important people?

No

It's racists comments made by a well known individual directed to Michelle Obama and the POTUS. If you want a thread on your topic, go ahead.

Oh, ok then.

However, like I said. You are 100% entitled to make a thread discussing what you want to.

Well I thank you for that permission, indeed.

Lol. You can't open a door like that and only allow entry to guests that meet your strict criteria.

Dude's son, who took over the business, called his dad out recently about those comments.

Whether or not that was just to try to save face for the company, who knows.

But on the surface, it's good to know the family isnt completely filled with racist jackasses.

Why?

Is it because conservatives can't derail threads on a forum that is 75% conservative?

If 40 wants to start a thread on the struggles facing white males in this country, I'm not gonna stop him.

Well now, that's not exactly what's going on here, is it? It's more like the first sentence of the first post identifies a racist as a republican and an ally of Trump, and now you don't want any republicans or Trump supporters pointing out that the behavior isn't unique to them.

But it is unique. I don't think Obama is on a first name basis with the Drexel professor. If you ignore the power dynamics between the two, then yeah they're kinda similar. But then you would also have to be willfully ignorant.

Well, he could have mentioned Jeremiah Wright I guess....but that would be deemed blasphemy. I'm bowing out, I'm not really comfortable defending Trump and 40.

Jfan,

I don't lump guys like you, DC, Arch, Ytown, and a few others together with people like 40.

Yes, those White people are welcomed to speak.

When I say he's just like trump, I mean pretty much what you were saying. he thinks this is the way to get noticed. It worked for Trump but as bad as Trump is, he NEVER went quite this far.. I'd like to think that if he had, he wouldn't have won the election. At least I want to believe that.. but, who the hell knows.

Actually... yeah, I bet he did, don't fool yourself.

there's quite a few people around social media that agrees with his comments.

and of course, they are part of the voting block that supports Trump. not surprising...

I'll say this:



The 48 Laws of Power

Law 36: Disdain things you cannot have --- ignoring them is the best revenge!

Racism only exist because those who believe they are discriminated against give it power.

If Blacks would simply disdain racism as something that simply does not exist, and simply ignore every single thing they saw as racist, racism would have no power, and it would die off in a few decades.

It only exists because guys like Sharpton and such on the Black side keep it stoked hot, and you got morons like this guy also fanning the flames.

Disdain racism as something that simply does not exist...it can't exist unless you allow it to exist...you get a whole bunch of "yous" that disdain racism and it no longer exists at all in a few decades.

Why get yourself worked up over something that is out of your hands? Enjoy life and disdain racism..if it doesn't exist in your mind, it can't have any effect on you.

This Paladino guy is a moron and the news shouldn't be giving him any press time to spout his nonsense.

The Jews should have just ignored the Nazis and the Holocaust would have never happened.

This has to be the biggest slap in the face on this board....for the month.

hey CHS, if blacks would've just ignored racism, then none of us would've been hanging from trees!!!