Here’s the best video I could find of Carl Paladino threatening the New York Post’s State Editor, Fred Dicker, saying he’ll “take out” Dicker if Dicker sends his “goons” again to take photos of Paldino’s ten-year-old daughter, who was fathered by Paladino when he had an extramarital affair. Dicker was asking Paladino to provide some proof of his allegation that Andrew Cuomo also had an extramarital affair. Here’s the Post story on the confrontation.
It’s not very smart to piss off the top reporter for the biggest conservative paper in the state, but Horse Cock Carl isn’t very smart.
TR
What. A fucking. Moron.
pharniel
ohh. now is this editor Shrill or is he still a Very Serious Person who is going to basically ruin carl’s life.
I’m hoping for both, because if there’s one thing the Teahaddists know, it’s how to eat thier own.
(edited to correct grammer and meme)
ChrisS
Who’s the goon that’s threatening Dicker and calling him a terrible journalist? Seems like damage control par excellence.
“What allegation? What threat? What about Nancy whoever?”
Seems like a typical right wing troll.
J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford
Wow, how bad is Rick Lazio that he lost to Paladino?
Chyron HR
Watch out, man. You cross Carl, you’ll wake up with a horse’s head in your bed. And I’m not talking about the part with the face and ears on it.
Kristine
Yanno, it’s just possible that some voters may see that as Paladino protecting his daughter. Anyone remember the story about Harry Truman threatening to punch out a critic who panned his daughter’s singing:
Some day I hope to meet you. When that happens you’ll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and perhaps a supporter below!
Granted, Harry wrote a letter, and came across as a bit less Goodfellas. But a dad defending his daughter, especially a little girl, could carry weight with some folks. Just sayin’
Linda Featheringill
Hee-hee. Pass the popcorn.
Manamongst
“…and Patterson too right? Kissed his butt? And Spitzer’s butt, and Pataki’s butt.”
Oh and Carl Paladino is a moron. He will fuck this up, he and about two other Teatards won’t make it to the finish. 50% jealousy from the right and another 50% moral clarity will sink half of them Izzy Santa style. This is a rebranding gone wild, and they have sold their soul to the stupid, their party is that 30 year old that still lives in their parents basement. They look up now and they realize they have absolutely no ideas. And they are panicing before our eyes.
burnspbesq
Given that this confrontation happened at the Sagamore, I’m surprised that Paladino’s people didn’t just chain some cinder blocks to the Post guy’s ankles and drop him into Lake George. That seems to be about their speed.
Where is Jimmy Breslin (New York’s Molly Ivins, and author of “The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight,” which is a very funny book if you haven’t read it) when we need him?
El Cid
O/T: I still can’t summon the will to see anything in detail about the fraud James O’Keefe trying to sexually harass or whatever the CNN reporter. Too fucking gross. But I do wish the incident inspires someone to beat the ever living shit out of him.
But I’m sure Bill Maher will have loudmouth Breitbart on next show to shout over every other guest and say how this shows how liberals are hypocrites, because, you know, it’s so great to have these non-liberal points of view.
beltane
It’s so tragic that John Gotti died before he had a chance to run for governor. He was a man who was ahead of his times. In today’s climate, he’d have no problem sitting at the very pinnacle of the national Republican party.
Face
You linked to “Horse cock Carl” and expect us at work to actually click on it? Are you mad?
El Cid
@beltane: The mob has a bit of self-respect. I don’t think your average mafioso would be associated with any TeaTards.
Fester Addams
@Chyron HR:
Well, I’d say you win the thread.
Benjamin Cisco
Chris Hansen should look this guy up, he seems kinda sketchy.
LittlePig
Watching New Yorkers tussle is such a treat. Much less passive-aggressive than our local Southern variety.
c u n d gulag
I’ll give old Fred credit. I’d have punched a few of those MFer’s right in the mouth.
Maybe “Horse Cock” Carl has a horses head ready for Fred’s bed. No, not THAT head!!!
Anya
The campaign reporters will be asking Paladino about what he meant by “take you out,” then he’ll say something about how Andrew Coumo is not man enough to face him and the whole thing will be about that. The fact that this sleazy lunatic won a primary, tells you that nothing he does will shock his supporters.
General Stuck
All I could think of watching that video was severed horse heads.
oops, cund beat me to it.
And the Horse He Rode In on
Fredric U. Dicker? Can this get better?
Dennis SGMM
I guess that we’re still waiting for the Golden Age of US Politics.
Maude
This morning, Fred Dicker said that Carl has a chance in the race. NY will be popcorn state if Carl wins.
El Cid
@Dennis SGMM: As is typical these days, Richard Hofstadter’s “Paranoid Style in American Politics” is used by the right as an instruction manual.
Kryptik
@Maude:
And that’ll show that there literally is nothing that can disqualify you from office as long as you’re a Republican, except perhaps insufficient belligerence.
Persia
@Kristine: Especially since she’s ten, and is thus pretty young to have cameras shoved in her face.
Trinity
@Chyron HR: F.T.W!
Jeff
@J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford: pretty fucking bad.
Lazio was just a fuckstick who was put up by the Wall street
clicque of the GOP to protect their precious bonuses.
ChrisS
@Persia:
That doesn’t absolve him of tossing around unsubstantiated rumors about his opponent (like it makes him unqualified for office).
Paladino says Cuomo had an extramarital affair with no proof, then when’s called on it, he changes the subject by complaining about the unsubstantiated accusations that the NY Post is stalking and harassing his bastard child.
Paladino is a douche and the Post is going to town on him.
Kristine
@Persia: And as long as he hasn’t been using her as a campaign prop to this point, which it doesn’t appear that he has.
I read yesterday that he has a gender gap problem–Thank You, Women of New York–which I hope spreads farther come election day.
handsmile
Another media victory for the Horse Porn and Racism candidate!
The question of whether Andrew Cuomo had extramarital affairs has now been introduced and will now become the principal consequence of the incident. Even the New York Post this morning, in its main story on the incident, headlined that question accompanied by a photograph of Cuomo and his wife. The fact that one of its own staff was threatened by the Horse Porn candidate was relegated to a sidebar story.
(Note also that on Tuesday, his driver Rus Thompson, threatened a New York Times reporter (“I fight dirtier than Carl does”) who raised questions about Thompson’s drunk driving convictions.)
In its coverage this morning of the incident, New York 1, TimeWarner’s cable channel in the New York metropolitan area, presented a brief clip of the argument between Dicker and the Horse Porn candidate, and then interviewed only the candidate’s spokesman. The reporter explained that the gubernatorial nominee had been angered by New York Post photographers “snooping around” his daughter. (This remark itself is reminiscent of the Half-Term Governor’s allegations against journalist Joe McGuiness upon his rental of a house adjacent to the Palin compound in Wasilla.) I suspect that Kristine’s conjecture above (#6) will prove prescient.
As always, IOKIYAAR.
JPL
It’s apparent to me why his wife has stayed with him.
Michael
@beltane:
Gotti would have been too decent to be a teatard. His sense of morality and fair play would have led him to reject them.
someguy
It’s important that we stand up for the right of the news media to stalk 10 year old kids and take pictures of them. Because only an indecent society gets skeeved out by things like that.
Speaking of which, do we have pictures of Sarah Palin’s womb yet, to determine whether or not Trig and Bristol’s kid shared a room there for 9 months?
fucen tarmal
so spizer steps down because he was using the wrong ultra-high end prostitution service(meaning the girls are well paid, and not coerced, except perhaps by the money they can make, if you wish to count that as coercive).
hot carl, cold carl, horse cock carl, is his eventual replacement? maybe i shouldn’t think too deeply about this, this many hours to go until the clock hits bourbon:30.
donquijoterocket
If I’m not mistaken the Post is one of Rupert’s operations kind of a loss leader or tax write off so Carl could find himself in the outhouse with the whole News corp. operation including Fux noise and even though Fux is sort of bagger HQ I doubt they’d be kind.Not the sort of place an already marginal candidate might wish to find himself.
Xenocrates
What. An. Asshole. I’m sorry, sir, but if you can’t politely answer a few questions without resorting to playground threats and yelling, you are not qualified to be dogcatcher, let alone governor of the State of New York. Is this guy just playing a joke on us? Or does he really think that screaming and intimidation are going to win him votes? I loved the contention that he has evidence of Cuomo’s infidelities, but that he’ll release it “at the appropriate time.” When is that exactly? I’m a little scared of this clown, but I dismiss his chances at the polls. I’ve been wrong before about that, unfortunately…
Kryptik
@Xenocrates:
He probably does think that. And judging by the fortunes of Republican candidates around the rest of the country, it’s not a bad assumption for him to make.
Our discourse is really that broken, if you haven’t realized.
dp
As a resident of Upstate NY, I am truly shocked at the number of “I’m mad to, Carl” signs alongside Anne_Marie Buerkle (the teabagger candidate running against Dan Maffei). The comment thread on one of the local TV stations’s websites is overun with pro-Carl anti-liberal poo-flinging. Paladino is tapping into a well of rage against the awful, completely corrupt, and wholly dysfunctional state government. Of course, he has benefited handsomely from the corruption that he has helped perpetrate but teabaggers always overlook these small details.
Triassic Sands
I wonder if this was build-better-relations-with-the-media-day in the Paladino campaign? If so, I think they need a new strategy.
Emrventures
Paladino doesn’t want to scuffle with the Post. They live for blowing this kind of stuff up into screaming headlines. If it comes down to a fight, the personal will trump the political and the Post (along with the rest of the Fox empire) will harsh his mellow.
Snarki, child of Loki
Well, the blogosphere has conclusive evidence of Carl’s goats&wetsuits fetish, which will be released “at an appropriate time”.
res ipsa loquitur
Um, Dicker is a Republican hack of the highest order. Has it occurred to anyone that Dicker was deliberately trying to introduce a “controversy”/provoke a “conversation” surrounding Cuomo’s alleged infidelity? It doesn’t matter if it ever happened, “It’s out there” now, i.e., Cokie’s Law is in action.
JCT
Bob Herbert’s NYT piece on this scumbag was excellent. His utter lack of class is astounding.
Mind you, D’Amato called out Paladino and even uber-Republican whore Giuliani hasn’t endorsed him. Bloomberg won’t have anything to do with him either.
He will not win in NY.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
The more I see about Paladino, the more Rachel Maddow’s half-serious theory that he’s actually a performance artist makes sense.
Gina
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: If only. Unfortunately, the preponderance of “I’m Mad Too, Carl!” signs locally means he’s got way too many fans.
To give some perspective on Lazio’s loss for non-NY’ers, the state Republican party picked him as their candidate, and did not give Paladino a line on the primary ballot at the party convention this summer. If your party doesn’t want you, you can petition your way onto the ballot. This is expensive, and you need signatures from all over the state. But as a multi-millionaire, Paladino was able to do this even without party support from the Repubes or the Conservative party.
Republicans are very disenchanted with their state party right now, so Carl hit things at the right time. The State Republican vice chair said “The Republicans just aren’t used to primaries. … People are confused, they’re getting mail from different directions, and that’s why they need the party organizations to set them straight and point them toward the endorsed candidates.” Seriously.
joe from Lowell
Are you telling me these people are from New York?
No way, man. That’s unpossible.