# Tea Party candidate for governor admits to sending horse porn e-mails: "Liberal media smear job" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 13, 2010, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-party-candidate-for-governor-admits-to-sending-horse-porn-e-mails-liberal-media-smear-job/535965 "2010-04-13T17:27:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-party-candidate-for-governor-admits-to-sending-horse-porn-e-mails-liberal-media-smear-job/535965/1 "2010-04-13T17:27:16Z")
So there’s a land developer from these parts named Carl Paladino. And he’s “mad as hell” and not going to take it any more. So he decided to run for governor of New York! Yeah! That’ll show 'em! [And the Tea Party Express is along for the ride!](http://www.buffalonews.com/2010/04/12/1017315/protest-convoy-makes-buffalo-stop.html) > [@](#): > > The “Tea Party Express,” a three-bus convoy that began last month in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s Nevada hometown and worked its way across the nation, stopped at the Buffalo waterfront for an almost three-hour rally. It all culminated with tea party hero Carl P. Paladino — a Republican candidate for governor — reiterating his “mad as hell” mantra against Albany. But when the light started shining on Paladino, all the cockroaches started scuttling out. You know how Grandma sends you all those glurge e-mails telling you if you don’t pray for the dying whales God will start killing newborn babies? Well, Paladino is a bit like that. Only he sends [out](http://www.buffalonews.com/2010/04/12/1016974/paladino-accused-of-sending-racist.html) > [@](#): > > e-mail pictures that supposedly show Miss France having sex with a man, a photo of dancing African tribesmen titled “Obama Inauguration Rehearsal,” a photo of Obama and the first lady doctored to simulate a 1970s pimp and prostitute, and another using a derogatory term for blacks… …and horse porn. [At least it wasn’t Mr. Hands.](http://blogs.buffalonews.com/outrages_insights/2010/04/carl-paladino-post.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2Fbuffalonews%2Foutrages_insights+%28Outrages+%26+Insights%29) > [@](#): > > (Mr. Paladino sent) (r)acist, pornographic e-mails over the course of the past year. Everything from Obama dressed as a pimp to a woman having intercourse with a horse. Ooooooh! That HAD to hurt. Carl P. isn’t denying that he sent the e-mails, all the KKK-approved stuff, even on down to the horse porn. But let’s give the man credit here! He says that in the extremely unlikely (OK, not a hope in hell) event that he became governor, he wouldn’t do that again ever. > [@](#): > > Paladino said he “absolutely” would not resend such e-mails if he were elected governor or now as a candidate. > > “I apologize to women who may have been offended,” he said. “I’m not politically correct and never have been. I’m not perfect.” But hey! A little horse porn never hurt anyone, right? > [@](#): > > “But if the worst I ever did was send out some nonpolitically correct e-mails — my God,” he added. My God, indeed! What’s a little horse porn between friends, huh? What’s a country coming to if you can’t laugh at N-bombs, KKK humor, and a lady getting schtupped by a horse? > [@](#): > > “I shouldn’t have sent them, no question about it,” he told The Buffalo News late Monday. “But they were sent to friends to illustrate the humor of the day as Obama was running for president.” Ha ha ha! In that one Obama looks like a pimp, and Mrs. Obama looks like a whore! And look at that horse, he’s hung like a…like a HORSE! But, oh, Mr. Paladino, you eventually lost me. I’m sure you meant to send that horse porn to the proper authorities, but hit the “reply all” button. I mean the buttons are right next to each other and everything. But then you had to go and find someone to blame for it. Obviously the mirror was too far to go, so you had to go to Tea Party Plan A: > [@](#): > > But Paladino dismissed the criticism before going to a campaign event in Penn Yan. He said the allegations were a “smear” to divert attention from his campaign Yes, yes? A smear? FROM WHO??? Unfortunately, Paladino is barred by law from even saying the word, so let’s hear from his [campaign manager](http://blogs.buffalonews.com/outrages_insights/2010/04/wnymedianetreports-today-in-rather-graphic-terms-that-gubernatiorial-candidate-carl-paladino-has-a-history-of-sendingracist.html): > [@](#): > > Paladino’s campaign manager is not denying the e-mails, but rather is trying to characterize them as a smear job by a liberal blog. OH NOES!!! The liberal media is smearing the righteous upstanding Tea Party again! I mean, it just happens to be true, but! Smear! SMEAR, I SAY! In conclusion, I have two words to say to Paladino: Horse. Porn. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-party-candidate-for-governor-admits-to-sending-horse-porn-e-mails-liberal-media-smear-job/535965/2 "2010-04-13T17:34:49Z")
You can lead a horse to twater, but you can’t make him twink. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-party-candidate-for-governor-admits-to-sending-horse-porn-e-mails-liberal-media-smear-job/535965/3 "2010-04-13T17:42:32Z")
Is his name “Paladino” or “Palamino”? ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-party-candidate-for-governor-admits-to-sending-horse-porn-e-mails-liberal-media-smear-job/535965/4 "2010-04-13T17:46:35Z")
Geez, give him a break, if he had known he was going to run for Governor he would have never sent them. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-party-candidate-for-governor-admits-to-sending-horse-porn-e-mails-liberal-media-smear-job/535965/5 "2010-04-13T18:00:19Z")
The racist stuff bothers me more than the horse porn. I mean, come on, who here among us hasn’t sneaked a look at the horse porn, am I right? Am I right? Don’t leave me hanging here guys. Seriously, the racist stuff is more disturbing, as is the attempt to hand wave it as “politically incorrect.” “The humor of the day?” Really is that the kind of thing the teabaggers all forward to each other while they’re denying being racist? ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-party-candidate-for-governor-admits-to-sending-horse-porn-e-mails-liberal-media-smear-job/535965/6 "2010-04-13T18:12:56Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > … Don’t leave me hanging here guys. … I think you might want to re-phrase that sentence. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-party-candidate-for-governor-admits-to-sending-horse-porn-e-mails-liberal-media-smear-job/535965/7 "2010-04-13T18:16:07Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > I think you might want to re-phrase that sentence. Or not. ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-party-candidate-for-governor-admits-to-sending-horse-porn-e-mails-liberal-media-smear-job/535965/8 "2010-04-13T18:17:52Z")
The words “politically correct” have come to mean, apparently, acting like a mature human rather than a mouth-breathing 12-year-old. It’s “politically correct” rather than humane not to act like a bigot. The ONLY time I hear someone use the phrase, it’s when they want to warn their listeners that the speaker is about to engage in incredibly offensive behavior for which they do not want to be called out. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-party-candidate-for-governor-admits-to-sending-horse-porn-e-mails-liberal-media-smear-job/535965/9 "2010-04-13T18:27:07Z")
So he’s managed to offend women, blacks, Democrats, farmers, animal rights activists, dancers, porn lovers, and French people. This is New York. He’s lost around 98% of the voters here. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-party-candidate-for-governor-admits-to-sending-horse-porn-e-mails-liberal-media-smear-job/535965/10 "2010-04-13T18:31:15Z")
> [@](#): > > “ **I apologize to women who may have been offended** ,” he said. “I’m not politically correct and never have been. I’m not perfect.” Just the delicate ladies, eh? > [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > So he’s managed to offend women, blacks, Democrats, farmers, animal rights activists, dancers, porn lovers, and French people. > > This is New York. He’s lost around 98% of the voters here. But he hasn’t offended the Jews (yet), so he still has a running chance! ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-party-candidate-for-governor-admits-to-sending-horse-porn-e-mails-liberal-media-smear-job/535965/11 "2010-04-13T18:35:37Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Don’t leave me hanging here guys. Said Mr. Ed. ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-party-candidate-for-governor-admits-to-sending-horse-porn-e-mails-liberal-media-smear-job/535965/12 "2010-04-13T18:47:59Z")
So where’s a link to the horse-porn? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-party-candidate-for-governor-admits-to-sending-horse-porn-e-mails-liberal-media-smear-job/535965/13 "2010-04-13T19:33:29Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > I mean, come on, who here among us hasn’t sneaked a look at the horse porn, am I right? Nay. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-party-candidate-for-governor-admits-to-sending-horse-porn-e-mails-liberal-media-smear-job/535965/14 "2010-04-13T19:40:18Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Nay. Hay! Knock off the bad puns! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-party-candidate-for-governor-admits-to-sending-horse-porn-e-mails-liberal-media-smear-job/535965/15 "2010-04-13T19:40:48Z")
“That the aforementioned **Vinyl Turnip** , hereinafter referred to as The Damned, on or about 2.33 pm today, commited an act of unspeakable depravity…” ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon2.0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Sealemon2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon2.0)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-party-candidate-for-governor-admits-to-sending-horse-porn-e-mails-liberal-media-smear-job/535965/16 "2010-04-13T19:55:36Z")
““I shouldn’t have sent them, no question about it,” he told The Buffalo News late Monday. “But they were sent to friends to illustrate the humor of the day as Obama was running for president.”” Well, sure! Of course it’s the humor of the day, we’re all racists fucks around these parts! We all just found it sooo funny that Blackie got all upity and forgot his place! ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-party-candidate-for-governor-admits-to-sending-horse-porn-e-mails-liberal-media-smear-job/535965/17 "2010-04-13T19:56:19Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > But he hasn’t offended the Jews (yet), so he still has a running chance! Except that plenty of Jews _are_ women, blacks, Democrats, farmers, animal rights activists, dancers, porn lovers, and French people. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-party-candidate-for-governor-admits-to-sending-horse-porn-e-mails-liberal-media-smear-job/535965/18 "2010-04-13T20:03:13Z")
I don’t give a shit what he sends around. But I do get angry when I read his responses to the accusations. I mean, I can only imagine the shit he’d be saying if his opposition was caught sending this stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-party-candidate-for-governor-admits-to-sending-horse-porn-e-mails-liberal-media-smear-job/535965/19 "2010-04-13T20:20:21Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > But he hasn’t offended the Jews (yet), so he still has a running chance! That depends. Was the horse circumsized? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-party-candidate-for-governor-admits-to-sending-horse-porn-e-mails-liberal-media-smear-job/535965/20 "2010-04-13T20:32:54Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > Just the delicate ladies, eh? > > But he hasn’t offended the Jews (yet), so he still has a running chance! > [@Miller](#): > > That depends. Was the horse circumsized? Horse is not kosher so there is that. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-party-candidate-for-governor-admits-to-sending-horse-porn-e-mails-liberal-media-smear-job/535965.md?page=2)