Sheesh! I didn't know -- did you? -- Carl Paladino is a genuine scumbag. Not just an extremist screwball, not just another tea party pooper. No, this guy's an old-fashioned, stale-sweat-and-dirty-mouth scumbag.
Bob Herbert describes the New York gubernatorial candidate's emails and emailed videos.
Example: A photo showing a group of black men trying to get out of the way of an airplane that is apparently moving across a field. The caption reads: “Run niggers, run.”
Example: A doctored photo of President and Mrs. Obama showing the president in a stereotypical pimp’s costume holding the hand of the first lady, who is dressed as a prostitute in a grotesquely revealing outfit.
Example: A video clip of a nude couple engaged in intercourse with the title: “Miss France [expletive].” Mr. Paladino characterized it as “a keeper.”
Example: An image showing a woman performing a sexual act on a horse.
There are many more. Mr. Paladino has acknowledged forwarding the e-mails ...
But he brushed them off unapologetically, murmuring, "Bad judgment...."
