‘I Certainly Am Not a Racist’ Says Paladino
Tea Party Republican Carl Paladino once again is insisting he is not racist. Donald Trump‘s New York campaign co-chair who once ran for governor but now sits on a Buffalo school board is trying to walk back comments he made last week to an alternative weekly upstate newspaper.
“Obama catches mad cow disease after being caught having relations with a Her[e]ford” cow, Paladino said, describing his hopes for 2017 to the newspaper Artvoice. “He dies before his trial and is buried in a cow pasture next to Valerie Jarret[t],” he continued, referring to President Barack Obama’s senior advisor, “who died weeks prior, after being convicted of sedition and treason, when a Jihady [sic] cell mate mistook her for being a nice person and decapitated her,” Paladino concluded.
But he did not stop there.
Asked what he wants to see go next year, he replied, “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.”
On Tuesday, Buffalo, New York talk radio station WBEN published Paladino’s extremely long self-aggrandizing statement explaining his remarks last week in which he denies being a racist.
“I never intended to hurt the minority community who I spent years trying to help out of the cycle of poverty in our inner cities. To them I apologize,” he writes, claiming he “thought about them every day” as he “fought against unqualified and incompetent superintendents, administrators, teachers and School Board members, unfair union contracts, broken homes and children who can’t get the education they need to break that cycle of poverty because our school system is a failure, for reasons that needn’t be.”
Paladino goes on to excuse his remarks, saying he made them “at an emotional moment after I had just listened to Obama’s statement that he regretted the slaughter in Aleppo that, in fact, resulted from his failed and cowardly foreign policy, a policy to look the other way while innocent people were murdered and starved.”
“I view Barak [sic] Obama as a traitor to American values,” Paladino continued. “We don’t stand down and leave soldiers to die on a battlefield when we can send help. We don’t lie to the American people and the parents of our fallen to get re-elected. Obama has not led America to a better place by disregarding the rule of law and standing with his elitist brethren as above the law nor has his wife Michele Obama who told our children and the world after the election that now ‘there is no hope for America.'”
The 70-year old Republican who lost the gubernatorial race to Democrat Andrew Cuomo in 2010 by a two-to-one margin had only just begun his remarks.
“I wanted to say something as sarcastic and hurtful as possible about the people so responsible for the hurt and suffering of so many others. I was wired up, primed to be human and make a mistake. I could not have made a worse choice in the words I used to express my feelings,” Paladino claimed, calling his previous remarks “deprecating humor about a bad President for whom the main stream media continues to seek an undeserved legacy.”
“I publicly took responsibility for what I said and confirmed those were my answers, but believe it or not, I did not mean to send those answers to Artvoice,” he wrote.
As NCRM reported, last week Paladino, when asked if he had authored the racist anti-LGBT tirade, not only admitted he had, but bragged about it, telling The Buffalo News that their editors could “go fuck themselves.”Â
“Tell that Rod Watson I made that comment just for him,” Paladino said, referring to one of The Buffalo News’ black editors.
Paladino insists he will not resign from the school board, and ends his statement saying, “I certainly am not a racist.”
Unsurprisingly, this is not Paladino’s first time making anti-LGBT and racist remarks.
Â
To comment on this article and other NCRM content, visit our Facebook page.
Image by Azi Paybarah via Flickr and a CC license