| Okay. I am privy to all the public facts about Carl Paladino, and some non-public ones. I knew about his blatant racism. His massive egotism and disregard for anyone that's not him. His apparent taste for bestiality porn.
But before today I didn't seriously think of him as a wannabe Pol Pot.
The would-be Republican candidate for Governor of New York sat down with the Times Herald-Record, serving the Catskills and Hudson Valley. The paper entitled their analysis "Paladino lays out plan but is short on details," which is an innocuous enough title to fit just about any political campaign.
The article itself has, well, more interesting gems.
MIDDLETOWN - Under a Gov. Carl Paladino, political hacks would be swept from the state payroll, Medicaid spending would be slashed by 40 percent and state programs or even entire agencies that are deemed unnecessary would disappear.
Underused prisons would be turned into work camps for welfare recipients.
Go ahead and re-read that sentence, I'll wait.
Hey, Times Herald-Record? I think you just did what's known as "burying the lead."
I would comment further, but really, I think he's already said it all, hasn't he? I'm not sure what's more alarming, the fact that he actually said that, or that the paper didn't automatically write an article denouncing it. |
