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Paladino Walks Out On Interview After Questions About Gillibrand Comments (VIDEO)

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New York gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino (R) walked out on a local television interview in Plattsburgh, New York on Friday evening after the anchor asked him whether his comments about Sen. Kirsten Gillbrand (D) were sexist. Paladino had called New York’s junior Senator “[Schumer's] little girl” on Thursday, in reference to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D).

When asked if he regretted the comments or thought they were sexist, Paladino said, “No, I don’t. I was referring to the fact that Miss Gillbrand seems to vote exactly as Mr. Schumer directs her to. She doesn’t show any mind of her own in voting. And that’s why I referred to her that way.”

When pressed as to whether he thought it was a sexist statement or whether it could hurt his outreach to women, Paladino said, “Well, you can make it whatever you want, Kristen.”

When the reporter tried to continue the interview with what seemed to be a question about how Paladino’s many insensitive remarks were causing rifts with the Republican party, Paladino decided it was time for him to ask the questions. “Are we going to talk issues, or am I leaving you right now?” he asked.

She countered that she thought her questions were about issues, to which Paladino responded by wishing her a good night, taking out his earpiece and mumbling, “I think we’re done talking to this lady.” The Buffalo News reported that, off-camera, Paladino told his aides, “”She wants to talk trash, she can talk to somebody else.”

This post was written by Megan Carpenter for Talking Points Memo where it first appeared, and is re-purposed here via a content sharing agreement between the two sites.

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  • Big Eddie
  • Corvax

    Good for him, he answered the initial question and the reporter obviously had an agenda to keep pushing that same issue. Its a real stretch to consider that comment sexist. He has made plenty of regrettable statements but that would not fall under that umbrella.

    He is not going to win the election tomorrow and New York will continue to operate as usual, which has been unsuccessful.

  • notsofast

    after the anchor asked him whether his comments about Sen. Kirsten Gillbrand (D) were sexist”

    Were Harry Reid’s comments sexist when he called Gillbrand the “hottest” Senator?

  • Dosser

    Take them all out Pauly!
    btw,where’s that video of the horse shagging the old women?
    I haven’t seen that one yet.
    haha.

  • CAconservative

    This reporter wanted to talk gossip instead of issues. Good for Mr.Paladino for walking out on this kind of soap-opera journalism.

  • timzank

    Hilarious, Reid calls her “hot” and calls coons his little “pet” …..and they’re picking on Carl? Jesus…

  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    The Great Buffalo Bomber in its final death spiral. Fun!

  • Corrupt Bastard

    I am certainly going to miss him and Christine O’ Donnell after tomorrow. They were great entertainment.

  • Corvax

    Paul Westlake said:
    The Great Buffalo Bomber in its final death spiral. Fun!

    Like I said, he wont win but I dont see why he is in the wrong for stepping out on this particular interview.

  • Phocus2

    Did they grill Reid when he called Coons his pet? This is what you get when you have stupid TV people with agendas. She’s a loser and at least we won’t be seeing her on FOX.

  • Cactus

    timzank said:
    Hilarious, Reid calls her “hot” and calls coons his little “pet” …..and they’re picking on Carl? Jesus…

    Maybe because neither Reid nor Coons are on the ballot in Plattsburgh, New York? Just a random thought

  • teb

    Corrupt Bastard said:
    I am certainly going to miss him and Christine O’ Donnell after tomorrow. They were great entertainment.

    But you still have Obama, Reid, and Pelosi to laugh at for a while. Any brain stem would enjoy their brand of comedy.

  • notsofast
  • Cactus

    Phocus2 said:
    Did they grill Reid when he called Coons his pet? This is what you get when you have stupid TV people with agendas. She’s a loser and at least we won’t be seeing her on FOX.

    Who’s “they”? Oh right, the vast librul media conspiracy. How dare WCAX-TV Burlington, VT/Plattsburgh, NY ask embarrassing questions of a candidate on the local ballot without flying to Nevada to ask Reid those questions first? How unfair and unbalanced! Thank God for FOX!

  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    Corvax said:
    Like I said, he wont win but I dont see why he is in the wrong for stepping out on this particular interview.

    It’s always wrong to walk away from an interview. You stay and fight and win. If you can’t do that, you don’t deserve elected office. And if you don’t trust the media outlet, don’t do the interview, or insist on a co-interview with a trusted news source. There are many ways to handle an adversarial media, but walking away mid-interview isn’t one of them.

  • Corvax

    Paul Westlake said:
    It’s always wrong to walk away from an interview. You stay and fight and win. If you can’t do that, you don’t deserve elected office. And if you don’t trust the media outlet, don’t do the interview, or insist on a co-interview with a trusted news source. There are many ways to handle an adversarial media, but walking away mid-interview isn’t one of them.

    Its probably been a long couple of months for him, he is probably resigned to his fate at this point, why answer the same garbage questions over and over again. He asked the interviewer if she was going to ask anything else, she didnt so he left. He did give an answer to the original question that was repeated over and over again, he did not avoid it.

  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    Cactus said:
    Who’s “they”? Oh right, the vast librul media conspiracy. How dare WCAX-TV Burlington, VT/Plattsburgh, NY ask embarrassing questions of a candidate on the local ballot without flying to Nevada to ask Reid those questions first? How unfair and unbalanced! Thank God for FOX!

    Well, you know the central planning matrix in the White House was all over this one – I think Obama himself was feeding those questions straight into the host’s IFB. It’s the only way we can fool all the jingoistic patriots who make up 99% of America – by using Hollywood special effects to create the impression that some Americans really are liberal and vote for Dems, which everyone knows is a lie, of course. America is and has always been a 99% white, christian, conservative nation, and the only elections conservatives lose are stolen from them, which, apparently, liberals are really good at! ;-)

  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    Corvax said:
    Its probably been a long couple of months for him, he is probably resigned to his fate at this point, why answer the same garbage questions over and over again. He asked the interviewer if she was going to ask anything else, she didnt so he left. He did give an answer to the original question that was repeated over and over again, he did not avoid it.

    Poor baby, does he need a foot rub? Seriously, the campaign trail sucks but it’s the job. Do it or don’t. He walked away. That’s it. Nothing else matters. He walked away. It means he would walk away from the questions as governor, too. That means he’s not fit to serve. That’s all there is here. No other message.

  • notsofast

    Oh, Barry, no!!!!!!!!

    Washington (CNN) — The number of Americans who say things are going badly in the country, at 75 percent, is higher than it has been on the eve of any midterm election since the question was first asked in the mid-1970s, according to a new national poll.

    A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday also indicates that the economy remains, by far, the top issue on the minds of Americans. Fifty-two percent of people questioned say the economy’s the most important issue facing the country.

  • teb

    Paul Westlake said:
    It’s always wrong to walk away from an interview. You stay and fight and win. If you can’t do that, you don’t deserve elected office. And if you don’t trust the media outlet, don’t do the interview, or insist on a co-interview with a trusted news source. There are many ways to handle an adversarial media, but walking away mid-interview isn’t one of them.

    You are right, he should have said “no more questions on my comment about miss Gillbrand, I already answered you” and stayed there. If the reporter asks again, he again says “I already answered that” but you don’t just walk away. Paladino is a hothead, and now NY is stuck with Andrew Cuomo, who as Clinton’s HUD Secretary did the initial work that led to the housing market disaster. For being a bum and a brain stem, Cuomo now gets to be governor of NY.

  • writer

    Ted’s daytime persona seems more sensible.

  • notsofast

    writer said:
    Ted’s daytime persona seems more sensible.

    That’s the King.

  • writer

    I noticed the spelling of ‘Ted’ is different.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    La la la la la,
    LA LA LA LA LA;
    Hey heyyyy, good bye!

    Racist reactionary!

  • murf

    GlennBeckReview said:
    La la la la la,
    LA LA LA LA LA;

    The most sensible thing you’ve ever wrote.

  • Jayson

    He walked out. He can’t take the heat from the media so he shuts it off and walks out. He’s a whimp, he’s not a candidate for anything if he hasn’t got the backbone to stay and defend himself.

  • Harry Flashman

    Stick a fork in him. He’s done.

  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    teb said:
    You are right, he should have said “no more questions on my comment about miss Gillbrand, I already answered you” and stayed there. If the reporter asks again, he again says “I already answered that” but you don’t just walk away. Paladino is a hothead, and now NY is stuck with Andrew Cuomo, who as Clinton’s HUD Secretary did the initial work that led to the housing market disaster. For being a bum and a brain stem, Cuomo now gets to be governor of NY.

    Listen, I’m a New Yorker and I’m well aware of the dysfunctional State government. Cuomo is a machine politician, to be sure, but he’s not an idiot. The housing disaster was intentionally created by Goldman Sachs, straight up. They made it and they profited from it. Congress didn’t help when it allowed Wall Street to play with government-backed paper, but that was conservative policy, which has dominated Congress since Gingrich. Conservatives own 90% of the economic problems in America. Deal with it.

  • teb

    writer said:
    Ted’s daytime persona seems more sensible.

    That is because I do not begin sniffing glue until after 5pm, when I am off work.

  • teb

    Paul Westlake said:
    Listen, I’m a New Yorker and I’m well aware of the dysfunctional State government. Cuomo is a machine politician, to be sure, but he’s not an idiot. The housing disaster was intentionally created by Goldman Sachs, straight up. They made it and they profited from it. Congress didn’t help when it allowed Wall Street to play with government-backed paper, but that was conservative policy, which has dominated Congress since Gingrich. Conservatives own 90% of the economic problems in America. Deal with it.

    Your comment makes no sense at all. Goldman Sachs? Did you take your meds today? Liberals own 95% of the economic problems in America. If you and your liberal friends like slavery and want everyone to feed at the government trough, good for you. Keep supporting uber liberals like Obama who want to destroy small business, overtax everything that lives, breathes, moves, and makes anything, put it all in the hands of the government, and you’ll get your way. There is no more corrupt entity than the federal government. You have no clue, do you?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Mangan/100000213524770 David Mangan

    Just another mediocre bi-yotch trying to push her job opportunities up to a higher level than Buffalo, NY. She’s dumber than she looks, and that’s saying VERRRY dumb.

  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    teb said:
    Your comment makes no sense at all. Goldman Sachs? Did you take your meds today? Liberals own 95% of the economic problems in America. If you and your liberal friends like slavery and want everyone to feed at the government trough, good for you. Keep supporting uber liberals like Obama who want to destroy small business, overtax everything that lives, breathes, moves, and makes anything, put it all in the hands of the government, and you’ll get your way. There is no more corrupt entity than the federal government. You have no clue, do you?

    The government is the mother of all special interests, but corruption in the halls of big business has no equal anywhere. Shall we talk about how the Bush family made it’s money in Nazi Germany during WWII? Shall we talk about GE lying about dumping millions of tons of PCBs into the Hudson River? Shall we talk about Enron gaming the California energy grid, gambling their own shareholders money away and leaving the employees at Anderson holding the bag? Shall we talk about BCCI, Bankers Trust, WorldCom, Lehman, AIG, and on and on and on? I didn’t even mention BP and ExxonMobile yet. Please. You can hack away with those tired saws but they lost their teeth a long time ago.

    And your whole raison d’etre appears to be poking insults at Ted, so man-up and get a real name or go fuck yourself. And have a nice day. ;-)

  • teb

    David Mangan said:
    Just another mediocre bi-yotch trying to push her job opportunities up to a higher level than Buffalo, NY. She’s dumber than she looks, and that’s saying VERRRY dumb.

    But is she as dumb as you? I doubt it very much. She is successful, and you are likely not at all.

  • teb

    Paul Westlake said:
    The government is the mother of all special interests and your whole raison d’etre appears to be poking insults at Ted, so man-up and get a real name or go fuck yourself. And have a nice day. ;-)

    Your first comment is the only thing you said that makes sense, everything else is a lot of mindless babble. I am Ted’s younger, smarter, and better looking brother. And you are truly a brain stem. How does it feel to be such a fool? I’ll have a nice day today, and you have one tomorrow as America says a collective “NO THANKS!” to Barack the phony moderate Obama’s far left wing agenda that normal people want no part of, by sweeping a whole bunch of Dems out of office.

  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    teb said:
    Your first comment is the only thing you said that makes sense, everything else is a lot of mindless babble. I am Ted’s younger, smarter, and better looking brother. And you are truly a brain stem. How does it feel to be such a fool? I’ll have a nice day today, and you have one tomorrow as America says a collective “NO THANKS!” to Barack the phony moderate Obama’s far left wing agenda that normal people want no part of, by sweeping a whole bunch of Dems out of office.

    whatever

  • crclarkNY

    Paul Westlake said:
    The government is the mother of all special interests, but corruption in the halls of big business has no equal anywhere. Shall we talk about how the Bush family made it’s money in Nazi Germany during WWII? Shall we talk about GE lying about dumping millions of tons of PCBs into the Hudson River? Shall we talk about Enron gaming the California energy grid, gambling their own shareholders money away and leaving the employees at Anderson holding the bag? Shall we talk about BCCI, Bankers Trust, WorldCom, Lehman, AIG, and on and on and on? I didn’t even mention BP and ExxonMobile yet. Please. You can hack away with those tired saws but they lost their teeth a long time ago.

    Half of the companies you mention are major Dem donors…and Wall Street gave the most to the Dems in the last election cycle… So not sure your argument that Conservatives are responsible for the financial mess makes any sense…

  • murphy0071

    notsofast said:
    Watch these libs melt!

    hahahahahahah

    http://newsbusters.org/blogs/bob-parks/2010/11/01/media-double-standard-omission-day

    Not-So-Fast is a blithering idiot who appears to have nothing to do but make hateful comments and act like he has more than the intelligence of a chimpanzee. Since he looks like the wicked witch of the East, maybe with luck, he will just melt away. Using a criminals picture suits Not-So-Fast.

  • notsofast

    murphy0071 said:
    Not-So-Fast is a blithering idiot who appears to have nothing to do but make hateful comments

    Truth hurts, don’t it libby.

    And just who was it making hateful comments in the video?

    Libs like you!

    Cry baby!

    Tuesday is tomorrow.

  • TfT

    Good for Paladino – these so called journolists are making fools of themselves and will soon be mockec by the entire public like Politico was mocked today by Palin.

    I’m surprised I don’t see Palin’s quote here…it really is a good one.

  • The Real Royal King

    TfT said:
    Good for Paladino – these so called journolists are making fools of themselves and will soon be mockec by the entire public like Politico was mocked today by Palin.

    I’m surprised I don’t see Palin’s quote here…it really is a good one.

    Do you think, perhaps, we ought to shut down the press, the media? Just because Amendment I comes first doesn’t mean it is the most important, after all>

  • bealzebubba

    I’m sorry, this new snarky attitude that the right wing politicians are taking on does not say much for them in the area of taking the bull by the horns. It’s very much a Bill Mahre kind of attitude.

  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    crclarkNY said:
    Half of the companies you mention are major Dem donors…and Wall Street gave the most to the Dems in the last election cycle… So not sure your argument that Conservatives are responsible for the financial mess makes any sense…

    All the companies I mentioned are major Dem and GOP donors. They donate to all important races, to both parties, until one emerges as the front-runner, and then they abandon the loser and load up the winner for the final push, then take credit for the victory and start to extract their price. But none of that matters, what matters is the policy that was passed and who pushed it. Republicans are the champions of deregulation, and they’re not shy about it in any election cycle. Deregulation created the mortgage crisis by allowing Wall Street to gamble with taxpayer-backed securities. And Goldman took full advantage. And, by the way, it’s no secret that Goldman does everything in its power to dominate both parties, but one party is a much more willing participant – the GOP. Carter did his share of deregulation in response to conservative demands. And his reward was to be ousted by the dumbest fuck America had ever put in the Oval Office… until W. Deregulation is the source of the problem and deregulation is the GOP mantra. It doesn’t get any more direct than that.

  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    murphy0071 said:
    Not-So-Fast is a blithering idiot.

    Full stop. ;-)

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    GlennBeckReview said:
    “La la la la la,
    LA LA LA LA LA;”

    murf says:
    “The most sensible thing you’ve ever wrote.”

    Thanks for quoting me out of context. “Goodbye” was the point, and it was pointed at the mobster…I mean at Paladino.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Teb the sock puppet says:
    “and you have one tomorrow as America says a collective “NO THANKS!” to Barack the phony moderate Obama’s far left wing agenda that normal people want no part of, by sweeping a whole bunch of Dems out of office.”

    Actually, that’s not true. Most registered voters want to keep Dem’s in power. It’s the likely voters that want the Dems out of office.

    The people who won’t vote won’t know what they have until it’s gone.
    http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2010/11/share-this-video.html

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    crclarkNY says:”… So not sure your argument that Conservatives are responsible for the financial mess makes any sense…”

    Conservatives deregulated the financial sector during Reagan and Clinton Administrations. This lead to the crash of 2007-8. That’s a fact that conservatives want to deny, but it’s a very stubborn fact.

    This Congress re-established Wall St. regulation, and the next one is likely to gut it again. Then we can have more Wall St. gambling with middle class money. GREAT!

  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    Bye bye, Carl.

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