‘Tea Party’ Rabbi Helped Carl Paladino With His Anti-Gay ‘Brainwashing’ Speech

by Glynnis MacNicol | 10:07 am, October 12th, 2010

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The fallout from Carl Paladino‘s crash and burn anti-gay remarks over the weekend continues. In today’s news even his adviser appears to want nothing more to do with him. Lloyd Grove spoke to “eccentric” Republican political consultant Roger Stone (he has a Nixon tattoo on his back) who said he was “astounded” by the comments.

“It’s astounding,” a distressed Stone told me Monday as the 64-year-old Paladino was making the morning-show rounds trying to clean up after his widely criticized homophobic speech Sunday to Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn. “Based on his anti-gay rant, any advice that I’m giving this guy is no longer having any effect….It doesn’t even seem to be consistent with his ‘live and let live’ philosophy. When I asked what happened, the answer was no answer: ‘Yeah, it was a f*ckup.’”

Yes indeedy. How did that “f*ckup” happen exactly? Apparently Paladino was taking advice from an Orthodox Rabbi who has “long dreamed of creating ‘an Orthodox Tea Party.’” From today’s NYT:

Mr. Levin, who is a spokesman for the Rabbinical Alliance of America, an association of socially conservative rabbis, shares with Mr. Paladino a proclivity for inflammatory public statements, particularly about homosexuality. He spoke out against a gay pride festival in Jerusalem several years ago, saying it would amount to “the spiritual rape of the Holy City” and proclaimed, “This is not the homo land, this is the Holy Land.”

On Monday, Mr. Paladino said that the two speeches he had made in Brooklyn on Sunday were prepared by someone else, and that he had stricken out some ideas with which he did not agree. In the interview, Mr. Levin said he had written one of the speeches and contributed to the second, in which Mr. Paladino warned against brainwashing children into accepting homosexuality. “I did not write the second speech,” Mr. Levin said. “However, I did have some input into it — and I stand ready to defend the content of it.”

Presumably ‘the Rabbi made me do it’ was not a campaign slogan Paladino felt he could run with, instead he merely attacked Andrew Cuomo (Cuomophobe!) for exposing his children to “that nonsense of extremists in the Gay Pride Parade.” Like I said, if Paladino wants to ensure a bunch of typically non-voting liberal New Yorkers get out to the polls in November he’s certainly going about it in the right way.

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Andrew Cuomo, Carl Paladino, homophobia, Roger Stone, The Daily Beast

The Real Royal King

Helped? He wrote the damn speech. He should have delivered it, as well. He would have done a far better job that Palopinto.
Mr B

The homophobic boogeyman is going to save the Democratic party. lol

From now on, when I see these anti tea party comments I have to laugh. Last week there was the 10/2 moron that said the Tea party people are idiots but Democrats need to be grassroots like them. Then you had the Democrat shooting the Obamacare bill with a rifle. WTF? How about you read it before you vote on it, a-hole! Following that, and my favorite, was Russ Feingold converting to the Tea Party and suggesting everyone should walk around with a constitution. Sure Russ. Now read it. Do you understand it?

Bye Russ.
paulmdoro

Did Carl Paladino ever have a chance to win NY? I highly doubt it. People tend to overlook the fact that a general election is far different from a primary. General election voters are much more moderate. I don’t think Homophobic Carl ever had a chance.

Do most Americans really and truly understand the Constitution? What about politicians (regardless of party affiliation)?
Azarkhan

Some people say that it was Andrew Cuomo’s idea for the slogan: “Vote for Cuomo, not the Homo” when daddy Mario was running against Ed Koch for mayor of NYC.
NORBIT

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DEMOCRATIC ANTI-SEMITISM REARS ITS’ UGLY HEAD!!! – AGAIN!!!!!!
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Jewish Voters & Donors, take note!!!
paulmdoro

NORBIT IS POSTING FOOLISH NONSENSE – AGAIN!!!!!

All those with basic common sense, decency, and reason, take note!!!
NORBIT

paulmdoro said:
NORBIT IS POSTING FOOLISH NONSENSE – AGAIN!!!!! All those with basic common sense, decency, and reason, take note!!!

Keep it simple:

Is Israel SAFER today under an Obama Administration?

Who would Benjamin Netanyahu trust more to support the security of the Jewish State against an Iranian attack? – Obama or ANY REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT?
paulmdoro

Who do people with half a brain trust to offer reasonable, thoughtful, and practical advice on any issue of importance? ABN – Anyone But Norbit.
The Real Royal King

paulmdoro said:
Who do people with half a brain trust to offer reasonable, thoughtful, and practical advice on any issue of importance? ABN – Anyone But Norbit.

Actually, I am pleased to learn Norbit has half a brain. I thought it far less, perhaps just the stem.
BlackWidow

You Repugs are going to own this nutjob arn’t you????
NORBIT

Keep it simple:

Is Israel SAFER today under an Obama Administration?

Who would Benjamin Netanyahu trust more to support the security of the Jewish State against an Iranian attack? – Obama or ANY REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT?
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Keep your eye on the prize, people.
Note that there’s plenty of invective on the left – BUT NO ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS!!!

11-02-10 —- PUSHBACK against Progressive Tyranny!!
TruthLovinFreedomLover

NORBIT said:
Note that there’s plenty of invective on the left – BUT NO ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS!!! 11-02-10 —- PUSHBACK against Progressive Tyranny!!

YES!!!!! Because The US of A can never be a free country unless and until we unquestioningly support Israel in everything it does!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Peter-Engel/752199074 Peter Engel

Andrew Cuomo was 19 and it was 1977 when that Koch slur went around. That qualifies as “youthful indiscretion” to me and it also failed to work. I think even GLAAD would grant him penance for that one. The world’s changed a lot in 33 years. Unfortunately, that’s something that Paladino and the narrow-minded Hasids don’t care to acknowledge.
rshaw

The perpetual smear machine continues to roll. And people wonder why politicians never say what they really think. I wonder why Cuomo took his daughters to the gay parade. I wonder what his ‘official’ answer is, the one that has been drafted by his team of lawyers and run by his press agents. I wonder what the REAL answer is, and I’m sure I’ll never know. Not that I really care much about this issue, its just a shame our leaders have to put up such a facade on every issue. I want to know about the back room deals, I want to know the true motivations of our leaders. Far too much goes on behind the scenes on both sides of the aisle. Particlarly in Albany.
Patrick Henry

BlackWidow said:
You Repugs are going to own this nutjob arn’t you????

Yup, Norbit’s the man!
Nachi

The Tea Party draws from its Republican base – the ignorant, the uneducated, the disenfranchised, the angry, the bitter, the failures of our Society.
http://none pyrope

Nachi said:
The Tea Party draws from its Republican base – the ignorant, the uneducated, the disenfranchised, the angry, the bitter, the failures of our Society.

I think you MUST be talking about the people who attended the Advancing Communism Rally, starring Ed Schultz, on 10-2.
CAconservative

Glennis… does anyone need coaching in pointing out just how reprehensible the Gay lifestyle is? Growing up in the San Francisco Bay area, personally witnessing it first hand, I can honestly say, you really have to deep-seated emotional problems to find the Gay lifestyle appealing. Like most people, what Gay’s do behind closed doors is their business. When they start getting in our faces with their lifestyle, that’s when it becomes our business, and that’s were we draw the line.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Maliheh-Banoo/100001527498988 Maliheh

norbit said Who would Benjamin Netanyahu trust more to support the security of the Jewish State against an Iranian attack? – Obama or ANY REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT? – my dear benjamin netanyahu and ahmadinegad a 2 sides of the same coin
http://www.facebook.com/people/Maliheh-Banoo/100001527498988 Maliheh

my friends You cannot figure gop conservatives
out because there is actually no central thought mechanism inside of
their vacuous skulls. Take a look inside their heads and you will find a
million disconnected wires, a hamster on a tread mill, and two
obscenely engaged ox-peckers.