In his homophobic speech to a group of conservative Brooklyn rabbis he's since apologized for, Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino said, "We must stop pandering to the pornographers and the perverts who seek to target our children and destroy their lives." In response, Justin Elliot writes, New York news outlets have taken the liberty of posting more of the pornographic e-mails Paladino sent to his buddies.
I suppose Paladino's argument might be that while gay-pride parades make your kids gay, manly straight porn just shows how manly you are. I'll just repeat what I wrote when Paladino originally won the primary -- as a wealthy, hypocritical homophobe who wants to legislate "family values" while having a kid out of wedlock, talks up fiscal prudence while getting millions in government subsidies, and chuckles at racist jokes with his friends, he's what liberals would come up with if they were trying to paint a nasty, reductive caricature of what conservatives are really like.
