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Paladino shrugs off racist e-mails
Claims liberal smear behind release

By CASEY SEILER, State editor, Times-Union
Tuesday, April 13, 2010

ALBANY -- A western New York Web site posted a cache of e-mails sent or forwarded by Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino containing racist or pornographic material, ranging from a video of African tribesmen dancing under the caption "Obama inauguration rehearsal" to a video that purports to show a woman having sex with a horse.
        
The Web site, WNYmedia.net, reported that it obtained the e-mails sent by Paladino to "a veritable who's who of Buffalo-area politicians, media types, hangers-on, hacks, and appointees."

Paladino spokesman Michael Caputo said in a prepared statement that the campaign "won't be wading through the details of what is just another liberal Democrat blog smear."

The examples copied on the Web site included an altered photo showing President Barack Obama dressed in pimp garb, and a comic video of chimpanzees performing an Irish step dance that came under the subject line, "Proof the Irish discovered Africa."

At least one recipient didn't appreciate Paladino's taste in online comedy: "You really degrade yourself when you forward this (stuff)," wrote a recipient, whose name was redacted out by WNYmedia.net, in response to the video showing the dancing tribesmen.

"I apologize to you and everyone if that is offensive. To me, it's just humor," Paladino wrote back in an e-mail reproduced on the Web site.