Rabbi Breaks With Paladino Over Apology

[Blue_Tires]

Source: NYT

The alliance between the Republican Carl P. Paladino and an Orthodox rabbi from Brooklyn has fallen apart, with the rabbi denouncing Mr. Paladino on Wednesday for his apology over remarks he had made about homosexuality on Sunday.

The rabbi, Yehuda Levin, who helped write those remarks, said Mr. Paladino “folded like a cheap camera” because of the uproar they had set off. And the rabbi said he could no longer support Mr. Paladino’s candidacy for governor of New York.

“Which part of the speech that you gave in Brooklyn to the Orthodox Jewish community are you apologizing for?” Rabbi Levin asked at a news conference in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, on Fifth Avenue. “Will we see you next year with your daughter at that gay pride march?”

Mr. Paladino, during a meeting with a small Orthodox congregation that was arranged by Rabbi Levin, said Sunday that children should not be “brainwashed” into thinking that homosexuality was acceptable, and he criticized his Democratic opponent, Andrew M. Cuomo, for marching with his daughters in New York City’s gay pride parade.

On Tuesday, after broad condemnation, Mr. Paladino apologized for his “poorly chosen words” and said he would “fight for all gay New Yorkers’ rights” if elected.

Rabbi Levin said that he considered the apology a betrayal, and that he pined for the “old Carl” who spoke from his heart rather than bending to political whims.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/14/nyregion/14paladino.html?src=ISMR_AP_LO_MST_FB

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I like the part when the Rabbi suggested "militant gays" wrote Paladino's apology and made him read it...

[mucifer]

1. There are a gazillion rabbis in NYC why does this kook get all of the attention? nt

[VioletLake]

2. Gay guerillas, no doubt,

probably wearing assless chaps.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. A bit hypocritical IMO. When I was raised in a Jewish household

and went to religious school, I was taught family is foremost. The dedication to being a Jew started and ended with the family.

Asking Paladino to chose the strict position advocated by the orthodox Jewish sect at the expense of his family is just wrong.

He is an ass, but he does have the priority of his family correct.

[CBGLuthier]

4. I hear the rabbi has a closet full of pink triangles from the old days

Funny how those who are discriminated against are themselves mindless fucking bigots.

[HughMoran]

5. Saw that rabid bigot on L O'D's show

What bigoted ass holes - the rabbi and paladino both.

[sharp_stick]

6. I despise fundies...

Of any stripe, christian, jewish, muslim whatever: assholes the lot of em.

[Taverner]

16. +1000

[Myrina]

7. He was a tool on Lawrence O'Donnell last night ...

:puke: "yes, but" "yes, but" "yes, but"

[TreasonousBastard]

8. When the local Fox news reported this this morning, it made mention of...

the gay bar Paladino owns-- run by his son.

Spent a good five minutes trashing the asshole, they did.

[herbm]

10. I love a good ol' conservative bum fight.

[herbm]

9. Paladino is a lot more fun when he speaks from his ..er.. heart.

[Lance_Boyle]

11. 'folded like a cheap camera?'

Is that a particularly meaningful mixed metaphor (ok, simile) or is rabbi maybe not entirely with it in the head?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

12. What's the metaphor mixed with?

I've heard of "folded like a cheap suit", but is there another metaphor involving cameras?

It was a curious thing to say.

:hi:

[Lance_Boyle]

13. I've never heard of a folding camera.

Maybe mixed with "posturing for the camera" or something? Very odd remark.

[Ptah]

21. Back in the day

[boppers]

23. Sounds like his ethics are stuck in the pre-digital days.

[kwassa]

24. sometimes not even that far back ...

[Ter]

18. Talk radio's Bob Grant said it all the time, and probably still does

I never got it though, nor heard it anywhere else.

[chieffeathers]

20. mistake

I think he meant camel not camera. Some camels are cheaper than others.

[Posteritatis]

25. Sounds like he's counting his grass before the barn door hatches. (nt)

[DCKit]

14. Pandering while in a tailspin. Just what everyone wants from a leader.

If he didn't piss 'em off with his initial statements, he pissed 'em off with his apology.

I expect the PTB in the RNC (and the corporations that fund them) are on the phone with all the (R) candidates today telling them to just STFU - about anything.

They need to get OFF the actual issues and get back to riling the generic anger, or they're going to lose all their elections.

[COLGATE4]

15. Aside from watching Paladino get bitten in the ass by his ultra-

orthodox sponsor, I have to admit that I really enjoyed the good Rebbe's reply when Paladino tried to peddle the 'I just found out my nephew is gay, that's why I'm rejecting what I said yesterday' : "Mazel Tov. Maybe we can have a coming out party for him (but in the meantime, drop dead").

[queerart]

17. The Rabbi Was Pissed....

As it was the Rabbi himself that wrote Paladino's speech for him.....

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/10/paladinos-anti-gay-speech-was-written.html


So the "poorly chosen words" comments got up the Rabbi's nose.....


You got to love it when "haters", hate each other..... so when two negative forces join... does that not make it a positive?


Negative + Negative = Positive? Yiks, does this mean they will now marry? :rofl:

[mikeSchmuckabee]

19. That's one lucky dago!

2000 years ago, different story.

[rocktivity]

22. Paldino was obviously reading his speech

I suspected that he hadn't written it.

:headbang:
rocktivity