
Elinor Tatum, Editor-in-Chief of the New York Amsterdam News, wrote a blistering column that questioned “Paladino’s fitness for political office” and warned of the consequences for New York if “this stupid man control[led] the levers of power in our great state.”

"The e-mails raise legitimate questions about the fitness of the sender to hold the highest office in the state," writes the NY Times' Bob Herbert. "The images and videos are so blatantly hostile to blacks and women that it’s fair to wonder whether Mr. Paladino is prejudiced against them."

CNN's Anderson Cooper presses Paladino on the issues, his extreme anti-choice view, and his trash-smelling mailers. Watch the video.

Even fellow Tea Partier Sarah Palin doesn't escape Paladino's rage in Huffington Post's 'Craziest Quotes: From Welfare Prison Dorms to Slamming Sarah Palin.'