Wednesday’s Asshat of the Day

It seems that a day doesn’t go by when some politician somewhere compares a foe to either a communist or Hitler.

Today’s asshat, Carl Paladino, who is running for the Republican nomination for Governor in New York, doesn’t like Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.  He considers Silver to be “the most corrupt and incompetent human being ever to serve in state government in the state of New York.”  Fair enough, that’s his opinion.  Many of us feel the same way about some of the people who occupy chairs in Leg Hall.

But Paladino decided to take it one step further.  After Erie County Executive Chris  Collins called Silver “the anti-Christ” at a fundraising dinner last fall, a comment that short-circuited Collins’ own run for governor, Paladino defended him, saying “If I could ever describe a person who would fit the bill as the anti-Christ or a Hitler, this guy (Silver) is it.”  Silver, by the way, is an Orthodox Jew.

This is the very same schmuck who suggested that New York turn some of its unused prisons into dormitories for welfare recipients, where they could take classes on “personal hygiene.”  He defended his remarks on hygiene by saying that he had “trained inner-city troops in the Army and knows their needs.”  Huh?  Let’s see – Paladino saying “me, big, rich white man.  Me know how to wash under armpits.  You do same.”

Ah, Carl Paladino, our asshat of the day.

h/t to both Huffington Post and the Albany Times Union