Rarely does a day pass that the Republicans do not serve up yet another example of how they have transformed into the party of hate. Today’s choice is more extreme than most, and according to the polls, he has a 50-50 chance of being the NY gubernatorial nominee.

Carl Paladino, the Tea Party favorite for New York governor, is in hot water yet again. As the Huffington Post uncovered last week, the multi-millionaire developer has a history of being "racially offensive" and putting forth derogatory comments. Today the blog WNYmedia.net published a series of bombshell emails that Paladino sent around or forwarded on to friends, associates and coworkers. These emails run the gamut from your standard email chain smut to greatly disturbing racist imagery. Many of the latter type of emails targeted President Obama and his wife Michelle…

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Rachel Maddow interviewed WNYmedia’s Marc Odien:

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