Carl Paladino Walks Off Live Interview (VIDEO)

Tea Party-backed GOP candidate for New York Governor Carl Paladino doesn't take guff from anybody. Just ask Kristin Carlson, a reporter for WCAX in northern New York and Vermont who was recently left to interview a blank frame for asking him the wrong question.

Carlson, a three-time Edward R. Murrow Award recipient according to her profile, questioned the GOP hopeful Monday about recent statements he made referring to New York's junior senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, as Sen. Chuck Shumer's (D-N.Y.) "little girl," and in return got Paladino to walk off the interview.

"Do you think that's a sexist comment to make, do you have any regrets about that?" Carlson asked Paladino about the matter.

"No, I don't. I was referring to the fact that Ms. Gillibrand seems to vote exactly as Mr. Schumer directs her to, she doesn't show any mind of her own in voting," Paladino explained. "Are we gonna talk issues or am I leaving you right now?"

"Well, I think this is about issues, sir. I think some say that some of the comments you made say that you're not capable of running this state," Carlson pressed.

"I think we're done talking to this lady," Paladino said, removing his microphone and leaving the frame.

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Comments

[Liberal2]

05:22 PM on 11/02/2010

Paladino would be the worst governor in New York history; maybe in American history. So I voted for him.

Why should only the bottom 95% suffer, why not the top 5% too?

[afadebeyondstars]

04:47 PM on 11/02/2010

I actually think he did a good thing (maybe not entirely) but it was justified. He was there to discuss issues. He answered her question and asked to move on. She refused. He clearly isn't one to waste time on useless banter. Go Paladino!

[stonelaw]

04:15 PM on 11/02/2010

It's really good that some of these crazies are actually going to be elected. We need a better comparision between the good guys and the tea baggers than just one short election season. A better taste, no matter how bitter, to realize that one party, the Democrats, want to move this country forward, and the other, the ultra-right wing teahadists, who want to move this country back.

Once in a while, we need a Scrooge - a bad dream - three ghosts and a re-awakening. If the Teahadists who are elected stay to script, we'll suffer for a while, but we'll all recover and move forward again. I'm sure of it.

[deirdreflanagan6]

03:37 PM on 11/02/2010

See, if you are in the Tea Party, the first thing you do is
run (Sharron Angle),
walk away (Carl Palladino)
or
quit ( Palin).......

good luck if any of these quack-a-doodles get elected....

[MsMassachusetts]

03:16 PM on 11/02/2010

Yo Palladino, Nov. 3rd = Retirement.

[S-Man]

02:24 PM on 11/02/2010

Run Away! Run Away!
Coward.

[newtom]

02:21 PM on 11/02/2010

The only good thing that can be said about this race is that Paladino is 25 points behind in the polls and is prjected to lose. Good for you, New York!

[DSOTM]

02:05 PM on 11/02/2010

I can hear his concession speech now.

"yo, I will take you out"

[atl50]

01:56 PM on 11/02/2010

This guy looks like he just drank a bad cup of tea.

[den1953]

12:59 PM on 11/02/2010

Personally i will be glad when this day ends no more circus acts and lunatics taking up the air waves, if i want that kind of entertainment i'll tune into Fox News!

[norepublicanleftbehind]

12:58 PM on 11/02/2010

Guess his fifteen minutes of fame are up.

[den1953]

12:55 PM on 11/02/2010

To bad this woman couldn't interview a few more of those phony Tea party candidates, i guess the candidates that ran away took the Sarah Palin approach to politics!

[scott456]

12:43 PM on 11/02/2010

This guy is such a hack. If there's anyone who acts like a child it's definitely him.

[JAKE2one]

12:36 PM on 11/02/2010

For all those commenting on here bashing Carl Paladino, you people are all shallow and must be New Yorkers. Carl Paladino is not a phony and tells it the way it is. This woman was interrogating him with nonsense questions and besides... it is true that every thing Kirsten Gillibrand does is controlled by what Chuck Schumer says to do. You people better wake up! Carl Paladino knows much more than you think he does and he sides with smaller government and less spending while he is a supporter of moral values. If someone came to your home and took pictures of one of your kids, wouldn't you be angry too? Wake up people because when you vote for Cuomo, your going to get the same garbage you have now in Albany.

[Mariosright]

12:46 PM on 11/02/2010

Those the same moral values he showed by sending pornographic emails? Wake up Gullible Jake!

[den1953]

12:56 PM on 11/02/2010

Is that why he bashed gays and then rented out his spaces to them if that ain't phony then what is?

[Chucktheman]

12:16 PM on 11/02/2010

He wanted better questions. Who publishes Juggs Magazine, or how many blonds does it take to bake a cake big enough for a stripper to jump out of ?