Paladino's crusade against speedos

Carl Paladino is like your crazy uncle who gets drunk on his armchair and screams about how he would change the government - except he's actually on the ballot.

A day after Paladino's anti-gay tirade in Brooklyn, he went on the 'Today' show to make amends - sort of. 

Here he is on valium (?) trying to explain away his bigotry.

On gay pride parades:

"They wear these speedos and they grind against each other - it's a terrible thing" and later... "it's disgusting."

We've never been to a pride parade, but we can imagine it's a little more than speedos and grinding.

Paladino is 20-something points downs in the polls - let's hope it stays that way.