Major newspapers in New York City and Albany may have endorsed his opponent in next week's Republican primary for governor, but Carl Paladino said that won't stop the surge he believes his campaign has experienced over the last month.

During a campaign stop in East Rochester Tuesday, Paladino spun these media rejections of his candidacy as a good thing.

Carl Paladino called the New York Times' endorsement of Rick Lazio in next week's primary a gift from God. He described the newspaper as a messenger for the ruling class in New York State – a media outlet he is glad is not on his side.

"I'm an outsider. I'm not politically correct. I don't want to be. I like being outrageous," Paladino said.

Paladino told a military veterans group in East Rochester that many in the media would prefer to see Rick Lazio as the Republican nominee for governor because it would make things easier for Democrat Andrew Cuomo. Paladino even suggested, jokingly, that some in the media should have term limits.

"Republican voters don't even read the New York Times, or the Daily News for that matter, or the Albany Times Union. They can say whatever they want. The people are going to listen to the candidate they are going to make their own choices and those choices, as it appears to me, are for change," Paladino added.

When asked how much money he would spend between now and Tuesday, the Buffalo businessman said his campaign has never been about money, but rather a message of change.

It is a message he plans to deliver all over New York State personally in the final week of this primary campaign.