Mayor Bloomberg And A "Son Of A Bitch" Groundhog

Mayor Bloomberg and Staten Island Chuck (NYC Mayor's Office)

Have you ever wanted to see Mayor Bloomberg call local folk hero Staten Island Chuck a "son of a bitch"? Here's your lucky day! CityRoom noticed that on the Daily News' YouTube video of the Staten Island Zoo Groundhog Day ceremony, Bloomberg is ecstatic about a new device that helps push Chuck out of his house for his prediction, with the mayor saying, "That was so much better than having to reach in and let the little son of a bitch bite you." The News followed up with its own story about its video, removed the YouTube version (presumably to screw over the NY Times), and offered up its own unembeddable version of the video on a Daily News player.

At a press conference today, Bloomberg claimed not to remember criticizing Chuck, but added, "I think it's also true that you really don't have the standing to talk about this unless you have been personally bitten by a groundhog. Those of us who have [been bitten] have an ability to understand the issue, to address it clearly, to assign responsibility and to try to ask God for forgiveness for the rodents that do these dastardly things."

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By Jen Chung in News on February 3, 2011 3:39 PM

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diablofreak

i think he says the same thing on days he doesn't take the subway train and gets to take the Escalade-motocade to City Hall.

"That was so much better than having to walk into these subterranean structures and let those little poor homeless sons of bitches bite you."

robingee

"All the kids in Springfield are little SOBs!"

Rod

the real scandal is where Bloomtard finds the time for all these empty photo ops when he himself told us NYC was in ruins and only he could fix our problems.

now, his actions say that was a total lie: we didn't need mike at all, which is why he has so much free time and goes to Bermuda so often.