{"id":155,"date":"2005-03-02T09:44:50","date_gmt":"2005-03-02T17:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/03\/dirty_tricks.html"},"modified":"2005-03-02T09:44:50","modified_gmt":"2005-03-02T17:44:50","slug":"dirty_tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/03\/dirty_tricks.html","title":{"rendered":"Dirty Tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Daily News notes that City Councilman and mayoral hopeful Gifford Miller is accusing Mayor Michael Bloomberg of being a gay communist “Big diff in Giff riff bared”<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Gifford Miller’s oft-repeated campaign slogan – “We don’t need a red-state mayor in a blue-state city” – has a slightly different meaning in Russian.<\/p>\n

Loosely translated, the City Council speaker has declared Mayor Bloomberg both Communist and gay – an unintentional gaffe noted by many of the city’s 300,000 Russian immigrants.<\/p>\n

“We see it as a joke,” said an amused Vladimir Chernomorsky, a columnist for Novoye Russkoye Slovo (The New Russian Word), the country’s oldest Russian-language daily.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gifford’s campaign is mum on the mistranslation, leading to speculation that the wording was possibly intentional:<\/p>\n

Miller’s campaign aides wouldn’t comment on what got lost in translation.<\/p>\n

“Here in New York City, it means we have a Republican mayor who is unable or unwilling to stand up to a Republican President and governor to secure the city’s fair share,” Miller’s campaign spokesman Reggie Johnson replied.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

OK, I’m sure it wasn’t intentional, but wouldn’t it be satisfying if it was? What a perfect way to smear one’s opponent!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Daily News notes that City Councilman and mayoral hopeful Gifford Miller is accusing Mayor Michael Bloomberg of being a gay communist “Big diff in Giff riff bared”: Gifford Miller’s oft-repeated campaign slogan – “We don’t need a red-state mayor in a blue-state city” – has a slightly different meaning in Russian. Loosely translated, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}