The man at the heart of a high-stakes mix-up that rippled through global political journalism in the final days of the New York mayoral campaign was neither “falsely claiming” to be former Mayor Bill de Blasio — as the Times of London suggested — nor, as The New York Times wrote, a “de Blasio impersonator.”
He is, instead, a 59-year-old Long Island wine importer named Bill DeBlasio, who merely responded to an email from a journalist seeking his views on Democrat Zohran Mamdani’s policies.
“I’m Bill DeBlasio. I’ve always been Bill DeBlasio,” DeBlasio said in an interview conducted Wednesday evening through his Ring doorbell in Huntington Station, Long Island, from his current location in Florida.
“I never once said I was the mayor. He never addressed me as the mayor,” DeBlasio told Semafor Wednesday evening. “So I just gave him my opinion.”
I would have done the same thing, except the asking chatgpt to write it part, actually kinda sounds like fun
I would have, too, but would have said something more absurd. Like, go off about how the NYC economy is going to be ruined by aliens and at the end talk about putting them back in their spaceships and shooting them into the sun. Start plausible then go bat shit crazy. See how much they print.
In 1969 we didn’t land on the moon, the moonlings landed in the desert and exchanged a flag with us. They all believed in communism utopias so Admiral Horatio Nelson told them they had to fuck right off this rock and not come back.