I didn’t know a thing about it (even though it was on the cover of the Brooklyn Paper). Gersh Kuntzman brought it to my attention yesterday when I was at the taping of his show, Reporter’s Roundtable on BCAT. You can see th Oddo video on the Brooklyn Paper website.

Oddo (R–Dyker Heights) made headlines around the globe this week
after a user of YouTube, the ubiquitous video-sharing Web site, posted
a clip of the Council minority leader screaming obscenities at a
Norwegian reporter whose “interview” was really an Ali G-style prank.

Once he realized that the joke was on him, Oddo wasn’t laughing.

“Get
the f—k out of my office! What the f—k is this?” Oddo screamed,
dropping the “f-bomb” 15 times (and assorted other barnyard expletives
a few more times) in the clip which ran just over one-and-one-half
minutes.

The YouTube footage has made Oddo something of a folk
hero among his supporters (“Reminds me of Sonny Corleone! Awesome,”
said one fan) and a thug to his detractors (“You embarrassed yourself,
Staten Island and Italians,” wrote one disappointed constituent).
Either way, the video has become a must-watch (you can see it below).