I’m sure Chuck the Groundhog has a few choice words to describe Nanny B too.

(NYT) — Go to the videotape, courtesy of The Daily News. At 0:14, Chuck emerges from his wooden house into his enclosure. At 0:23, the mayor declares, “This is the best groundhog in the world and he’s the most accurate.” At 1:09, the mayor is seen inside the enclosure. He playfully, even tenderly scratches the back of Chuck’s head, carefully picks him up from behind the shoulders, and proclaims, “No shadow!”

So far, so good. But go to 1:45, right near the end of the video, in a bit of the incidental footage that telejournalists call B-roll.

With Chuck safely back in his carrier, the mayor, recalling the fateful moment in 2009 when he had to reach in to a Chuck-sized house to extract the groundhog and Chuck chomped the mayor’s gloved hand, turns to Chuck’s handler and utters these words:.

“That was so much better than having to reach in and let the little son of a bitch bite you.”

When questioned about the mayor’s epithet this morning, a spokesman for the mayor, Jason Post, said in an e-mail, “I’ll let the mayor’s remarks speak for themselves.”