Silvio Berlusconi, Queen of the May

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Such a sweet tiara:

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39234000/jpg/_39234802_berlistars_story_ap.jpg

Pity about the actual story...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 July 2003 00:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Berlusconi is such a worthless fuck. He's an insult to his country and to the whole of Europe.

― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 3 July 2003 01:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean I have 2x more respect for Chirac AND Blair, individually, than I have for him

― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 3 July 2003 01:01 (twenty-two years ago)

at the very least

― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 3 July 2003 01:02 (twenty-two years ago)

The Economist had a good editorial a couple weeks ago about why he was unfit to serve. What a fuckwad, saying something like that on his FIRST DAY.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 3 July 2003 01:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Berlusconi, what's on your walkman?

― rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 3 July 2003 04:12 (twenty-two years ago)

gee, touchy touchy.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Thursday, 3 July 2003 04:48 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/images/20030130-10_d013003-515h.jpg

― JesseFox (JesseFox), Thursday, 3 July 2003 05:28 (twenty-two years ago)

They're your friends. Really.

― JesseFox (JesseFox), Thursday, 3 July 2003 05:29 (twenty-two years ago)

it'll be fun to see how Prodi and him work together

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 3 July 2003 08:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyone see that Italian chap's pisspoor attempt at an explanation for his dear Leader's appalling slur on Newsnight while Paxman attempted to give him the shut-out:

Chap: "Can I just say..."
Paxman: "Yes, thank you."
Chap: "No, can I just say that..."
Paxman: "Yes, thank you."
Chap: "No, I must just say..."
Paxman: "Thank you."
Chap: "That there was a TV programme screened in England in the 60's..."
Paxman: "That's very interesting thank you."
Chap: "There was this TV show in the 60's, shown in England, and it was an ironic show and..."
Paxman: "Yes, thank you."
Chap: "The show was called Hogan's Heroes [a show where the key German characters were played by Jewish actors], and it was set in a Concentration Camp…"
Paxman: "And moving on…"
Chap: And the Kommandant of the camp was a man named Schulz also, so you see the remark really was ironic."
Paxman: "Thank you indeed for that. Now.."

Anyone spot the irony then? (nb. Err, what irony?)

― Alex K (Alex K), Thursday, 3 July 2003 08:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Fuck Berlusconi. Fuck the lot of him. Fuck the way he crippled Italian football for around three years by being responsible for the ridiculous transfer fees paid, fuck him for his speech about "Superior Western (ie white) Values", fuck him for even speaking to, let alone forming a coalition government, with Umberto "Sicilians are descended from niggers" Bossi, fuck him for the way he's changing the statute book to ensure that he doesn't get the prison sentence he so throroughly deserves, fuck him for his shitty newspapers, his shitty TV channels, his shitty music career, his refusal to give any support to Italy's biggest movie directors because of their left-wing views, fuck him for his managing to turn Italy into the poodle's poodle over Iraq, fuck him for nearly bringing us to war with Turkey a few years ago, fuck him for his inability to do anything about the Mafia corruption in local government that means when I go home, we have fucking metropolitian town centres with no water supply and gravel streets IN THE TOWN CENTRE, fuck him for this. Fuck him. The man will get his dues in hell.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 3 July 2003 09:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Dom.
That was brilliant.

― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 3 July 2003 09:03 (twenty-two years ago)

What dom said. HE is one of the worst leaders of any nation on the planet. Certainly the worst democratically elected one. Its a indictment of the dark side of italian society and the mess that is the italian political process that he was elected at all.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 3 July 2003 09:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Italian politics since the 1930s has just been a form of "Right, you can have Communists or Nazis". Berlusconi helpfully took the worst of both parties and formed his own little enclave. Also helpfully meaning that I now can't use the phrase "Forza Italia", because that's what he called his sorry little cabal.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 3 July 2003 09:21 (twenty-two years ago)

it's so humiliating. The french newspaper Liberation is right in pointing out that the worst is yet to come. my disaffection with my country is not far from being complete: if I could choose freely I would leave this place tomorrow and, maybe, come back when this nightmare is over...

― francesco, Thursday, 3 July 2003 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.phil.uni-sb.de/fr/romanistik/kleinert/confor.jpg

― Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, 3 July 2003 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)

girolamo-what is that?

― francesco, Thursday, 3 July 2003 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

six months pass...

Back to court!

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39122000/jpg/_39122734_ap203bodyshrug.jpg

"Ach, who knew?"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 04:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Is that, 'Ach, who knew bribing judges was illegal?' or 'Ach, who knew putting people above the law was unconstitutional?'?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 04:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 04:36 (twenty-one years ago)

But there was anger among some supporters of the prime minister.

"Surely a liberal would not have issued such a ruling. Only a communist could conceive it," said Carlo Taormina, a close ally of Mr Berlusconi and a lawmaker for his Forza Italia party.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 04:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Remind me, why did this guy get into power again? Was Italy on crack? I mean, we can be on crack too and all, of course.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 04:37 (twenty-one years ago)

The right regrouped quiker after tangentopoli mainly because of the personality of berlusconi.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Also Italians have a nasty reactionary and bigotted streak.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 04:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought ALL nations had a nasty reactionary and bigoted streak!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 04:41 (twenty-one years ago)

well yes but it crops up in unexpoected places in Italy. I haven't seen immigrants treated worse anywhere else in Europe.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 04:43 (twenty-one years ago)

that's not particularly an unexpected place just an example of how italy is one of the more reactionary european nations.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 04:46 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Yet more fun!

At the Brussels summit at the end of Italy's presidency, as attempts to reach agreement foundered, Mr Berlusconi suggested alternative topics of conversation for the assembled EU leaders.

"Let's talk about football and women," he suggested to them.

Turning to four-times-married German Chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, he added: "Gerhard, why don't you start?"

One former Italian Prime Minister, Massimo D'Alema, has said Mr Berlusconi has a tendency to make "planetary gaffes".

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Does Berlusconi secretly run Fifa aswell?
Does this (as if anything could) explain Sepp Blatter and his wonderfully anachronistic ideas about womens football?

― pete s, Wednesday, 10 March 2004 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

The comment to Schroeder is a gem. He should get the Nobel Prize for that. I'm not sure his gaffes are accidental.

― Skottie, Wednesday, 10 March 2004 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

We should do a defend the indefensible for him.

― Sym (shmuel), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 02:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Skottie - if Burlesqueoni had said 'Let's talk about modern hair colourings. Gerhard, you go' i might credit him with some intelligence

― pete s, Wednesday, 10 March 2004 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

'They got me just like Jesus!'

Admittedly I prefer the bit at the end of the article:

Huge election posters urging voters to cast their ballots for Mr Berlusconi already adorn the streets of Italian cities.

Some of them in Rome are already covered with ironic graffiti in local dialect. There is a tradition here dating back centuries of writing political satire on walls.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 13 February 2006 02:07 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, is it pasquino the talking statue? Impossible to read most of the graffiti as there are so many extra consonants etc to reflect regional pronunciation.

The man's a shit by the way. I remember coming home once and the sicilian flatmate *screaming* down the phone swearing and calling the person on the other end every name under the sun. It was during the election between Berlusconi and Rutteli and the person on the other end was thinking of voting for the enemy (i.e. Berlusconi. Remember the man was in a coalition, or at least discussing it, with Bossi of the Liga Nord - there's a good comment above describing his enlightened view of the mezzogiorno/South). After about 5 minutes of abuse and shouting it suddenly goes quiet and I hear:

"Si mama, ti voglio bene."

And he hangs up.

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Monday, 13 February 2006 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

It's hilarious that Silvio wasn't invited to the Opening Ceremony at Torino for fear he'd run his mouth off and embarrass Italy. Like, I dunno, comparing himself to Jesus Christ. Bless.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Monday, 13 February 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

"The Chinese boiled babies!" -- and by the look of this photo, he ate the results:

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41498000/jpg/_41498670_1bermouthap203c.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 March 2006 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

Pobrecito. (I realize that's another Romance language; bear with me.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 July 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

Poverino, is the word you seek, Ned.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 7 July 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

Thank yer.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 July 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

Prego

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 7 July 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

Same old story, though. He'll never actually go to prison.

― Teh littlest HoBBo (the pirate king), Friday, 7 July 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

That's exactly what I thought when I read it.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 7 July 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

We live in hope. Maybe he'll do a Kenneth Lay?

― ¡Vamos a matar, Dadaismus! (Dada), Friday, 7 July 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh that'd be good. He can take Trapattoni with him.

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Friday, 7 July 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

Well at least we'll never have to see this again:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/10/13/us/politics/13bush_533.jpg

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 13 October 2008 18:27 (sixteen years ago)

three months pass...

so apparently the italian people are having their schiavo moment. berlusconi: "This is murder. I would be failing to rescue her. I'm not a Pontius Pilate."

― goole, Monday, 9 February 2009 20:46 (sixteen years ago)

He's an unbelievable muppet.

― hyggeligt, Monday, 9 February 2009 21:42 (sixteen years ago)

eight months pass...

Berlusconi: "I am the most persecuted person in the entire history of the world"

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 9 October 2009 21:14 (fifteen years ago)

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has described himself as the most persecuted person "in the entire history of the world".
Mr Berlusconi also said he was "the best prime minister we can find today".
In an impassioned statement, he then mistakenly told reporters he had spent millions of euros on "judges", before correcting himself to say "lawyers".
Mr Berlusconi was speaking two days after Italy's top court lifted a law granting him immunity while in office.
Correspondents say the Constitutional Court's ruling means the 73-year-old billionaire will probably have to face a number of trials for corruption and bribery within months.
He has described the cases against him as "false, a farce", saying he will defend himself in court and make his accusers look ridiculous.

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 9 October 2009 21:15 (fifteen years ago)

His only real peer was the Turkmenistan dude.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 October 2009 21:19 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://images.regretsy.com/burlesconi.jpg

― windy = white, carl = black (polyphonic), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:46 (fifteen years ago)

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