This is a hoot! Berlusconi’s latest election gimmick is to field pretty young ladies and television personalties as candidates. Most will come from his channels, one suspects.
As you may have noticed from the odd report in the press, including an article featured on the front page of Britain’s Times Online, one person is not too happy with Berlusconi’s party tricks. And that one person is no less than the man’s wife – Veronica Lario!
Lario is Livid
Ms Lario was pretty upset when her hubby was reported flirting with Italian girls and telling one of his current ministers, and good looker, Mara Carafagna, that if he was not married, he would marry her. Naughty Silvio.
Party Animal Silvio
Berlusconi attended the 18th Birthday party of one of his young beauties at the weekend, and his wife was not at all impressed. Good old Silvio couldn’t find the time to make it to the eighteenth birthday parties of his own children, but somehow managed to fit in the time buy the babe an expensive token of his appreciation and to attend the party of this attractive ‘friend of the family’, who calls Berlusca ‘daddy’ too. Perhaps that should be ‘sugar’ daddy! The real daddy of Noemi Letizia, the babe concerned, was apparently an ex-Craxi chauffeur. What a small world.
That’s, Italian, Entertainment
It's that clown again!
Still, you’ve got to admit, if nothing else, the Living Museum’s rag tag bunch of politicians are wonderfully entertaining. Now what’s that expression, ah, yes: fiddling while Rome burns – isn’t that what another Emperor of Italy did a while back? That was another ‘black‘ period for Italy too!
How about an Italian version of ‘Yes, Prime Minister’? It could be called ‘Si, Silvio’ or something like that.
If you’d like to read more, and find Berlusconi‘s virtually continual shenanigans oddly amusing, then do have a look at the latest in this rollocking tale of gaffes and goofs, as reported in the Times article: Silvio Berlusconi’s wife attacks his ‘shameless’ election stunt
I’m still hooting, I can tell you. Brought a smile to my face when I read this via BlackBerry power on the way to work this morning! Actually, I think I may have even laughed out loud.
Well, this is Italy.
Mini Update: Berlusconi is denying the celebrity and babe candidates and saying that the whole thing is a plot by the left wing Italian press. The dastardly left wing press is thus responsible for angering his dear wife for nothing, so Silvio claims! Fun, fun, fun!
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News reports that Berlusconi is to field beautiful candidates are still bouncing around the news today (30th April) in Italy.
Update 30th April,2009: Italy’s left, down in Florence, is also fielding a cute female candidate for the European elections apparently! They are all at it! Still, Italy’s politicians never really do much, but if Italians vote on the basis of looks, at least they’ll have someone pretty to look at. Better pretty and useless, than pretty useless, and unattractive, one might argue.;-)
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Dazed by years and years of Berlusconi’s television channels continuous conditioning, millions of Italians clap whenever the red flashing script lighted by the “Emperor” so requires. Uncritical clapping is so mistaken for Consensus and declared as the founding Will of the Nation.
When even the British Times headlines: “Silvio Berlusconi’s wife attacks shameless election stunt” as he candidates his Tv beauties, he stunningly answers that his wife, as whoever object to his methods, is the victim of “manipulation by the Left”.
Are we eventually going to be governed by polls instead of elections? Italy risks to be clapped-out by the clapometer if does not recognize the clapnet of this contagious… clap.
Hi Giorgio,
“Dazed by years and years of Berlusconi’s television channels continuous conditioning, millions of Italians clap whenever the red flashing script lighted by the “Emperor” so requires. Uncritical clapping is so mistaken for Consensus and declared as the founding Will of the Nation.”
Hit’s the nail on the head! I wonder whether Italians have given up hope of ever finding a serious government, and are now simply happy to be entertained by the people who sit in Palazzo Chigi.
And I loved the clapometer! Great idea. Why bother with elections, expensive affairs anyway. Or how about a new version of Big Brother? Fill the house with politicians and a few beauties for good measure, and whoever wins gets to run the country?
What do you think? Sort of matches the level politics has reached in Italy…and in a few other countries…
All the best,
Alex
Yes. Exactly. A Bagaglino Government is for our (and their) amusement. And: why should we be content with a serious one, stinking and shabby, when we can have one fancy dressed and made up?
If Mr. Berlusconi thinks that beauty is a number one in a woman or in a man. Frankly I think Mr. Berlusconi is ugly. He really looks like a little pig and should spend more money to improve his look. I think the plastic surgery he had done was a bad job from the plasti surgeon, I am sure he knows about it and he should have a brain surgery instead. Doesn’t think that beautiful women are fond of him …please give me a break… they are using him so let it be if he likkss it… pay money to have beautiful women around him.
Actually, Maxima,
I don’t think Silvio is ugly, there are far less good looking members of his government!
But you are right, putting beauty before ability is not clever. Still, ‘la bella figura’ counts in many ways in the Living Museum.
It is no secret that certain women are more than happy to put up with not so attractive men, usually when said men have bank accounts containing mountains of money! Not all women are that superficial though, luckily.
Best,
Alex
Berlusconi is one of the biggest idiots in the world!
Italy is sorry for Berlusconi!
http://www.sorry-for-berlusconi.com