Posted on 04/09/2008 7:56:37 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter
Women on the political right are the best looking, conservative opposition leader and election frontrunner Silvio Berlusconi said on an Italian radio show.
"The women of the right are certainly the most beautiful," Berlusconi said on Radio Anch'io public radio, quoted Wednesday by Corriere della Sera newspaper.
Media tycoon Berlusconi is known for his 'politically incorrect' comments concerning women. He has described TV showgirls as "useful for something else," and has referred to older women politicians as the "menopause section".
Referring to Daniela Santanche, leader of Italy's nationalist La Destra party, Berlusconi was quoted as saying: "Whoever votes for Santanche because she's a knock-out is giving their vote to someone who certainly isn't - Walter Veltroni."
Veltroni, the former mayor of Rome, is the leader of the centre-right Democratic Party - Berlusconi's main opponent in Sunday and and Monday's parliamentary elections.
"Berlusconi may only be joining. But jokes, especially when they show a repeated and denigrating conception of women, reveal a lot about the person making them," commented Italy's youth and sports minister Giovanna Melandri, cited by Corriere della Sera.
Berlusconi last month famously told a young woman who asked him what could be done about a lack of job security in Italy: "Marry my son or someone like him - with your smile this certainly won't be a problem!"
Berlusconi's comments, made on the public TV show 'Viewpoints', caused widespread outrage in Italy, especially among the centre-left and the left.
In January last year, Berlusconi was forced to issue a written apology to his wife, Veronica Lario, after she wrote an open letter to leftwing daily La Repubblica demanding he do so for his flirtations with other women.
Lario was reacting to comments that Berlusconi reportedly made during a VIP party after a TV awards show screened by one of his private Mediaset channels.
"If I weren't married, I would marry you immediately," the 70-year-old Berlusconi told one woman, according to comments widely reported in the Italian press.
"With you, I'd go anywhere," Berlusconi reportedly told another woman at the party.
Berlusconi has a close political association with striking 40-year-old redhead and ex-beauty queen Michela Vittoria Brambilla. She has been tipped by some observers as his successor to the lead the People of Freedom party.
Italian women in general are very pleasing to the eyes.
Please, anybody else that comes in here, DO NOT post the cretins of the Left.
File this one under “Duh”.
I heard Rush say this today and then he zipped into a commercial. Liberal women are cranky and when they get older they just kinda give up on LIFE (real life) and then they become perfect prey for a party that promises to “fell their pain.”
I made that decision ahead of time. I, like you, don’t need the moonbat comparison.
You see it here too. Many women start out with good looks on both sides. One side often seems at peace but the other angry most of the time. It shows in their face.
DO NOT post the cretins of the Left.
Bump that!
Michela Vittoria Brambilla
Oh, baby, I could brambilla wif ya all nite!
Sorry!!!
And they can cook!
You evil, evil person.
...and iron shirts. LOL!
Lord have mercy if I had to be the interviewer on that show. She just had to wear thigh high stockings... one of my ultimate weaknesses. I need a cold shower just looking at that image.
LOL!!!
Just an opinion but as a conservative lady, there is not any doubt Michela Vittoria Brambilla is beautiful, but she needs to tone down the way in which she dresses. There is such a thing as class.
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