Posted on 12/14/2009 1:03:46 AM PST by GonzoII
While Silvio Berlusconi recovers in a Milan hospital, his ordeal has whipped up a storm of outrage across Italy. The prime minister has suffered months of attacks in the media over his private life. His supporters say his critics have now gone too far.
“Our prime minister has been subjected to an act of physical violence which follows months of verbal, written and televised attacks on him, said politician Fabrizio Cicchitto, a Berlusconi supporter.”
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the media is morally responsible for the violence
Berlusconi owns the media.
This ‘outrage’ is a fake.
You mean the media not owned by the philanderer?
reeking more and more of an set up sympathy stunt by the minute.
The media has the ability to whip people into a frenzy.
I dunno - two broken teeth and a broken nose are a little beyond publicity stunt
The leader of a country gets his face smashed and people have a hard time believing there is outrage and sympathy?
I feel that way and I am not even Italian.
Kim, Khamenei, Castro, Mugabe are also “leaders of countries”. I doubt that their smashed faces would bother anyone here (or in their countries).
Not saying that Berlusconi is in the same league as above mentioned fellows, but being the “leader of a country” doesn’t command sympathy by default.
But since you like to spend your time pouncing on splitting hairs...
“Kim, Khamenei, Castro, Mugabe are also “leaders of countries”. I doubt that their smashed faces would bother anyone here (or in their countries).”
That is far less true than what you attempt to twist my post into. Obviously there would be someone, somewhere, who felt disturbed by such unacceptable violence.
This was not a “sympathy attack.”
For one thing, while Berlusconi’s personal life may be a little out of control, he’s actually fairly popular with a lot of average Italians because he is considered conservative, by their standards.
He was apparently smashed in the face with a tourist-souvenir model of the Milan Cathedral by a man described by the police as mentally ill. However, somebody also threw a model of the Paris Cathedral at Sarkozy this weekend (but missed), so I’d say there may be more to this than the police have said.
Somebody send him a bouquet of 17-year-old girls and he should be fine.
There is no justification for the attack (done by a mentally disturbed person, I should add).
Berlusconi lives from publicity and blathering fandom. He can (could) get away with everything. He constructed new laws that only serve to make him immune to each and every transgression under the sun. Tax fraud, whoring around, partying with taxpayers’ money, being buddy to the mob, using said mob to ‘do’ things, monopolizing the media...
He’d serve 1,000 years in the U.S.A. for all that, and rightfully so.
He’d serve 1,000 years in the U.S.A. for all that, and rightfully so
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LOL.....I doubt it....look at our leaders.
LOL! Quite brilliant...
a little news from italy...
we are now living in a civil war atmosphere...
a lot of conservative italians lose the patience.
please, don’t laught.
OK point taken. For us outside of Italy (I am in Holland) it is seductive to laugh and make fun of Berlusconi’s wheeling and dealing, but I can somehow imagine that for Italians themselves the situation is grave.
It is puzzling: why do so many Italians put up with a leader who is clearly corrupt, and likes to invite posh whores to his parties? Who, it is said, has strong ties with the mafia? Who is likely to get prosecuted, or is already prosecuted, for tax fraud and major briberies?
I can tell you the other European countries are, despite the tabloids and the satirists having a field day, deeply worried about politics in Italy.
Would you like to write me something on your own stance in these matters? If you feel like it, you may choose the ‘private’ option.
Cheers, A&M
you speak as repubblica wants.
idiot propaganda for idiots.
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