U.S. politicians could learn a thing or two from Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Whether it’s having sex with prostitutes, being involved in criminal activity, or just saying something crude or offensive, most American pols limit themselves to one scandal at a time.
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Silvio had 3 in the course of one recent phone call. He was talking to Valter LaVitola, editor of the Socialist newspaper Avanti. Police suspect that LaVitola, along with Giampaolo Tarantini and his wife, Angela Devenuto, blackmailed Berlusconi for 750,000 euros. Tarantini and Devenuto were arrested September 1st. They were threatening to tell the truth at Berlusconi’s upcoming trial for underage prostitution, about how they supplied girls for Berlusconi’s famous Bunga Bunga parties. The trial was supposed to start almost a year ago, but when you are rich and powerful and have good lawyers, the court’s schedule becomes a bit more flexible. “Swift justice” is for common folks.
On the one hand, Berlusconi was the blackmailee, not the blackmailer, but he was hardly an innocent victim. He paid the money. I’m no expert on the Italian legal system, but I suspect that qualifies as witness tampering. So, that’s one scandal.
But that’s not what the big brouhaha is about. During the course of the conversation, Berlusconi referred to German Prime Minister Angela Merkel as a “culona inchiavabile,” which roughly translates as “unfuckable fatass.” Now, it’s true that Merkel does not exactly resemble Ruby Maroug or Patrizia d’Addario, or any of the other Bunga Bunga babes, but that’s not the point. She’s not running for Miss Universe, she’s the Prime Minister of Germany and her sexual attractiveness is as irrelevant as, for instance, Vaclav Klaus’s. Yeah, think about that.
So, that’s two. The 3rd scandalous thing, and the one that may piss off Italian voters the most, is that he said Italy is a shit country, he’s sick of it, and he plans to leave in a couple of months. Not terribly patriotic of him.
But not terribly surprising, either. If the court comes back with a guilty verdict, getting out of the country might be a real good idea. Arrividerci, Silvio.
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