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People who follow European politics know that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is a crooked wingnut who only stays in power by sending packets of money to every member of parliament. He has been charged and tried for a variety of comical Italian crimes such as bribery of cops and judges, “mafia collusion,” and every known variety of corruption. But he has never been convicted, and this is why the White House shouldn’t have handed out that Berlusconi biography calling him a scumbag “”known for governmental corruption and vice.” [BBC News]
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The smear-ography also mentions Berlusconi’s rows upon rows of incriminating pearly white baby shark teeth.
George Bush loves him. He has nothing to fear. ALSO in Italy you can TOTALLY hide your off shore bank accounts without needing to disclose them, so like, you know, NO MOB THERE!
I thought the president of Italy was the stuffed and preserved corpse of Marlon Brando.
As an Amurrcan, I refuse to believe otherwise.
Wait. They actually used an Encyclopedia for their research? I would’ve figured on a couple of Google searches and a quick Wikipedia mention.
This was no mistake. The White House actually thought the book was favorable. It’s not just any pol that can skate by without prosecution for corruption and vice.
Acknowledging the error, White House spokesman Tony Fratto issued an apology.
“A biography of Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi included in the press package used language that is insulting both to Prime Minister Berlusconi and to the Italian people,” Mr Fratto said in a statement.
How can it be an insult to them? It will never be reported in the Italian media, since Berlusconi owns it all.
It figures. Those asshats finally get something right and they apologize for it.
It’s like the press writer pulled a “Jed Leland” type of stream-of-conscience drunken notice of Silvio’s stage presence and authenticity… maybe we’ll soon find out what Bush meant when he said “rosebud”, and flatlined in the polls.
I love pasta!
I’ll be so glad when this shit stain of an administration is out of office.
SayItWithWookies: “To which Mr Bush responded: “You’re right. We’re good friends”‘
Oh, sweet. Bush has always fucked up the big stuff–war, peace, the economy–but you know a Presidency is almost over when they get sloppy on the little stuff. Even the little muffins who used to be thrilled to work at the White House are too busy updating their resumes to pay attention to stuff like, you know, not creating international incidents.
Foreign scum.
Our Administration is a paragon of ethics and honesty.
Oh, well, that rules out another refuge for W. to go to after he steps down and the war-crime trials begin. France, maybe? Germany? Texas, probably.
If he supported the surge, he would be our friend and none of this would have happened. He wants the terrorists to win and freedom’s march to be stopped in its tracks. All options are always on the table, including the retaliatory press release
superfecta: This is what when the Press Office’s resident scholar, Missy Dana, is not in the loop. Lesson learned,George?
— The Italian Peoples
Clearly the guy isn’t mobbed up … otherwise he’d have a terrible looking rug or hair plugs.
They’re getting their info from the fucking encyclopedia? Are they fifth graders working on book reports?
Dickheads on parade.
The four-page description of Mr Berlusconi had been taken from the Encyclopedia of World Biography.
Bwahahahaha! I hope when they hand out their next press packet the materials they crib from Wikipedia will be copied and pasted around the time some Larouchite rewrites the page to describe the English Monarchy as a major player in international drug trafficking.
Botswana Meat Commission FC: My fifth grader wants you to return his dignity, pronto. (Seriously, hustle up .. he’s turning blue holding his breath.)
“country known for governmental corruption and vice”
When you consider the sun kissed boot of the Mediterranean is also known for wonderful shoes, insanely fast cars and raven-tressed, sloe-eyed women with nipples that point to the azure sky it isn’t that bad a trade off.
Also known for fake tan, cheap come-on lines, wearing too much bulky gold jewelry, and overuse of men’s cologne? He has never been convicted of those charges, but man, he sure looks as if he should have been,
If I were Berlusconi, I’d be pissed too. Nonelected occupants of glass white houses are in no position to be casting stones.
Maybe Berlusconi should get revenge on Bush by handing out copies of the Scott McClellan book for their briefings
Hooray For Anything: Or arresting him for crimes against humanity the first time he sets foot on Italian soil as a civilian.
Not that this has anything to do with the lack of Italian troops in Iraq right now.
this is my most favoritest story of the year so far — perhaps my most favoritest story of the last FIVE years — as it involves my two most favoritest most gaffe prone fascists.
now if one of them would just comment inappropriately on cheese, the germans or mao’s china and boiling babies i might just die of happiness.
Botswana Meat Commission FC: I didnt even know encyclpedias even still exist. Well, i guess the bible still exists and the first printing of that was 10,000 years ago when the earth was created