“I apologize for the crude but effective language.”
So said Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi yesterday after stating that only “dickheads” (coglioni) would vote for his left-leaning opposition.
During Berlusconi’s re-election campaign so far, he has vowed to abstain from sex (for the duration of the campaign), compared himself to Greats like Napoleon and Jesus, and claimed that seven out of nine sex workers have pledged to vote for him.
Oh, and he’s accused all communists of eating babies.
Forza Italia—Go Italy!
I love the quote in Tobias Jones's "The Dark Heart of Italy" where he says that Berlusconi "isn't actually a Fascist; he's an anti-anti-Fascist". Only in Italy does that distinction make any sense--where popular figures can talk openly about being Fascists (or Communists, for that matter).
Was it ever established wether that really was Berlusconi pretending to dry-hump the meter maid in that video making the rounds last week?