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Re: Italys Prime Minster attacked (With Hammer-Nasty)
Was it because the attacker wasn't invited to one of the PM's topless model parties?:p -
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Re: Italys Prime Minster attacked (With Hammer-Nasty)
He was lucky years ago, when a brick layer didn't have his tools with himItaly's Berlusconi slightly hurt in tripod attack
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-01-01 09:02
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was slightly injured Friday when a tourist threw a camera tripod at him in a packed Rome square, an official from the prime minister's party said.
Berlusconi was hit behind the ear by the tripod during an impromptu walkabout in Piazza Navona shortly after sunset. The official said Berlusconi was bruised in the attack and had seen a doctor as a precautionary measure.
ANSA news agency said the assailant was a 28-year old bricklayer from northern Italy who was in Rome for the New Year holiday. He was seized immediately after the assault.
"I did it because I hate him," ANSA quoted the man as telling police. "I certainly didn't plan this, but when I saw him there greeting the crowds, I couldn't stop myself," he added.
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http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english...ent_405198.htm
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Re: Italys Prime Minster attacked (With Hammer-Nasty)
I love the way the media are spinning this as if Berlus-crony was attacked by a mental patient rather than an itrate pleb from the Italian feudal class.
With press like this - WE..ARE..DOOMED!
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Re: Italys Prime Minster attacked (With Hammer-Nasty)
I also thought it was funny how they said he kept shaking hands with reporters for a few more minutes, and then as he drove away he stuck his head out and waved to the crowd.Originally posted by Chris View PostI love the way the media are spinning this as if Berlus-crony was attacked by a mental patient rather than an itrate pleb from the Italian feudal class.
With press like this - WE..ARE..DOOMED!
The video that I saw, he actually cowered down in the choas, was ushered into a limousine and it looked like he was crying like a little girl as he drove away. He managed a meek wave, but you could tell his ego was severely bruised. Even the look on his face immediately after being hit was like "*GASP* How could anyone do that to me?"Every interest bearing loan is mathematically impossible to pay back.Comment
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Re: Italys Prime Minster attacked (With Hammer-Nasty)
Apparently it was not a hammer,
He is believed to have been struck full in the face by a souvenir model of Milan cathedral while signing autographs. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8411198.stm Police have charged Massimo Tartaglia, 42, with aggravated assault for hurling the miniature replica at Mr Berlusconi.
The replica of the cathedral, famous for its gothic spires, was initially said to have been made of metal but later reports suggested it was plaster.Comment
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Re: Italys Prime Minster attacked (With Hammer-Nasty)
HT me ;)Every interest bearing loan is mathematically impossible to pay back.Comment
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Re: Italys Prime Minster attacked (With Hammer-Nasty)
In the coverage I saw he was described as getting out of the car he'd just been stuffed into in order to re-assure the crowd that he was alright. Kind of admirable except he looked horrifying so the effect was the opposite to my eye.
The New Yorker ran a great series of portraits of world leaders a couple of weeks ago:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/mult...ideshow_platon
Berlusconi's is, hands down, the funniest (thumbnail attached.) Have you ever seen a more self-satisfied mug in all your life?
Come to think of it, there's a guy called Beppe Grillo that is kind of Italy's answer to Jon Stewart, except he can get people out in the street. There's a great profile of him here:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2...a_fact_mueller
"Grillo led the demonstration in Bologna, appearing in the Piazza Maggiore, the city’s largest public space, before a crowd of about a hundred thousand—more than had congregated there when Italy’s soccer team won the World Cup the year before. He wore jeans, sneakers, and a long-sleeved black polo shirt, and stood on a stage flanked by tall black panels decorated with blood-red “V”s. Behind him, against a cloudless sky, rose the crenellated Renaissance city hall with its squat clock tower. A large screen had been erected there, projecting the names of twenty-four convicted criminals currently serving as senators and representatives in the Italian parliament, or as Italian representatives in the European Parliament. Grillo read the names aloud, in alphabetical order, together with their crimes, which ranged from corruption, perjury, and tax evasion to more inventive infractions, such as fabricating explosive ordnance and aiding and abetting a murder. The crowd booed and jeered, raising their index and middle fingers in a V, for victory, or, whenever Grillo cried “Vaffanculo,” their middle fingers alone.
"In addition to the twenty-four convicted legislators on Grillo’s list, another fifty-seven are appealing guilty verdicts, have been pardoned, have escaped conviction owing to a statute of limitations, or are currently under investigation. These include some of the most powerful figures in Italian politics, among them Giulio Andreotti, who was Prime Minister seven times between 1972 and 1992, and Silvio Berlusconi, the former Prime Minister, who is probably the most investigated head of state in postwar European history. “Italy is a tough country to be a comedian in—I can’t invent stuff like this,” Grillo said on V-Day. “Nearly eighty crooks in parliament—that’s about one crook in twelve. It’s worse than Scampia, the most dangerous Naples slum, which is infested by the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia. There the criminals are only one in fifteen!”
Come to think of it, he's not a bad model of the kind of "leader" who could get the cynical, passive watchers of the "Daily Show" onto the streets.
Vaaaaaa fffffffff uuuuunnnn cuuuuuullloooooooooo!
If you want to get a feel for how surrealy corrupt Italian politics can be there was a great film called "Il Divo" put out last year about the reign of Andreotti. It's out on DVD just recently.Comment
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Re: Italys Prime Minster attacked (With Hammer-Nasty)
About time in my view. It awesome to see the smugness wiped from him. There has to be a bunch more of these so the so-called leaders realize that if they keep this up- they will have to saty in their fortified fortresses- and not mix with the populace they screw and bleed.
It may just be a pipe dream -but we need to get back to being able to stone our leaders more often
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Re: Italys Prime Minster attacked (With Hammer-Nasty)
My first thoughts too.Originally posted by iyamwutiam View PostAbout time in my view. It awesome to see the smugness wiped from him. There has to be a bunch more of these so the so-called leaders realize that if they keep this up- they will have to saty in their fortified fortresses- and not mix with the populace they screw and bleed.
It may just be a pipe dream -but we need to get back to being able to stone our leaders more oftenComment
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Re: Italys Prime Minster attacked (With Hammer-Nasty)
He changed TV, so it should be enough for the common man.Originally posted by bcassill View Post
Italy politics: Sex, thighs and 'Videocracy'
By FRANCES D'EMILIO (AP) – 1 day ago
ROME — Take a sex scandal dogging Silvio Berlusconi, add plenty of scantily clad young women on Italian TV and throw in some of the first serious scrutiny of a national culture where television lies at the nexus of power and politics.
The result is sex, thighs and "Videocracy" — a documentary that takes a harsh look at a system perfected through Berlusconi's TV empire, in which sexy women become a symbol and instrument of power.
The undress-for-success formula is rarely challenged in Italy, where flaunting sex appeal is a way of life. But a rebellion of sorts has begun to challenge this Berlusconi-championed mix of sex, political influence and TV.
Cleavage and barely clad behinds are the signature feature of the lowbrow entertainment that is the mainstay of the Mediaset TV empire that made Berlusconi one of the world's wealthiest men and launched him into politics in the early 1990s.
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...b3wIAD9CJ2S7O0
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