Thinking About … Berlusconi

Would you be happy if Burlesconi were booted out of office?

Usually like your stuff. Not this time. If you had any idea of what happens in Italian politics you would think twice about writing in such way about a person who a) went from singing on a cruise ship to controlling a media empire worth billions and b) has hit the highest approval rating of any democratically elected political leader in the world. The state owns prominent TV channels, too, you know, and they make their very best efforts to counterbalance Berlusconi’s point of view, often resulting in unbased slanderous attacks that always seem to rotate around his personal life, not his policy choices. Based on the often recurring subjects of T&A and attractive women, I would have thought you would be less naive and puritanical in your views against an EXTREMELY able political leader plagued with the duty of controlling a mafia-ridden and overall inefficient country. As for the criminal counts, every industrialist in Italy has had to dip their hands in the shit tank at some point. It’s the way it goes. Now stick to talking about things you know about. Thank you.

Better ll cavaliere tha the leftest Francesco Rutelli! Not hard to see from which direction the mud is being slung.

So you do or don’t like him? Hard to tell.rnrnWe can’t please everybody all the time with our content. Clearly you are having a very difficult time today with this piece. Do you love every song your favorite band sings? Enjoy every dish in your favorite restaurant? Agree with every single thing your friends say? We hope not. Berlusconi is a riot, and without interesting and often amusing politicians we’d all be bored to tears. We all have our faults, are we poking fun at his today? Of course. We poke fun at people all the time including ourselves. Not everybody digs us everyday, and we don’t expect them too. I certainly respect your opinion and the fact you love the guy, but from our standpoint he is a character. Do we want him out of office? We don’t care. We just did a piece on a cat we find amusing. Much like we have done on NUMEROUS other politicians.

Frankly, politicians are granted far too much forgiveness. We, as citizens, have been too forgiving. This is due in large part to the bias of the American media. Objectivity in reporting politics, and politicians, fell prey to Network/Personal opinions many years ago. The major three networks view the actual political climate in this Country through a “jaded eye.” I believe the political backlash being evidenced at this time is the end result such a view. We are frustrated and tired! I could care less about the political climate in Italy, or about the political opinions of the Italian people……………and that includes this buffoon of a Prime Minister they have. The Italians elected what they wanted…..a colorful character with a breath heavy of garlic and clothing more stained than Monica Lewinsky’s blue dress. This is Italy we are talking about, right?

“Asshole seeking attention,” “joker-clown,” and “just be glad Silvio is ruling Rome” do not qualify a “politician [you] find amusing.” They do, however, attest to rampant uninformed stereotyping, possibly due to the exhaustion of better things to pass as humor. nnA “piece” (gem of a word, by the way) might contain many of the things you have written without taking a political stance on his persona. You don’t care? Good for you, but then write as though you don’t.nnHe loves pussy. Who doesn’t? Leave it at that, and per favore reconsider who the attention-seeking asshole is.

Write about beer, booze, or broads…write about ~most~ things…and you get one, maybe two (sometimes no) comments. Write about politics (and in a foreign country, no less) and let the Flame-Fest begin! I guess it is true what they say about politics and religion. Wait, what ~do~ they say? Oh, yeah…that they both suck.nnWhat NEVER fails to amaze and amuse me are the drooling morons who feel absolutely compelled to say, “I usually LOVE your stuff, but…,” when you happen to on their particular sacred cow. It’s certainly OK to blast away at everything else, except that ONE thing they hold near and dear to their tiny little hearts. Then these a$ simply ~have~ to write and tell you what a crappy job your doing, your stuff’s not funny, blahddy, blah, blah.nnSo…for the 8 millionth time…here it is. [Alert: I'm about to be far less diplomatic than you were, Chris.] Please pay attention, all of you aforementioned douche-tards. This is HUMOR. There are NO taboo subjects. If you don’t like it, don’t read it. Turn off your computer and go watch Two And A Half Men. *shudders*nn’nuff said?n.

You use dollar signs in the word assheads. I’d say yes, nuff said.