You'd think that his HILARIOUS jokes about Obama and his wife being "tanned"would be more scandalous than orgies, but no.
I don't care about sex scandals as long as all are consenting adults, but racism is another kettle of rotten fish.
@sara-without-an-h: The creepy thing about his sex scandals is that he allegedly then helped set up some of the women he slept with in public office. So to me the real issue isn't sex, but corruption. And yeah, making bizarre racist jokes about other world leaders isn't awesome either.
@Anna N.: I know. His comments were just the last straw for me, because it proves that he doesn't care. He thinks he's beyond any decency. Racism, corruption, sexism. And then going to the Rome Convention on Hunger so he can escape his trial is just so cynical.
Italian Conservative need to wake up and get with the times and embrace the Berlusconi flowing, silky lifestyle. It's Modern Love, by the Thin White Douche.
I'd like to eat cake, smoke cigarettes and drink tea with those girls when they knock off duty. I'm sure the gossip and the stories are hilarious. "And then we told him, 'Mmmm, we're just two naughty lesbians, but we like boys to watch,' and he tipped us 500€, the fool!"
I've done a couple small presentations on the Berlusconi era in Italian government for my politics of Western Europe class and...the man is a crazyhead. The crime and corruption, so many allegations against him, changing laws in his favor (including an immunity law to protect him from court proceedings, which was overturned by the Supreme Court last month), and the sex scandals....it is quite the clusterfuck of an administration.
"The Prime Minister Needs Cuddles" sounds like it should be a jolly follow-up to Love, Actually with Hugh Grant still playing Britain's Prime Minister and using the title to explain his adorably foppish skirt-chasing ways.
@sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit): And Emma Thompson shows up as a no-nonsense Whitehall bureaucrat who teaches the Prime Minister that what he craves is not cuddles, but an intellectual equal. And then they cuddle.
@sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit): But then Clive Owen goes off on a business trip and sleeps with a prostitute and when he comes back, she tells him she's leaving him, and he calls her a slag and...no, wait, wrong genre. My mind gets fuzzy when Clive Owen is mentioned.
@heykoukla: And then Clive tells Emma he's in love with the prostitute and it turns out the prostitute is Jude Law and the Brokeback Mountain theme starts playing and...no wait, that's not right either.
He's embarrassing. I am intensely embarrassed to be an Italian with the right to vote when I see this preposterous asshole. I did not vote for him, I feel like yelling. #silvioberlusconi
I detest Berlusconi and sympathize hugely with the feelings of Italian women, but I feel a bit uneasy that in Italy this debate seems to have established a polarity between women who are 'at his disposal', and women who are not. It seems to accept the terms of the discourse established by signor B himself, and create an unhealthy division between 'certain types of woman' and others. #silvioberlusconi
Christ, you should really warn people about that picture. If I'm going to see an aging Italian guy in a double-breasted suit smiling and pointing fake guns at me, I'd like a heads-up, please. #silvioberlusconi
i dont much care for his antics, but gotta give the dude props for holding together the longest standing coalition govt in italy, like, ever (obviously i dont mean ever, just many many years) #silvioberlusconi
@rd2uk: Through what means? Doesn't he own every media outlet, like, ever, as well? How do you challenge a politician who controls the public discourse? #silvioberlusconi
Magda Goebbels killing her children is terrifying. She basically said "I had my children for the Reich and now there is no Reich." She seems to have bought her husband's propaganda more than anyone in Germany.
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Completely. I watched Downfall (which is so so so good, I highly recommend it), and the Goebbels were the creepiest characters by far; you could tell Hitler had lost his mind at the end, but they seemed to be lucid in their blind love for the Reich.
@paloma loves a wild rumpus: The phrasing of it, "I need your help in the killing of the children," is so machine-like. Not even MY children. Just THE children.
President Obama will donate the $1.4 million cash award that comes with the Nobel Peace Prize to charity, but hasn't decided which organizations he'll give it to
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Even cartoon characters... #silvioberlusconi
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Completely. I watched Downfall (which is so so so good, I highly recommend it), and the Goebbels were the creepiest characters by far; you could tell Hitler had lost his mind at the end, but they seemed to be lucid in their blind love for the Reich.
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ACORN!!
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Anything that will make Glenn Beck's head explode for real.
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