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In Another Tour-De-Force Berlusconi Offends Several More Interest Groups
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconiâs controversial sense of humor struck again when he vaunted the attractions of Italian secretaries to potential American investors. "Italy is a great country to invest in these days. The proof is that the Italian prime minister has invested all his money there," the billionaire businessman-turned-politician told a business audience at the New York Stock Exchange. No real problem here except the impression that he is an active investor in companies that he .... Iâm sure that will be investigated by the proper authorities. "Another reason to invest in Italy is that today we have fewer Communists. There were 34 percent of them when I entered politics 10 years ago, today there are only 16 percent," he said. For a seasoned political advisor this statement would problematic. Why would a conservative candidate downplay the Red Scare tactic? "And another reason to invest in Italy is that we have beautiful secretaries," Berlusconi said, risking outrage in a country where sexist remarks are regarded as seriously offensive. I expect that the real uproar on this one will occur when he is forced to take this statement back. He will do this by pointing out that he stereotyped based on the beauty of his own secretary, and has since been presented with irrefuatble evidence - in the form of photographs -that many Italian secretaries are actually butt ugly, coyote ugly or have achieved two bagger status. He will further plead that he must have had his beer goggles on when he made the original flawed assessment preventing him from seeing a host of mustache hair that would have made an Arab diplomat proud. Noting that Rome had scrapped inheritance tax, Berlusconi joked that "the invitation could be: come and die in Italy." Heâs making a huge mistake with this statement. Iâm sure France had already been studying the solutions to aging outlines in the movie Loganâs Run. Berlusconi has now unitentionally invited the french to boatlift all their oldsters his way. I predict frightful lines for the early-bird specials in the cafes of Rome. Posted by: Super Hose 2003-09-27 |
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