Newsgroup: it.politica.polo
Titolo: A proposito della Thatcher

Non v'inkazzate subito per favore. Perň a me questa storia della Thatcher mi
sa di bufala giornalistica. L'ho letta sulla Nazione di oggi e sono rimasto
perplesso che una come la Thatcher (che non č una giornalista o un ministro
degli esteri, ma un personaggio nel bene o nel male che ha segnato la storia
del dopoguerra mondiale) si sia schierata cosě apertamente verso Berlusconi.
Potete citarmi la fonte dell'intervista? (oltre la Nazione, il Giornale,
Rete4 ecc.).
Oh, tanto per sapere se mi sbaglio o no. Ma seriamente, senza insulti o
menate varie. Sono curioso di saperlo, anche per capirne qualcosa di piů.
Grazie.

Non lo so da dove sia stata presa la notizia.
Comunque andiamo a guardare i vari siti dell'ANSA e dei principali
quotidiani italiani. Tanto su quelli stranieri questa notizia non c'č
davvero.

Financial Times
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3QLR9VKMC&liv
e=true&tagid=ZZZAFZAVA0C&subheading=europe
Thatcher joins in Italian poll with eulogy for Berlusconi
By James Blitz in Rome
Published: May 10 2001 19:33GMT | Last Updated: May 10 2001 19:55GMT
Margaret Thatcher, the former British prime minister, will on Friday make an
intervention in the final hours of Italy's general election campaign,
appealing to voters to elect Silvio Berlusconi and his centre-right
coalition in Sunday's poll.
In a letter to Italian newspapers that rounds on the European media for
conducting "a co-ordinated press campaign" against Mr Berlusconi, Lady
Thatcher says she is "impressed by his qualities" and that his goals are
"very similar" to those she had pursued in the 1980s.
Lady Thatcher launches a scarcely veiled attack on Francesco Rutelli, the
centre-left's candidate for premier. She writes: "As in Italy at this
election, new faces are found to front for discredited politicians and to
mouth today's versions of yesterday's empty slogans.
"It is those on the centre-right of politics, like Mr Berlusconi, who still
seek to strengthen and deepen freedom. It is those on the left, reared in
the stables of Marxism, or at least nourished in the adjoining paddocks of
social democracy, who would constrain the people's liberty."
The letter is laden with criticism of the European press, which has run
articles and investigations questioning whether Mr Berlusconi is fit to be
prime minister of one of the big four countries in the European Union.
"In over 40 years of political life, I have never witnessed a Europe-wide
media campaign of such ferocity as that which, in recent days, has been
levelled at Silvio Berlusconi," Lady Thatcher writes.
In what appeared to be an attack on the Economist magazine, which ran a
recent cover report attacking Mr Berlusconi, Lady Thatcher says: "This
exercise in character assassination was launched, if not necessarily
devised, in Britain." The Economist is partly owned by Pearson, owner of the
Financial Times.
Lady Thatcher warns European newspapers they "might do better first to
consider the shortcomings in their own countries" before attacking the media
magnate. As for the accusations of corruption against Mr Berlusconi, she
says: "These repeated accusations have all either been dismissed or dropped
or are unsubstantiated."
The letter is one of the few interventions in the election campaign by a
leading figure outside Italy. Mr Rutelli has been taunted for hiring Stan
Greenberg, a leading American elections consultant.
The only other intervention has been attacks by Belgian foreign minister
Louis Michel on Northern League leader Umberto Bossi, one of Mr Berlusconi's
principal allies.
Stefano Folli, political editor of Corriere Della Sera, said his paper was
likely to publish extracts of Lady Thatcher's letter on Friday. "She is
unlikely to have a significant impact... Those people who admire her are
probably going to vote for Berlusconi anyway."

 Published: May 10 2001 19:33GMT | Last Updated: May 10 2001 19:55GMT
Ma scusate dov'e' la sorpresa e soprattutto quale contributo puo' portare a
Berlusconi quello di una persona che dopo aver buttato sul lastrico centinaia di
famiglie in Inghilterra e scatenato una guerra coloniale per le Falkland, ha
trovato solo il tempo per difendere Pinochet. Berlusconi come Pinochet, allora.
Bene, buono a sapersi.