Newsgroup: it.politica.polo
Titolo: Contro la vergognosa campagna stampa della sinistra europea

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/world/italy-election.html
              May 10, 2001 
              Italy Campaign Narrows in Final Days
              By REUTERS
              Filed at 3:01 p.m. ET
              ROME, May 10 (Reuters) - Former British
              leader Margaret Thatcher has made an
              impassioned defence of Italy's Silvio
              Berlusconi and accused his detractors of
              character assassination and ``a Europe-wide
              attempt to bully national electorates.''
              In an article sent to Italian newspapers and likely to be published on Friday, two
              days before an Italian general election Berlusconi is tipped to win, Thatcher said the
              tycoon had been subjected to the most ferocious media campaign she had witnessed
              in 40 years of politics.
              ``Since this exercise in character assassination was launched, if not necessarily
              devised, in Britain, it seems appropriate that as a former British Prime Minister I
              should offer some comments,'' she wrote in the letter, made available to Reuters by
              Berlusconi's office.
              ``The coordinated press campaign against Silvio Berlusconi and (his party) Forza
              Italia is...part of a wider campaign against national democracy itself, and it must be
              defeated,'' said Thatcher, Conservative prime minister from 1979-90.
              ``This is not the first such Europe-wide attempt to bully national electorates.''
              Berlusconi's far-right and devolutionist allies, his tussles with the Italian judiciary over
              corruption allegations and his vast business empire have earned him the rebuke of
              some of the leading newspapers and magazines in Europe in recent weeks.
              Respected British journal The Economist launched a hard-hitting attack against him
              late last month, printing a front-page photograph of him under the headline ``Why
              Berlusconi is unfit to rule Italy.''
              The Financial Times, France's Le Monde, Spain's El Mundo and Germany's
              Sueddeutsche Zeitung have since weighed in with articles expressing concern about
              Berlusconi's push for power at the head of a centre-right coalition.
              Berlusconi responded by accusing the The Economist of doing favours to its former
              correspondent in Rome, a leftist Italian senator whom Berlusconi branded ``a
              communist.''
              ``GOALS SIMILAR TO MINE''
              Thatcher said all the judicial charges against Berlusconi had been dismissed or
              dropped or were unsubstantiated, and told Europe's journalists to look for
              corruption in their own back yards rather than pointing their fingers at Italy.
              ``I am not sure how well it translates into Italian but in Britain we have an expression
              to the effect that those who live in glass houses should not throw stones,'' she wrote.
              ``Europe today has an abundance of glass houses.''
              Berlusconi has been convicted in the past by Italian courts on graft charges but all
              his convictions have been overturned on appeal. He still, however, faces further
              court cases.
              Thatcher said that in long discussions with the 64-year-old media magnate she had
              been greatly impressed by his qualities.
              ``It is clear to me -- and it is doubtless equally clear to his opponents -- that his
              goals are very similar to those which the government which I led pursued in Britain,''
              she said.
              ``Mr Berlusconi grasps, as too many Europeans do not, that competition not
              bureaucracy must be the watchword of the new Europe.''
 
                              Copyright 2001 Reuters Ltd.

               attempt to bully national electorates.''
Sarebbe interessante conoscere l'autorevole opinione del Fam.imo  Dott.
Ernesto Gastaldi,
il quale intrattiene intensa corrispondenza direttamente con la "Signora"...
ahahahahahahahah......
GZ


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Ripeto: chi si somiglia (Berlusconi - Tatcher - Pinochet) si vota e si
protegge a vicenda.
Contenti loro, contenti tutti.
"Se Silvio Berlusconi non fosse sceso in politica
 adesso saremmo a dormire sotto i ponti oppure in
 galera"   
           (Fedele Confalonieri, 2000)