Newsgroup: it.arti.cinema
Titolo: (OT) Champagne freddo. Al limone.

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=444800
'It was the drink talking,' claims a rueful Berlusconi
By Peter Popham in Rome
19 September 2003
The Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has apologised to the
Jewish community for claiming in an interview with the British press
that the dictator Benito Mussolini was "benign" and "killed nobody".
Mr Berlusconi tried to blame his remarks on the two British journalists
who interviewed him for deliberately getting him drunk. He claimed that
Boris Johnson, editor of The Spectator, and Nicholas Farrell, formerly
of The Sunday Telegraph and now a columnist with Voce di Romagna, "took
advantage of me. They were with me for hours and hours. And that's how
it was, at the end of a very long day, in front of a bottle of
champagne, you understand."
Mr Johnson retorted: "Il Presidente's memory must be playing him tricks
... Alas, no champagne at all. We were plied with about a gallon of iced
tea ... It was always clear that it was an interview."
Mr Farrell, who has recently published a revisionist biography of
Mussolini and who describes himself as "a great fan of Berlusconi", also
flatly denied Mr Berlusconi's account. "We were drinking iced lemon tea,
pints of it, served by him," he told The Independent. "It was informal
but it was official. It took months to arrange the interview and there
were two tape recorders on the table between us. It was obvious that it
was an official interview." Mr Farrell added: "It's such a shame he has
told this lie. He's gone down in my estimation."
Italy's Jewish community, which suffered discrimination under the race
laws passed by Mussolini in 1938 and lost thousands of members to German
concentration camps after the Nazis invaded Italy in 1943, was not
satisfied by Mr Berlusconi's apology. Riccardo Pacifici, the community's
councillor for external relations, said: "A grand gesture is required
[from Mr Berlusconi] to explain his remorse in a clear manner, not only
to the Jewish community but to all Italians who have suffered
persecution under the Fascist regime." But a spokeswoman for the
Anti-Defamation League, an American group that fights anti-Semitism,
said yesterday: "[Mr Berlusconi] has clarified and apologised. There is
no problem."
* Italian judges and magistrates staged a symbolic 15-minute strike to
protest at being branded insane by Mr Berlusconi. Mr Berlusconi has
accused the judiciary of persecuting him. 
 
Bye,
	Red
-- 
"30 orizzontale, 2 lettere: lo e' la domenica
di Rai 1."
"Opel."
"Eh?"
"Il 30 orizzontale e': costruisce l'Astra. Ed
e' di 4 lettere."
"Tu bari."

come si dice, in vino veritas...

 
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=444800
Da questo ennesimo episodio emergono di nuovo chiaramente che le scuse
addotte sono quasi peggio della frase originale perché:
1) B. dice di essere sotto i fumi dell'alccol, cioè senza freni inibitori,
cioè ammette di aver detto quello che PENSA VERAMENTE.
2) Si rivela ontologicamente bugiardo, se riesce a mentire pure su
particolari sciocchi e marginali come questo (Champagne o tè? Inganno dei
giornalisti o palese assetto da intervista?).
3) Dimostra tutta la sua volgare grettezza di parvenu, sottolineando e
buttando in faccia il fatto che l'alcool ingerito erano (costose) bottiglie
(non di spumante ma) di champagne.