Silvio Berlusconi storms out of interview
March 13th, 2006 by andy
From the BBC comes this report of Italiam Prime Minister Belusconi storming out of a live tv interview - apparently Berlusconi took offense at a question about his business dealings:
“You can’t tell me what to do,” he said as the conversation descended into bickering and he accused her of bias.
“This is my show, I’ll decide the questions,” Ms Annunziata retorted.
She told him he was “not used to taking journalists’ questions”.
You know, every time parliamentarians in Russia, or South Korea get into a fight, or storm out of an interview, we laugh at them. ‘Oh, democracy is new in that part of the world,’ we say. ‘They’ll get the hang of it.’ Or the horrendously condescending ‘They’re a bit tempramental over there, aren’t they?”
But what is Italy’s excuse? Why on earth do the people of a leading industrial nation, with a long established democracy, put up with the antics of this idiot who again and again brings their country into disrepute?
Tim Newman Says
Oh, the Italians love this sort of thing. I remember in the 1998 world cup, a huge fistfight broke out in the Italian parliament over whether Alessandro Del Piero or Roberto Baggio should partner Christian Vieri up front.
The only surprising thing about this event is that Berlusconi didn’t own the TV station broadcasting the show, and simply take over the hosting duties himself, having fired his impertinent interviewer.
Mar 13th, 2006 at 6:34 am
siri Says
ok… we are talking about a guy who calls himself the Jesus Christ of politics and has said that “Mussolini never killed anyone. Mussolini used to send people on vacation in internal exile.” This is who thinks of himself as “The best political leader in Europe and in the world”…. Seriously, let’s hope Romano Prod wins the upcoming election…..
Mar 13th, 2006 at 8:33 am