what's the difference between Bush and Berlusconi?

[Gabi Hayes]

not much, apparently

http://www.break.com/movies/primeminister.html

Berlusconi eats his
http://www.break.com/movies/primeminister2.html

[BrklynLiberal]

1. blech!

:puke:

[tocqueville]

2. Berlusconi is a brilliant speaker

of course what he says is bull, but he is a good demagogue

[OffWithTheirHeads]

3. Bush can't pronounce Berlusconi

n/t

[Gabi Hayes]

4. and, in case you missed it....Bush, Busey, and ferrets

http://www.thetoiletonline.com/leaveit.htm

[MADem]

5. Silvio does his humping in public?

If Duncetwit tried to do that, he'd probably fall over...this is a guy who can't manage a bike or a Segway, after all!!

[Gabi Hayes]

6. Berlusconi humps the whole of Italy, both in private, and public

http://www.ketupa.net/berlusconi.htm

Companies controlled by the family of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi dominate Italian commercial television (with a 45% audience share and over 60% of total advertising sales), have a major presence in advertising and publishing, and have been moving into telecommunications, despite recurrent allegations of of impropriety. Ownership of Italy's mass media is even more concentrated than that of Canada and Australia.
............

On 19 January 2002 the Economist commented that

''Mr Berlusconi has yet to remove the ubiquitous conflicts between his private and public concerns. Because his companies are embroiled in almost every part of the economy, his failure to do so casts doubts on the motives behind so many of his projects, whatever their merits.''

In December 2004 an Italian court found that a charge of paying a US$430,000 bribe to a judge was proved; Berlusconi escaped conviction because more than the statutory limit of seven and a half years had elapsed since the charges were filed.

the author is being sued:
Berlusconi's Shadow: Crime, Justice and the Pursuit of Power
by David Lane

trial in Italy now:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4085523.stm

[cascadiance]

19. Another source of the video above...

If you're having problems streaming the ones above, from YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/v/5UiY5gB_LPw

[Kellanved]

7. Actually that's satire.

Promo clips for the movie "Bye Bye Berlusconi".

[Gabi Hayes]

9. say it ain't so! you're telling me that isn't Berlusconi? An actor?

Sure looked like him to me; not that I'm a huge fan or anything, but if I were less lazy I'd do a comparison of the two, and see how closely they resemble each other

that takes all the fun out of it

[Kellanved]

12. Sorry, it is an actor

The movie is tolerable, though.

It started out with this act:
http://www.italymag.co.uk/2005/news-from-italy/events/berlusconi-upstages-king-kong-at-berlin-premiere/

Then came the three clips currently shown in the US.

And then the movie proper:

http://www.lycos.at/entertainment/kino/filmreporter/trailer.html,,filmTrailer=5493&filmID=15939/Bye_Bye_Berlusconi.html

[Gabi Hayes]

14. looks like Olbermann is fooled, too. he's playing it in a few minutes

made it sound like he thinks it's Berlusconi

[Kellanved]

15. Maybe someone should tell his staff

It's probably beyond the scope of modern fact-checking, to identify a German Italian-language movie as the source.

[area51]

8. "what's the difference between Bush and Berlusconi?"

Well, Bush* thinks he's God, & Berlusconi thinks he's Jesus Christ. :evilgrin:

[newspeak]

10. Berlusconi is bald?

or is Bush wearing a hair piece?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

11. Berlusconi is a more polished Fascist and speaks better English.

[Gabi Hayes]

13. haahaha HA!!! Olbermann is playing this tonight!

just saw him playing the 'humping the driver' clip!

[Binka]

16. Gabi Did You Know Berlu Was a Lounge Singer?

Prodi is gonna kick Berlu's ass this year. Even the fascist here hate Berlu.

http://english.pravda.ru/news/world/24-02-2006/76460-Silvio%20Berlusconi-0

[Binka]

18. Get Rid Of Him & Do It Well People Tell Prodi

http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200603271902-1222-RT1-CRO-0-NF11&page=0&id=agionline-eng.oggitalia

[Gabi Hayes]

20. did not know that, Binka. sure hope you're right about the election

like most amurkins, I'm pretty much in the dark about Italian politics, other than knowing they poisoned that pope, that Belusconi's on trial, and that he's in a tight race this time

that's about it

[DrDebug]

17. Bush is like Hitler and Berlusconi is like Mussolini

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it