Italian Election Insults

Salaam,

This is hilarious... a selection of them below:


Opposition leader Romano Prodi on Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in a face-to-face TV debate on 3 April:

The prime minister clings to data in the way a drunkard clings to lamp-posts - not for illumination, but to keep him standing up.
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Neo-Fascist leader Alessandra Mussolini addressing the trans-gender communist candidate Vladimir Luxuria during a TV debate:

Better to be a Fascist than a poofter.

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Berlusconi on left-wing voters at a conference of retailers on 4 April:

I trust the intelligence of the Italian people too much to think that there are so many pricks around who would vote against their own best interests.

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Berlusconi on Piero Fassino, leader of the main opposition party Democrats of the Left:

Fassino is very sought after by the lobby of funeral directors, they want him as their main promoter.

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Defence Minister Antonio Martino on the opposition:

We have the duty to prevent Italy ending up in the hands of this gang of scoundrels.

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Roberto Calderoli, leading member of the right-wing Northern League, on left-wing plans to allow same-sex unions:

Enough of these absurd demands by poofters for privileges.


Salaam