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**The PIT** · 3 July 2003, 04:46

Sounds like he lost his temper and said something on the spur of the moment. Forgot to put brain in gear before opening his mouth.
Should have apolagised striaght away though.

**thop** · 3 July 2003, 04:46

The Nazi thing will haunt the germans forever ... i can tell you they will still make these comparisons in 500 years.

**The PIT** · 3 July 2003, 04:57

Thop you're right there.

**Admiral** · 3 July 2003, 05:52

It's funny how Berlusconi would do such a comparison and yet have such a great admiration for Mussolini

**cjolley** · 3 July 2003, 06:12

Thank God Rupert Murdoch wasn't born in the USA.
chuck

**Tjalfe** · 3 July 2003, 06:50

Unfortunately people will probably call Germans Nazis for a long time when they are mad at them. It is too bad, but a reality...as previously discussed...

http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php?s=&threadid=42529

**Brian Ellis** · 3 July 2003, 07:19

Berlusconi's remark sounded almost like Jean-Marie Le Pen. The latter has received the EU's come-uppance. Why not the former? If he had a milligram of decency in him, he would not only apologise, but also resign from EU Office.

I wonder whether impeachment is possible in the EU???

**cjolley** · 3 July 2003, 07:29

Originally posted by Brian Ellis
..If he had a milligram of decency in him...

Don't hold your breath.
chuck

**Brian R.** · 3 July 2003, 08:57

Actually, there are people who still profess to be nazis in Chicago. (ref. "The Blues Brothers")

**KvHagedorn** · 3 July 2003, 09:06

If Berlusconi was not a thoroughly corrupt mafioso, he would not have been scolded for hiding from bribery charges in the first place..

**The PIT** · 3 July 2003, 10:19

Well he's apolagised apparently but the row won't go away. He's looking rather like a fool.

**agallag** · 3 July 2003, 10:49

Originally posted by Brian R.
Actually, there are people who still profess to be nazis in Chicago. (ref. "The Blues Brothers")

I hate Illinois Nazis!

**Greebe** · 3 July 2003, 11:03

I was watching a PBS show on Billy Collins a few nights ago and think one part fits this fairly well...

Billy (Wealthiest Poet Laureate in the world and most popular currently) was chatting with a man at a dinner party when the man asked Billy what he did for a living. I'm a poet, replied Billy. To which the man replies, Oh that's nice, my 9 year old daughter likes to read poetry.

So Billy asks the man what profession he is in. I'm a banker, replied the man. To which Billy replies, Oh that's nice, I saw my son the other day playing with change.

**paulcs** · 3 July 2003, 11:20

Originally posted by cking4
Mr. Berlusconi would, however, feel right at home here in America, where hurling the "Nazi" epithet at
someone you disagree with (for any reason whatsoever) is actually standard operating procedure for those on
the Left...

Actually, Mr. Berlusconi's favorite epithet is "communist," which he has been known to call his opponents on the Italian center-left and mainstream right.

Use of the word "Nazi" may strike some as ironic, as Andre alluded to, because his polictical party, Forza Italia, formed a coalition with the National Alliance (formerly the neo-Fascist MSI) and the Northern League.

Paul

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