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| Berlusconi: new look with Borsalino hat |
Silvio
Berlusconi has not much time, less than two months, to run his
one-man-band campaign, before general election will be held in Italy
on 24 and 25 February 2013, so he needs to appear on media on a daily
basis, free-wheel speaking about almost anything.
And
that's what he's doing, visiting any existing broadcaster in Italy,
showing off his new – and very elegant – Borsalino hat (it might
be a question of style, or it might have something to do with his
hair transplant, which in the past obliged him to wear a bandanna).
On the
last day of 2012 – just a few days after settling the 36m euro a
year separation deal with his former wife – he had to resume one
of his oldest pièce de résistance: anti-gay jibes.
At 5pm
of that day, Silvio had already been online on Neapolitan Radio
Marte, Northern Italian Antenna Nord Est, Teleradiostereodue, public
broadcaster's RAI's news service GR1, Lombardy's Radio Lombardia and
Radio Capital (which, by the way, belongs to one of his worst enemies
– Carlo De Benedetti – Italian media conglomerate, Gruppo
Editoriale L'Espresso).
“The
left has been accusing me of everything, except being gay and
stealing money from Italians” said Italian Silvio at the
microphones of the Rome's radio broadcaster.
“But
I have a lot of gay friends. They're friendly and funny”, Silvio
would add later on, as if he was speaking about a breed of dogs, in order to make good.
Former
prime minister of Italy has been accused of being homophobic several
times, in his long career, once – when accused of holding the infamous bunga-bunga parties with hordes of women in his villa in Arcore – he declared that it was
“better to like beautiful girls than being gay”. It became one of
the famous quotes of the Italian media tycoon.
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