Silvio Berlusconi and the “feminist and communist” female judges

Tuesday, January 8, 2013 (Blessed Eurosia Fabris Barban). Silvio Berlusconi labels judges in charge for his divorce settlement as “feminist and communist” on LA7 broadcaster's prime time television show.

Silvio Berlusconi, enjoying Lilli Gruber's "tough questions"

Lilli Gruber, former RAI employee and left-wing politician, is the anchor woman hosting 8 e mezzo (“8 and a half”) prime time show, where Silvio Berlusconi was interviewed yesterday, and most people would have expected a fierce opposition to the former prime minister of Italy.

Well, it was not the case. Silvio just strolled through the interview, smiling and leading the dance for the entire 60 minutes or so (commercial breaks included).

For a start, he announced the birth of his seventh grandson, son of Silvio's daughter Eleonora (who – by the way – kept her mother's surname, Bartolini), knowing to please the tender side of Italians.

Lilli (her real name is Dietliende, she was born to a German-speaking family of Northern Italy) grasped for a reply, but she had to give way to the first commercial break.

Than Silvio slams “feminist” and “communist” the three judges who ruled that he had to pay 200,000 euro (host Gruber said it was 100,000 thousand, Berlusconi rectified her) to her former wife Veronica Lario (aka Miriam Raffaella Bartolini). The alimony he has to pay sums up to 36 million euro, with arrears for 76 millions, that's how the 200 thousand euro sum might originate. Anyhow, Silvio scored again.

La7 channel's Lilli Gruber, struggling against Silvio

Later on Silvio would whinge also for having paid 300,ooo euro in IMU (a kind of council tax he introduced back in 2011).

The Italian billionaire seemed to have won another round on his favourite ring, the TV.

Leftist La Repubblica tried to get a revenge on the wily Silvio, by pointing to the fact he needed a double pillow support in order to curb the female journalist.

It'll need more than this to prevent Berlusconi from gaining success and managing to climb up back to the Italian political scene, especially now that he can play both the role of the man in love (with his new girlfriend Francesca Pascale) and the good grandad (pick the one that you like...).

Surprise, surprise, Silvio is sitting on TWO cushions
(however, the discovery is hardly a political victory for
the leftist newspaper La Repubblica)

Update (10 Jan. 2013): Gabriele Albertini, former president of Lombardy and Silvio's (former?) ally, revealed on a Radio interview on Radio24's La Zanzara ("The Mosquito") that one of the “feminist and communist” judges, Anna Cattaneo, in reality is an ex-girlfriend of his. Albertini would also add: “she's not a communist”, “she's a decent person, not a feminist”, “she's a wonderful woman”, who voted for him, i.e. voting for Berlusconi's People of Liberty party.