Quote Originally Posted by JazMerkin View Post
... he would be Silvio Berlusconi. This guy is comic gold. When he's not consorting with Mafia members, making jokes at scenes of horrific natural disasters or just straight 'pimpin ho's' to other foreign dignitaries, he's coming out with shit like this.

Silvio Berlusconi: I am inferior to no one in history | World news | guardian.co.uk

Just to give you his best quotes from this press conference last weekend.

"I am, and not only in my own opinion, the best prime minister who could be found today. I believe there is no one in history to whom I should feel inferior. Quite the opposite"

But, no Silvio topped that piece of magic with...

"In absolute terms, I am the most legally persecuted man of all times, in the whole history of mankind, worldwide, because I have been subjected to more than 2,500 court hearings and I have the good luck – having worked well in the past and having accumulated an important wealth – to have been able to spend more than €200m in consultants and judges ... I mean in consultants and lawyers"

That underlined portion has to be one of the greatest comic gaffes in history, you just couldn't write it. He actually basically admitted to a press conference that he's been bribing judges

He's basically managed to turn a Western European state into a banana republic with an insane super-powerful leader. It's kind of frightening & hilarious at the same time.

Anyway, let's just review one of his best moments on camera...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZBYIeZzEZw
haha that is brilliant

It's funny the different attitudes we have in the UK compared to Italy. If the prime minister did that here he would have to step down immediately, give a tearful apology and claim mental insanity and check into the Priory to avoid a massive fine. An immediate general election would be called and his party would lose by a landslide. His successor would probably apologise to the rest of the world for the shame and humiliation that he caused.

Meanwhile in Italy I bet his popularity increased by 100 points or something and he won the respect of all Italian men