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Il Foglio editor Giuliano Ferrara applies his lipstick.“This is a little show of our dissatisfaction,” Ferrara started, raising the microphone and taking a drag from his cigar. He continued, using the rest of his speech to proclaim that, "Berlusconi ain't no saint" and that "anyone should be able to commit little peccadillos" without ending up in the clutches of Milan's "turban-wearing judges". And, if the atmosphere wasn't quite toxic enough, the crowd responded by shouting, "At least we're not fags!"Ferrara portrayed Berlusconi as a declining Don Quixote, going as far to describe him as a "mellow, seductive, rich and creative" man who "naturally attracts beautiful girls who are happy to be with him". Which is not only clearly false to anyone with eyes, but also raised the awkward issue of Ferrara, perhaps inadvertently, justifying statutory rape in front of a large crowd of people.The Il Foglio editor went on to claim that the convictions of bribery are pure fabrication – that the famous call to the police station was in fact a “wonderful phone-call” made by a “statesman”. Cue some rabid applause from the crowd and a particularly nervy lady launching a tirade against the country's "ugly judges". I asked her what she thought of Ilda Boccassini. “Boccassini needs to be properly spanked,” she replied, proudly.In the meantime, Ferrara was lamenting the "puritanism" of the left-wingers in their stance towards Silvio's "young friends". There's nothing wrong in looking for a shortcut to success, he said. The main thing is that these "prigs" [the left-wingers] don't like these girls' "lifestyle". Which is perhaps the first instance of a human being assuming that being paid to suck the dick of a Priapus statue while rich, powerful men stare at you lecherously can be classed as a "lifestyle".
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