08 aprile 2009

A serious verbal gaffe?

Questa volta giornalisti e opposizione non c'entrano. A rilanciare come "gaffe" l'ultima uscita del premier è il londinese "Times": "Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian Prime Minister, appears to have made a serious verbal gaffe after telling a German TV station that the 17,000 people left homeless by the Abruzzo earthquake should consider themselves to be on a camping weekend". Queste le parole precise, registrate dall'emittente N-TV: "They have everything they need, they have medical care, hot food... Of course, their current lodgings are a bit temporary. but they should see it like a weekend of camping".

Le affermazioni del premier, sempre secondo il "Times", entrano di diritto tra le sue uscite più imbarazzanti: "His comments to the German TV station must rank among the most undiplomatic of a long career that has seen him comparing a German MEP with a concentration camp guard and describing Mr Obama, two days after his election as president, as young, handsome and suntanned".