Berlusconi to the Monza players, his “joke” is a case. The Pd: “unworthy words” – Corriere.it

«Words unworthy and ignoble» (Laura BoldriniPd), «miserable but above all dangerous concepts» (Chiara Appendino, M5S), «that sucks!» (Teresa Bellanova, Italia viva), «how disgusting, how sad!» (Charles Calenda, Action), «what a pity!» (Alessia Morani, Pd). To take the less demeaning and perhaps more political side of the whole story, the video in which Silvio Berlusconi is seen in the act of promising “a bus of tr…” to the players of his Monza player plastically, even if for the space of a tweet or a statement to the agencies, the miracle of recomposing the dear old “wide field” dreamed by Enrico Letta before the entire center-left plunged into the nightmare before, before and even after the elections.

All together passionately: all forms of Pd, from the wing Bonaccini (“Women are not a prize for men”, his comment) to the branch Schlein passing through the frond DeMicheli and above all for the dozens of characters looking for a candidate; all the old 5 Star Movement, including expellees, dissidents, exiles, splinters; all Calendians and Renzians, for once symmetrically agree with the fratoianniani (in the sense of Nicola red) and the Bonellians (in the sense of green Angel). All together to celebrate yet another miracle of the blood of anti-Berlusconi that still melts inside the ampoule, even if a lot of water has passed under the bridge.

And then there’s Berlusconi, who celebrates on the altar of the unbearable heaviness of one sexist joke the sacrifice of a thought, always formulated at the Christmas party of Monza football, which would have given him a quarter of an hour of fame in the world of the left, the trade unions, world progressivism. “I don’t want Arab sponsors because so many workers have died in Qatar”, ipse dixit, but too late, everyone was now focused on the rest.

The rest, the promise of the «bus of tr…» to the Monza players in case of victory with one between Milan, Inter and Juventus — a gift that, technically, should have already been given given that Monza has already won with Juventus in August — is the eternal return of the same. The hackneyed show, seen and reviewed, acclaimed and panned but still with its own audience, which boos or applauds or is silent depending on the party it belongs to; as it used to be, when the Knight was the first leg of the centre-right, so now, which is the third.

What changes, if anything, is the surrounding world, the technological progress that allows everyone to take a mobile phone out of their pocket, shoot a video and send it to anyone. Had we had smartphones before, there would be thousands of shows like the one at the Monza party on the Net, and not just dozens. There would have been no need always, mind you. The Rai cameras were enough to capture the rude answer given to Rosy Bindi during a telephone intervention a Door to door by Bruno Vespa («I hear the honorable Bindi speak, it’s always more beautiful than intelligent»). While the photo of an innocent remains of the famous inauguration of the Rome-Milan high-speed train Berlusconi with the railwayman’s hat, with the rest – and what the rest – handed down orally by the mayors of the big cities who attended the show directly from the train. «So, dear mayors? Do you like the president of the railwayman?’ “Yessssssssss!” «I rather prefer the president putt…king!».

Today as then, Berlusconi is disappointed. “Frankly I did not think and no one could imagine,” she wrote later in a Instagram posts«that a simple locker room joke playful and clearly paradoxical could elicit comments as malevolent as they are trivial and unrealistic. I pity these critics. Maybe it’s just their absolute lack of humour to make them so sad and also so gratuitously bad. But we are at Christmas and then happy birthday to them too ». A defense so equal to the others that it is impossible not to consider it at least sincere. And we don’t know, with Berlusconi we never knew, if all this is better or worse than a furry excuse. Some charitable hand, this time, corrected the statement by putting “locker room” in quotation marks. Have you ever seen.