SCENES OF ORDINARY MADNESS
date: 22 February 2012 at 08:57:24 - 0 comments

Carnival is here and life’s a joke – witness “La 7” tv news last night.

Scene 1 – Enrico Mentano, the most ‘intellectual’ of Italian tv news presenters, opens the eight pm ‘show’ live with a chubby female comedienne named Geppi Cucciari. “I really wanted to  congratulate you on your amazing performance at the San Remo music festival on Saturday night, Geppi…”

Two Italian soldiers have been arrested for murdering pirates in India, the Greek bail-out is going through, and Enrico Mentana is lauding the girl for having bravely taken off her shoes, ironically pointing out the (self-evident) fact that some of the female stars in the seedy pop music festival were wearing see-thru clothes which revealed that they had forgotten to put on their panties.

What was Geppi doing there, you might wonder.

Mentana closes the chat by getting her surname wrong.

The fact is that they both work for the same tv company, and this is blatant publicity…

Scene 2 – a Partito Democratico (ex-Communist party) spokesman suggests that non-elected prime minister, Mario Monti, would make a marvellous PD leader and prime minister. “But Mario Monti’s more right wing than Berlusconi,” someone objects.

“Well, a sort of Monti party without Mario Monti,” the reply comes back…

Scene 3 – Luigi Lusi, the treasurer of the defunct Margherita party, was accused two weeks ago of stealing €13 million from the party coffers.  Just last week, he offered to repay €5 million of the total and everyone in the Margherita party (which no longer exists) seemed to be happy to lose only €8 million.

Today, it turns out that Lusi may have stolen an additional €20 million…

So, where did the €33 million go, and why was everyone so happy to see it lost? Could it be that Lusi and his mates in the defunct Margherita split €33 million in cash (government refunds for ‘election expenses’) between themselves?

Ah, what will tomorrow bring?