{"id":1109,"date":"2006-02-16T10:04:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T10:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/02\/16\/berlusconi-mussolini-sitting-in-a-tree\/"},"modified":"2008-02-27T13:24:35","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T13:24:35","slug":"berlusconi-mussolini-sitting-in-a-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/02\/berlusconi-mussolini-sitting-in-a-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlusconi + Mussolini, sitting in a tree&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A day after <a href=\"http:\/\/home.nestor.minsk.by\/jazz\/news\/2006\/02\/0412.html\">the good mini-Mussolini<\/a> bit the dust, Silvio Berlusconi is seemingly making his fascistic, dictatorial aspirations clear as he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agi.it\/english\/news.pl?doc=200602151617-1192-RT1-CRO-0-NF82&amp;page=0&amp;id=agionline-eng.italyonline\">announces<\/a> his hope to team up with Il Duce&#8217;s daughter Alessandra, leader of a group of batty far-right loons in the finest tradition of daddy&#8217;s days, should he win the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Italian_general_elections,_2006\">upcoming Italian general election<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sure that Ms Mussolini, as she assured me, will list only candidates for whose democratic values she can personally guarantee,&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Said the major media owner who has tried to weaken laws guaranteeing equal media access during election campaigns, the political leader who has tried to reform the country&#8217;s constitution to focus more power on a single political leader, the man who has supported electoral reforms designed to give a winning coalition a bonus of 340 seats, even if they had but one vote more than their rivals, and designed to cut out independent candidates &#8211; like the nonpartisan leader of the main opposition coalition.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesharpener.net\/?p=236\">A top-notch Berlusconi battiness roundup.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day after the good mini-Mussolini bit the dust, Silvio Berlusconi is seemingly making his fascistic, dictatorial aspirations clear as he announces his hope to team up with Il Duce&#8217;s daughter Alessandra, leader of a group of batty far-right loons &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/02\/berlusconi-mussolini-sitting-in-a-tree\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[181],"class_list":["post-1109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italy","tag-italy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}