Berlusconi's Mubarak Excuse

You got to love the Italian prime minister. He is a true joy to observe: his complete oblivion to just how much of a buffoon he is is truly amusing. Berlusconi fancies himself funny. A clown he is, let’s give props where due.

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His list an infamous remarks, including once giving advice to Italian teenagers on sex appeal, making a Jewish quote which was condemned as antisemitic, and also making a joke belittling the crimes of history, are too numerous to count in total.

Silvio Berlusconi is also well-known more than for his off-color remarks, but for his sex scandals.

His ex-wife has accused him of having had an affair with an 18 year old model. And he has defended himself by committing another rhetorical error when he stated better to love lots of women than to be gay, which caused gay rights activists to respond better to be gay than a pig.

His sex scandals have also caused many Italian women to fret about the sexism in the nation and recently launch national protests belittling women as mere sex objects.

And Berlusconi may have finally crossed the line with his sex scandals. Sex scandals are one thing in a nation which is lascivious and often indifferent to the private lives of politicians, but Berlusconi may be in legal trouble due to prosecution accusations that he slept with a 17 year old prostitute and then used his influence to get her out of jail in an unrelated incident.

Berlusconi and the woman deny the affair and there's no concrete evidence. But what is funny is the Mubarak excuse!

In May 2010 Ms el-Mahroug, who had repeatedly run away from care, was taken to a Milan police station, accused of theft. But she was released after a telephone call from the prime minister during which he suggested that she was the granddaughter of Egypt’s president, Hosni Mubarak. Mr Berlusconi’s lawyers say he believed what he had been told. The prime minister himself said this week he had intervened to prevent a diplomatic incident.

How timely.