{"id":891,"date":"2008-05-01T14:43:10","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T21:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=891"},"modified":"2008-05-01T20:42:42","modified_gmt":"2008-05-02T03:42:42","slug":"george-bush-lauded-by-berlusconi-for-time-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=891","title":{"rendered":"George Bush Lauded By Berlusconi For Time 100"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Goodfellas\"Time Magazine has published it’s fifth annual list of the World’s Most Influential People<\/a>. It’s a mixed collection with a few standouts for hilarity.<\/p>\n

Rupert Murdoch made the list as a “Builder and Titan,”<\/i> an honor he shares with Radiohead. Thom Yorke would make a great media mogul, and they could keep the band’s name as their corporate brand. Disney temptress Miley Cyrus is listed in a category where she challenges Tim Russert, the only “journalist”<\/em> of the group. They are both listed under “Artists and Entertainers.”<\/i> Which of these Russert is supposed to be, I don’t know. But Russert is apparently quite influential, as he has reportedly had Arianna Huffington banned<\/a> from promoting her new book, Right Is Wrong<\/a>, on any<\/em> NBC program.<\/p>\n

Also on the list is George W. Bush<\/a> under “Leaders and Revolutionaries.”<\/i> I can’t see where he’d place in either group. But the truly creepy aspect of this is that the essay accompanying his inclusion was written by the Italian Murdoch, Sylvio Berlusconi<\/a>. Berlusconi, media baron and Prime Minister, related his impressions of Bush as a leader who knows that…<\/p>\n

“…justice, freedom and democracy can flourish only if there is security.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Spoken like a true totalitarian fascist. He is, however, right about Bush, who has shown that he will sacrifice any Constitutional principle, civil liberty, or democratic process, in the pursuit of a false security predicated on fear and lies.<\/p>\n

Having Berlusconi pen Bush’s bio for the Time 100 holds a unique significance in light of Berlusconi’s recent electoral successes in Italy<\/a>. He declared after the election that “We are the new Falange.”<\/em> The original Falange was the Spanish fascist party of Francisco Franco. Berlusconi’s supporters also hailed the victory of his party’s candidate for mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno, a former neo-fascist youth leader, with Hitlerian straight-arm salutes and chants of “Duce, Duce…”<\/em>, Mussolini’s version of “Fuhrer.”<\/em> Bush must be proud to have his friend Berlusconi compose this touching tribute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Time Magazine has published it’s fifth annual list of the World’s Most Influential People. It’s a mixed collection with a few standouts for hilarity. Rupert Murdoch made the list as a “Builder and Titan,” an honor he shares with Radiohead. Thom Yorke would make a great media mogul, and they could keep the band’s name […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[167,280,94],"class_list":["post-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-propaganda","tag-george-w-bush","tag-sylvio-berlusconi","tag-tim-russert"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-en","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1144,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1144","url_meta":{"origin":891,"position":0},"title":"Karl Rove’s Backup Dancer To Host Meet The Press","author":"Mark NC","date":"12\/3\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The official announcement may not come until Sunday, but it appears that David Gregory has been tapped to permanently replace Tim Russert on Meet The Press. 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