Matthew Rutledge » B&W http://mattrut.com It's my website, but you can read it! Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:36:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Silvio Berlusconi has been running Italy since the 80’s! http://mattrut.com/2009/10/15/silvio-berlusconi-has-been-running-italy-since-the-80s/ http://mattrut.com/2009/10/15/silvio-berlusconi-has-been-running-italy-since-the-80s/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:58:58 +0000 Matthew Rutledge http://mattrut.com/?p=1382 Look at this advertisement. “We dedicate the new Casio FX-750P pocket computer to Silvio Berlusconi.” It would be one thing (although a weird thing nevertheless) to dedicate a computer to him if he had been president in the 80’s, but he was merely a media tycoon. I guess it would be like HP dedicating a computer to Rupert Murdoch, or more appropriately, dedicating a Timex Sinclair to Reg Grundy.

Casio was in bed with Silvio Berlusconi

Here is proof positive that this is the man who wears the pantaloni in Italy, for better or worse. He’s Italy’s lovable quasi-dictatorial, excessively vain, loafer-wearing Casio consumer!

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