Bush's Berlusconi Briefing

[Vermouth]

So the White House is no better than your average Politirant poster ... copying information from disreputable websites.

The Bush administration today apologized to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, one of its staunchest allies in Europe, for an "insulting" biography that was handed out to White House reporters at the Group of Eight meetings in Japan.

"Berlusconi was one of the most controversial leaders in the history of a country known for governmental corruption and vice," reads the profile. "Primarily a businessman with massive holdings and influence in international media, he was regarded by many as a political dilettante who gained his high office only through use of his considerable influence on the national media until he was forced out of office in 2006."
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The Italian premier's profile was copied from a Web site, "Encyclopedia of World Biography," the White House said. The same source describes Bush as "often taking time out in the middle of the day to go jogging or play video games. He complained that he did not like to read long books and that he hated meetings and briefings..."

Don't they have their own sources?

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=arkZxVf6FFjk

[Peter1469]

What a joke of an administration….

[Mr. Dirlewanger]

I like Berlusconi. Furthermore, he is pro-US.