Blame it on the "un****able fat ****"

If you put together the worst, most right-wing and xenophobic aspects of the Daily Mail, The Sun and the Daily Express you might get an idea of what kind of newspaper the Berlusconi-owned Il Giornale is in Italy. Only you need to add a number of journalists that can barely make sense and write a grammatically correct sentence and you get the picture.

Il Giornale's editor Alessandro Sallusti today has written article that even by his low-standards can only be considered disgraceful. The title says it all, and really doesn't need much comment: Blame It On The Fat Ar**.

The article refers to the news published by the WSJ which claims that Angela Merkel has pushed Italian President Giorgio Napolitano to ouster the dwarf Silvi Berlusconi. Ms. Merkel is called Fat Ar** following a wiretapped phone call in which the dwarf Berlusconi referred to her as such.

The article is symptomatic of the normal behaviour of Berlusconi's owned media. If you are against him, every weapon to denigrate you is legitimated, nevermind if politicians should be judged by the size of their brain rather than the size of their butt.

Il Giornale made sure to chose a picture of Ms Merkel at her worst

Merkel and Sarkozy on Berlusconi

This video has gone totally viral already.

When asked whether they trusted Berlusconi and its commitment to reforms, Angela Merkel and Nicholas Sarkozy simply looked at each other and laughed.

Berlusconi is clearly perceived as nothing more than a joke by his peers, but unfortunately his actions are not laughing matter and the whole Europe will be affected by his non-existent economic strategy.