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Editor Ripped by Belusconi Bro for Gay Affair Loses Job

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(Newser) – An editor of a Catholic newspaper criticized for a gay affair in a publication owned by the brother of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is out of a job, reports the New York Times. He resigned just days after he slammed the randy head of state in an editorial for his multiple dalliances with young women. Belusconi's brother shot back in Il Giornale that editor Dino Boffo was a "homosexual known to the secret services" who settled a suit for harrasing the girlfriend of a gay lover.

“My life, the life of my family and that of my newsroom have been violated in an act of sacrilege I would have never thought imaginable,” wrote Boffo, who said his continued employment would be a distraction for the church. “If he does this with journalists, what will the future be for responsible information?” Boffo said of Berlusconi. The prime minister this week launched several defamation suits against publications criticizing him.

BERLIN - FEBRUARY 22:  Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi attends a press conference following a meeting of European Union leaders at the Chancellery on February 22, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. The one-day meeting is taking place ahead of the G20 summit scheduled for April in London, where the leaders of...
BERLIN - FEBRUARY 22: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi attends a press conference following a meeting of European Union leaders at the Chancellery on February 22, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. The...   (Getty Images)
Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi speaks looks on during a news conference at Rome's Chigi Palace premier office, Tuesday, July 7, 2009, on the eve of the G8 (Group of Eight) summit scheduled from July 8 to July 10 in L'Aquila, central Italy, the medieval town hit by a major earthquake...
Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi speaks looks on during a news conference at Rome's Chigi Palace premier office, Tuesday, July 7, 2009, on the eve of the G8 (Group of Eight) summit scheduled from July...   (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)
ROME - APRIL 15:  Centre-right Leader Silvio Berlusconi speaks during a press conference after his 'People of Freedom' coalition victory in the Italian parlimentary elections on April 15, 2008, in Rome, Italy. Belusconi will begin a third term as Prime Minister of Italy.
ROME - APRIL 15: Centre-right Leader Silvio Berlusconi speaks during a press conference after his 'People of Freedom' coalition victory in the Italian parlimentary elections on April 15, 2008, in Rome,...   (Getty Images)
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Deebles
Sep 4, 09 2:48 AM CDT
When Italians start slamming each other for sexual mores it really is time to duck and cover. Remember Clinton? It's the economy, stupid? Well, it's the corruption, stupid. Follow the money and not the penis. No one cares about the penis. Until I can carry one into Starbucks and get a decaf, low-fat latte, I'm pretty comfortable with responsible information. Reply
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Ucantusethatname
Sep 4, 09 2:50 AM CDT
Mary Papenfuss has totally distorted this story as reported in The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/world/europe/04italy.html?hpw). The article is not about "an editor of a Catholic newspaper criticized as gay." The piece is not focused on homosexuality. Reply
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Rembrandt_Q_Einstein
Sep 4, 09 3:52 AM CDT
Berlusconi is still an ass though. That much hasn't changed.
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jagerhans
Sep 4, 09 7:43 AM CDT
berlusconi is way more than an ass. let's see: he is a thief. he bribed a judge to steal from the legitimate owner de Benedetti the large press group 'Mondadori.' He is friend of convicted mafia men like dell'Utri (9 years) and Mangano (life) the latter being appealed by berlusconi as a 'hero' because he kept his mouth shut until death in jail. he made up his empire with money of unknown source, but (this never happens) the money he used to enlarge the capitals of his society came as... bank bills, cash ! two trucks full of used cash of small value, this smells like money recycling. he is a liar in all aspects of his life ranging from his private life to international politics. he passed laws to his exclusive good. he changed the criminal law to gain prescription over the accuses he had to face. he put himself beyond the law. he intimidates his opponents with violence or trials. he repeatedly bribed judges in his career, and of all his trials, only very few of them ended with a full discharge, the others ended because of prescription or the effect of his laws. and even when he was discharged, the reasons of the verdict are often laughable or i'd better say outrageous. he owns all the media and yet claims that the media are either independent or even hostile to him. this is the biggest delinquent we had so far. even mussolini had some limited sense of decency, this scumbag is totally, shamelessly loathsome. he is the devil made man. the fact that he still has supporters is our greatest national shame and we have galore, also thanks to people like that. if he will not be neutralized soon, he'll start thinking about more radical ways to get his filthy hands over this country. more recently he said that Italy must not become multiracial and we must cut of immigration. then he goes to a Tunisian TV he owns and tells them to come to Italy cause in Italy they'll find free hospitals , work and friendly people and he personally wants to let them enter Italy legally and easily. you don't believe me, but if you understand french and a tad of italian listen to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9blS8S_J_I4 Reply
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jagerhans
Sep 4, 09 7:53 AM CDT
and over the affaire of 'l'Avvenire' the catholic newspaper expression of CEI (italian bishops) he made a spectacular show of hypocrisy: first he said that it is awful that journalists take advantage over criminal records of politicians to put them in a bad light in front of the public opinion, and that it is a scandal that they have access to judiciary acts. He went so far to propose that the newspapers will be forbidden to talk about criminal records of the VIP after 5 years. This just to protect him and his friends from the claws of those terrible 'communist' judges and journalists. Then, in order to attack mr. Boffo his servant Feltri (director of the loathsome newspaper 'il Giornale) uses an old record to shame in front of the world a political enemy. He uses the very same techniques he described as unlawful and unfair in order to attack people. and Feltri premised that they have stuff to close the mouths of everyone hat from now will have the audacity to say things not approved by berlusconi... PURE MAFIA ! Reply
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