Of Marcello Veneziani
But don't be ashamed to accuse the government in office and Salvini in particular, Of divide up the appointments as you have practiced all your life? Don't be ashamed – you leftists, you left-wing intellectual clergy, you left-wing newspapers and news, you seasoned Rai trade unionists and you more hypocritical and pompous right-thinking crypto-leftists – to cry scandal and be indignant just because the Grillini and the Northern League members, in modo naive, they follow the ways of subdivision that you have been practicing with servile professionalism for decades? On the contrary, in Renzi's time we even had to regret the usual division, because he took everything, on Rai and beyond. This time the rock of the scandal was Marcello Foa, came from the Giornale di Montanelli and then remained at the Giornale di Feltri until he moved to the Canton of Ticino to teach communication science and manage a Ticino publishing group. Never been involved in politics, no blemish on his criminal record or reputation, no suspicious connection. Nothing scandalous. But for the valiant Italian Information Collective plus Pd, starting with the Corazzata Repubblika, Foa says he is a student of Montanelli (a boaster, so), teaches manipulation of news i.e. fake news and not communication science, he is even a guest on Russia Today and therefore is a hired servant in Putin's service, he even retweeted something by one Francesca Totolo, “patriot financed by Casa Pound” (which notoriously has billions, other than poor Renzi with his little paper plane, at our expense, which cost a few hundred million).
And then, he is depraved: pedophile? Serial killer? Terrorist? Let's hope, worse: “sovereignist”. No, this cannot be felt, shares the foul vice of 60% of Italians, according to the latest polls. You want proof? He wrote a tweet against Mattarella. The crime, indeed regicide, which arouses horror even in the mild Corriere della Sera, is the following and it was brought out by the San Bernardo police dog Emanuele Fiano, of the Democratic Party's homicide squad. Here is the text: “the meaning of Mattarella's speech: I answer to economic operators and to the European Union, not to citizens. Disgust". If he hadn't also signed it with his surname I would have been able to recognize it as mine. I share it, and not for a question of butchery, in disgust; not towards the Head of State but towards this position of his which offends democracy, the constitution and the sovereign people. If I were Foa I would put it on my CV...
They have not yet accused him of racism and anti-Semitism because of his surname, but they will soon demonstrate that Foa in his case is the acronym for Anti-European Organized Fascists and he calls himself that to confuse himself with the Jewish victims of fascism. At least Gentiloni was witty, saying that a sovereignist like Foa will get us out of the Eurovision. But the others... I felt embarrassed for them, for their reversible face with the back, for their truth and dignity reduced - as they say in Naples - to mapspine e' ciess. I don't know if Foa will get the green light from the supervisory commission and what orders Pharaoh Berluscone will give, but Foa is simply someone who doesn't think like the Establishment but like most Italians. I don't know if he will go to Rai and what he will do, but to me it seems like a good sign of a breakup. Not in terms of the appointment method (decide on politics, as always) but on the level of discontinuity with the previous waves of helpful repeaters of the Single Authorized Opinion. It will be hard for him to get down from the plush Switzerland to the Lower Floor, the Canton of Tapino. Goodbye beautiful Lugano, welcome back to the Italian-Italian Hell.
MV, The weather 29 July 2018