January 23, 2011
"Neither, it seems, do many Italians. Ms. Karima El-Mahroug’s performance was the latest installment in a surreal and very Italian tragicomedy — one that blurs fact and fiction, reality and reality television — in a land where the border between appearance and reality has long been hazy, both in and out of politics."

Why is our politics so boring and full of hatred towards President Obama?  What we need is Italian style entertainment in our living rooms.

Surreal - A Soap Opera Starring Berlusconi - NYTimes.com