By now, no one should be surprised by the conduct of Silvio Berlusconi as Italy enters the final week of election campaigning. He's compared himself to Jesus and Napoleon, sworn off sex until the votes are in and described the Chinese as baby boilers.
But when he announces, as he did today, that anyone who plans voting for the centre-left opposition is a "coglioni" - a slang word meaning testicle, prick or idiot - his desicion to run his re-election effort like an episode of South Park makes it hard to turn away.
As a previous post suggested, this may be his goal - the more apparent insanity that comes from his lips, the less the Italian media gives airtime or column inches to his opponents.
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