The Telegraph reports on Madonna’s communist press office

Madonna has infuriated some Italian politicians by suggesting that prime minister Silvio Berlusconi “screwed the entire country.”

In an interview with the country’s best selling Oggi glossy magazine, the singer is asked what she thinks of Mr Berlusconi, who facing trial this month for allegedly having sex with an underage prostitute.

“What do I think about Berlusconi? I wouldn’t like to talk about it now. But didn’t The Economist say it all?” she tells the magazine.

Earlier this year the magazine carried an analysis of the billionaire politician’s bunga-bunga crisis under the headline: “The man who screwed an entire country.”

An earlier piece written in 2001 before the crisis was titled: “”Why Silvio Berlusconi is unfit to lead Italy.”

But the singer’s comments have provoked fury with supporters of Mr Berlusconi in Italy, where Madonna’s family were born.

Italian parliamentary official Carlo Giovanardi told local media: “Her political thoughts are worth nothing.”

“Among other things she is openly for homosexual families and therefore openly against our culture and our Constitution.
“Mrs. Ciccone quotes The Economist, a magazine in a country that has recently experienced strong social upheavals,” he adds.

Gabriella Carlucci, a parliamentary MP from the PDL party said: “It’s disappointing that she’s running down Italy because it’s a country that loves her

“It is obvious she has a communist press officer who told her what to say to get quoted in communist papers.
It is obvious she knows nothing about Italy.”

Another PDL party official Daniela Santanche called for a boycott of her new movie W.E.

“Madonna has offended millions of Italians. After this I hope she’ll be left to watch her movie on her own,” he said.

Source: The Telegraph