BBC: Brussels Broadcasting Corporation re-writes history of 2011

 
Mary Ellen Synon
synonblog.dailymail.co.uk
01 January 2012
 
At this point, I’m just about willing to believe that the journalists at the BBC are so soaked in pro-EU bias that they can’t even hear their own voices anymore.

Tonight on BBC World News, there was a round-up of the past year in the EU. Over a photograph of Mario Monti, the new Italian prime minister, and Silvio Berlusconi, the former prime minister — trimmed up with the Italian flag as garnish — the reporter said: ‘Leaders got shunted off as voters got less and less patient.’

Arghhhh.

Voters had nothing to do with Monti taking over from Berlusconi.

Berlusconi, love him or hate him or just laugh at him, was voted into office in the most recent general election in 2008. He was ‘shunted off’ not in another election, but following pressure the Germans and the ECB exerted on the president of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano.

It was obvious from the start that the dumping of Berlusconi was an EU coup — see my blog posts of Nov 8 and Nov 22 — but the details of the overthrow of this elected head of government have only become clear in the last week, following digging by Wall Street Journal reporters in Berlin, Rome and Brussels.

The team found out that in October German Chancellor Angela Merkel made a confidential telephone call to the 86-year old president of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano. What she was doing was ‘prodding Italy to change its prime minister, if the incumbent — Silvio Berlusconi — couldn’t change Italy.’

In the secret — and totally out of order — phone call, she told him that Europe really wanted to see more aggressive reforms. According to the WSJ, she said she was worried Berlusconi wasn’t strong enough to deliver. She thanked Napolitiano ‘in advance’ for doing ‘what is in your powers’ to promote reform.

President Napolitano should have put the phone down right after about the first 20 seconds of that call. But he didn’t, and if he were my president I’d be checking with the constitutional lawyers to see how to get him impeached.

No, what Napolitano did — as at the same time the ECB worked to tighten the screws on the Italian government — was get the message.

Or I’d say that, in his own terms, Napolitano knew he had to do the work for the Capo in Berlin, because ‘the Don never goes to the hit.’

First Napolitiano spoke privately to the Italian parliament’s main parties, sounding them out about a change of government. Finally he began speaking openly about it.

These manoeuvrings by the ECB and Napolitian led to Berlusconi being toppled in parliament. The man Merkel and Brussels wanted to replace him was former European Commissioner Mario Monti. But Monti wasn’t even a member of parliament.

Merkel’s new uomo d’onore Napolitiano did what was needed: he appointed Monti to the Italian Senate. Then the utterly unelected Monti was made prime minister.

The voters had nothing to do with it.

But the BBC wants to trick its viewers into believing that a Berlin-directed putsch is the same thing as a democratic decision. The scary — and sad — thing is that the BBC reporters evidently can’t see the difference.

 
Source: http://synonblog.dailymail.co.uk
 

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