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January 18th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The top twitter trend in Italy is now #vadaabordocazzo.
While the captain has been labelled a show-off, Mr De Falco, has been hailed
as a hero and the voice of reason in the whole debacle, repeatedly asking
the commander what on earth he was doing by jumping into a life boat before
his 4,200 passengers and crew had been evacuated.
The Italian media said the portrayal of Capt Schettino had tapped into the
most familiar stereotypes of their countrymen – he was a dark-haired,
sun-tanned “dare devil”, according to one ship’s officer, who drove his
114,000 tonne, 13-storey cruise liner “like a Ferrari” and telephoned his
‘Mamma’ as soon as he realised the trouble he was in.
The protagonists in the drama represented “the two faces of Italy”, the
Italian media said.
“His decisive tones recalled black and white war films and comic book heroes,”
La Repubblica said of the audio recordings, in which the Coast Guard officer
sternly tells the captain to speak up and asks him exactly how many
passengers, particularly women and children, are still on board.
“For every Schettino, there is a De Falco, thank goodness,” said one message
on Twitter.
Italy was just managing to repair its international image after the “bunga
bunga” shenanigans of the Berlusconi era when its reputation was once more
dragged through the mud, said an editorial in La Stampa newspaper.
“We’ve had two months to regain our honour in the eyes of the world,” said the
paper, in reference to Mr Berlusconi’s resignation in November and his
replacement by Mario Monti, a highly respected former European Commissioner,
at the head of a straight-talking technocrat government.
“Two months to forget the worst of ourselves: the superficiality, the
carelessness, the pomposity, the abdication of responsibility. And then,
with a single nudge of the rudder, Capt Schettino has sunk our international
reputation, along with his ship.
“We are once again the laughing stock of others. Let’s hope that not
everything that they are saying about Schettino is true – even scapegoats
need a break. But if only half of it is true, we are looking at a type of
Italian that we cannot pretend not to recognise: more full of himself than
sure of himself. One who does stupid things for the sake of having fun and
seeks to hide them with the mantra ‘Everything’s OK, no problem.’”
The captain’s conduct has been vociferously condemned on social networking
sites, with thousands mocking the fact that he was reportedly in a lifeboat
before many of his passengers and crew.
On Facebook, more than 22,000 people have joined two groups that feature a
doctored photograph of the 52-year-old as a pirate.
Many have expressed shame at the captain’s actions, fearing the tragedy will
tarnish Italy’s name.
Others have set up groups declaring that Capt Schettino was a coward who had
gambled with people’s lives.
One message on Twitter described the leaked conversation between Capt
Schettino and the coast guard official as a battle between a “villain
and a hero”.
Another tweet mocked him for falling “magically” into a life boat.
“Do you want to go home, Schettino? It’s dark and you want to go home?”
The 52-year-old captain denied the allegations through his lawyer.
“The captain defended his role on the direction of the ship after the
collision, which in the captain’s opinion saved hundreds if not thousands of
lives,” Bruno Leporatti said. “The captain specified that he did
not abandon ship.”
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