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Federico Orlando

The book is called "shotgun Montanelli" and tells how the great journalist, the right-hand man, had an argument with the right until you get to vote for the left. He wrote to his co-director of "Journal", Federico Orlando, another right-winger who even came to apply, albeit as an independent, with the left, after decades of militancy in the Liberal Party from which he left, he recalls, "when the major characters to Malagodi Liberals were replaced by De Lorenzo and the Almighty"


Federico, not this poor Italy you can not afford even a presentable right?

This is the key to the conflict between Berlusconi and Montanelli, or rather the conflict between Montanelli and its readers.

Montanelli said, I have no master except my readers.

Readers are bad bosses. Montanelli in its infinite exterior has said this but said that the journalist must stay one step ahead its readers.

For example?

Berlusconi When journalists asked his choice "or with me or Montanelli had in the pocket of polls that gave his party 80 percent of newspaper readers. Players who had praised Montanelli even if not considered as close to them but not far away. In fact, then came Felt copies and earned over Montanelli.

Which newspaper readers today is better right?

It 's a good fight. "Free" and the "Journal" have it with the "Sheet" Ferrara, who consider the evil adviser to Berlusconi but among themselves there is a strong competition due to war. And to those who make the biggest gun, who does the most intransigent.

Who will win?

With the right type of which there is in Italy Felt lost, because the Italian right is not made up of brave but conformist. The right-wing electorate is beginning to be disappointed with the first acts of the Berlusconi government, but there is a greater concern that Felt go too far in criticism. Felt can not make the step too far.

What kind of right there in Italy?

In Italy there has always been identified between liberal and property, wealth, lack of rules. There was a right that has identified the growth of liberal country in the rejection of the rules. The right of us is an anarchist, western, coagulates around self-interest, to be carried out outside the law, with tax evasion, the illegal housing, with the amnesty, with the privileges, corporations and around the ideal to counteract negative to anyone who comes to propose something new, socialism, communism. Berlusconi, who is a great magician, played to perfection this desire of the Italian right to own and unified around anticommunism.

You said once that you feel more assured by Fini that Berlusconi.

I said years ago when I saw that he needed to mend Fini, to forget their origins.

is no longer the case?

no longer the case. Once fully cleared through customs, got to the Deputy Prime Minister Fini is reborn in his party the Social Movement. We see Gasparri making the blacklisting, we see in Fini operating commands of the police. What nobody knows is that even before the campaign Fini had to do the purging of all parliamentary groups hunting the so-called liberals who were elected in 96 lists of the National Alliance: Sandra Fei, flakes, Senator Basini and many others who were even forced to do a party called "Liberal Right."

Fini forgot held in Fiuggi? An

Today is back to being MSI.

Bossi can be defined right?

No. Bossi can not be called anything. Bossi is the province. E 'Poujade, the province gray, shadowy, bilious, angry. The bossiani are those who see Tremonti the savior of his country because he talks about tax cuts.

The right of Berlusconi ...

E 'true conservative right, morally sordid. When I meet my ex in Transatlantic fellow party members, Antonio Martino, Alfredo Biondi, Raffaele Costa, I tell them: "What the hell are you doing? You have nothing to say in front of a government that brings law as a primary concern on the false accounting and the inheritance tax for estates ultramiliardari? "

And they say nothing?

Nothing, whisper, you pass by, they ask you to talk about it ... I am shocked at least

?

Sure, but do not say, I whisper.

The liberal right, what did you and Montanelli, where is it?

no longer exists. It 'been a myth. I tell you one thing for a man who was the co- Montanelli may seem a curse? For me right now is ideal Eugenio Scalfari. It may seem bold but true.

And when D'Alema says he is a liberal who makes you feel?

Cross has taught us all that they can become too liberal starting from distant positions.

Montanelli ever thought you'd found a party?

When asked why, instead of voting to the left does not do more to improve the right "vulgar, illiberal, business center," said the journalist must always be the protagonist ever witnessed.

you agree?

No. It 's a farce questionable and naive. Montanelli was one as a maitre a penser to which people turned for guidance to vote. And he gave her this information.

Even you, as a Montanelli, this is scary right?

enormously. This is a right that wants the clubs, the strong fist. The country is still the most reactionary of its leaders. I listen to Radio radical where you pour the sewers of society, the dregs, I hear terrible things: "They shot him in the face? They had to shoot him in the mouth! In your ears! "This is the way to talk so much middle class, not just the country-nothing. Have you ever argued with

Montanelli?

Yes, before taking condirezione, in the years when we talk about how you must be a journalist. This afternoon, when we meet in Lavarone, to take a few minutes. It can also be poignant for readers to discover how this man, in his total lack of feelings according to the vox populi, the professional was not without emotion when giving advice to his friends and colleagues.