Berlusconi: My Wife Must Apologize

Silvio Berlusconi apparently has a hard time coming to terms with the facts. After his wife, Veronica Lario, announced that she would seek a divorce to their 19 year marriage, Berlusconi told an Italian paper that “Veronica will have to publicly apologize to me. And I don't know if that will be enough.” Berlusconi went on to complain that this is the “third time in an election campaign that she plays a joke like this on me.” Lario was apparently pushed over the edge by Berlusconi’s attendance at an 18-year-old’s birthday party, and The Times of London notes she “is also an astute — if hitherto discreet — political operator, who has expressed left-wing views that differ sharply from her husband’s on issues from the Iraq war to bio-ethics” and suggests that her entry into politics “could give the fractured and demoralized Left a badly needed boost.”