Who is Silvio, what is he?

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Now that America is no longer governed by a buffoon, where do we go for our cruel laughs? Why, Italy, of course, where Silvio Berlusconi may have given us the best Freudian slip since President Nixon said, "It is time to replace the discredited president--the discredited present welfare system":

In absolute terms, I am the most legally persecuted man of all times, in the whole history of mankind, worldwide, because I have been subjected to more than 2,500 court hearings and I have the good luck – having worked well in the past and having accumulated an important wealth – to have been able to spend more than €200m in consultants and judges ... I mean in consultants and lawyers.