A long-form article in The New Yorker, titled "Basta Bunga Bunga," asks: "Have Italians had enough of Silvio Berlusconi—and the culture he embodies?" Included in the coverage is a Berlusconi campaign video from 2008 in which women, adoring and otherwise, sing high praise to the prime minister. As the author points out:
Berlusconi is the nation's waning Hugh Hefner, reviled and admired for his hedonism—except that he's supposed to be running the country.
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