Dear Mr. Brunetta, take it easy

Non- Italian readers might not be acquainted with Renato Brunetta, our Minister for Public Administration and Innovation. Good for them. And, I may add, I wish I were you (I'm talking to you, non-Italian readers ). But since this blog's intention is to give you a glimpse of what happens in Italy, I'm afraid I have to introduce this individual to you: As soon as he got appointed, Mr. Brunetta started lashing out against public administration employees, claiming that they slacked off on the job. To be fair, public administration employees aren't exactly hard workers and some of them even go so far as to leave their work premises to go grocery shopping. But Mr. Brunetta didn't distinguish the "shopaholics" from those who actually worked (yes, we have those in Italy too ) and started calling ALL of them "fannulloni", which could be translated with the word "slackers". For those interested in the Italian language: "fannullone" is made up of the verb "fare"= to do (fa' is a contraction ) and "nullone", which doesn't exist as a word per se. It comes from the word "nulla", which means "nothing". In short="to do nothing". The suffix "one" means something big, therefore "fannullone" literally means "a big person who doesn't do anything". Seriously. I was kidding about this last thing. But you get the idea.
However, Mr. Brunetta wasn't satisfied. He needed to attack yet another category of workers, so a few weeks ago he chose movie directors. He called them "parasites". He said that the government didn't have to subsidize their films because, they too, were "fannulloni".

Yesterday he talked in front of a Berlusconi-friendly audience. He was in Cortina, the Aspen of Italy or the Gstaad of Switzerland. He was sporting a navy blue sweater, emulating his boss Berlusconi, who never wears a suit and a tie on weekends. Yes, they are peoplelikeus. But I digress. In Cortina Mr. Brunetta attacked left-wingers for the gazillionth time. But this time he distinguished between the "bad left" and "the good left". By the way, I wonder what the "good left" could be according to Mr. Brunetta. I assume that people of the "good left" are people who actually dislike the left and want to move to the right. Anyway, Mr. Brunetta accused "the bad left" of plotting a coup d'état. That's right. A coup détat. When asked to issue an apology, he retorted that he had nothing to apologize for and that everybody knows the names of the wanna-be usurpers. Apparently their names are all over the papers and in the media. Could someone please name their names to me? I am SO clueless.
One more thing: Mr. Brunetta defined the "bad left" as "sinistra di merda". Again, for those interested in the Italian language : "sinistra" means "left" and "merda" means "sh**t". Yes, I wrote the S word with two asterisks. I am SO not like Mr. Brunetta. Last but not least: he kindly invited the élite of the "bad left" to "go to die killed", which is the literal translation of the Roman idiomatic phrase "va a morì ammazzato". Mr. Brunetta is from Venice, but when in Rome.......