NP but Italy and a clownish anarchist?

[Brian Kempf]

Bepe Grillo is leader of the right-of-centre Five-Star Movement in Italy. I believe Grillo himself was legally precluded from running for office due to manslaughter charges some years ago (motor vehicle crash, I believe), but his party is somewhat popular, no doubt due to his populist, anti-corruption platform. 

He seems like a Colbert/Stewart type to me, except Bepe actually managed to get a decent independent movement out of it...

B

On Mar 2, 2013, at 4:25 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hey, anyone learning about that ex-comic, self-billed clown who ran and got 25% of the
> Italian vote. Merry Prankster, Abbie Hoffman-like----I project by my limited history---
> I heard him talk a bit on NPR.....trenchant, verbally fearless (it seems), and nerve-striking
> within the country........what a world.
>  
> Is his name Beppo? (It can be looked up). Any European plisters know more?
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