Vittorio Feltri responds to the insults of Lilli Gruber: "I recommend a brain lift

They tell me that the elderly Lilli Gruber, annoyed by an article dedicated to her by Free about his propensity on TV to always hang a left, inviting you to the program you directed, Half past eight, almost exclusively his friends, he has me covered with insults on the radio (A day as a sheep), which, knowing it, does not surprise or pain me. Even harsh criticisms leave me indifferent if they concern my personal work. It happens, however, that in this circumstance the piece that annoyed her is not a work signed by me but by my colleague Costanza Cavalli, who has an incisive but delicate pen, and has limited herself to recording some tics of the famous or infamous leader. I therefore point out that the South Tyrolean journalist this time too, as often happens, is wrong in her aim and has struck me by mistaking me for the author of the text, written very well by the editor Costanza.

It happens at a certain age to make confusion and to say nonsense, so I grant Lilli the geriatric extenuating circumstances. It would be absurd to take it out on a lady who was prematurely aged, and yet not resigned to the passing of the years, to the point of hiding her decadence with the bleak plastic surgery that the disfigures the face making ridiculous.

La Gruber calls me a poor man in serious andropause, ignoring the aforementioned andropause it is not a pathology but a natural phenomenon much less accentuated than the menopause, of which she is an innocent victim of luster, without anyone having had the bad taste to remind her. I take care to refresh her memory, not being able to refresh her blurred mind and her body in physiological disintegration.

by Vittorio Feltri