NBC: "Berlusconi is too old for Beijing"

NEW YORK--(Italy Watch)--The Italian press is taking much note of NBC's excessively harsh treatment of Italia, underlining NBC's Bob Costas' and Matt Lauer's comments: "Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi chose to not be here tonight alongside 80 other heads of state... ...because in Beijing it's too hot, too hot for him... ...at 72 he is too old for such a trip."