{"id":1662778,"date":"2022-09-28T15:52:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T19:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1662778"},"modified":"2022-09-28T15:57:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T19:57:15","slug":"college-football-player-apologizes-for-tweet-praising-italys-new-conservative-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/college-football-player-apologizes-for-tweet-praising-italys-new-conservative-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Player Apologizes For Tweet Praising Italy\u2019s New Conservative Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcollege-football-player-apologizes-for-tweet-praising-italys-new-conservative-prime-minister%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1662778&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A college football player apologized after tweeting his support for incoming Italian Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/conservative-giorgia-meloni-claims-victory-as-italys-first-female-prime-minister\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Giorgia Meloni<\/a>, a conservative nationalist who the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/absolutely-fake-news-on-cnn-giorgia-melonis-political-rival-shuts-down-fascism-fears\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Left portrays as a fascist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Buschini, a sophomore starting punter for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/college-football\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Nebraska<\/a>, posted his approval of a viral Meloni speech from 2019 in which she accused liberal elitists of attacking the family. In the speech, Meloni unabashedly defended her faith and belief in traditional values.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll glory to God!\u201d Buschini wrote in response to a tweet praising the speech. \u201cLove this!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The speech Buschini praised, then apologized for praising, has become a rallying cry for conservatives around the world who see Meloni as the latest hope for stopping the West\u2019s slide toward socialism.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pro-Life Prime Minister of Italy Giorgia Meloni:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will defend God, country and family.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Cm15gBGeHx\">https:\/\/t.co\/Cm15gBGeHx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Xbdz2gRIMw\">pic.twitter.com\/Xbdz2gRIMw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LifeNews.com (@LifeNewsHQ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LifeNewsHQ\/status\/1574438884678766592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy is the family an enemy? Why is the family so frightening?\u201d Meloni said. \u201cThere is a single answer to all these questions. Because it defines us. Because it is our identity. Because everything that defines us is now an enemy for those who would like us to no longer have an identity and to simply be perfect consumer slaves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meloni, 45, a member of the Brothers of Italy party, heads an alliance of conservative parties which now boasts majorities in both houses of parliament and will likely form a new government. Critics have branded her a fascist and compared her to World War II-era dictator Benito Mussolini, in large part for her fierce criticism of globalists and her early political roots in a party linked to the infamous figure.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-443260\" class=\"wp-image-443260 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-1427424046-864x576.jpg\" alt=\"Giorgia Meloni, leader of the Fratelli d&#039;Italia (Brothers of Italy) gestures during a press conference at the party electoral headquarters overnight, on September 25, 2022 in Rome, Italy. The snap election was triggered by the resignation of Prime Minister Mario Draghi in July, following the collapse of his big-tent coalition of leftist, right-wing and centrist parties.\" width=\"864\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-1427424046-864x576-1.jpg 864w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-1427424046-300x200-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-1427424046-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-1427424046-1536x1024-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-1427424046-2048x1365-1.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-1427424046-1800x1200-1.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-1427424046-1200x800-1.jpg 1200w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-443260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-family nationalist Georgia Meloni is poised to become Italy\u2019s next prime minister. (Photo by Antonio Masiello\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so they attack national identity, they attack religious identity, they attack gender identity, they attack family identity,\u201d she continued in her career-defining speech three years ago. \u201cI can\u2019t define myself as Italian, Christian, woman, mother. No. I must be Citizen X, Gender X, Parent 1, Parent 2. I must be a number. Because when I am only a number, when I no longer have an identity or roots, then I will be the perfect slave at the mercy of financial speculators. The perfect consumer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A day after praising the speech, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brian_buschini\/status\/1574914028777967617?s=20&amp;t=BeRX0kIS8lP_popJexqh7g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buschini was taking it back<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to take the time to apologize for a tweet I posted yesterday,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI saw a headline from a speech the new Prime Minister of Italy made that seemed to support Christianity and family values. I unfortunately tweeted about this without knowing the background or history of this politician or the movement she is involved with. In no way do I support fascism or racism in any form. I apologize for posting without understanding the reality of what I was posting about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meloni, who was raised by a single mom in Rome, won her first local election at 21 and became Italy\u2019s youngest ever minister when former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi made her youth minister in 2008. In her 2021 autobiography, \u201cI am Giorgia,\u201d Meloni described joining a local chapter of the Italian Social Movement, created in 1946 by supporters of Mussolini.<\/p>\n<p>She compares her party and her politics to Republicans in the U.S. and Britain\u2019s Conservative Party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes to natural families, no to the LGBT lobby, yes to sexual identity, no to gender ideology, yes to the culture of life, no to the abyss of death,\u201d she said in a June speech. \u201cNo to the violence of Islam, yes to safer borders, no to mass immigration, yes to work for our people, no to major international finance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A college football player apologized after tweeting his support for incoming Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, a conservative nationalist who the Left portrays as a fascist. Brian Buschini, a sophomore starting punter for University of Nebraska, posted his approval of a viral Meloni speech from 2019 in which she accused liberal elitists of attacking the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1662781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1662778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1662778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1662781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1662778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1662778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1662778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}