This is priceless.
"The mafia has a bad reputation, but much of that's undeserved," says Giovanni "John" Gambino, a Palermo-to-Brooklyn transplant and relation of Carlo Gambino, to NBC News. "As with everything in life, there are good, bad and ugly parts – the rise of global terrorism gives the mafia a chance to show its good side."
Some of Gambino's good side has involved heroin trafficking, extortion, loansharking and murder. Then again, in favorably comparing his, ahem, business enterprises with ISIS, Signor Gambino does have a point, which was rather humorously made long ago by Bugsy Siegel: "We only kill each other" — well, mostly, anyway — whereas ISIS prefers indiscriminate slaughter.
The downside to Mr. Gambino's argument is that when one needs ISIS to make oneself look "good" …