So, now he’s been trained to repeat the same few soundbites, just like Ed Miliband here

Published: January 19, 2013 at 11:23am




23 Comments Comment

  1. Qeghdin Sew says:

    Come on. Gonzi was trounced yesterday.

  2. Rosanne B says:

    Daphne, they are all the same..

  3. Randolph Peresso says:

    The same tactic is adopted by Konrad Mizzi. Fr. JOe Borg comments about it in his blog. http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130118/blogs/deliverable-not-delivered.453787

  4. gallettu says:

    John Pace in The Times yesterday confirmed what the PN is saying that it is impossible that you get a fixed-price contract for 10 years and that PL has no new proposals for the country.

    John Pace said that Conrad Mizzi was one of the people who discussed this proposal 10 years ago so the big brain now recycled it and made it his brilliant idea 10 years later – see the artcle in The Times 18th January.

  5. gallettu says:

    Even MALTA TAGHNA LKOLL is recycled – just look at his Excellency The President OF Malta Dr George Abela, proof of tolerence and unity under PN governments and the people approved it with open hands.

  6. Jozef says:

    Victor Calvagna is the second researcher in a week who won’t have his work distorted for political gain.

    The first was Edward Mallia.

  7. Oscar says:

    Jesus, is this guy for real? Labour: all the same.

  8. Drinu says:

    So funny, looks like a Monty Python sketch.

  9. SPAM says:

    There was no teleprompter but Xarabank felt very staged yesterday.

    Peppi was definitely not himself, Muscat was trained to repeat and Gonzi looked a bit uneasy.

    [Daphne – Those stupid BA rules, which banned applause and banned Peppi from interjecting. They really killed the chemistry and took the ‘live’ out of a live performance.]

    • Qeghdin Sew says:

      How can you say it was not a live performance? The debate had a natural flow.

      When Eddie Fenech Adami and Mintoff, Sant, or whoever battled it out in the BA electoral debates, there were no applauses or interjections. And yet they always performed brilliantly.

      Is Gonzi so reliant on tailwind?

      [Daphne – No, it’s the psychology of having a silent and unresponsive audience before you. It has a negative effect on speakers in a way that having NO audience does not. It bothered both speakers, you could tell, being faced with this stone-faced crowd.]

  10. Bob says:

    This cannot be serious? It must be doctored? Please say it was.

  11. Norwegian Wood says:

    What a fake!

  12. Stephen says:

    Good lord the same answer to all five questions.

  13. Grezz says:

    Meanwhile,

    “Dr Muscat was too much of a risk for the country, he (Dr. Gonzi) said, adding that the financial service sector which Dr Muscat was praising was at stake because of the effects of Labour’s electoral promises on the country’s finances.” ( http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130119/elections-news/pm-asks-muscat-to-withdraw-energy-plan.453883 )

  14. TROY says:

    They must both have the same problem with their teleprompter. It’s stuck on the first answer.

  15. emmanuel Scerri says:

    Tomorrow The Malta today is revealed a corruption scandal on tomorrow paper!

  16. AE says:

    This reminds me of the time I was forced to study Arabic to be able to enter University because Mintoff had made it compulsory to please his friend Ghaddafi.

    Not being one to like being forced to do anything, I (sadly) resented the language and only learnt the alphabet the week before the exam. I then studied off by heart one essay, word for word. It didn’t matter what I was going to be asked in the exam because this was the only answer I was giving.

    I got a 5 – the basic passmark. Maybe that is what Muscat is aiming for.

  17. Last Post says:

    Nice one – I couldn’t stop laughing, well with disbelief, until I realised how it is so true to home.

  18. anthony says:

    Without a teleprompter he can only manage one or two soundbites.

    I do not think he is capable of much more than this.

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