Comments on: Celebrity quote of the year

By: Frank Abela

Frank Abela — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:19:59 +0000

In think you are being a tad naive when taken aback by what you previously referred to as “crass opportunism”. Sorry Madame but have you been around during Labour times and maybe during the last election with the JPO case (which incidentally was shot down after the election by both groups) but was previously presented as a martyr. This is politics after all, what do you expect. Honesty? Come on now! We had honesty from Sant and Gonzi during the last electoral campaign in the same manner that the international community gets it from Milosevic. If its sensationalism you are after I would agree but cannot possibly imagine you being truly surprised …

[Daphne – I am not surprised at Muscat’s opportunism. I am surprised that people can’t see it. And I’m surprised that they see it and accept it, as you do. You can’t compare Pullicino Orlando’s situation with Joseph Muscat. Joseph Muscat is the leader of the Labour Party and putting himself forward as prime minister. You would have to compare Muscat with Gonzi. Pullicino Orlando is an MP. His decisions have absolutely no impact on our lives. And he campaigned for EU membership, not against it.]

By: Moggy

Moggy — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:40:22 +0000

Daphne: I have taken to watching Super One again. It’s wonderful. No wonder it has so many viewers

Yeah, seems like I’m missing all the fun!

By: S

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:07:11 +0000

Indeed Antoine. Labour waged a ten-year all-out war against Malta’s EU membership. Then it’s just “heqq nammetti li zbaljana” when we’re sitting cosy. If these were minor details we’re talking about or, suq, an economic policy which didn’t go exactly to plan, it’d be acceptable to say ‘we made a few mistakes’.

Kif gejna qisu jigi Jorg Haider hames snin ohra u jghidlek, “Isma zbaljat ta’ ras, skuzani. Multiculturalism is the future. And Bob Marley is so cool, man, chill brother.”

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:36:11 +0000

So the prospective leader of our country assesses major, vital decisions concerning the future of all of us with a hindsight of five years. At least he admits his incompetence and poor judgement. Let us all hope that he remains prospective for ever. We must make doubly sure that he does. He is downright dangerous. If he had Winnie’s job in WW11, Angela Merkel would now be commuting between Berlin, Castille and No 10. Good Gracious !

By: Antoine Vella

Antoine Vella — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:04:17 +0000

It‘s unbelievable how nonchalantly Joseph says he was wrong ‘on certain issues’, as if he’s talking about the weather (“I thought it was going to rain but I was wrong”). More than unbelievable, the cheek of it all is outrageous. He compares himself to Tony Blair too.

The journalist could have pressed him to specify which issues but we already know what they were. Joseph was one of those who did their utmost to rob us of our only chance to someday catch up with the rest of Europe.

It was not a momentary error of judgment, their crusade against EU membership. It was a deliberate, sustained, scare-mongering campaign that placed partisan interests before national ones.

Joseph’s role in that, thankfully futile, attempt carries consequences; it damages his political reputation. If he was so terribly wrong about the referendum and the EU, he could also be wrong about the vote for 16yr-olds, wrong about the national crisis, wrong about the burden-sharing pact . . . in fact, he could be wrong about practically everything. Perhaps he should adopt a policy of waiting for hindsight before pronouncing himself, this new leader with an embarrassing past.

By: JM

JM — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:53:13 +0000

New Leader with new ideas: http://www.di-ve.com/Default.aspx?ID=72&Action=1&NewsID=54660 … so much for privacy !

They might as well try to sell some redtouch fone top-ups during their home visits … la dahlu fil bisniss issa :)

By the way it would be fun if they had to issue warning messages on Super 1 that the website ends with .com.mt and not just .com, just in case some visit http://www.redtouch.com :)

[Daphne – I’m fascinated to see that they took my advice via this blog that they should never have tried to call it One anyway, because the most obvious brand for a Labour mobile phone service is Red. But of course, they couldn’t give me the satisfaction of using my idea as was, so they brainstormed on red and came up with RedTouch, which erodes the potential strength of the brand at…one touch. Well, if they knew anything about branding they wouldn’t be in that mess. I can picture the crass ads already, with some sultry chick mouthing: ‘Red Touch….touch me up….”]

By: S

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:22:30 +0000

No shame. Those two words sum it up. The fact that most journalists are happy to let politicians get away with this shameless behaviour says a lot about us as a nation.

By: S

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:13:43 +0000

For crying out loud Mario P! Daphne is absolutely spot on here. It’s VERY VERY convenient for Muscat to come out with this ‘iva nammetti li zbaljana’ line now. He has NOTHING to lose by saying that now. Where was he when Labour were lying through their teeth on EU issues? Ah! He was a front line soldier in Sant’s loyal army of reporters, that’s where he was. The ‘with hindsight’ bit makes it all the more obscene because ‘with hindsight’ in this case means ‘after I kept my mouth shut up for 4 whole years up to the moment I was crowned leader’. It’s important that at least one journalist in this blessed land points out how damn cynical this whole charade is.

By: Lino Cert

Lino Cert — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:57:51 +0000

@Mario P
What Jospeh Muscat is saying is that the Labour Party lost out by insisting that they won the referendum , because this eventually led them to lose two successive elections.
This is incredibly selfish, her is only regretting the effect that this had on the Labour Party. The implications of this is that he is justifying the Labour Party stance, in denying a blatant referendum loss.
He is NOT admitting he was wrong, what he is admitting is that events proved him wrong, thats what he means in HINDSIGHT. Pathetic.
Just like when your partner cheats on you, and then you find out and are devestated, and he says “I am sorry you took it so badly”, he is not sorry that he cheated on you, he is sorry he got found out.

By: Moggy

Moggy — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:52:36 +0000

Look at it this way: if Muscat actually needed “hind-sight” to finally get him to realise that the “Yes” vote won the referendum, he cannot be very perceptive, can he? One wonders what further treats the future hold in store for us. I can’t wait!

[Daphne – Yes, it’s going to be a thrill a minute. I loved the Super One show last night: they put Joey in the studio with Louis Grech and John Attard Montaldo and got them – poor things, really, because they’re worth more than that – to eulogise him. Then they showed a ‘docu-drama’: they took the Super One camera to ‘Brussel’ and vox-popped some of his fellow socialist MEPs. I was struck by the fact that – natch – they were all deeply unattractive women who clearly doted on him for reasons other than his political astuteness and Large Brain. Two of them were actually simpering. And the only comment from one of them – my God, how embarrassing – was not about the contribution he made to the socialists group, but about how she is going to miss him because she used to swap baby photos with him via their mobile phones. The only man MEP they interviewed, a French person, glared at the camera and said curtly and dismissively: Goodbye and good luck. In other ways, I barely know who the hell you are and what is your television camera doing stuck in my face; I will never see you again and it doesn’t bother me at all. I have taken to watching Super One again. It’s wonderful. No wonder it has so many viewers.]