Comment of the week: Joseph Muscat and Big Bird
I lent Joseph Muscat one of my books for his dissertation research.
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The reference to the inclusion, in Joseph Muscat’s dissertation bibliography, of the Oxford Dictionary and The March on Democracy – famously owned by Big Bird of Sesame Street – says it all.
From Patrick
What is also interesting about this article is that Joseph Muscat is now falling between two stools.
He thinks like a journalist and TRIES to act like a politician.
As a leader he “reports” what he is told, superficially and without political substance.
Can anyone figure out his proposal for a second university? Is this a justification to cover up Labour’s disaster on tertiary education when university was a no-go area?
Setting up a second university would not create competition but just two mediocre institutions, as one would drain the other of its resources. It would also drain the country of its financial resources.
What we need is to develop more R & D not set up sister faculties of basic arts and other courses. And by the way, if one had to see Dr Muscat’s 1996 dissertation on party funding, one would quickly understand how superficial he really is.
Just go to the Melitensia section at the university library and look at his bibliography, which includes the Oxford English Dictionary and The March on Democracy, a two-volume book by James Truslow Adams, published in 1932 and 1933, chronicling the history of the United States of America.
The first volume covers America from discovery to settlement in 1860; the second volume reviews the American Civil War and the industrial revolution’s impact on the structure of the country.
It was part of a series of five volumes. Big Bird of Sesame Street owns a copy of the work. This is meant as a subtle visual joke, as Big Bird’s character is meant to be only six years old and relatively naive.
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Precisely – it is not Joseph Muscat who is skin deep. It is the whole Labour Party which is literally waiting to shed this skin and unleash what it really is: a club of thugs.
Novanta due minuti di applawsi.
Many thanks for that brownie point. What a compliment – it feels like a burger staff member winning waiter of the week after serving Joseph Muscat.
In Muscat’s dissertation bibliography, you’ll also find Mikhael Gorbachev’s Perestroika – so relevant to party funding.
The March on Democracy gave him insight to the US dollar bill; 2 the dictionary helped him with his spelling in translating a big chunk on the Galdes Parlamentary Report, and Gorbachov’s work taught him about forced party funding.
Patrick, I wonder how Dr. Muscat feels when he knows that his aides can read the words somehow and they can make out the language. Maybe Marisa is really there to TEFL.
Lovely. So Big Bird inspires the Leader (capital L) and rubber Teletubi puppets inspire the deputy leader (small ‘l’).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DJ34MOu_yQ
Kemm hu smooth operator. Smajt li qed jigi cast ghall-James Bond movie li jmiss. Xi hadd jikkonferma?
Le, ta – Nahseb ghandek zball kbir. Jiena smajt li jridu l-Denis ghax “fih ragel” izjed.
Fuq Bondi Plus, Joseph Muscat tghidx kemm farfar rix meta qal il-kelma Bajjparrtisssann. Tghid din gabha mill-ktieb The March Of Democracy?
[Daphne – Risky move. Maltastar might well have written a headline confusing it with BISEXAUL.]
Jien personalment nahseb li Joseph Muscat huwa sempliciment ‘figure head’ u jinqdew bih….F’kelma wahda, kannol bla krema…
You poor minded people have no idea who Dr. Muscat is. Why not have a look around the king of liars Gonzipn.
Oh yes we do.
So how much is the government paying you for this site? I mean come on, this sort of dedication to ridiculing all prominent opponents to the current adminstration has got to come at a price.
[Daphne – ‘How much is the government paying you for this site?’ You have to vote Labour to think like that. I can’t even begin to explain to you why and how this is typically Labour thinking. It would go straight over your head. M’hemmx min jilghab it-tennis u l-bridge? Why would I have to be paid by anyone to do this – or is that an acknowledgement that somebody like you wouldn’t do it unless you were paid danger money, but would do it if you were paid to do so? Bunch of prats.]