http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110703/local/muscat.373702

John, I have to correct a statement that you make about me:
I did not say that I admired him because his behaviour was like Gaddafi’s and Mintoff’s.
I made two separate statements: one statement included a pun about his treatment of “journalists”; the other statement was about how his behaviour was like Mintoff’s or Gaddafi’s. And I was limiting myself to what was reported on the timesofmalta.com.

John, the press is supposed to be bad, so actually Snoop Dogg got some good free publicity out of all this.

If you would like to read a positive account about Snoop, I suggest you read the following paragraph – it is about him:

“Rajt f’għajnejh serenità assoluta. S’issa, imma, ma kontx għadni qed nara l-intelliġenza li eventwalment rajt aktar tard. Imma l-umiltà iva. Diskorsu kien qisu ta’ tarbija. L-ebda traċċa ta’ qżież li normalment huwa assoċjat ma’ min in-natura tatu dak il-ftit aktar u allura seta’ jagħmel żewġ mili aktar fil-ħajja.”

If you would like to read the full source of this, I suggest you click here:

http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/03/08/professional-secrecy-doesnt-stop-smokin-joe-from-bragging-he-just-doesnt-want-to-say-whether-the-gaddafis-are-his-paymasters/

Issa daqshekk: Hekk dak li ktibt int mhux lanzit u ghira tipikament tal PL/socialista, mela lanzit xinhu ? Spiegalna, please thank you !

Ghaliex Mizzi m’ghandux jiehu “commission” ?

Ghax ha bizzejjed.

Ghax il-bicca tal-power station tinten.

Ghax il-haddiem ha nofs lira zieda, waqt li hu jdahhal l-eluf kbar u l-miljuni ta’ xejn.

Ghax mhux suppost jiehu daqshekk flus talli joqghod wara skrivanija.

Ghax kien jahdem l-Enemalta, u wiehed mill-hbieb tal-hbieb.

Ghax taghna mhux qed jirbhu tender wahda mgiddma.

U hallikom mill-lanzit!

You admired him, because his behaviour was like Gaddafi’s and Mintoff’s. Well, all I can tell you is that this Snoop Dogg will be begging for the media’s attention as soon as he’s not in the limelight. He will get what he deserves as soon as another ‘supastar’ is made (by the media).

He will be told “now get your ass out of here” with the bad press he will receive, from the same people he left to wait for long hours.

Who said that those who comment on MaltaToday have a sense of humour?

Nothing to do with rollers, I suppose?

The equivalent for lanzit could be “to covet”.: inordinately or wrongly desirous of wealth or possessions.

Remember the tenth commandment:
You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbour.

This is the closest I can get.

[Daphne – There’s no word for ‘lanzit’ in English. German might have something, because after all it has Schadenfreude, which means the hateful pleasure felt on seeing bad things happen to those you envy. Lanzit is not envy, but hatred and resentment that stems from envy.]

What I meant to say is that they could not have been so stupid as to not know what the word ‘decommissioning’ meant and maybe they just said it to remind people of the commission paid and bring out again the hatred and lanzit of someone who is better off than them.