Comments on: Malta Today: not thinking straight, as usual

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:09:09 +0000

In reply to ciccio2011.

“Bang.”

You’re treading on a minefield, Ciccio.

By: Joethemaltaman

Joethemaltaman — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:19:54 +0000

In reply to silvio farrugia. I really think you should use a spelling checker. But spelling apart, I think you should also try to use your brain once in a while. Oh, and try and watch less Super One.

By: duncan scerri

duncan scerri — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:23:03 +0000

In reply to Raphael. So bitter. So twisted. You need a new hobby. [Daphne - I agree. That sums up Raphael perfectly. Oh, were you talking to me? Tsk Tsk, the new Liberal Gay Labour Elve propaganda: now that we know for sure that Daphne isn't an ugly witch because some of our number have seen her around at last, let's spread the word that she's bitter and twisted and in need of a life despite the voluminous evidence that she must have at least two lives to cope. Fikhom priza bhala progressivi misoginisti.]

By: ciccio2011

ciccio2011 — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:09:31 +0000

In reply to Two Kiwis.

“SHOULD IT EMERGE THAT MATTHEW VELLA AND SAVIOUR BALZAN HAVE TIED THEIR NECKS TOGETHER AND STEPPED OFF DINGLI CLIFFS”

That should explain that loud bang heard in that area some weeks ago. As usual, it-Torca got it wrong.

By: Raphael

Raphael — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:21:42 +0000

‘Its ace reporter Raphael Vassallo was busy at it on his Facebook wall, asking what it could possibly be that Edgar Galea Curmi asked the police commissioner, and suggesting that it might well be something really sinister.’

Bollocks. What Raphael Vassallo asked on his facebook wall was why the times reported that ‘no request was made’… when the police commissioner himself had just confirmed that galea did indeed make a request. The times in fact amended the mistake in its story a little later. I know it might be a little hard for you to do, but do you think you could resist the impulse to lie at least once in your entire career?

[Daphne – Go to hell, Raphael. You live off your earnings from a newspaper that has turned manipulating facts, to suit the owners’ agenda, into an art form. Ask yourself why they keep you on the pay-roll. If your history with The Malta Independent is anything to go by, it’s not because you’re productive. Since joining Malta Today you have become a hundred times worse: now you’re not just lazy, but you’re also a paranoid dissembler.

You start out with an agenda and sort the facts to suit. When the facts do not suit your agenda, you twist them, or leave bits out (it’s called ‘lying by omission’, but then you were probably asleep during this particular lecture).

Your boss Saviour is particularly good at it – I can still see him sitting in my burned and blackened home five years ago and telling me he would not pursue any story on Arlette Baldacchino’s involvement with Norman Lowell and the extreme right because “she is a friend of my sister”. Nice one. Nice editorial policy for a newspaper: protect our friends and target our enemies.

You know exactly what you were trying to do on Facebook: cast aspersions and sow doubt about what Edgar Galea Curmi asked the police commissioner. You should know exactly what he asked the police commissioner, for the simple reason that we know he rang the police commissioner because MALTA TODAY ASKED A QUESTION AT THE COMMISSIONER’S PRESS CONFERENCE. And who told Malta Today?

The only person who knew, the person standing next to Edgar Galea Curmi at the time: Cyrus Engerer. Just as he told your shoddy excuse of a newspaper that the police had raided his father, stupidly informing the world that he’s the son of a heroin addict and egocentrically compounding the stress for his family at this terrible time. And did your boss have the decency and integrity to say ‘Don’t do it because you’ll just continue to ruin your life and your father’s?’

No, because he’s an ahdar, and so is your editor Matthew Vella, a totalitarian with a grudge against society, posing as a liberal, when he is in the same class of animal as those poor creatures who march about London with placards telling us to Eat The Rich. If that’s what you’ve chosen to make of your life, and those are the kind of people you feel comfortable mixing with, then fine.

But they have every reason to have a grudge against society and you have none, which makes your behaviour and attitude doubly reprehensible. You started out with so much promise and now look at you.]

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 06:34:30 +0000

In reply to Kenneth Zammit Tabona.

“I am fed up of hearing that the 417 people on that Norwegian mass murderer’s list was a mathematical calculation and we need not worry about it.”

Wow. Now we’re fed up of not having to worry. What have we come to?

You’re not alone though, Kenneth Zammit Tabona. You’re in the company of millions who are fed up of hearing that a giant asteroid will not destroy the earth in 2012, that nanobots won’t turn us into grey goo, that the Mona Lisa is just a good old painting, and so on.

I read on Wikipedia that the population of Malta is 417,608. I do hope the Police Commissioner will investigate the possibility that this list was compiled deliberately. Who gave Jimmy Wales that figure? Who is on this list? Does Jimmy Wales have accomplices in Malta?

By: sap

sap — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 05:36:51 +0000

In reply to Daphne Caruana Galizia.

“Malta — an island where a different group of Crusaders, the Knights Hospitalier, withstood a three-year Ottoman siege in the 16th century”

3 YEARS?

By: John Schembri

John Schembri — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 04:26:18 +0000

In reply to Kenneth Zammit Tabona. Well informed: “and there’s the parliament building in front of the presidential palace..!” I think such people should be taken seriously because they bend ‘facts’, history and bible quotations to fit their purpose.

By: Kenneth Zammit Tabona

Kenneth Zammit Tabona — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:35:44 +0000

How on earth can ANYONE be allowed to SIT in the corridors of the palace of a Head of State and be filmed without authorisation?

This is intolerable. We are such stooges!

These guys behaved no better than that Snoop Dogg person. Are we that desperate to have tourists here that we are ready to bend over backwards like this?

Where is our self respect?

Apart from the utter historical gobbledygook, I am fed up of hearing that the 417 people on that Norwegian mass murderer’s list was a mathematical calculation and we need not worry about it.

I do hope that the Poloce Commissioner is doing his homework and is investigating the very real possiblity that 417 names were supplied deliberately…………makes a change from chasing Engerers and embarrassing Prime Ministers!

If Mrs Caruana Galizia or I receive an anthrax-filled letter shall we hold Commissioer Rizzo responnsible?

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:48:41 +0000

In reply to WhoamI?. Did our PM go through all that trouble to make a stealth innuendo right under our noses? If he did, if the man really has it in him, then by god I retract everything I wrote about him. This will go down in legend just like that Toni Bajjada fellow or Censu Brared.