Honestly, look who's talking about being in denial
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September 12, 2011 at 10:25am
Have you noticed how Joseph Muscat, instead of doing the standard political thing of meeting the people on Sunday morning, takes the easy way out – the way that does not involve encounters in the flesh with the working-classes in their bars and their clubs – and speaks via the sanitised safety of a Super One radio mike in a segregated cubicle, just him and his interviewer?
“The first step, in psychology and in economics, is to admit you have a problem if you want to move on,” he said during yesterday’s sermon.
Really. You don’t say.
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That’s because there is a limit on how far ahead you can get with smiles and pozi…and Muscat has not shown much else since. I remember when Fenech Adami became leader of PN. His appearance was awful, but boy, did you sit up and listen. So different from our aspiring youngest PM ever.
Fenech Adami had a way of appealing to people across generations and classes. Muscat can never come close.
I like the Burberry umbrella in the picture.
Available from any street vendor in Italian cities at €6, or €3 if you bargain.
To me it was given for free by the Italian Co-op Supermarkets.
More than the umbrella, I (don’t) love the “arani ma” smarmy look on Muscat’s face, while his wife hangs on to his arm for dear life with that sickly sweet “Jay Leno” smile.
Joseph Cuschieri looks like a cardboard cutout.
He thinks like one too.
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/sant-gaddafi-libya-funded-eu-referendum-campaign
– your comments on this would be interesting. I would expect the government to file a defamation case immediately.
[Daphne – Typical Malta Today crap and devious reporting: reporting what somebody said in an article without getting a reply from the entity being accused. ‘There have been no denials from the government since last Sunday’. That would be yesterday. Did they ring? Did they try to get a statement? Did they mention that the Nationalist Party has already categorically denied receiving even one cent from Gaddafi in the last 42 years? No. Instead they give further exposure to Sant’s fixation that he wasn’t wrong about Europe, but others made a pact with the devil, and without that pact, he would have got his way and kept Malta out of the EU. Also, it’s interesting that the Malta Today reporter makes no attempt at sussing out who those Nationalist ministers are. That’s because they’re not allowed to say naughty things about the prisoner of Brussels. I’ve just rung the Nationalist Party for a comment and been told that it will issue a statement later on today. Let’s also be clear on the fact that the government’s referendum campaign was an information campaign and not the Yes campaign. The Yes campaign was handled by the Nationalist Party.]
MaltaToday. Typical Labour lanzit, conveniently forgetting that it was Labour that was “in bed with Gaddafi” for the best part of four decades. No reasonable person can ever deny that.
As for Sant? He’s history. His only way of making a come-back is with a new long-haired wig and a controversial claim.
I completely agree with you.
However, wouldn’t you think that a libel suit should be instigated?
These allegations can be denied, but there are many people who will take this statement on as fact.
[Daphne – Libel? If you were to take the Labour Party or its various exponents to court for every libellous comment, you might as well put up a bed there.]
Joseph Muscat on 9/11: (First Magazine, September 2011).
“There is a moment in the book ‘The Time Traveller’s Wife’ where the main character wakes everyone up to see what has happened. I think that scene encapsulates how many of us felt at that moment.” – Joseph Muscat.
Easy there, old boy, you’ll be comparing Malta’s finances with a chapter from ‘The Notebook’ next.
Is this the true source of the PL political programme, plagiarising policy from women’s novels?
May I ask why this young man always walks ahead of his better half, even if they are labranzetta?
What a hilarious nation we will become should he be PM in 2013.
And by the way, yesterday he wanted to impress his Labour sheep with heavy words – psychology and economics. I can imagine at the PL clubs how impressed they were – “isma’ kemm u bravu, mhux bhal Gonzi, dan leader veru bravu, qisu Mintoff”.
You’d better explain that your “young man” bit is sarcasm. Otherwise, the man might take you seriously.
Of course he goes into hiding. This man is haunted by his party’s shameful past.
Yesterday, il-Mument published a shocking document regarding the US Policy Toward Malta pre-1987.
It is shocking to read that the US National Security was monitoring the close ties between Labour and the Gaddafi regime.
The US policy, signed by Ronald Reagan, describes the Maltese government as ‘the present regime’ and says that particular attention should be paid towards the ‘growing Libyan political, military and economic ties with and influence in Malta’.
Malta’s foreign affairs minister was Alex Sceberras Trigona – now appointed by Joseph Muscat as Labour’s International Secretary.
This document is enough proof on how damaging were the too-close relations between the MLP and the Gaddafi Regime to Malta’s international standing and reputation.
No wonder Joseph Muscat has gone into hibernation. His party’s shameful past has caught up with him.
I find this picture nauseating. There is a look of superiority and arrogance on Dr. Muscat’s face, and the Mrs plays the role of a first lady.
Have the Labour supporters especially those who come from a very low income background realised that the Muscats are outsiders to their social class.
He needs to understand who’s plotting his removal in case of failure at the polls, first.
Unlike Sant, who clearly showed his disdain for localised currents, Joseph has overstretched his influence.
This makes him dependent on those who know their electorate so much better, handing them the clout to decide his fate.
His anodyne talk doesn’t help either. He’s becoming a bit like Nissan – curiously designed niche products, but without a world-beating flagship.
I refer to this article “Police called ‘pigs’ at Zabbar feast – four arraigned”, on timesofmalta.com. I stand to be corrected, but isn’t this the first time The Times has omitted the name of the magistrate, as well as any references to the gender? Sounds fishy especially in the light of your court appearance last week.
[Daphne – The magistrate’s name is sometimes left out of reports.]
That smug look on Muscat’s face is enough to make me vote GoNzIpn again.
GOOD! Now go show it to all yer mates!
On the grapevine:
Malta University’s Professor of Revisionist History – Dominic Fenech – is planning a series of programmes to educate the younger members of the electorate on the glorious days of righteous militancy growing out of the Christian workers association and those monumental ‘soldiers of steel’, a heavenly match.
The Christian fundamentals and early history will be highlighted nostalgically through interviews with: Lino Spiteri; Karmenu Vella; Daniel Micallef; Alex Sceberas Trigona; KMB; Dom Mintoff and our President, George Abela.
The re-writing of our history has begun in earnest.
Malta beware!
The interview with Mintoff will probably be a little hard to follow.
Dominic Fenech will present the last episode as a eulogy to his ‘salvatur’ – excerpts from the past – talking heads – a call to arms for the faithful to recreate their glorious past.
It will not be hard to follow – it will be very hard to swallow.
If he had substance behind that face it would not be so bad to have him as PM, but there is absolutely nothing.
Joseph Muscat’s face is that of an over-eager trainee manager at a fast-food outlet who knows he is selling sh*t and is talking sh*t but dreams of becoming manager of the Mile End branch, only to find to his surprise that he has become managing director instead.
He probably feels he’s gone up too high in the world to mix with the plebs. Mur ghidlu …
Dr Muscat was trying to ridicule the government by saying that state finances are looked after by an accountant, but then the job of preparing his party’s electoral programme was given to an architect.
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“Cyrus Engerer
Fid-29 ta’ Settembru fis-6.30 ta’ filgħaxija kulħadd mistieden iċ-Ċentru Laburista ta’ San Ġiljan għal ftuħ tal-website il-ġdida tagħna. Dan il-proġett sar b’ħidma bejn FŻL San Ġiljan u l-Kumitat Lokali San Ġiljan. Mistieden Speċjali: Il-Mexxej tal-Partit Laburista Dr.Joseph Muscat.”
So Cyrus, is this what you call a project?
How many twats were required to put it together? I suppose Joseph has the time to ‘open’ this website.
What the hell, if it gets boring the leader can always pop over next door for a Mac.
Sincerament nithassar lil Joseph Cuschieri li bl-gharaq ta’ xbinu u bil-hila tieghu rebah siggu fil-parlament biex umbaghad cedieh lil dan it-tifel imfissed li dejjem kellu kull ma ried f’hajtu bla tbatija ta’ xejn.
Cuschieri inghasar, intrema u ntesa u twikkejna b’Muscat li lanqas biss irid jersaq go kazin, ma jmurx jigi xi gurnalist iressaqlu xi mikrofonu ma halqu u jistaqsieh xi mistoqsija li tista’ tkaghabru.
Qed nisthajjel lil Cuschieri qisu seftur fidil wara sidu f’dan ir-ritratt. Hawn min jitwieled geddumu fix-xghir u hawn min beda hajtu minn ckunitu bl-iebes u kompla fl-iebes.