Take care now, children – Joseph's schedule is TIGHT
Joseph Muscat turned up only for the second half of Bondi+ tonight because, as he explained with grace, he is not Lou Bondi’s tapp.
“M’iniex it-tapp tieghek.”
And then he explained further: his schedule is tight. Yes, it’s so tight that he spent the weekend at Ta’ Cenc and the summer before last doing nothing at all.
It’s so tight that it’s tighter than the prime minister’s, who made it to the show last week.
Joseph Muscat sat there and spoke repeatedly about il-Partit tal-Prim Ministru – the latest in a long, long list over years of Labour buzz-phrases – and ended up having to explain what he meant.
Il-Partit tal-Prim Ministru is not the Nationalist Party, but the prime minister’s clique li hadet over . Ah, so that would be everyone except Jasmond, Jaffrey and Franco, then.
I rather think that’s the clique, don’t you?
Then Joseph Muscat made a most unfortunate comparison. “This is like when somebody goes into your house, takes things off your computer and then uses them for his own purposes,” he said.
There was a split second of frozen silence when I suspect most of the audience was thinking the same thing: “Cyrus Engerer.”
Then he said, fatuously, that we are not living in a democracy when ordinary people, who thought they were safe in their homes, are now living in fear of being hacked.
Yes, that’s right: Cetta from Bormla and Alison from Sliema are looking at their computers with suspicion even as we speak. Has somebody hacked their Facebook comments?
The difference between Cetta from Bormla, Alison from Sliema and Joseph Muscat from Mile End is that the last is the future prime minister. Those emails only saw the light of day because of that. They’re not of public interest value because of Sabrina Agius, but because of him.
And yes, the content is key. This is not a discussion about a grocery shopping list or the appointments of the day. It is an over-familiar discussion between the future prime minister and a journalist, in which the journalist says ‘use me any way you please’ in exchange for being selected as a Labour candidate.
I think it would be a dereliction of duty to keep that hidden.
Muscat made a real meal out of how wrong and illicit it is to use ‘stolen goods’. He compared the publication of his emails to somebody who receives stolen goods (a fence) and sells them.
You just want to sob. This from a political party that ended the last general election campaign by waving around a copy of Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando’s Mistra contract. So that was stolen goods, too, and the fact that they got it by illicit means should have obscured the content and rendered it of no public interest value, am I right?
Joseph Muscat and Sabrina Agius exchanged around 90 emails. As I wrote in the previous post, he’s lucky she’s not interested in men, because he’d have a whole lot of other problems on his hands, both on the domestic and political front, what with that highly inappropriate tone.
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“This is like when somebody goes into your house, takes things off your computer and then uses them for his own purposes,” he said.
It’s nothing like breaking into somebody’s home and getting onto their PC, hacking their account and taking e-mails.
This is because there was no house, no decoding for emails, and they weren’t just any emails in the first place.
It was at WORK and she left her PC logged in to her account letting any casual passer-by see.
Did the person who found the emails even actively look for them or did they just happen to notice they were signed into the wrong account and then saw “Dr Muscat” in the inbox?
Joseph Muscat kept repeating about the threat to democracy and how we are all in fear that our private conversation/emails are at risk of being hacked.
To hear him one would think that we will all be taking Propofol a’ la Michael Jackson to be able to sleep.
There are times when it is best to shut up and not make a meal out of things and I think this might just be one of them.
Listening to him make it clear that he has better things to do than explain himself to the people, made me realise that I had better things to do than to listen to his crap.
It also confirmed my view that this leader, like a few of his ilk before him, are just bullies who believe that it is OK for them to throw mud at people and cause problems, because they think that is their role as opposition. But it’s not OK if any mud is thrown back at them.
Involving the police and wasting the Speaker’s and Parliament’s time on this matter also makes matters worse as it is just going to drag on and on, when really what they should be doing is getting over it.
Raking up comments that Alfred Sant always suspected that people were accessing his emails and making statements to the effect that it was never proven that people did not hack into Sant’s emails also means that it was never proven that they did, which is probably what the police investigation is also going to conclude in this case.
But, hang on, this might be PL’s cunning plan, or in the leader’s own words “controversial plan” to create jobs.
Labour will always conjure up a conspiracy theory when they have no leg to stand on. They have done this repeatedly for the past two decades.
The police force – not known for its sympathy to the PN – have never found any wrongdoing and when the PL conducted carried out its own investigations (remember the Frendo affair?) they also found nada.
Joseph Muscat looked like a spoilt prick on TV last night as he tried to keep away from discussing the content of those emails – but that didn’t work.
He also decided to be aggressive with Lou Bondi – no longer the fresh upstart trying to be chummy chummy with his opponents.
How quickly his mask has dropped off.
The late start to Bondi+ gave us the opportunity to catch a glimpse of Realta with ‘il-gurnalist’ Brian Hansford and his permanent fixture Marisa Micallef Leyson.
In those few minutes they kept emphasising that the Libyan NTC was willing to work with Labour because they supported the government in the Libya crisis.
Another attempt at changing history.
“Smajtu x’qal? Dawn lesti li jahdmu ma Gvern Laburista ghax konna spalla ma’ spalla mal-Gvern fuq din il-kwistjoni”.
Tal-biza – they change history to suit and then keep repeating it like it is true.
Labour have shown – with Inkontri last week and Joseph’s performance yesterday – that they are eons away from being prepared to run this country, and therein lies the tragedy. They are going to get in to government by default and screw us up.
If it didn’t affect our daily lives it would be funny and worth watching.
Nixtieq nikkumenta imma qed nibza li tiguli d-dar tisirquli l-emails.
Ilbierah rajt lil Lou jintervista baby……
He approaches politics like the Super One reporter he used to be, and that makes him a dangerous person.
Joey is a very busy man.
He certainly spends a lot of time emailing his moles.
The man has no manners. He’s a cocky little twerp who feels that he’s arrived, and is thus too important for anybody, including the Spanish king.
Mur arah when he’s the Boss of Malta.
Are these the sprogs whose names we are not allowed to mention, Jeffrey and Gino?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSS8mTovM9g&feature=related
As the heat turns up he’s fast becoming another Alfred Sant…digging his own grave.
I missed Dr. Joseph Muscat’s words of wisdom yesterday.
You see friends of mine who went to listen to Joseph’s New Party meeting found him so boring that they decided to leave before he gave that now famous one-hand-raised salute.
What I find interesting in all this, during his campaign for leadership a letter circulating full of allegations against his main opponent. The result was Joseph turned white as snow and holy then thou.
Did he go public to defend his rival and find the source of these allegations?
“M’iniex it-tapp tieghek.”
And this boorish, uncouth excuse for a politician will be Malta’s Prime Minister?
Can you imagine Ed Milliband telling that to one of the BBC interviewers?
It would be on all newspaper headlines:
What is the English equivalent of ‘tapp’ in this context, anyway?
Cap, pronounced ‘kap’.
Stopper or lid, not cap.
Those we are forbidden to mention by name, and yet we are supposed to care who changed their dirty nappies.
“Etoile and Soleil tend to wake up early. However, Joseph takes care of their first feed and the first diapers-change.”
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20080628/local/meet-michelle-muscat.214488
Before Joseph had a tight schedule.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZy_L6WD2hc&feature=related
And again, Jeffrey and Gino, are these the sprogs we are forbidden from mentioning?
http://www.kidsmalta.com/articles/view/980/Dr-Joseph-Muscat.aspx
Its tiring, I know, but here we are the sropgs again, Jeffrey and Gino.
http://www.smartcellsmalta.com/testimonials/viewtestimonial.asp?id=18
I think the most important thing that came out of the future PM’s mouth yesterday was his assertion that theft or hacking (as opposed to a leak) is when neither of the parties to an email have given permission to publish contents of said email.
The problem is that he asserts that the BWSC emails were leaked (and that no crime was committed), meaning that one of the parties to those emails had given his permission to publish. Bollocks.
How can anyone believe that?
No matter how many times the future PM asserts that he is “convinced” that this was the case, he will not convince us. No way.
The more I read your blogs Daphne, the more I realise what a senseless life you lead. You spend your day, writting things which are not to the people s interest about politicians, no need to add, most of them from the Labour Party. For everyone who watched Bondi + yesterday, I hope that we can all agree, that your beloved friend Lou Bondi was lost for words, not knowing what to ask next, and surprised how the opposition leader was finding a very sensible answer for all his questions. Speaking of his tight schedule is none of your businees, surely you can’t understand what a busy schedule is. He was invited for only 25 minutes of the programme and lucky Lou that Joseph did not attend for the full programme. He (Lou) would have ended up crying by the end of the programme. I suggest you get a hobby Daphne which will give you plenty more satisfaction.
@c.sammut
You do realise that Daphne was graceful enough to upload your comment don’t you? How’s that for democracy eh?
@david gatt.
I do realise and am grateful she did, that is the way democracy should work… freedom of speech should be for everyone, in favour or against your opinion.
Indeed, making fun of Daphne that she leads a senseless life is precisely the opposite of democracy.
This can be referred to as verbal violence and usually happens when people find that their counter-arguments have been depleted and they are suddenly and uncomfortably with their backs to the wall.
On Lou’s topic, there is no denying his political colours.
However, Lou remains one of the best interrogative and well balanced journalists our media has seen.
Indeed, Labour’s stumbling block with Lou is precisely because he is very good at what he does.
He will take your argument, dissect it with a surgeon’s knife, finds the virus of your argument and challenge you on it.
PN ministers and backbenchers readily let themselves be dissected and in return lay down valid or invalid counter arguments for us to judge.
Labour, on the other hand, will steer clear of the knife and will counter-attack with other topics that might be (more often not) relevant as a political agenda, but not for the question posed by the interviewer.
A hint of irony, a personal comment and a bad sense of humour is also thrown into the mix to create confusion and buy some time.
However, repeatedly questioning Lou ‘will you vote labour in the next election?’ at the end of the programme is probably Muscat’s retaliatory move in order to cover up for his interview that went bad by demonising Lou’s image with Labour apologists.
Lou was also surprised that after so many years Muscat has started calling him by his name and surname together, which is another desperate but probably successful attempt to make him unpopular.
This is the guy who will be running the country soon, or so we think. Muscat’s desperate underlying tone makes me think that he is far from comfortable on the outcome of the next election.
It is never a good sign when the leader of a party, who is also the leader of the opposition, tackles the interviewer and not the questions.
Xi nghidu ghal Sarkozy? His duties came before the newly born daughter.
[Daphne – As well they should have.]
“M’iniex it-tapp tieghek.”
I don’t mean to doubt you, but did he REALLY say that? Possibli?
Can you imagine Dr. Gonzi turning up half way through Joe Grima’s programme, and uttering such a thing? It’s downright rude and arrogant.
[Daphne – Yes, Neil. He said it. I remember specifically because I gripped the sofa in apprehension, waiting for what I thought must inevitably come next: ‘M’iniex qieghed hawn biex insoddlok it-toqob’ (hence ‘tapp’). But fortunately, he remembered that he wasn’t at an ikla tal-laham taz-ziemel with Anglu Farrugia and Toni Abela.]
Joseph referred to “Il-Partit tal-PrimMinistru.”
The problem is that the Labour Party is looking like everybody’s party except Joseph’s.
It’s been taken over by Joe Grima, Alex Sceberras Trigona, Karmenu Vella, George Vella…and even Alfred Sant.
…and you forgot to mention Jason Micallef.
A friend of mine was at Ta’ Cenc that same weekend. Apparently the children – Soleil and Etoile – and a number of other children misbehaved really badly. Oh, and they were being chased by their Filipina nannies.
so?
Chavsville
No one noticed that at the very end of the programme Joseph Muscat told Lou Bondi “Mur l’ hemm”?
It is very clear at 50:38.
http://public.di-ve.com/streaming/on_demand_media_streamer.aspx?id=5254&encoding=8&backUrl=streaming%2fon_demand_event_encoding.aspx%3fid%3d5254
Will this be his manner of speech in international fora when he becomes prime minister?
Can you imagine David Cameron telling an interviewer to “go away!”?
“Mur l’hemm” is more akin to the English “get lost”.
Mhux se jghidilna li jqum fil-hamsa jiggoggja hux? Gej bit-tight schedule? Tight clothes, ghax qed jihxien proporzjonalment ma’ kemm qed jitfartas.