Malta Today feels compassion for Anglu’s ham acting
What sort of country makes this man deputy prime minister?
Malta Today, today:
Labour’s deputy leader for parliamentary affairs Anglu Farrugia almost broke down in tears during his address to the party’s general conference yesterday, in which he accused Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi of turning away from the personal attacks levied against members of the Opposition.
Farrugia said Gonzi should be ashamed for the attacks levelled at Opposition leader Joseph Muscat’s children on the social media, and that his own family had also been victimised.
“This hatred, especially that targeted, children… does not have any place in politics,” Farrugia said.
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Unbelievable. No, really, unbelievable. I mean, look who’s talking, honestly.
Labour has an entire media machine dedicated to the express purpose of character assassination and the destruction of its real or perceived enemies.
So what is this man saying here? That his party demands an end to ‘personal attacks’ (please define them) on anyone affiliated with it, while reserving the right to consistently target others?
As for that ‘children’ business, spare me the frigging hypocrisy. The absolutely worst incidences of targetting ‘enemy offspring’ involved my three sons, all of whom have been systematically targeted anonymously and also through official Labour media channels.
How can I forget how the youngest of them was put on a rolling clip on Super One TV at the height of a fierce election campaign, exposed to the hatred of your typical Super One audience, with the Labour Party in its official capacity inciting hatred against him? And this because he told that squat, large-headed midget, Kurt Farrugia, and his pipsqueak sidekick, Byon Jo, to get out of his face with their video camera.
We won a sizeable sum of money from Midget Kurt over that, and he still hasn’t paid up. If you’re reading this, midget, pay up within the next week or expect a warrant of seizure.
I just can’t believe that we have to live with the real chance that scum like this might be chosen over the decent and competent other lot and so get to govern. But then Berlusconi was put in charge of Italy by a democratic vote, so in what is effectively the callus on Italy’s big toe, anything is possible.
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Why is it that Joseph Muscat gets his deputies, or their deputies, to ask the PM to call for an end to what they call “personal attacks”?
Why doesn’t Joseph ask that himself?
And if he is not willing to do it, why should the PM make such a call?
I would like to hear Joseph Muscat’s own view about freedom of expression on the internet, and blogs, and Facebook. Before any elections.
Labour is showing that it has learned nothing in all the years it spent in opposition.
It cannot live with freedom of speech, which it tried to suppress many times. It cannot even stop those within it who make calls to stop the freedom of speech of others.
How can scum like that call for an end to “personal attacks” when it is mainly what they tend to reel out on the media, especially when hiding behind the guise of anonymity?
The delivery was particularly lame, what happened to his ferocious rhetoric?
Wolves in sheep’s clothing. They smell the elections.
Hahaha – Daphne Caruana Galizia has the honour to say that she managed to reduce our future deputy PM and Minister for Justice and Home Affairs to tears, merely because she happened to point out that his daughter is chunky. My God!
[Daphne – Actually, Tina, he cried BEFORE I said his daughter is chunky. We don’t actually know what he was crying about, remember, because he omitted to tell us. He only told us that something mysterious happened when he was ‘msiefer barra minn Malta’ (as though he can be ‘msiefer gewwa Malta’) ‘mat-tifla’. Watch the clip again.]
Seriously, have any of these people ever lived outside Malta (among non-Maltese, not in a Maltese community) or at least bother to read and watch the international media?
Grow up, future deputy PM.
Another cry-baby, so help us God.
Oh, I see. Thanks. I had the impression that it had already been mentioned before and that I had missed it – I admit, sometimes when I am very busy/tired, I just skim through.
And here they are, attacking yet another 19-year-old student because they don’t like his father:
http://pawlugatt.com/2012/01/21/the-pitiful-party-of-petty-pricks/
Just saw Anglu Farrugia on Net News. He stated that he’s proud to represent “Laburisti tradizzjonali” or something of the like. AND he proudly compared a fat, beaming Joseph Muscat to Mintoff. Now if THAT is something to be proud of, I despair.
[Daphne – http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/01/anglu-the-self-described-laburist-tradizzjonali-and-check-out-cyruss-brass-neck/ ]
This “incident” pales into insignificance when compared with the defamatory calumny against Sir Paul Boffa, then a widower, when he was accompanied by his daughter Dr Hilda on official business abroad connected with the quest for Malta’s independence and the snide remarks about their accomodation in the same UK hotel.
That defamation was not fomented by anyone in the Nationalist Party but by disloyal members of the Labour Party desperately seeking to remove Boffa from the leadership of his party by fair means or foul.
[Daphne – As I recall, Paul Boffa was not a widower but was survived well into the 1980s at least by his widow. In 1981 – or was it 1987? – she had an appeal published in The Times, calling on all former Boffisti to vote for Eddie Fenech Adami’s party. The incident you describe, however, did happen and was described in detail in a recent documentary about his life. It caused the family great distress, as one imagines it would.]
Given that the closeted Pink Mafia has taken control of Super One and much of the Labour Party hierarchy, Tusk Force Anglu no longer thinks it fashionable to be macho.
So, ever the resourceful one, a Man For All Seasons and A Survivor (cue Eye of The Tiger), he uses his skills to show off his softer side.
Daphne, please allow me to use your blog to send him a message: “Trid tissue, siehbi? Mur igri ghand ir-Ronnie, Ray, Colonel Gruber jew xi Herr Flick ha jfissduk naqra”.
You are correct about the marital status of the Boffas at the time of the incident.
Has anyone ever seriously questioned why political parties should have their own TV stations?
In my view, while that situation persists, Malta will never develop into a mature democracy.
Such a shame that a small island, which could be a paradise, is instead a haven for nightmares.