I can’t wait to see the end of Botox Jeff
Instead of answering my perfectly pertinent question about whether he has got divorced yet and whether he plans to actually marry Carmen after all that fuss he made, Botox Jeff has retaliated, predictably and childishly, by asking some questions of his own on his Facebook wall.
So now Botox Jeff, scraping the bottom of his Labour barrel – as a distraction, perhaps, from scraping the bottom of his Labour…well, never mind – is sticking up for his new hero, a crass and vulgar speculator and bully-boy who walked into somebody’s office and beat him up.
You know what they say in Maltese: he who sticks around with the lame begins to limp too.
Unlike you, Jeff, I will afford you the simple courtesy of answering your question. I received no compensation for roundly condemning Sandro Chetcuti’s behaviour. That behaviour was in all respects condemnable and I can think of very few scenarios in which a newspaper columnist would have either praised or ignored it, still less defended Sandro Chetcuti.
Those scenarios all include being paid by Malta Today, the Labour Party or the General Workers Union, or say, sharing a bed with a Labour activist for a decade while sitting on the opposing party’s benches.
Nor did anything I wrote or say help put Sandro Chetcuti behind bars. His own behaviour did that. I have absolutely no influence on the law courts, which is the only power that can jail people or order that they be held on remand.
You would have thought that over the last couple of years this would have been made manifestly clear even to Jeffrey, but perhaps, like those other Labour medieval-thinkers with whom he spends his days, he has subscribed to the theory that I am an all-powerful, all-mighty witch. I can bend magistrates and judges to my will.
Jeffrey wrote that there is a name for women who are compensated for their services, and it isn’t ‘columnist’.
No, Jeffrey, it’s probably ‘Carmen’. I can’t think of any other reason why a woman who’s obviously not desperate or short of options would put up with you or share your bed. Obviously, it must be worth it, and not in the ‘King Long’ stakes either.
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If we use his own measure, JPO is “not European.”
Which MP in “Europe” hurls insults to journalists in the media without serious political consequences?
From timesofmaltaonline, 16 April 2012:
“The reaction by a Turkish minister to Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando’s objections on the country’s EU membership proves “these people are not European”, the Nationalist MP said yesterday.
Dr Pullicino Orlando also said he received messages of support from MPs from both sides of the House regarding his objections to Turkey joining the EU.
He reacted fiercely to Turkey’s EU Affairs Minister Egemen Bagis who was interviewed by The Sunday Times and described Dr Pullicino Orlando’s outburst as “childish and foolish”.
“If this gentleman thinks Malta is a member of a Christian club he is wrong,” Mr Bagis said, adding: “When he claims that Turkey is not culturally European he should check his text books. Maybe he was skiving from the classroom the day they were teaching the word Europe was the name of a princess who lived in today’s Turkey.”
Reacting, Dr Pullicino Orlando said Mr Bagis’s comments vindicated him.
“For a minister to stoop to such a level and hurl personal insults proves my point, as well as that of (French President) Nicolas Sarkozy and (German Chancellor) Angela Merkel, that the Turks are not culturally European,” he said.
“Just because I do not agree with Turkey’s EU membership, he accuses me of being childish, foolish and skiving history lessons – a subject I loved at school. And this is someone who is on a diplomatic mission!
“It is simply not on. Don’t I have a right to an opinion? I was not personal or rude, but he was. It just goes to show that these people are not European,” he added, saying he refused to stoop to the minister’s level.”
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120416/local/The-minister-proved-Turks-not-European-Pullicino-Orlando.415659
““Just because I do not agree with Turkey’s EU membership, he accuses me of being childish, foolish and skiving history lessons – a subject I loved at school”.
Turkey’s EU Affairs Minister Egemen Bagis didn’t have to do much research to arrive at the conclusion that JPO is ‘childish and foolish’ – all he had to do is ask.
We would have kindly obliged.
Ciccio, nahseb wasallek iz-zmien li tirtira. Jekk int interessat, ghandi ghazqa antika – jghidu li fiha l-magija – nislifielek ghal stagun. Nista’ anke nissupplixxik b’varjeta ta’ zerriegha tad-tadam, nifrixlek ghalqa ckejkna madwar il-parrocca ta’ Buhesrem, iniffertilizzahielek bl-ifjen demel, u narmalek Tomato Juice Stand magenb il-Qorti.
Inkella, ghandi qasba tas-sajd ta’ zmien il-Kavallieri…
The only plausible reason I can think of to have an early election is to get rid of this self-made defender of the downtrodden and his wacko friend Debono.
Really, Daphne, I don’t know why you’re being so unkind to Jeffrey – just because he’s been screwing Labour for the last ten years. I thought that was part of his job – as a true blue Nationalist.
And another thing. It’s uncanny. Why are you picking on my fellow dinner guests of the other evening? Carmen, Jeff, the Corradino Inmate Emeritus. Kull ma jonqos Jose.
[Daphne – It must have been a hellish night, John. Please don’t tell me that Carmen and Jeff were out to dinner with Sandro Chetcuti. Perhaps that was Jeffrey’s compensation for sticking up for him on Facebook.]
I’ll let you into a secret. Just between you and me. As the port was being passed around, and indiscretions were being dropped like autumn leaves, I gathered that the appearance of the Yellow Pages on those billboards serves also as an allusion to the gonZIPn deliYana power station affair.
Could it be that the botox is squeezing out his brain?
Will someone please start organising quiz nights on Sundays to keep him distracted? True, his team never wins, but does he cheer.
I would like to know on what basis is Hon Pullicino Orlando declaring that Mr Chetcuti was unjustly jailed.