At Labour’s May Day rally: “Jason Micallef min hu?”
Watch this, and then cease to wonder why people vote Labour.
“Li jghid Joseph tajjeb ghalina.”
“Jason Micallef min?”
“Jason Micallef min hu?”
Shame the reporter resisted the temptation to say: “Jason Micallef, dak li jaghmel il-kotba tat-tisjir.”
Oh, and be sure to note Mrs Bland/Yana Mintoff at 2.07 mins. I can’t understand why NET allowed her to walk past unmolested, or at least mark her out for its viewers, most of whom wouldn’t have recognised her.
Here she is, sipping a drink through a straw, wearing a red flower in her hair, and with a Partit Laburista flag wrapped around her. Labour’s coalition of moderates and progressives looks increasingly like a coalition of freaks.
Here’s Mrs Bland at the Labour Day Labour parade:
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‘intom min intom’
‘ahna tan-NET’
‘mela le hi’
Hilarious.
Unbelievable! I cannot express myself. Bloody unbelievable!!
Let’s not get too amused here, folks – the Net crew were very close on getting the 80s treatment . . . plus ca change and all that.
That’s what scared me most too.
What’s disgusting is Labour’s statement following the incident. Kurt must have lost it, looking up KMB’s memorable quotations for inspiration.
Imbasta bil-flokk ta’ Che Guevara. Beza’ jirrispondihom lil tan-Net.
The elderly men who assaulted the Net team are the old suldati tal-azzar, also known as Mintoffian rabble (marmalja).
They are the sort of people that latter-day converts like Cyrus Engerer and Deborah Schembri represent.
Kif spicca l-poplu Malti taht dan il-gvern, ibezlaq fi granita tal-lumi.
Those who want to change, ‘just for the sake of changing’, should spend a few minutes reflecting on this video before they do the ultimate mistake of trusting these people into power.
You mean, the man in the Che Guevara t-shirt can become Minister for Justice? Is it these interviewees who will come into power, as you seem to be implying? (Avolja, għax tgħid, itih ftit lemħa lid-007 ta!).
[Daphne – No, but it is their choices which will be foisted on the rest of us.]
Well, you certainly can’t blame them for burdening us with JPO and Franco Debono, to name but two.
Che Guevara tee-shirt in ………………2012?
How droll.
It was probably the first red t-shirt he came across on the monti.
What sort of questions were these anyway? Were they in response to the equally moronic questions posed by One journalists all the time?
There’s a video doing the rounds of a One journalist asking some stupid question, to which the quite-evidently-not-very-bright PN supporter replied “Saqsi ‘l Arriva”. The question had nothing to do with public transport. It was almost as original as Gatt’s “għamilna pipì”.
Why don’t you all admit that we’re essentially a nation of morons? Political allegiance has nothing to do with it, unfortunately (although the PN go to great lengths to hide this faction of their supporters).
The question about Jason Micallef was meant to show that the Mintoffian rank and file does not agree with Muscat’s decision to stop him from contesting the election.
This could well be the dormant (for now) seed from which an internal clash germinates and develops in future.
What amazes me is how you believe that the choice of interviews that make the cut are somehow representative. Isn’t it kind of obvious that the editors will choose to air the worst answers?
Do you think One would ever air an interview with a brainy PN supporter who happens to give them a piece of his/her mind and outsmarts the journalist (it’s not that difficult)? Besides, Net journalists don’t have to feign impartiality until they move to PBS.
Qegħdin Sew, the persons interviewed are actually quite representative of a very large section of Labour supporters. I know it and you know it, not because of this short video clip but because we both live in Malta and can see for ourselves that it is so.
Nincompoops are aplenty, true, but the Labour Party has the dubious honor of representing the vast majority of them.
Whether we like it or not these are our fellow countrymen and women.
They are actually representative of a good majority of the population.
You do not have to go to a PL rally to witness this sad fact.
If you pop over to Mater Dei Hospital during visiting hours you will reach the same conclusion.
This is the reality.
Flaunting it just makes it even more sad.
I agree that this is the sad truth. I believe that it is a greater majority than most think.
In Malta there are two civilizations alien to each other living side by side, and the dividing line is not along party alliances.
When ever I visit Malta I realise that nothing has changed for a good majority of the population.
As Anthony said, you find these people unfortunately everywhere. Believe it or not they do not belong only to the Partit Laburista. Both parties have these kind of people following them.
I say the thing is reciprocal. Those people are in difficulty primarily because they try to justify the indefensible.
They consider Labour to be their spiritual home because of the lies fed to them, compounded by the fact that they don’t have access to English language media. It shouldn’t be considered a fault, if anything a liability which needs to be overcome, removing Labour’s hold on the information they get.
It’s most noticeable when you chat to them alone and if told flatly that it’s up to them, not Joseph, they’ll agree. Sitework can be very revealing.
Labour’s trick has always been that of avoiding the merit of political thought, it just expects carte blanche. That’s why it has to demonise the adversary.
When the party club, band club, local council, social circle, bingo on a Sunday afternoon, everything, is Labour tainted, speaking out, thinking, becomes next to impossible. People like Silvio make sure they don’t have to.
Something which Mrs Maggie Moran used to say to the Labour Women was “Morru taghllmu qabel tmorru tilghabu t-tombla”.
Once Labour are in power we’ll return to the same systems of the 1980s. Since the followers’ culture hasn’t changed at all we’ll start all over again – “irrangali”, “ghaddili kelma”, “aqdini”.
There was an unforturnate period of time in my life when I worked in a place were I was surrounded by spoilt Laburisti.
Spoilt in the sense that in the 80s they got what they wanted from their party. “irrangali naqra u pprova aqdini” was a normal way of life for them because that is the way they were used to.
The bottom line is that their vote is equal to that of all the geniuses who will vote P.N.
Actually, I would call that a tragedy.
you have to admit the ‘voxpop’ was rather out of place and instigating however….
I love the second screenshot with that hair clip on the back of her head. Miskina, she had just finished washing the floors.
Thank you NET TV for giving us a foretaste of how the PN intends to fight the coming general election, by attacking not the LP, but its VOTERS! Good to know! And, believe me, you made a big impression, NET TV, with this Pulitzer journalism piece! Seems like your submarine’s ballast tank is getting ever fuller!
Albert,
at least we know now that the PL cannot officially distinguish between keeping it down and coming out viciously during a news bulletin enticing more of the same.
Resorting to violence is still a big issue. It’s becoming frequent and pretty much officious. Last week in Msida, Glen Beddingfield was plainly incapable of controlling them.
The expression ‘ma’ nitkesshux’ isn’t exactly 2012.
It’s also in your interest to know who these individuals are and what their standing and backing is.
I cannot understand why Net News asked those type of questions. They are behaving much like their Super 1 counterparts.
They should have asked questions like:
Did you keep your job when other workers in Europe are getting fired?
Are your children getting free high-quality education?
Are you getting free care and medicines?
These are the achievemnets of GonziPN. Trying to make a point that most Labour supporters are blindfolded in their support to their leader is no news and will not make the PN win any votes.
The PN should dig deep and come to terms with what is going wrong within itself, starting from their media which is a non starter compared to other media, be it news papers, radio or tv.
“Trying to make a point that most Labour supporters are blindfolded in their support to their leader is no news and will not make the PN win any votes.”
Exactly. I find this blind faith in political leaders to be a very sorry trait of the Maltese electorate.
But to hear that accusation coming from the PN is especially hypocritical, considering all the talk about toeing the party line and ‘lealtà lejn il-Kap” in the Franco Debono debacle.
It’s equally immature to expect someone to ditch their thinking faculties altogether, whether they’re Lejburisti minn Ħal-Qormi or an MP from Ħal-Għaxaq.
[Daphne – Hal is an abbreviated form of rahal and has nothing to do with the definite article, so it is not followed by a hyphen. Hal Ghaxaq, as in Rahal Ghaxaq.]
Xi gmiel ta’ herstajlz. WEEP.
Oh, I see that Muscat is using a teleprompter now, just like Obama.
A crowd only Joseph can be proud of. After all he is the product of the same herd, most of whom (including his grandmother) proudly displayed Dumink’s picture in their living rooms adorned with lights and plastic flowers.
‘Mela hi! Li jghid Joseph tajjeb’. Hilarious.
Joseph and Anglu watching an Obama speech.
Joseph; ”Dak x’ihnu Ang?!”
Anglu; ”Dak, Joey, ghidulhu telejproptejr”
Joseph; ”ehe? telejproptejr?….dak x’ikun?”
Anglu; ”Dak biex jaqra l’spejcc”
Joseph; ”Irrid wiehed Ang! Jien x’ghandi inqas min Obama?”
Anglu; ‘U mela! Issa wara l-ittra ta’ Obama ikolna it-telejproptejr ta’ Obama ha nuruhom dawk ta’ gonzipn x’insarfu!!”
The same thing happened with One journalists interviewing PN supporters in Birkirkara last week so let’s not go overboard.
One positive thing I noted was that for example on the stipends issue one man said he did not agree with Evarist Bartolo. I think there might be hope for both parties that people within can make up their own mind about what they like or don’t like rather that just follow the party line.
[Daphne – The man faced three choices, Claude: 1. Stay silent and look like an idiot because everyone knows why you’re staying silent (caught between a rock and a hard place); 2. say you disagree with Evarist Bartolo; 3. say you disagree with the great socialist principle of getting as much as you can for free.]
And Mrs Muscat wears yet another fake smile.