Comments on: Mintoff’s cabinet minister lectures us on balance and propaganda on state radio https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/05/mintoffs-cabinet-minister-lectures-us-on-balance-and-propaganda-on-state-radio/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Wed, 09 May 2012 08:56:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Mark M https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/05/mintoffs-cabinet-minister-lectures-us-on-balance-and-propaganda-on-state-radio/#comment-239021 Wed, 09 May 2012 08:56:39 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=18692#comment-239021 Who was the interviewer? He deserves credit for keeping cool under the barrage.

[Daphne – Chris Scicluna, not the one who works for The Times, though. There are two Chris Sciclunas in journalism.]

]]> By: HMS Brazen https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/05/mintoffs-cabinet-minister-lectures-us-on-balance-and-propaganda-on-state-radio/#comment-238648 Tue, 08 May 2012 19:18:54 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=18692#comment-238648 In reply to TROY.

Milli jidher kull ma ghamel Alfred Sant fil-Labour kien li tefa’ l-hmieg taht it-tapit.

]]> By: Pablo https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/05/mintoffs-cabinet-minister-lectures-us-on-balance-and-propaganda-on-state-radio/#comment-238546 Tue, 08 May 2012 16:13:28 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=18692#comment-238546 It’s just like the old days. Grey hairs but still politically immature and leaning to the extreme right. Can you see Malta’s international interests in the hands of this comeback kid?

When foreign minister he was caught by a visiting Scandanavian delegation of changing the text of an agreed joint statement just before it was issued. This was not revealed but the delegation passed on their disgust personally to Eddie Fenech Adami. The latter can confirm this as I heard it from him.

]]> By: TROY https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/05/mintoffs-cabinet-minister-lectures-us-on-balance-and-propaganda-on-state-radio/#comment-238468 Tue, 08 May 2012 13:54:22 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=18692#comment-238468 And this one on my right is another dino which I managed to bring back to life: Brazenosaurus Lex.

]]> By: Anthony https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/05/mintoffs-cabinet-minister-lectures-us-on-balance-and-propaganda-on-state-radio/#comment-238428 Tue, 08 May 2012 12:56:22 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=18692#comment-238428 In reply to marks.

Marks, I have been plagued by this inexplicable fact for 25 years.

It is true that KMB and his hoodlums went on a mad rampage in the weeks preceeding the election distributing jobs (8000) and homes (ex British Forces and unfinished Housing Authority) like there would be no tomorrow.

A truly economic scorched earth policy that risked bankrupting the country.

However, the desperation of the regime at that stage was such that I, and many others, would not put anything beyond them.

When this suspicion was raised, after the PN electoral victory, with the party hierarchy the reply from one of them, well known for his appeasement tactics, was :

Hadna il-gvern ghal 25 sena, issa ma nqazzuhiex.

He certainly had foresight.

I am not sure whether his attitude was the right one though.

]]> By: Anthony https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/05/mintoffs-cabinet-minister-lectures-us-on-balance-and-propaganda-on-state-radio/#comment-238417 Tue, 08 May 2012 12:38:17 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=18692#comment-238417 In reply to marks.

Like his mate Spiteri, this guy is suffering from selective amnesia.

Or, at least, that is what he would like us to think.

]]> By: marks https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/05/mintoffs-cabinet-minister-lectures-us-on-balance-and-propaganda-on-state-radio/#comment-238395 Tue, 08 May 2012 11:54:44 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=18692#comment-238395 Today is the 25th anniversary of the 1987 elections. I still cannot understand how after the atrocious years of 1981 to 1987, the PN just managed to get the overall majority of votes that day.

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