Can we talk about Dissett last night?
Franco Debono, Jesmond Mugliett and Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando were on TVM’s Dissett last night. I didn’t watch it – I couldn’t, but lots of you probably did, so I’d be grateful for your views.
timesofmalta.com reports this morning:
Dr Debono was also asked about Labour’s motion which led to the resignation of Richard Cachia Caruana from Malta’s ambassador in the EU but which he voted against, in spite of his criticism for the man.
He said that the motion had major procedural problems because it was ministers who should shoulder responsibility for their civil servants under the concept of individual ministerial responsibility.
For once, he and I share an opinion. It’s such a rare occasion that I think I might just mark it with a cup of coffee right now.
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Hall? Is that like vinegar, the acidic stuff?
I got the feeling of three individuals, who after having executed there vindictive spree are all of a sudden feeling very lonely. They must have counted on the continued support of the no good, dangerous opportunist Muscat.
The three came across as very immature individuals typical of sociopathic offenders who usually feel no remorse for their actions but rather find ways to blame their situation on someone or something else.
http://dissett.tv/Dissett_11_12/Dissett.html
My first impressions about the invited characters.
Franco confident on what he was saying (wanting to take over as usual).
Jeffrey making a cocktail out of the subject.
Jesmond no idea what he was talking about (quite rude when whilst sitting at his desk turned sideways and crossed his legs showing how uneasy he was).
Reno kien skalda.
Were you so busy yesterday? It is a pity you didn’t. The three of them were so candid and serene that I believed them.
It is now for the Prime Minister to act and see who is saying the truth. As a floater I need to know before I vote.
Are you serious? Believe them about what? They can’t even claim that they acted correctly, so why doubt their motivation?
They subvert the democratic process to vindicating their own ego – and you still have doubts about who’s wrong?
What they now call apartheid politics (please!) is nothing more than the legitimate exclusion of the unreliable and the spiteful from positions of power.
What they have all shown by their actions – particularly their most recent behaviour – is that the prime minister was perfectly justified in not awarding them more power than they currently have.
I am very pleased with Dissett. We all could see without any shadow of doubt how these three (I’m at a loss what to call them) are not fit for purpose.
They are also dangerous people but the most dangerous is JPOS. If you ask me, they all need medical help. They were interviewed individually and had all the time to explain themselves but they acted horribly towards Reno Bugeja with Franco hitting at him with the very first sentences he uttered – hareg ghalih qisu bulldog.
Fr. Joe Borg wrote and asked us to pity JPOS. I don’t agree.
He is dangerous and needs to get help. I pity Lawrence Gonzi and all those (even family) who have to deal with him on a daily basis. This is amply confirmed by what Richard Cachia Caruana said in his interview with The Sunday Times, today.
I just cannot believe that JPOS invited Cachia Caruana to his house, knowing very well that the motion was presented on his insistence (going by what Cachia Caruana revealed), and then even suggested that he wasn’t going to vote in favour of that motion.
One other point. Let me borrow from Alfred Sant and say that I am morally convinced that it is now clear that Salvu of MaltaToday knew what was going to happen and that is why they printed that extra special edition within two hours from the vote taken in parliament against Cachia Caruana.
It was clear by the fact that the special edition was circulated so soon after the vote.
Newspapers are not produced, printed and distributed in a couple of hours.
There is a repeat on TVM2, on Monday at 18:15.
I only saw a few minutes during the Euro game half time. Jesmond referred to you and your picture appeared on the screen. However he was very reluctant to make any serious comments.
He briefly mentioned your comments about his mother-in-law and allegations about his wife becoming a candidate for the PL, but he did not make any denials.
Franco, in his typical lawyer style, started off by trying to intimidate Reno Bugeja, however Reno would have nothing of the sort and re-iterated that he declares the agenda for the programme.
By that time the game restarted and I had no intention of wasting a Saturday night listening to 3 losers.
Didn’t, wouldn’t, see it.
All I know, is that Franco’s reasoning makes the other two look more like the dorks Labour wants them to be.
Interesting why Jeffrey mentions Louis Galea now, wasn’t the latter beaten by Franco at the polls? Galea himself felt the need to pacify the allegations.
How low will Jeffrey go?
I cannot understand why JPO and Franco Debono are finding it so difficult to accept the condemnation of the PN’s Executive Council.
That condemnation reflects the condemnation of hundreds of thousands of voters who voted for the PN to GOVERN.
Irrespective of the issues and the personalities involved, their antics is making it more difficult for PN to govern and precious time and energy has been wasted on issues driven by their egos and personal agendas.
http://dissett.tv/Dissett_11_12/Dissett.html you can watch it here already
You’re going to regret having said that for the rest of your life.
Now he’ll be reminding us that even Daphne agrees with him right until the day he kicks the bucket.
The two MPs on Radio 101 this morning had so much to say about everything – but no comment about Richard Cachia Caruana’ case. The presenter (Noel) just mentioned the interview, but nothing more.
Are there instructions from the party not to talk about this matter? Are they afraid of challenging what happened – afraid of giving an opinion about their three colleagues? What, exactly, is the issue?
The issue is simple enough for everyone to see.
Since the government intends to finish the mandate, it can ill afford to blow the three to kingdom come.
Grin and bear seems to be the practical way to go under the circumstances.
From time to time it is inevitable that Franco Debono will be right about something. After all even a broken clock shows the correct time twice a day.
I did not watch Dissett last night as the football match took priority over the three assholes.
However I did read RCC’s interview this morning and confirmed that I would not even trust JPO to clean my teeth let alone work on them.
He is a miserable sod whose only friend is the bottle.
So according to Dr. Debono, it was Gonzi who should have taken the resposibility and resigned and not R.C.C.
And you really agree with this?
[Daphne – I agree that the motion was inadmissible.]
What is also worrying, however, is “Nationalist MP Franco Debono has said that Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi would like him to contest the next general election on a PN ticket.” If this is the case I am seriously considering not voting in the next election.
You only have Franco’s word for it. Given his pester power, the obvious tactic to use on him is to agree – or appear to agree – with whatever his says or thinks, and then filter him out formally.
Muigliett’s body language was incredible – stuttering, whining, pathetic.
And Reno Bugeja referred to Jesmond, three times, as Jeffrey – in reality there isn’t much to distinguish between one and the other.
In Malta the personal is SO political that it’s a never-ending web of whims and whines, likes and dislikes, which ultimately dilutes meritocracy to a weak cabbage soup of farts.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120623/blogs/the-personal-is-political.425603
By the way, I couldn’t believe my eyes but this week, on Storage Wars, on History Channel, Barry Weiss was on the show driving the yellow rooster car featured here earlier. Priceless.
Reno was confused kept calling Jesmond Jeffrey and Franco was as usual trying to get him on one foot to laugh out loud at him.
I think the worst of them all is JPOS – he is such a wanker and he knows it.
Jesmond could hardly look up at the camera.
Franco was like a naughty school boy.
Jesmond Mugliett is the most pathetic of the lot. Jeffrey and Franco are insufferable, but they stick to what they believe in – whatever that happens to be at the moment.
Mugliett says he made his mind up at the last minute. If we believe that, that means he disregarded the illegitimacy of the procedure, the baselessness of the motion, and all the evidence that undermined it – and then he tried to wriggle out of responsibility by asbtaining.
Franco Debono was in fighting spirit yesterday – I could see Reno Bugeja almost sliding under the (transparent) desk to avoid Franco’s barking.
But in the end, Reno emerged as victorious because, despite Franco’s insistence during the interview, Reno so successfully avoided discussing Franco’s reforms.
Franco did of course find the opportunity to tell us once again how much he suffered.
However, I do agree with Franco’s observation quoted here. At least he has been consistent.
I did enjoy the last part of the programme with Franco. There were no mobile interruptions.
One of the reasons that Jesmond Mugliett abstained is that you attacked (sic) his mother-in-law. So you see, it is all your fault.
He cannot be more ridiculous. He’d better go and take some lessons in public speaking.
I am amazed how he was elected to parliament and how come he was also made a minister – he cannot even reply to some simple questions put by the journalist.
A recording is available online:
http://www.dissett.tv
I will watch it today
http://www.dissett.tv/Dissett_11_12/Dissett.html
Form your own view, you little so and so ;)
http://www.dissett.tv/Dissett_11_12/Dissett.html
I cannot understand how Franco still believes that contesting the next election with the PN is still an option.
By now he should be fully aware that he will be dumped as soon as the election is called.
He has proved to be a great liability to his party and it would be sheer madness to give him another chance. Once Parliament is adjourned he would become Mr Nobody.
I love the way Reno dented Franco Debono’s ego within the first few minutes of the interview, and Debono’s reaction.
http://www.dissett.tv/Dissett_11_12/Dissett.html
What struck me whilst watching these three men on TV – honourable gentlemen they are not – is that they do not seem to perceive the enormity of their treachery.
Their bitterness is evident to one and all and yet they continue to rationalise and explain away their revengeful vindictiveness with all sorts of pitiable excuses.
The long and the short of it is: dehru tlett manigoldi jippruvaw jiggiustifikaw l-istronzati li ghamlu – a bunch of mixed up people who should never have made it to the highest institution in the land.
They have reduced Parliament to a shambles and what`s more, have paved the way in future for individuals – be they MPs like the Most Honourable Carm Mifsud Bonnici or ambassadors, no less, like His Excellency Richard Cachia Caruana (how apt the titles are for both of them) – to be hauled before Parliament and mauled with utter impunity.
What further anti-democratic measures are in store, I wonder, for ordinary individuals, like civil servants for instance, who cannot defend themselves before the wrath and vengefulness of parliamentarians?
SHAME SHAME SHAME on you three – Jeffrey, Jesmond, Franco. You are a scandal to us all.
“As for Cachia Caruana, Pullicino Orlando insists that “he has definitely been given a free hand in the past eight years; and he has used that free hand to crush others he perceived to be a threat… starting with the frame-up of the main contender for the post of party leader in 2004: John Dalli.”
So John Dalli really comes into the picture?
I guess RCC was right in saying that Pullicino Orlando “behaved just like a certain kind of Sicilian… not the sort you would want to do business with.”
It never crossed my mind that this whole matter had anything to do with business especially that sort that RCC calls the Sicilian type.
Was this type of Scilian business responsible for what you rightly call the Dalli frame-up?
We may have moved forward in many ways but I can now see how difficult it is to cut oureselves away from our roots.
Business is not just commercial – and do learn to recognise a metaphor when you see one.
Come on La Redoute, we all know what he meant by Sicilian business. He just wouldn’t bring himself to say Mafia. Maybe he was being careful not to offend some people.
What if ‘just like’ were ‘on behalf of’?
And then we wondered why MaltaToday came up with that headline – Payback Time.
The way I see it – it is all due to the obscene acceptance of the motion by the Clerk of the House and the obscene silence of the Speaker in this regard. An ambassador is answwerable to his Minister and NOT to Parliament.
Two observations about the JPO bit.
1) How come he says he is very comfortable (komdissimu) in the PN, and then goes on to call the PN government a totallitarian government, an oligarchy, the Executive Council i don’t know what, etc? Surely komdissimu is not the right word for that.
2) If he said he does not agree one bit with the Malta Toady front page heading PAYBACK TIME, how come he has not yet instituted libel proceedings against said paper? Is this perhaps due to the fact that since Salvu considers JPO his idol, he wouldn’t want to ruffle any of his feathers?