One of Malta Today’s loose screws has just fallen out
When your first royalties come in, Saviour (or is this vanity publishing?) get yourself one of these and use it.
Malta Today ran the craziest story in its print edition yesterday, and it’s now on the internet (they put their stuff up a day later in a desperate attempt at getting you to buy their print version, because you wouldn’t bother otherwise).
It’s about how – no names, no sources, no facts, figures, or backing – a “PN official” gave the Labour Party the notorious Mistra contract three days before the 2008 election.
INSANE. Halfway through writing this story, Malta Today’s anonymous journalist must have woken up to the glaring hole in this argument, through which stormwater poured. Why would a PN official do something specifically to lose the election for the Nationalist Party and hand it to Labour?
The anonymous writer tries to tackle this “question everyone is asking”, except – of course – nobody was asking it at all before now, when we’re only asking it while tapping our temples and wondering whether J Dalli BA (thank you for telling usabout this, Mr Dalli, because we had no idea) and his sidekick Balzan have lost the last of their loose screws.
I mean, honestly, read this and seen the hand/s at work. This really beats ‘PN officials hacked my email account and I reported/didn’t report them to the police/but no I made a mistake it was actually blogs.’
From Malta Today’s print edition (the internet version has been slightly cropped):
The question everyone is asking is: why did the PN itself leak this document?
The answer comes from none other but former PN ministers (DAPHNE’S NOTE – IL-LA, HOW CUNNING! THEY USED THE PLURAL FORM) who either moved away from the local political scene or else fell out of favour with Gonzi.
“In the last days of the 2008 election, we really thought we would lose and so they needed a scapegoat just in case they lost. They looked at a scenario which would ensure that Lawrence Gonzi would remain leader and Pullicino Orlando blamed for the electoral defeat.”
This is what a former minister (DAPHNE’S NOTE: IL-LA, HOW DAMNED STUPID! THEY FORGOT THEY STARTED OUT BY USING THE PLURAL FORM) told Malta Today.
Un-be-liev-able.
In-cred-ible.
Dawn posthom…never mind, ghax jergghu jghiduli li ghamiltilhom attakk fahxi u insensat, jahasra, u spiccaw kellhom jibdlu l-underpants u imorru scurrying ghal ghand il-prim.
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Anyway, the Nationalist Party issued a statement in response, this morning – presumably on the understanding that so many people have a ruddy low IQ in this country that it’s best to be on the sejf sajt.
Stqarrija PN it-Tnejn, 23 ta’ Lulju 2012
Il-Partit Nazzjonalista jisfida lill-Malta Today issemmi l-isem tal-ufficcjal tal-Partit Nazzjonalista li skont hi ghadda l-istorja
tal-Mistra lill-MLP.
Il-Partit Nazzjonalista jichad bil-qawwa kollha li kien il-Partit Nazzjonalista li ghadda l-informazzjoni lill-MLP.
Il-gazzetta Malta Today qed tibqa tinsisti bl-istorja zbaljata taghha li kien ufficcjal tal-Partit Nazzjonalista li ghadda l-informazzjoni dwar il-kaz tal-Mistra lill-Malta Labour Party. L-istorja tal-Malta Today tkompli mal-istqarrija ta’ paniku li l-MLP hareg erba’ snin tard (fl-2008 Joe Saliba kien zvela li kien Muscat li ghadda l-informazzjoni lill-Partit Nazzjonalista meta parla u kixef l-istrategija ta’ Sant) biex jippruvaw inehhu t-tort minn fuq Muscat.
Ghal darba ohra, l-Partit Nazzjonalista qed jippubblika l-istqarrija li hareg ilbierah, il-Hadd 22 ta’ Lulju, u li l-Malta Today, aktar minn erba’ u ghoxrin siegha wara, ghadha ma ppubblikatx.
Frank Psaila
Direttur Informazzjoni, PN
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The next thing we’ll be hearing is that the PL are embarking on an attack against the blue button jellyfish, currrently being spotted in Marsalforn.
Din hi l-online poll tal-Malta Today fejn ‘il-fuq minn sebghin fil-mija tal-qarreja taghha qed jghidu li Gonzi tilef xi haga li qatt ma’ kellu !
“Question: After Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando’s resignation, what’s the next step for Gonzi?
1) Early elections: Gonzi has now lost the one-seat majority he never had. 73%
2) Govern till 2013: after all, JPO pledged his support and we don’t need any shocks to the system. 18%
3) This is an opportunity for JPO to bolster the legislative programme: maybe a coalition is not so bad after all. 9%”
Din il-logika ma’ fihmthiex u l-Mulla Nasr al-Din , wara hafna tmahmih u tiftix huwa tal-fehma li x’aktarx bis-shana li qed taghmel hafna nies qed jitilfu rashom.
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The truth is that the PN was leading the MLP in the opinion polls by the end of the campaign and was heading for an absolute majority of votes, greater than 50%. In particular after MLP touched the very sensitive subject of education with the notorious “repeater class”.
It is a fact that the electorate (or floating vote) does not trust Labour on two very sensitive issues, education and work, because of their disastrous track record in these particular sectors.
This absolute majority suddenly evaporated and the PN very nearly lost the election due to the Mistra debacle by JPO.
MALTA TODAY PUPPET JOURNALISTS: this is the reason why Austin Gatt was so furious at JPO’s lies and antics. After starting an electoral campaign with a deficit of several percentage points behind Labour, and driving home the message that Alfred Sant can’t be trusted, the JPO Mistra scandal almost blew it.
SAVIOUR BALZAN: I challenge you to verify this with Austin Gatt.
They’re using the royal we probably, or the writer was unsure whether to use the plural form, for a pope, or the singular, for a cardinal. Frank, maybe, is seeing his boss in red robes, maybe in white. From this delusional bunch you’d expect anything.
Does Malta Today really believe we are ALL mad ?
Tell it to the marines.
Everyone, not least Saviour Balzan, seems to forget that the MLP had meticulously prepared the Mistra campaign against JPOS ahead of the election.
They had even written, produced and had printed a book called “L-iskandlu tal-Mistra”. That kind of thing takes time.
The book had gone on sale during Labour’s mass meeting the day after Sant revealed all in his press conference, complete with adverts on Labour’s television and radio stations.
The existence of that book has now been Stalinised: wiped off the record.
Seriously, would you go through all that trouble without having the hard facts, like a contract, in hand?
So this business that the MLP was surprised when it was handed the contract is hogwash. The only thing it wasn’t expecting was that the Nationalist Party knew exactly what Sant would be coming up with.
And we all know who was behind that.
But surely if they – the MLP – knew about this issue well in advance why take the risk and wait till the last minute.
[Daphne – They definitely knew about it well in advance, Raphael. They had enough time to produce a book about it.]
The opportunity of throwing enough mud over a period of time was lost. Are they that stupid? Have I missed something here. Did they really only find out at the last minute? Or did Muscat keep it to himself until the very end to embarrass Sant?
Ma kontx naf li taf tispelli hi Daphne :) well done eee. You’ve outdone yourself, not -_-