I see that Labour still hasn’t got to grips yet with Space Age technology or freedom of expression

Published: August 7, 2012 at 8:26am

Iz-zghazagh ma’ Joseph: a balding, middle-aged man responds to middle-aged preset questions from individuals identified by his party days or weeks ahead.

From The Times report yesterday about Joseph Muscat hanging out on Google (unfortunate photograph angle, incidentally…):

During the chat viewers were encouraged to submit their own questions on YouTube but only 18 comments were sent in: two were from PL activist Cyrus Engerer, one was a comment about the bad sound, another two wrote in to praise the initiative and another two simply read “Dear Joseph”.

TAL-BIKI.




11 Comments Comment

  1. C. D says:

    How is what he did any different from what the PM did?

    [Daphne – Sigh. The prime minister sat there live online, for an extended period, taking spontaneous questions from anyone who happened to log on and ask him something. The questions came out of the blue and so did the questioners. In that situation, you have to be prepared for anything. The Labour Party advertised for questioners well ahead, then chose eight (one couldn’t connect, so there were seven). They also vetted the questions.]

  2. JT says:

    Alessandra Pace? Randomly chosen dik, ukoll. Her father is a notorious Labour activist from Zurrieq. Alessandra works for a Labour MEP in Brussels, a personal friend of her father’s.

  3. Matt B says:

    I happen know who the woman in the background is, although I don’t know her on a personal basis.

    She read for a degree in European Studies at the University, recently.

    Of course, the irony definitely by-passes her on that one.

  4. Gianni says:

    One of them is a Nationalist. Now guess who?

  5. MANDANGO 70 says:

    You can never win it seems.

    If JM dyes his hair, he’s fake, if the balding patch is exposed, its an “unfortunate angel”. Make your mind up.

    [Daphne – Careful with those JMs. There’s another one on the market now, and he’s a bit of a drama queen. We don’t want him to get touchy.]

    Perhaps you have difficulty in accepting that “the other Malta” is made up of real people too. Some go bald, others get fat, others wrinkles….

    Why should it matter to the public beats me. But then I shouldn’t expect myself to be anywhere close to your intellectual heights, thus my incomprehension.

    • Toyger says:

      It matters to the public because he boasts of himself as being ‘young and hip’.

      If he were in his 20s maybe, but late 30s approaching 40s can never be young or hip.

      [Daphne – Hip, yes. But young, no.]

      And if he doesn’t want to show how he’s ageing, he should keep up the effort every time he sets foot out of the house.

    • Harry Purdie says:

      Considering your comment, let me visualize your appearance: bald. five feet fu-k all, very large girth, very small head (to accomodate the ‘brain’), long arms, knuckles dragging on the ground, and, due to your moniker, possibly something else dragging on the ground.

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