It’s going to be a Big Pony silly season
Having given up on Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando’s Facebook wall – largely, I suppose, because he’s done so himself after one faux pas too far – The Times is clearly all set to bulk up the silly season’s dearth of news with Franco Debono’s blog.
Given that the newspaper’s readers are perfectly capable of reading his blog for themselves if they want to (why doesn’t timesofmalta.com just include a permanent link and have done with it?), I am left wondering whether the newspaper does this because it is thrilled to have something to write about in the swimming season, or whether it is a deliberate ploy to give that man the oxygen of publicity he so craves, as the most effective way of encouraging him into increasingly grandiose thinking and feelings of invincibility.
Unfortunately, I have now begun to see an ugly side to The Times’s and the Labour Party’s (a group which includes Malta Today) coverage of Franco Debono. It recalls for me those situations which, as a teenager, made me feel sick with extreme discomfort – when, occasionally, groups of bored boys would encourage and provoke, with false enthusiasm and admiration, the more erratic risk-takers into increasingly dangerous and destructive behaviour. For them, it was entertainment, but for the fall-guy and those around him, the consequences sometimes were catastrophic.
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The way the article about Merrylegs is written, you just have to suspect Kurt Sansone is behind it.
Not all readers have access to the internet, or know how to use it. What about those who still buy the print edition of The Times? They should know who they should thank when Joseph becomes prime minister and begins to fuck up royally.
Franco Debono issa dejjaqli lis-stocc. Issa qabad mal-kontijiet ta l-ilma u d-dawl.
Bhal dak li qallu ghandu xi kontijiet xi jhallas meta d-dar tieghu ghada vojta ghax ghadu marbut mal-minestra tal-mummy.
He certainly doesn’t belong with the PN – he is a prophet of doom. Xi dwejjaq ta’ ragel.
Why haven’t you posted my earlier comment? Have I hit the nail on it’s head?
[Daphne – What comment, Mike? The thoroughly boring one, the slanderous one, or the one that lowers the tone of my website?]
Daphne, it was my first ever comment on your blog, about The Times and why I think The Times is giving exposure to Dr. Debono.
Here we go again. The quixotic Franco wants to rescue the people from high electricity bills.
An expert bully himself, having bullied his Prime Minister, cabinet, government, parliament and his own party now lectures us on the dangers of bullying. When he is not persecuting, he is rescuing and when he is not rescuing, he is the victim.
And the dance between victim, rescuer and persecutor continues, personified by the dysfunctional behaviour of Franco. When will he realise that the role of ‘victim’, ‘rescuer’ and ‘persecutor’ are a bad way to interact with people?
Another prima donna.
“I have learnt my lessons well. You blame others for your failures whilst you steal other people’s good ideas. I have put forward fundamental ideas in justice and home affairs and in constitutional matters and you know what I got from the party?”
The eternal victim with a persecution/martyr complex.