The stylish and elegant rebel has become hysterical because I’ve pointed out that he doesn’t write his blog-posts
How embarrassing – imagine not being able to construct a few simple paragraphs in English and having to get somebody else to do it for you, when you’re so high-flying and should have been a cabinet minister and top criminal lawyer.
He’s even more hysterical and nervous because he has a pretty good idea that I know who’s writing them for him.
He’s afraid I’m going to give them both away.
But I shan’t, because I have no cast-iron proof, and that’s what you need for these things.
Yet I know. And he knows that I know, and it’s freaking him out.
Imagine being exposed as a bloody fraud, how he feels about that when he is so proud and can’t admit failure or any form of shortcoming.
Yet there you go: Franco can’t write his own stuff and somebody else does it for him.
When he writes his own stuff, it’s barely coherent.
What did you imagine, Franco – that I would read sentences constructed by a native English speaker and not recognise them for what they are, or that I would imagine you wrote them?
The real mystery is why the press doesn’t take him up on it.
Who’s writing your blog-posts, Franco? Go on, tell them. You’re always banging on about truth, transparency and accountability, and then you don’t tell the press who writes your posts for you.
Tsk tsk tsk.
No need to tell me, of course. You know that I know. I’m onto you both, Mr Cock-a-Doodle-Do.
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Daphne
Comment of the day on Franco Debono ‘s blog :
http://www.francodebono.com/2012/10/10/blaming-others-since-the-eighties/
N S
Oct 10, 2012 @ 17:22:26
Thajjar Franco ha taqta xewqtek.
Be Prime Minister for a Day….it-Tieni Edizzjoni…Biex tapplika agħfas fuq il-link….
https://mychoice.pn/pmforaday/
Please give us at least a hint.
Hi Daphne
You may already have seen this one too:
http://www.facebook.com/FrancodebonoqafIlPdn?ref=hl&refid=17
Don’t tell me its Ms Any-Cock-Will-Do who is writing his missives.
I am really curious how you found out that he’s became hysterical about this.
Let us know please.
[Daphne – His immediate reaction on his blokk.]
you ve got to tell us plsssss….
I’d say it’s Marisa Micallef Leyson.
[Daphne – No, wrong writing voice.]
I think it’s safe to suspect that Debono wrote this gem.
“Austin Gatt with his confrontational attitude and bullying tactics is one of the persons responsible for the state the PN is in today, but even if he werent he is a very easy scapegoat. ”
I suspect that he doesn’t know what a scapegoat is!
[Daphne – He most definitely did not write it. It is perfectly idiomatic. It was written by that person who’s ghost-writing his pieces.]
I meant that he is referring to Austin GATT as a scapegoat when what he really means is the opposite.
Gotcha! What stupidity. The turkey cock must be terrified. Wonder if he will continue to strut and prance down Republic St. in his big pony Polo shirt?
Possibly someone with M.S. for initials?
What, Mary Spiteri?
Saviour Balzan?
If I recall correctly you also advocated the elimination of the law of criminal libel. This augurs well for your marriage with your Husband MP.
I beg to differ as I believe the reputation of every private or public person should be protected by both civil and criminal law. On the other hand criminal defamation procedures should not lead to the punishment of imprisonment as has happened recently when an Italian newspaper editor was condemned to prison for an article written in his newspaper.
Michaela spiteri is too good a writer to be writing such tripe
That Irishman in Gozo?
Avukat ma jafx jikteb bl-Ingliz? Arukaza. Il-professuri li ghaddew lil Franco jmisshom jisthu. Ghandhom jinzammu accountable ta’ pastasata bhal din.
Min ser iressaq mozzjoni?
You must tell your readers who the person writing the blogs for Franco is to prove your allegation. Or maybe you’re afraid that you may face charges in court for spreading of false news?
[Daphne – It’s not an allegation, Mr Coward (is that why you’re anonymous, because you’re a coward?). It’s a fact. Even the most cursory analysis of Franco Debono’s true writing and speaking style shows clearly that he is not the one writing ‘his’ more idiomatic and grammatical pieces. There is no problem at all with going to court about this. A court-appointed expert on the parsing of pieces of writing will come up with the same analysis. And to further prove the point that he is not writing them, since I drew attention to this fact, the person who is writing them for him has begun to throw in the occasional ‘Franco-ism’, in a sad attempt at ‘cunningly’ avoiding detection. So you have an idiomatic sentence, and then a Franco-ism is thrown in, like a pink elephant at a disco.]
I am challenging you to publish the name of the person who is writing the blogs for him if you are so sure that there is a person behind the writings on his blogs.
[Daphne – Being sure is not enough, darling. One needs proof. I am sure, but I don’t have proof. So I will just keep the identity of this person to myself and tell a few others in private. Meanwhile, just be sure that he’s not writing much of his more recent stuff. That I can state as fact, because it’s obvious, clear and undeniable. I have noticed that there is yet another person involved, too, because one of his posts yesterday was obviously written (by him, I suppose) in Maltese and translated into English. You can tell that the English was a translation because of its stilted ‘this is a translation which is not quite idiomatic’ nature.]
Pull the other one Daphne ! You invent all kind of stories and think that all your readers will believe you. Just imagine being taken to court and you say that you know who is the shadow-write of Franco Debono, but you have no proof . And you expect to win the case ?
[Daphne – You don’t have a very logical mind, do you, Mr Privitera. That is precisely why I am not going to say in writing who Franco’s hidden hand is, because I don’t have proof. However, there is plenty of CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE that Franco does not write some of his pieces. All you have to do is compare his level of writing/English with that of his ghost.]
If you are stating that it is a fact then you can prove it. If you can’t prove it, then it is an allegation. I think yours is only a speculation, a conjecture or a supposition.
Moreover, you are afraid to divulge any names because you know it is not true. Do not try to make an analysis because that is not your profession. Leave it to the experts.
[Daphne – How do you know that it is not true if you don’t know who I think it is? That it is not his writing is a fact. ‘Leave it to the experts’. You may have failed to notice, but I actually am one.]
I’m sorry but this time you got it all wrong. Moreover I’ve got a confirmation that you are not an expert in that field. It is all in your mind. You are only imagining that someone is writing his blogs or it is convenient for you to say that.
Publish the name of ‘the ghost writer’ otherwise no one is going to believe you.
[Daphne – Darling, your writing and knowledge of English idiom are the absolute pits. Of course you couldn’t tell X’s writing apart from Franco’s, even though the difference has screaming red bells on. Additionally, you think illogically. The fact that Franco is using somebody else to write some of his blog-posts is not proven by publishing the name of the other person. It is proven by establishing, through a comparison of the various pieces of writing with what we know for a fact to be his, that those other pieces could not have been written by him. You will have noticed, for example, that the language and writing style of my posts is fairly consistent, and that I do not wake up some mornings sounding like a cold-caller from Nigeria with an interrogation/exclamation mark problem.]
Nice exchange (yours), Daphne. You have once again proven your archaeological skills at unearthing hidden or misty ‘artefacts’!
I have asked you if you know who writes Dr. Gonzi’s speec hes, such as the one he read during the Independence mass-meeting. Have you any reply, or will you censor this comment ?
Hello dinosaur. Just wondering, what exactly does the PM’s speechwriter have to do with the price of tea in China?
His speechwriter. In most ministries, that would be the communication coordinator. Speeches for party events may be written by various others, including, back in the day, Peter Serracino Inglott.
Does that satisfy you?
That is such an uninformed comment, Eddy Privitera.
I don’t know how Dr Gonzi prepares his speeches, but have you never heard that all heads of state (and Head of the Commission, of the European Parliament, of the UN, etc) have full-time speech-writers?
Those speech writers are professional, in every sense of the word, politicians.
Daphne: I note that you failed to answer my comment. So II come to the conclusion, that you know who writes Dr. Gonzi’s speeches but you do not wish to show that when Dr. Gonzi makes important speeches, he would only be repeating what someone would have written for him !
Dr. Muscat prepares his own speeches. And it is easy to see that because he rarely looks at his very brief notes !
[Daphne – No prime minister since Winston Churchill has written his own speeches. The notable exception is Silvio Berlusconi, which really wasn’t a great idea. If Joseph Muscat is forced to write his own, the reasons why are obvious. Just take a look at what happened when he last asked somebody to write something for him. Three years on and it hasn’t yet been delivered. No, I do not know who writes Dr Gonzi’s speeches. I am not omniscient, despite the Super One propaganda to the contrary.]
It is common, universal practice for heads of state employ full-time speech writers.
It is, however, a completely different story when it comes to personal blogs.
For example, Dr. Gonzi’s Facebook page specifically lets viewers know that not all posts are written by Dr. Gonzi himself, but those that are, are suffixed with “-lg”.
Yes, he rarely looks at his BRIEF notes….but he looks at the teleprompter all the time.
Don’t tell me that you wrote Dr. Gonzi’s last Independence meeting speech, Mr. Privitera?
Hmmm, I can imagine you on TV watching the mass meeting and going through the script while LG goes through your yearly contribution.
I share your views, Daphne.I too saw the difference in his posts.
The early ones were just literal translations from Maltese into (very bad) English. When someone brought this to his attention, he said it was because he wrote in a hurry.
I also wrote to him and asked him to have a proof-reader before he published his post, but obviously my comment never appeared. But it seems that he took my advice.
[Daphne – He doesn’t have a proof-reader. He isn’t even having his own writing subbed. He’s got somebody writing from scratch. Not all his posts, of course – because the barely literate ones continue to appear.]
@ lola
It is very simple. There are several blogs on the internet. if you do not like Franco’s English and grammar, do not read and leave comments in his blog posts.
[Daphne – lola is your fan, Franco, you idiot. She’s one of the few people popping in here to stick up for you and for all mothers who breast-feed their sons until the age of 40 while being secretly pleased that they aren’t married.]
Well, on the contrary to many comments….his smaller mistakes show signs of intelligence but he does make many mistakes due to anxiety (he definitely suffers from it, at least, at present). His graphology shows a fight, when he is calm he can sort of write without the many mistakes pointed out here and elsewhere. But when caught in psychological fight, its mistakes galore. It is also in his handwriting. Most of the mistakes show a mind thinking faster than his physical motion. He is definitely not out of the limited ‘Sliema’ gene pool (fact not fiction, and very well locally documented)!!
[Daphne – Please be clearer.]
@ Wilson
Are you a psychologist? Cause if you are, it is you who have a problem because you gave an analysis free of charge of franco’s style of writing meaning that you have ample time to this and therefore not so many patients.
[Daphne – Take a break, Franco. You must be worn out. Why don’t you get your nice ghost to send in comments on your behalf? Then the tone and language (and personal hurt and offence, and vested interest) wouldn’t be so obvious.]