Tweet! Joseph has made an important statement.
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December 14, 2012 at 9:20am
The Opposition leader, who has spent the last four years banging on about how the prime minister sent Jesmond Mugliett a text message to tell him he was not being given a cabinet portfolio (he need have told him nothing at all – no explanation is required in these circumstances) last night actually TWEETED to say that he would back a motion for the impeachment of Judge Pace.
So appropriate, don’t you think? Really statesmanlike and replete with gravitas as befits the occasion.
Perhaps he was carried away by the sight of Renato twirling with Mary Spiteri, as they have been doing roughly since I was in ankle socks at St Dorothy’s primary school, on the Labour telethon.
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Muscat uses Twitter because Obama does (Twitter is really big in the USA; not so much in Malta). Gonzi uses Facebook (admittedly better suited for the Maltese market).
Both political leaders were dragged into using social media.
What’s your story?
[Daphne – That the medium has to be appropriate to the message. The Opposition leader can send as many tweets as he pleases, the prime minister can use Facebook as much as he pleases, but neither medium is appropriate for an announcement by either party about the impeachment of a judge. It belittles the gravity of the situation. I trust this is not beyond your comprehension because you don’t sound like somebody born in a gutter.]
I’m not sure it’s the fact that he tweets as much as the inanity of what he tweets, you know.
Plenty of statesmen and people in positions of political power (from Obama to Cameron to Van Rompuy to …lord help us…the Pope) use twitter and facebook as tools. The user numbers demand it, really – they’re the new TV and radio.
It’s how they use it and what they use it for that separates the wheat from the, ahem, chavs.
I have heard it said that Twitter is for people who can’t shut up, even when they’re on their own.
To be fair, the Prime Minister announced that he was prepared to take this drastic step on the TVM news. This was closely followed by a tweet on the PM’s twitter handle saying just that.
It looks like Dear Joseph replied to the PM’s tweet and seems to have been totally oblivious to what the PM had said on state TV. The Poison Elve needs to polish his act.
Joseph simply cannot afford to be absent. What the PM says, he’ll repeat and go one better.
He’s the spiritual home of the true nationalist remember. The place where Mintoffjani and Nazzjonalisti greet each other at tal-grocer, and refrain from politics. As he did.
Quite obviously, Labour’s trying to make us forget it is a political party. One big happy family. Oh look, Alex Sciberras Trigona’s off to North Korea to get us water pistols for Christmas.
Joseph Muscat and many of his MPs are always tweeting and twittering.
Makes you wonder whether their honoraria should be paid in canary seed so that, you know, there will be more money left over for the new middle class.
What do you expect from a twit?
http://www.maltastar.com/dart/20121214-simon-busuttil-invited-for-debate-with-anglu-farrugia
The spin is incredible. Meanwhile Mr Frankie Deguara from Form 2C is under the impression that TV is like WWF wrestling where he can just substitute a crappy wrestler to settle a spat.
We’ve almost hit rock bottom.