This is not a man who pumps iron for an hour every morning at the gym and eats two oranges for lunch
If this screen grab from tonight’s ‘speech to the nation’ is anything to go by, when the prime minister goes to the gym every day, he takes a kip in the locker room.
And there is no way this man is eating two oranges for lunch as the pre-electoral propaganda would have us believe.
There’s something funny going on here, because the older he gets, the less masculine he looks – whereas normally, it’s the other way round.
But let’s leave that, shall we. It doesn’t bear thinking about. Let’s concentrate on the styling for the recorded ‘speech to the nation’ video.
Well, it certainly wasn’t done by the people who work on Mad Men. What exactly are they trying to do with that green banker’s lamp – recreate the Oval Office?
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And where exactly did he hide the sign that should be displayed on his desk and which says “The Buck Stops Here”?
But then he is not exactly President Tru(e)man.
In the case of Joseph Muscat, the buck never stops there, it gets to be delegated onwards through the maze of ministers, parliamentary secretaries, commissions, and foundations where, with luck, it can get lost and be forgotten.
If the buck is not forgotten, then all Joseph Muscat needs to do is to pluck out one of his numerous lackeys in that complex setup and pin the blame on him.
In most cases, such is the mentality of most of his appointees that the individual so identified would actually feel himself honoured to carry the can for his master.
Looks like he’s working out on multiple ‘gym and tonics’.
Never mind the lamp. A pen pocket on a dress shirt?
Not quite the Oval Office. Pear-Shaped perhaps.
Glad to see the PM has my report open on his desk. I just wish he’d read it.
Oranges? The only orange I can see is the colour of the spray on the top of his scalp which must have been added by the make up artist to give the impression that he has “Presidential hair.”
TVM had a feature about gyms on the eight o’clock news yesterday, and guess who where the cameras where taken? Yes we had the Spinach man being interviewed in his gymn.
No, Joseph did not pop in to pump iron. He’s more likely to be seen eating at Mc Donalds with Joe Grima.
Why no lap top on his desk? Isn’t our PP minister a forward looking technological guy?
[Daphne – It’s behind him, hard by the banker’s lamp.]
Figures, most of the time he talks through his arse. Possibly looks at his world through it as well.
Well, at least he should have a tablet – maybe one of those coloured light blue, to match the colour of his tie I hasten to add – to lead by example considering that he will be distributing free ones to Form 4 students according to his roadmap.
It’s a young bloke, inexperienced and totally out of his depth, desperately trying to look like he’s in control, and will probably be impressing the great unwashed.
The only thing he is in control of is the pedal – hidden under the desk – of those teleprompters.
It now being the hot season, the banker’s green lamp is there to replace the log fire in the fireplace.
They both have the same function, to divert viewers’ eyes from having to look constantly at the speaker.
In this particular case, the green light proved to be the more stimulating aspect to watch.
He ‘tries’ to imitate Obama in every possible way.
And don’t you just love the standard “I-am-busy-hard-at-work-running-the-country-and-signing-documents-look-I’m-going-to-underline-something-really-important-now” standard statesman (ca1985 – 1995) to the whole charade?
The sad thing is that more than half the country lap this sort of thing up.
If Im correct his gym instructor was on the news yesterday telling us to go to the gym in summer: Spinach Gym.
The Prime Minister looks like a plump, well-fed girl to me. All he needs is a frilled bonnet, a bowl of curds and whey, and a spider.