Muscat’s sarcastic remark about the United States: “frentss don’t snoop on each udder”
No, they just queue up to have their picture taken with Barack and Michelle Obama, then have it released by the Department of Information.
Anyway, here’s a video recording of Muscat talking to reporters outside an EU meeting. I’ve come to the conclusion that he can’t control that attitude and facial expression of smug and insufferable arrogance. It is unique among European leaders, now that the ghastly Silvio Berlusconi no longer has that privilege.
The most cringe-making aspect of it is that he lacks the looks, height, figure, bearing and above all, linguistic ability to carry it off.
Anybody who uses the word ‘surreal’ (I know exactly from who he picked up that favourite term) had better learn how to pronounce ‘things’.
TinkSSSS?
Please.
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http://tvnewsroom.consilium.europa.eu/event/european-council-summit-october-2013/arrival-and-doorstep-muscat-mt1
I don’t want to be Maltese anymore. I’m off on a dissociative fugue.
That would appear to be the reason why the GWU-MLP combine seems to be so compulsively intent to force Arriva to stop. It is to allow the disillusioned Maltese shifter voters to get off before the island crashes into the wall.
Muscat’s attitude is so telling. He talks about the people who die each summer as if he actually cares.
If Muscat really did care about the lives lost at sea he wouldn’t be asking for better security in Libya only. He would be asking for better help all round, so that those at sea can be rescued.
But no, he keeps on harping on about how there needs to be more security in Libya so that people don’t leave at all, and my guess is it’s because he just doesn’t want them anywhere near Malta.
Libya is not a safe place for these people. Asking the EU to help keep them there isn’t compassionate. It belies the selfish and xenophobic mindset of Muscat. And thanks to his “push back” stunt, my guess is that the EU knows it too.
The EU is not going to help Muscat in the slightest, and any help they do offer is going to be for the benefit of the other countries and not him.
Surreal? Was Anna Scott behind the door?
Oh, really? So the United States is Labour’s friend now?
Well, friends don’t tell on each other either.
Had not Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici not made that quick telephone call to Muammar Gaddafi back in 1986, when Gaddafi was about to be wiped out by the United States, we would have been spared 2011’s ghastly war.
Europeans complaining about American snoops is mostly just posturing. Spying is part and parcel of intelligence gathering. All countries with the capacity to do so spy on each other.
Even Manuel Mallia with his minuscule intelligence-gathering services wants to focus on spying on foreigners instead of Maltese criminals. But spying on Somali immigrants is all right because Somalis aren’t our friends.
If Germany or France wanted to make a really big statement about American snooping, they would have offered political asylum to Edward Snowden. No European country did. All they’re doing is asking the American president for clarifications and reassurances while waiting for the furore to die down.
Don’t expect Joseph Muscat to appreciate or comprehend any of these nuances any time soon.
Pardon my complete ignorance, but, pray, tell me, where exactly is the United Snates?
I thought he was going to say United Snakes. That would have given away his real feeling towards the USA.
He did say ‘United Snakes’ or at least it sounds like he did. Listen again.
He actually said United Snakes and then corrected himself, at least with all the sss he succeeded in pronouncing in the few words he uttered, that is how it sounded.
http://tvnewsroom.consilium.europa.eu/event/european-council-summit-october-2013/family-photo119
Check it out. The fugly duckling feeling unacknowledged and lost.
Sarcasm is typically Alfred Sant and so is the use of the word ‘surreal’.
He’s probably annoyed that the Americans did not consider him important enough to snoop on him.
He probably can’t stand the fact that nobody bothered to snoop on him.
What a little (in soul and spirit) narcissistic man-boy. He deals with the EU as he deals with everyone at home, as if the world was built around him, and all men and all things are for him to ridicule, to dismiss and to belittle.
He’s out of his league and doesn’t know it.
And that waddle ….. Aaaaaargh
Why, oh why, do Maltese people seem like they have their mouths full of pebbles when they speak English?
I don’t have perfect pronunciation (unfortunately) since I was not exposed to the language as a young child, but I do make an effort to approach the correct pronunciation of words.
I expect a country’s leader to receive pronunciation lessons if necessary. Hearing our Maltese leaders talk in English is painful.
I just expect their countrymen not to elect them.
But that’s asking too much. Carry on, Malta.
How can people actually vote for this nobody? His body language says it all.
My friend and I were comparing this speech and one made by ex Prime Minister Gonzi in 2011 – same argument but the difference in attitude, the tone of voice and the sheer class that was so evident in 2011 is non existent now. What a shame.
He tries to use human tragedy to create an air of importance for himself. Rather, he actually thinks that the tragedies that unfolded off Lampedusa recently, make HIM the big cheese among EU heads of state.
In reality he came over as nothing but a conceited, jumped up little prick when speaking to the press.
Why the aggression, the sneers? Why the clenched-arms stance? What are we exporting? Worldwide exposure to the Maltese Hamallu?
Why the too-short trousers (observed in the family photo footage)? Was that a stain on his tie?
The whole approach is wrong and ill-fitting.
He probably thinks he made more of an impact than Tonio Borg did, going by his reasoning.
Fat.
Any one else noticed the ‘we need’ rather than ‘we want’ to be friends with the US?
Surreal?
I thought he was discussing his breakfast: cereal.
“We need to be friends with the United SNA…STATES.”
Actually, is it politically correct for him to speak on behalf of the entire EU? “We are two sides of the same coin”, “Each one of us here”, etc.?
If there is one country that needs ‘snooping on’ right now, it is Malta.