When you find yourself cloning your campaign videos, it’s time for a new producer/director
Mario Philip Azzopardi has been washed up for years, but now that he doesn’t even have the verve and imagination to come up with new ideas for the prime minister’s videos and finds himself cloning the Labour leader’s campaign videos instead, and even copying the British monarch’s Christmas message format, it’s time for a new producer/director.
Our prime minister’s first New Year message has to be acted out like something in a school play, and backed up with footage that has been used ad nauseam already.
We even had to repeat the cliché of the ‘cool guy’ (as if) with the hairstyle and the electric guitar that we saw in that campaign video which featured Albert Marshall’s wife, Norman Hamilton’s daughter and Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando’s mistress, Lara Boffa, who he has since installed at the Council for Science and Technology on a salary funded by the public purse.
I don’t know who’s advising on these things, but if the idea is Mario Philip Azzopardi’s or some other sexagenarian’s, they’re stuck in a generational time warp and probably don’t quite get the fact that Jimi Hendrix is venerated as a historic icon and not an element of contemporary culture. But then maybe they’re deliberately going for a retro feel, what with that early 1960s outfit and hairdo.
Here, by contrast, we’ve got the time-honoured fireside chat.
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What a bl**dy cheek he’s got, claiming that Malta saved the lives of so many immigrants after their boat capsized last October, while simultaneously ignoring the fact that it was also thanks to Malta’s procrastination that the lives of a further 268 people – including many children, and one baby and its mother still connected to each other by the umbilical cord – were lost that day, too.
Yes, Muscat – New Year’s Day is a time for new beginnings; several have been denied that, thanks to your government’s not putting much value on human life.
My thoughts exactly. But then again he speaks for his sheep, and as we know, unfortunately, those will believe anything he says.
Shame!
Well said Mandy, but then what do you expect from clowns and liars? And cheap ones at that.
Happy new Year of the Chav, everybody.
The tele-prompter Prime Minister.
Yes, indeed, Dr Busuttil’s video message was great. I also noticed and liked the way he mentioned the commemoration day of ‘when Malta began administering its defence’ without mentioning that fake word ‘helsien’. How on earth can it be ‘freedom’, when it was Malta (Mintoff) that asked the British to stay on?
‘On Saturday, the Leader of the House goes to Malta to celebrate the withdrawal of the last British Service men from that island.’
British Parliament Archives – HC Deb 27 March 1979 vol 965 cc274-400
Note ‘the Leader of the House (British Parliament) ‘celebrates’ the withdrawal of the British Forces. The Brits were more than glad to get rid of us and would have done it years sooner had not Mintoff pleaded with them to stay on.
It’s about time they stuff their ‘Jum il-Ħelsien’ myth up their bottoms.
Widening eyes, bouncing voice pitch and sudden head-shakes. Does the Prime Minister have to mimic Peppi Azzopardi’s irritating public-speaking style?
Doubly annoying is that camera angle, with Dr Muscat looking down on me.
Class act all round.
Is that flag flown correctly?
Kif jghidu: fuq tlieta toqghod il-borma – Joe Vella Bonnici, il-Ministru Scicluna, li mizzewweg lil oht Vella Bonnici, u Mario Azzopardi, li wkoll huwa mizzewweg lil oht Vella Bonnici. A real case of it’s all in the family.
Kemm ilu li mar isabbat siequ fl-Ewropa siequ wahlitlu ma l-art ghax lanqas pass wiehed il-quddiem la ta u lanqas habbar li ser jaghti. Tlablib u xejn hlief tlablib. Hlief hares lura ma ghamilx u tal futur lanqas biss indenja ruhu jghid.
Dr. Busuttil gave an excellent speech. I just wish he hadn’t read it.
Father Christmas kien jonqos naraw niezel mill-fireplace.
Both leaders exaggerated in my opinion.
I want to cuddle Simon Busuttil – he is so calm and relaxed.
Priedka tat-tifel. Both of them. I’m getting out of here.