Here you go…

https://soundcloud.com/david-thake/david-calls-lara-boffa-23-oct

Listen to audiobooks and podcasts instead and you’ll never have to listen to the same old music downloads ever again.

The range of audiobooks has exploded over the last few years and production values are excellent.

I’m currently listening to The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire read by David Timson.

http://www.naxosaudiobooks.com/0125.htm

Thanks! You are doing a great job!

It’s very clear that we will never agree on this one.

Using your own words, the PN people who put her on NET should understand that she is only there for her own interests. It is impossible that she made a political shift in her 40s/50s. She is acting out of pique with the Super One people.

Time will tell.

[Daphne – I’m afraid you are very wrong. Perhaps it’s because I know both these individuals personally that my view is different to yours. People whose political views are ‘Nazzjonalist minn guf ommi’ are most times unable to understand how political opinions are reached through a rational process of analysis and observation. That is how I got to my own political views and I am in absolutely no doubt that Eileen Montesin did the same. In her case the process was more complicated because she was raised in a Mintoffian family and I did not have that major disadvantage.]

Please do not mix Eileen Montesin with the Godfrey Grimas, Franco Debonos, JPOs etc.

She was Labour and as she matured found that the PN policies made far more sense.

By all means put her on NET and 101. Nothing wrong with being ex-Labour.

It’s the ping-pong balls that do harm when they are welcomed back, in my opinion.

They would have to be blind, deaf and very dumb not to take you up on that, David.

Brilliant timely statement from the Church on ethics, by the way:

http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-10-25/local-news/Without-transparency-and-accountability-codes-of-ethics-are-useless-Mgr-Scicluna-says-6736124372

Increase the transmission frequency?

I do not agree. And I do so whole heartedly. She might be an excellent communicator and that she is reaching to a completely different audience. ( I know that that is true from first hand experience. ) But no not Ms Montesin.

Montesin might not have been a billboard girl this time round. But she was the one who whole heartedly sang ” Run Rabbit Run”. She is on the same level of people like Joe Grima who was given a program on Net TV.

[Daphne – Oh, for God’s sake. Do you actually know how old Eileen Montesin is? She is marginally older than I am. She is young enough to be Joe Grima’s daughter. She is, in fact, the same age as Joe Grima’s son.

In 1981 I was 16, which means that she was in her early 20s, if that. God help everyone if we have to be judged by our choices and decisions at the age of 21, especially when they are not really choices and decisions at all but a natural progression from a particular environment at home. Eileen Montesin is like me: we both made a rational choice, based on assessment, to vote for the Nationalist Party. And that is why we are both clear in our mind as to the reasons for that choice, unlike so many people who help sink the sink with their attitude of politics as religion or a football team.]

She is on the same level as Godfrey Grima who was given once the task to analyze an election defeat, and this time round was asked to address the PN convention. My opinion on Ms Montesin is not linked to her teleserials. I did not watch one single episode and as you can imagine I switch off Radio101 at 1100hrs. Her voice, to my mind, is directly linked to the Mintoffian years of hatred.

[Daphne – Well then, more fool you. Like you, I watched Montesin on television in those years and to me, as to you, her name was a byword for the awfulness of that government. But unlike you, I am able to understand that she grew out of it, that what she was in her teens and 20s was the result of how she grew up, and that when she sat down and thought about it, she made proper choices. I’ll tell you that Eileen Montesin is far more to be trusted than many of the flag-waving ‘Nazzjonalist minn guf ommi’ charlatans that you’ve got in there. And more credible, too.]

David Thake did ask her on air (during the Net TV 51 hour marathon) whether she thinks it is strange that someone with her kind of MLP involvement in the past was being given airtime on PN stations. Her reply was very, very disappointing. She showed no remorse for what she did in the past.

[Daphne – I don’t expect her to show any remorse because remorse does not come into it. If I had killed somebody at 20 I would of course understand the need to show the remorse I feel, but when we feel REGRET over decisions we took at 20, public shows of remorse don’t come into it, especially when we are not in positions where our judgement has an impact in the present: i.e. Joseph Muscat.]

A phone in programme to Eileen Montesin. A bigger no from my end. The same was done with Joe Grima and did that help in any way?

[Daphne – This shows how you don’t understand the differences between people and cannot assess them. Joe Grima is a charlatan, a conniving piece of fat trash who was a cabinet minister for Mintoff and Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici in his 40s, not a TV show host in her teens and 20s. By your 40s, your character is set permanently and so are your choices. Aside from the fact that he was a Mintoffian minister, the PN people who put him on NET should have understood that he was there only because of his ongoing beef with Alfred Sant who threw him out precisely because he was associated with the corruption and violence of the Mintoff regime. And that therefore he had not made a political shift (impossible in one’s 60s) but was acting out of pique, which he would immediately do again once Sant had departed from the scene.]

It only helped everyone to understand how much he adored Mintoff (and hated Alfred Sant). Likewise we will get to know how much she still adores Mintoff and how much she cannot stand Joseph Muscat for not giving her airtime on Super One.

Let’s do a podcast.