Comments on: Joseph Muscat: the quintessential demagogue https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/joseph-muscat-the-quintessential-demagogue/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Mon, 02 Feb 2015 21:25:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: ghalgolhajt.com https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/joseph-muscat-the-quintessential-demagogue/#comment-3017257 Mon, 02 Feb 2015 21:25:23 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=58326#comment-3017257 Excellent piece . Can I safely assume he will continue in power even after the next general election?

]]> By: Peritocracy https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/joseph-muscat-the-quintessential-demagogue/#comment-3014748 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 15:49:32 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=58326#comment-3014748 In reply to Charlie H.

No spine, but lots of guts.

http://i.imgur.com/8iaEfw1.jpg

]]> By: Another John https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/joseph-muscat-the-quintessential-demagogue/#comment-3014707 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 15:11:17 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=58326#comment-3014707 In reply to Another John.

Yes, I know. Ghaffigta jien din id-darba.

]]> By: Charlie H https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/joseph-muscat-the-quintessential-demagogue/#comment-3014508 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 11:39:35 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=58326#comment-3014508 While most have realised, in the months since March 2013, what a cheat, charlatan and impostor Joseph Muscat is, Ian Castaldi Paris praises the PM for being able to take of the mantle of Prime Minister and become “a father and a listener”.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20150201/local/former-pn-mayor-ian-castaldi-paris-joins-labour.554342

Some people are so spineless and have no shame.

]]> By: Kevin https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/joseph-muscat-the-quintessential-demagogue/#comment-3014493 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 11:27:06 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=58326#comment-3014493 Incidentally, this might be of interest: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150130-the-man-who-studies-evil

]]> By: curious https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/joseph-muscat-the-quintessential-demagogue/#comment-3014483 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 11:09:07 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=58326#comment-3014483 A father and a listener? Wasn’t that John Dalli’s second profession?

“Speaking in glowing terms about Joseph Muscat, Dr Castaldi Paris said it was good to have a Prime Minister who was able to take of the mantle of Prime Minister and become “a father and a listener”.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20150201/local/former-pn-mayor-ian-castaldi-paris-joins-labour.554342

]]> By: curious https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/joseph-muscat-the-quintessential-demagogue/#comment-3014479 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 11:04:37 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=58326#comment-3014479 Dr Muscat concludes his speech on an optimistic note with the slogan ‘Malta Ottimista.’ (The Malta Independent)

He is realising that not all is well in the kingdom. When you are faced with a choice of being optimistic or not it means that there is a problem.

In fact the problem is Labour itself.

]]> By: Another John https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/joseph-muscat-the-quintessential-demagogue/#comment-3014450 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 10:39:40 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=58326#comment-3014450 And what does your perfectly true portraiture of the general education of the general public in Malta say about the country’s education system of the last 25 years?

Is there a blame to shoulder some-where? Something went wrong for sure.

And, is such a situation replicated somewhere else in Western Europe, apart Malta?

I’m sure that not only the word ‘demagogue’ would cause problems to be understood by many people, I think adding ‘quintessentially’ to it continues to complicate the understanding of the phrase even more.

[Daphne – Your dysfunctional syntax is no aid to comprehension, John. Who do I blame? The parents, generation over generation. The kind of education I’m talking about isn’t acquired at school, bar a few rare cases.]

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