Comments on: This is a response to all those who say that the private life of those who hold high public office is irrelevant and should not be reported by the newspapers https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2017/01/this-is-a-response-to-all-those-who-say-that-the-private-life-of-those-who-hold-high-public-office-is-irrelevant-and-should-not-be-reported-by-the-newspapers/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Wed, 11 Jan 2017 15:45:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: callixtus https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2017/01/this-is-a-response-to-all-those-who-say-that-the-private-life-of-those-who-hold-high-public-office-is-irrelevant-and-should-not-be-reported-by-the-newspapers/#comment-3114691 Wed, 11 Jan 2017 15:45:00 +0000 https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=87868#comment-3114691 The private life of anyone holding high public office should be the first port of call of any journalist worth his salt. Credible reports, proved by Putin’s denials, of the Kremlin having a dossier of Trump’s perverted sexual acts (can anyone imagine Trump not being a sexual pervert?), with which it is blackmailing him explains why the pussy-grabber-in-chief’s cabinet is teeming with Putin’s quislings.

]]> By: Tabatha_White https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2017/01/this-is-a-response-to-all-those-who-say-that-the-private-life-of-those-who-hold-high-public-office-is-irrelevant-and-should-not-be-reported-by-the-newspapers/#comment-3114250 Mon, 09 Jan 2017 20:40:00 +0000 https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=87868#comment-3114250 Likewise. Entirely. They are superfluous once past that point. Realisation wasn’t immediate. It wasn’t a code I grew up with. Questioning what wasn’t was a process.

]]> By: Daphne Caruana Galizia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2017/01/this-is-a-response-to-all-those-who-say-that-the-private-life-of-those-who-hold-high-public-office-is-irrelevant-and-should-not-be-reported-by-the-newspapers/#comment-3114124 Mon, 09 Jan 2017 12:06:00 +0000 https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=87868#comment-3114124 The degenerate lifestyle of a judge or magistrate is most definitely NOT irrelevant.

]]> By: Sowxal https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2017/01/this-is-a-response-to-all-those-who-say-that-the-private-life-of-those-who-hold-high-public-office-is-irrelevant-and-should-not-be-reported-by-the-newspapers/#comment-3114031 Sun, 08 Jan 2017 21:46:00 +0000 https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=87868#comment-3114031 In reply to J Sammut.

No, he is just not up to it. Basta kollu pompa.

]]> By: Daphne Caruana Galizia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2017/01/this-is-a-response-to-all-those-who-say-that-the-private-life-of-those-who-hold-high-public-office-is-irrelevant-and-should-not-be-reported-by-the-newspapers/#comment-3114000 Sun, 08 Jan 2017 20:08:00 +0000 https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=87868#comment-3114000 For heaven’s sake, nobody can put forward anybody’s name for a job unless that person first applies for it.

]]> By: Daphne Caruana Galizia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2017/01/this-is-a-response-to-all-those-who-say-that-the-private-life-of-those-who-hold-high-public-office-is-irrelevant-and-should-not-be-reported-by-the-newspapers/#comment-3113989 Sun, 08 Jan 2017 18:57:00 +0000 https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=87868#comment-3113989 In reply to J Sammut.

He wanted the job and that’s why he applied for it. There is no such thing as ‘failing on purpose’ and Muscat did not want to kick him upstairs because he has never stood in the way of anything. On the contrary.

]]> By: J Sammut https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2017/01/this-is-a-response-to-all-those-who-say-that-the-private-life-of-those-who-hold-high-public-office-is-irrelevant-and-should-not-be-reported-by-the-newspapers/#comment-3113988 Sun, 08 Jan 2017 18:53:00 +0000 https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=87868#comment-3113988 In reply to Sowxal.

I suspect he failed on purpose. Muscat wanted to kick him upstairs.

]]> By: Angus Black https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2017/01/this-is-a-response-to-all-those-who-say-that-the-private-life-of-those-who-hold-high-public-office-is-irrelevant-and-should-not-be-reported-by-the-newspapers/#comment-3113984 Sun, 08 Jan 2017 18:48:00 +0000 https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=87868#comment-3113984 Licking an ice-cream cone in Kingsway was not half as bad as judges and magistrates licking politicians’ arses in public and private.

]]> By: Evarist Saliba https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2017/01/this-is-a-response-to-all-those-who-say-that-the-private-life-of-those-who-hold-high-public-office-is-irrelevant-and-should-not-be-reported-by-the-newspapers/#comment-3113980 Sun, 08 Jan 2017 18:45:00 +0000 https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=87868#comment-3113980 If a person is not fit to be a judge, that person is not fit to be a magistrate, especially for the reasons stated in this case. That is common sense.

However, here we have two different issues. There is one procedure to decide – no, that’s wrong; the decision lies with the Minister of Justice – whether a person is fit to be a judge before the appointment is made.

There is a different, and more difficult, procedure to declare that a person already appointed a judge or a magistrate, is not fit to carry on holding that position.

Of course, there is a clear and honourable solution that avoids this administrative maze, and that lies with the person directly involved. Such a decision requires integrity and courage.

]]> By: Tabatha_White https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2017/01/this-is-a-response-to-all-those-who-say-that-the-private-life-of-those-who-hold-high-public-office-is-irrelevant-and-should-not-be-reported-by-the-newspapers/#comment-3113967 Sun, 08 Jan 2017 16:28:00 +0000 https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=87868#comment-3113967 In reply to Francis Saliba MD.

Without Daphne, those who are waterboarded, or steamrolled over, would have no chance of coming up to the surface to gasp for air every now and again.

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