Miet l-Eva Peron ta’ Malta (she liked to blow money, though)

Published: August 23, 2012 at 11:38pm




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  1. maryanne says:
    August 24, 2012 at 12:11 am

    Eva Peron maybe, but St. Francis of Assisi, yes.

    I never heard more references to Christ, the gospel, qlub tad-deheb and religion than I heard today on Super One. If you had fallen from Mars you would be forgiven for thinking that he was a saint. Where was all this goodness and bible reading during the violent years?

    This week was the peak of rehabilitation and revisionism for Labour. Shame.

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    • H.P. Baxxter says:
      August 24, 2012 at 12:45 am

      Helped along by an idiotically flaccid press, a comatose and spineless intellectual class, and a turn-the-other-cheek opposing party.

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    • Natalie says:
      August 24, 2012 at 7:25 am

      It depends on where this Martian would land though. Yesterday I was asked by an Italian family living in Sliema about Mintoff. The wife said, “Who is this man? He doesn’t seem to be very popular.”

      It gets hilarious, I’ve heard all sorts of abuse thrown at dead Mintoff in Sliema shops.

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  2. David says:
    August 24, 2012 at 12:30 am

    The comparison with Evita Peron is interesting.

    I still think that the Latin maxim on what should be said on the dead is correct in principle. However making an exception to this rule I ask – is Evita a heroine or a villain? The same can be asked about Dom Mintoff.

    While the musical Evita gives the answer as “villain” I believe the musical is biased. Evita is known to have given much help to the poor. The answer is probably that, like the majority of people, they were neither heroes nor villains or maybe they were both partly heroes and partly villains.

    [Daphne – She gave the same sort of help to the poor that Mintoff did: hand-outs to upset the other classes and glorify her own status as a saviour.]

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  3. Josette Jones says:
    August 24, 2012 at 12:53 am

    Is it to soon to enjoy Monty Python’s ‘Dead Perit’ sketch?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npjOSLCR2hE

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    • H.P. Baxxter says:
      August 24, 2012 at 1:14 am

      Never too soon. The Maltese résistance has already come up with its own joke:

      “Fl-ahhar rajt ‘The Dictator’.

      “Il-biopic ta’ Mintoff?”

      [Daphne – Oh, I meant to write about that after I watched The Dictator in London a couple of months ago. I was the only one in the cinema NOT laughing, and this after I nearly choked with hysterical laughter during Bruno. I couldn’t laugh because it was so close to home that it wasn’t even funny.]

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      • Calipha says:
        August 24, 2012 at 5:58 pm

        Seriously? The Dictator, close to home?
        Ok…mhm…to each his own I guess.
        You must have had such a traumatic past…
        Something must have made you like this….

        [Daphne – Yes, darling, your beloved Labour Party made me like this. You should have tried living a normal life under their regime. Yes, it was just like in The Dictator, and no, not the parts set in Manhattan, believe me. The only thing our dictators didn’t do was shoot those who displeased them. But they had other means.]

    • Mario Farrugia says:
      August 25, 2012 at 12:08 am

      wow – over 3 million saw it

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  4. Joe says:
    August 24, 2012 at 9:31 am

    Mintoffjani are doing their hardest to mellow Mintoff’s image, in the hope that history would be kind to him.

    But true historians who will eventually write about him, are not going to be swayed with these fake and empty glorifications. What was done is there for everyone to see and cannot be changed.

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  5. SERACINA says:
    August 24, 2012 at 10:03 am

    Does anyone remember this song that was aired over and over again on the National TV station after the 81 election??

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVdoZNxtL8k

    Listen carefully to the refrain. Still upsets me.

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  6. P Shaw says:
    August 24, 2012 at 3:31 pm

    A new version of the musical is set to perform again on Broadway. The promotional tour describes Eva Peron as a person who managed to create an iconic figure through mainipulation of the media. The new actress who got the role of Eva Peron has recently said, that as an Argentine she can understand the hysteria during the funeral and that all she remembers is her father crying during the funeral while he was watching it on TV.

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