Friday’s Xarabank: the edited highlights
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March 16, 2014 at 10:51pm
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Why does Muscat have to ‘ahaha’ his interlocutors, mock them, whisper puerile comments to intimidate them?
He sounds like one of those teacher’s nightmares – the remedial pupil who’s given up and spends his time being the class clown and trouble-maker.
Throw a pink tracksuit at him and you’ll get a Vicky Pollard.
Grow up, chubby.
It’s so obvious he’s never been in proper employment. Or he’d have learned to shut his big gob. Throwing that sort of attitude around would have got him fired in an instant. Am I allowed to call someone a infantile gobby prick according to the Laws of Malta?
No. The same warning that applies to Cassola also applies to you: ‘oqghod attent xi tghid’.
For me, that was the most shocking part of the debate.
Cassola should have reacted. Both should have blasted Muscat for that authoritarian threat. My answer would have been: ‘why, are you going to send people to get me’?
Isn’t that great? So the Laws of Malta basically do not allow you to point out any public official’s unpleasant traits. What sort of country have we made for ourselves?
HPB this is just ‘one’ example of how democracy functions (I can assure every Maltese idiot that in countries such as France both journalists and satire can be far more virulent than the following).
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/a-charlatan-who-scores-cheap-political-points-jeremy-paxman-reopens-war-of-words-with-michael-gove-over-the-world-war-one-centenary-9190705.html
See how he counters facts:
Busuttil makes a list of iced-buns and all Muscat could say was “hu biss kompetenti u hu biss jjista’ jaghzel in-nies”.
Roba da matti!
“Ghal freeport ma tidholx minn Marsaxlokk” . Kumment tipiku ta’ min jaf li qed jghamel hazin u qed jipprova jikkonvinci lilu inniffsu li qed jghamel tajjeb.
L-udjenza dahhqet bih f’wiccu.
U xorta jibqa’ jghazaq.
Punt iehor relevanti. X’hin qal dak il-kumment ma kienx qed ibella ir-ross bil-labra. Ma hemmx sinjali ta’ tikmix fuq mohhu. Joseph Muscat konvint li ma hemmx konflitti bejn it-tanker permanenti tal-gass, it-tanker tal-gass iehor li jkun qed jimlih, s-safety zones necessarji madwarhom, u l- vapuri tal-merkanzija tal-Freeport.
Evidentement konvint illi hadd ma hu ser ipejjep fuq il-vapuri tal-merkanzija.
Rationalisation (together with aggression of all sorts and puerile comments) are Muscat’s kind thing, aren’t they?
This omission is so serious that it should be enough of an excuse to once and for all immediately take a firm decision to scrap the issue, whatever the penalty the Malta Government may have to pay to the consortium.
Then again, since the tender was pre-arranged, pre-selected and a sham, perhaps nothing would be due in penalties after all.
That Muscat did not know, is serious enough.
That all of his cabinet didn’t know – and couldn’t care less – is spectacular in terms of ignorance.
To think that this was not included in any discussion, report or briefing is acutely worrying as to the level of professionalism in Government.
That it is low is evident, but this is like a bunch of monkeys playing a game of basketball with multiple hand grenades and twiddling with the pins before each throw.
Three cheers for Gasan, Apap Bologna, Tumas, (Dalli?), Nair for leading the Labour Party by its long, longer and ever-longer nose?
Capcipa u erbgha punti fuq il-geddum… kif jghidu l-Ghawdxin.
What a sorry and dangerous state of affairs.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-532448/Is-PROOF-short-men-feel-insecure.html
May I know what Peppi Azzopardi introduced Joseph Muscat as an economist, or that he graduated with a doctorate degree in economics, when it clearly is not the case?
Can we stop feeding lies to the people to Joseph Muscat is an economist?
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?
He is an economist – particularly when it comes to truth.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140317/local/tv-debate-controversy-busuttil-insists-he-did-not-lie.511002
I can confirm that a PQ was circulated this morning asking what direct orders were made to the firm. So Muscat definitely did not have all facts in hand when he made the accusation.
Just give him more rope.
A political debate on a programme of the likes of Xarabank really brings into focus the quality of Maltese politics.
If I were the Prime Minister and Simon Busuttil I would have simply refused to appear on a programme of which the primary focus is to enhance Peppi Azzopardi’s failing image.
Imagine the leaders of any opposing political party in any country, barring one or two banana republics south of the equator, holding a debate on something on the lines of a Jerry Springer show.
Precisely.
The few seconds from 4.17 onwards on this video clip were the best moments of the debate. It shows that when Joseph Muscat is pressed hard with strong arguments, he simply gets lost and is left without a retort.
Sometimes, bullies have to be dealt with using the same tactics which they use on others.
Prosit, Simon Busuttil. More of this please.
https://soundcloud.com/editorjal-radio101/qziez