Television Malta brazenly promotes the Labour Party’s electoral chant
Public Broadcasting Services’ TVM news website carries a non-news report today written by Daniel D’Anastasi, who is described as “Malta Eurovision Head of Press”.
It not only uses the Labour Party’s current electoral chant of ‘positive energy’, attributing it to Austria’s representative at the contest, but it also promotes the Labour transgender suck-up exercise.
Firelight (Malta) meets with Conchita Wurst (Austria)
Following the press conference on Saturday, the Maltese Eurovision hopefuls Firelight met with the Austrian singer Conchita Wurst who congratulated them for their excellent performance on stage of their Eurovision entry “Coming Home” and for the positive energy that surrounds them.
Richard the frontman of Firelight, complimented Conchita not only for her beautiful performance on stage of “Rise Like a Phoenix”, but also for her effort to transmit a message of tolerance and acceptance of diversity.
So the report’s supposed news peg is that Malta’s representatives, Firelight, met Austria’s representative, Conchita Wurst (born Tom Neuwirth).
Firelight has probably met countless other singers since arriving in Denmark to get ready for the show, but their bumping into Austria’s rep had to be reported because Conchita Wurst is transgender and we’re into transgender stuff now – just like people who have discovered some new religion, food or hobby and bang on primitively about it all the time, whereas everyone else takes this kind of thing as read.
Except that they’re a little confused because Conchita Wurst is not transgender, but what used to be known in early 20th-century British fairgrounds as the Bearded Lady.
Transgender people change from one gender to another as fully and completely (and convincingly) as possible. They do not try to be both genders at the same time: that’s a hermaphrodite.
But Tom Neuwirth (aka Conchita Wurst) is neither transgender nor a hermaphrodite. He is just a drag queen: a man dressed up as a woman for performance purposes, while wearing a full beard and moustache.
And trust the Malta Labour Party and the Maltese Eurovision delegation to miss the point (precisely because they themselves take the contest so seriously) while also missing the fact that Tom Neuwirth is not a man who became a woman but a drag queen of the sort who perform at fundraising parties for Labour candidates, Ivan Grixti’s being the most recent.
He has been selected as Austria’s representative not because Austria is terribly open-minded and liberal (it isn’t; Austria is one of the most right-wing and conservative countries in Europe) but because almost all the participating countries treat the Eurovision Song Contest as a joke and dispatch freaks and weirdos or strange and quirky acts – or washed-up singers like Engelbert Humperdinck.
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http://www.tvm.com.mt/eurovision/news/firelight-malta-meets-conchita-wurst-austria/
‘Wurst’ means ‘sausage’.
They’re after the 8,000 registered voters who don’t have a Maltese passport.
At least they think they are.
This government loves to laud the ludicrous and the absurd and wants us to think that in doing so they are liberal. But that is not the true test of liberalism.
“Television Malta brazenly promotes the Labour Party’s electoral chant”
Not only. Expect the following on the night of the Eurovision.
“And now we go to MALTA for their vote.”
Following which, Joanne Cassar appears on the screen from PBS:
“Hello Europe, Hello Copenhagen, this is Malta calling. What a wonderfullll showw tonight. You were phenomenal. Wow, what a positive energy…wow. Here is the result of the Maltese televoting…
…And, our douze point go to….Conchita Wurst.”
We know that the Eurovision is popular with the LGBT community. So TVM is probably influencing their televoting here in Malta.
Our douze points go to Azerbaijan.
Believe it or not, she has quite a good voice and the song isn’t too bad when you compare it to the rubbish that’s being sent by other countries.
You see, I’m hopelessly addicted to Eurovision, and follow it avidly. It’s one of my incurable vices. I know that there are plenty of bad songs but you find good songs too. Unfortunately, this year’ s edition is projected to be very boring though.
[Daphne – Oh, do please stop saying ‘she’. It’s a bloke with a beard and a moustache, for heaven’s sake.]
As a child, I aspired to become a Eurovision singer. If Malta really wants to send its worst just to join in with making fun of the show, the Maltese commission should seriously consider sending me.
I promise to be the most off-tune, stiff singer on the stage.
I promise you my 12 points, Natalie. For your sincerity and your persistence.
You said “stiff”. 12 points for innuendo.
I can do the backing vocals.
Because of the impending MEP elections, this year it is not politically convenient for TVM to show the Maltese band with the participant from Azerbaijan.
Did they actually travel to Baku for the promo tour this year?
It was not like that last year with Mammadov.
They had brought him over to Malta, and he was on Hadd Ghalik.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8Nq8NXpDug
And, to the delight of HP Baxxter, he was also on Xarabank.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKXa0VcTLRE
I watched the clip. The yellow trousers felt like razor blades slashing my eyes.
Let us reminisce:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzbxizbc0bQ
The mayor of Zurrieq, who waxes people for a living, is in Copenhagen with the Maltese delegation, isn’t he? Perhaps he can offer a discount on his services.