I believe Saviour Balzan has a fixation problem which requires treatment
Eaten up by hatred and jealousy and still fixating on his hackneyed and irrelevant targets while choosing to say nothing about the rampant corruption and cronyism of this government.
Like his preferred choice of prime minister, Joseph Muscat, who somehow managed to work me into a book about organised crime in Italy and the P2, in his days as a sensationalist writer for Sensiela Kotba Socjalisti, Saviour Balzan has today contrived to insert me into his column about the post-dictatorship chaos and war in Libya.
I believe you all remember how one fine day the queen of bile suddenly appeared with a placard in Valletta hitting out at Gaddafi, some time before or after she had been seen on a flight to Tel Aviv. Just a coincidence I guess.
Now bear in mind that I am not a politician, have no decision-making role, am not paid by the state or any political party, and I am a journalist just like he is.
Well, not just like he is. That would be terrible. But Balzan dedicates more energy to pursuing me with spite than he does to pursuing the prime minister or any of his cabinet ministers, as though I am somehow relevant to the decision-making process of this country and they are not.
I decided against serving him with a ‘right of reply’ response under the law, because he is not honest in his motivation and has no desire to correct errors at least in the interest of his readers if not out of a sense of decency even to the people he so patently hates.
And I sent him a text message instead, as follows.
I advise you to get your head examined. One of my sons lived in Tel Aviv at the time, and given that this is still a free country, no thanks to bitter axe-grinders like you, I am free to demonstrate against Gaddafi if I wish to do so. As a supposed champion of human rights and liberty, you should have been there too.
And yes, it was the same son who you so relentlessly pursued despite the fact that he entered the diplomatic service through the standard system along with a Labour councillor who is now with Norman Hamilton in London. You used your reporter Nestor Laiviera who IRONICALLY got a cronyism job at a ministry immediately Labour got into power.
False and hypocritical, lying lowlife scum, a vicious and small-minded viper – that’s what you are. And ill-bred with it. Bniedem baxx u hamallu li taghmel ghal flus u tghir ghal kulhadd li twieled ahjar minnek – by which I don’t mean money but what no amount of money will ever buy you.
I should also point out for the benefit of my readers that on the flight to Tel Aviv I was not with a Mossad delegation or the CIA, but with my husband. This was patently clear to the person by whom I “was seen” – Malta Today reporter Karl Schembri, who stopped to say hello while walking down the aisle to his seat.
Schembri was also aware that we had a son working there at the time – as an intern at the EU Delegation, and absolutely nothing to do with Malta because the head of delegation was British – and so it would have been obvious to him what the parents were doing on that flight. Not heading off for a meeting with the Israeli secret service, that’s for sure.
But because the truth is so dull, and doesn’t fit in with their lying, spiteful and destructive aims towards somebody who is not a politician, they practise deceit instead.
With so much going on, and with the Labour Party now in power and making the most unbelievably corrupt hash of things, dishing out jobs and money to friends and supporters and entering into dubious alliances and deals, this awful man is still fixating on all his hackneyed targets. I really believe he needs treatment. As a side note, it really is remarkable how many psychologically half-wired men there are in Maltese public life. Surely this requires further study.
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Che brutta figura Salvinu.
Saviour has dug himself into a worm hole.
He has been hinting at his dissatisfaction with Muscat but can’t come right out and say it.
Saviour wants to climb out of the hole he dug himself into but is afraid of being seen without his clothes on.
What has the PM got to do that will make Saviour scream and jump out?
Prosecute John Dalli?
Why not work in Moneybags Mallia in a novel as the richest and stingiest money grubber around ?
It pays big dividends to use Valletta fountain water, hauled in by Romanian serfs to your house.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140727/local/Mallia-s-richest-in-the-Cabinet.529342
Awkward.
[Daphne – Not at all. There are roughly only two ways to deal with men who are arse-holes, and the other one is a criminal offence.]
I was thinking of someone who is furthest from being suave.
Forget Saviour requiring treatment. He is beyond recovery.
I know Roger De Giorgio has an axe to grind particularly in the way he left (or was made to leave) the PN but he always came across as reasonable enough.
With MaltaToday losing credibility on a daily basis mainly due to its hidden agendas, is it possible that Roger would rather not disassociate himself from that comic or does he share similar thoughts.
[Daphne – Maybe he’s got so much money ploughed into it that he’d rather not. He could always offer to sell his stake to the Labour Party. Maybe he has, and they turned it down because they’re getting the work for free anyway. “Can I have a cookie, Kurt?”]
The devil won’t buy your soul because he knows that you are already too willing to serve him.
Yes perhaps so.
The PN shed too many decent people along the way.
Too many newbies infiltrated it seeking fortune none of them having rolled up their sleeves in the MLP Golden Years.
Gonzi took them on because it suited him to have rookies around him and the disastrous electoral result was the outcome.
Roger De Giorgio was one of those young people who helped build the PN in the eighties. I am sure he would do it again given half a chance.
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Degiorgio was one of the guests at AZAD’s seminar this week.
Saviour Balzan is just a little bit confused about where to direct his paranoia.
Saviour (BS) Balzan, envy and hatred incorporated.
I think you should sue the editor of Hamas Today for inciting retaliation.
X’ħasla papali tajtu – ma jqumx għal oħra. Kieku jien flok Salvu immur ninħeba.
With apologies to you, Daphne, to Gahan and to your readers, I suggest that Salvu minflok imur jinheba ahjar jekk imur jinh*xa.
Balzan’s mouth is still filled with Peking duck. One day he will choke on it.
Xi dwejjaq ta’ bniedem. Kif ma jiflahx jaqa aktar fil-baxx.
I honestly don’t know anyone who buys Malta Today. We used to, but we don’t anymore. What’s the print readership anyway?
Saviour Balzan comes across as a man stuck in the past, in some stories that happened and for which he still feels he wants to take revenge or to ‘seek justice.’
He gives the impression that after having been beaten some years ago, he is still on the ground, full of dust, complaining about his wounds, fuming at his adversaries and plotting revenge.
As you say, he comes across as obsessive and fixated.
He is not the only one – a number of politicians here in Malta seem to be in the same situation, including JDalliBA and Frankie Tabone.
Incidentally, they seem to flock together.
They need to deal with it. They have to learn to deal with failures, and to rise every time they fall and stop wanting us to live in their past.
Gurnalist li ma jiswiex karlin. Hadd daqsu ma jaf kemm huwa tan-*ejk.
Dear Daphne
Don’t underestimate the influence of your blog on decision makers in this country and therefore indirectly I’d say you are a decision maker albeit indirectly and unintentionally
X’ghandu x’jaqsam?