Five years ago Eileen Montesin, the unmistakable fossil from Mintoffian television, the woman the Nationalists loved to despise was chosen to interview Edward Fenech Adami. It was one way of showing Labourites that even the so called Boadicea of Mintoff’s Labour was for Europe. It went to prove how short our memories can get thanks to the revisionism of Joe Saliba.
When Eileen interviewed Lawrence Gonzi last Wednesday, making to the top item of NET TV she added some melodrama to the whole campaign by ending her interview with the following: Yes everything is possible, because I believe you. (Iva kollox possibli, ghax jien nemmnek).
I could only cry.
The tragedy is Joe Saliba’s way of thinking; the man really thinks that the presence of Eileen Montesin, the young labourite disrespectful girl who poked fun at Fenech Adami on state TV with her Run rabbit run songs for years is an asset.
Eileen Montesin, should do what she is best at.
Eileen should go on pretending she is a diva and star in Dejjem tieghek Becky.
But this is election time, and conveniently Eileen has decided to throw all her weight with the Nationalists.
Eileen’s interview was of course pre-prepared stuff just like that horrible lasagne you buy off a supermarket freezer and place in a microwave. It was just the thing the PN should not be doing to entice English speaking voters back to the fold. The ones they know could easily float towards Alternattiva. If there is anything that can repulse even further from the PN it is the very sight of Eileen of Run Rabbit Run fame.
It is of course the silly season, and no one should really blame Joe Saliba if he insinuates that MLP deputy leader Charles Mangion is being downright racist with his DNA talk. Charles Mangion did say that the DNA of the two parties was rather different. Which is in a way is true. Perhaps we could ask Joe Saliba to stop making a fuss about DNA and start reading a Modern English phraseology textbook.
And I am still waiting for Joe Saliba to take out his guns and take a shot at Michael Falzon, but he will not and nobody seems to know why.
Josie the hero of the ugly right
Yet I guess the hero of the ugly right movement is Josie Muscat, the man who singles out single parents and mixed marriages and lambastes them.
Josie goes further, his party, has chosen to erect a billboard saying that they will eradicate the open centre for legally accepted migrants.
Compare Josie’s horrible comments with Mangion’s DNA comment, and one starts to wonder whether we live in a completely different world to that of Joe Saliba.
And yet, because it does not pay Joe Saliba to pay attention to AN, he keeps quiet over this horrible campaign by a former PN maverick.
It goes to show that politics is no longer about content but about winning elections. This is the dilemma all the undecided voters have about politics in general.
Why is he dangerous?
Josie Muscat is more than just dangerous, he has the gall to suggest that single parents should not be awarded social benefits and yet he says nothing about the money he has made over the years from single parents who have used his clinics and hospitals to give birth to small babies we happen to call human beings.
Well I guess, it is not our problem if he takes money from single parents but a serious problem if the state supports these individuals. Josie is playing on the emotions of stupid common people and I am quite sure he will not garner some votes.
Josie is the real threat to our democracy, not the greens, who could, if they ever succeeded, serve to colour the political thinking process and enrich it with some new ideas.
New website
Finally I cannot but promote the latest arrival to the world of political websites.
Michael Falzon the Labour candidate and deputy leader of the Labour party has launched his website.
It reads Ready, Steady, Go.
I guess the slogan comes from an inspiration by Natalie his assistant. And more importantly in his mission statement he says the things he has always said. They are stale, uninspiring and very typically conservative.
I looked for some information about his links to disgraced Labour candidate, MP and former executive chairman of BOV Dennis Sammut but I found none. Neither did I find anything about his glorious days with Labour before 1987.
I was about to ask Joe Saliba about him when I just remembered that Mr Saliba has nothing to say about Dr Michael Falzon and I would guess the same can be said for Dr Falzon about Saliba.
How strange!
COMMENTS
02/29/08 12:43 AM, Simon Scerri
Sorry to say but using DNA in bad terms offends me.Joe Saliba makes no fuss.We are made of flesh and blood. Oppostiion party(MLP) is always provocating and there comes times when you have to rebel because it will never be stopped.And this article I read above shows you are LABOUR! no balance at all.
02/17/08 11:27 AM, Leo Cordina
Eileen poor dear will be used while she has some value,no matter how low and base that may be,then like others before her ,she'll be thrown in the bin of the useless along with many others the pn has no longer need of.
As for Mr Gauchi who comments underneath and losses no opportunity to praise a dying ,tired Government..perhaps he should stick to his d j and bar work,but then again he has not been very successfull at that either. Surely a case of failures sticking together.
We all look forward to a glorious Summer that will surely come with a fresh honest Labour administration who will take care of the people. A Government for the people and by the people,with new ideas, helping enterprise to move up and forward,giving voice to the voiceless and courage and resolve to the downtrodden, Carpe Diem.
02/17/08 5:10 AM, Phillip Micallef
Mr. Balzan you are 100% right that AN is a danger to our society. PN and MLP seem reluctant to criticise them and the Church should do much more and speak out against them. What surprises me is that too few have spoken out against them. I recently had two letters published in Malta Today denouncing them as you did in your opinion piece today. I beg to differ that they will not garner any votes as they are appealing to the many in Malta who hate migrants and are happy to deny them basic human rights. If this party is elected to parliament they will cause havoc locally and seriously damage our international reputation. They must be stopped at all costs. One look at their guest book and you will realise that most of their supporters are ex-nationalists which suggests that Labour will win the election.
By the way, you have every right to criticise Mr. Falzon, people like him are trying to supress free speech which is the cornerstone of democracy.
02/16/08 10:38 PM, Gorg Cordina
Please do not say that your comments are impartial.... you seem to have something against micheal falzon, you comment a lot about PN then a paragraph about MLP and in that paragraph you completly destroy MLP. An impartial journalist do not tell voters in eve of election to vote PN whatever the reason...at least you could have said Vote PN or AD to be a bit less impartial
02/16/08 1:59 PM, Albert gauci Cunningham
Save the crap for another day will you Mr.Grech?..........yes very floater of you to sing the MLP's same old "song" about how biased the Times and the Sunday times and the Independent is........have'nt you noticed that Dr.Sant, Mr.Norman Hamilton, Anthony Licari, John Attard Monatlto and many others with fervent labour sympathies pen articles week in week out on these papers very soon you'll tell us what a pigsty PBS has become and that you can only watch One news now!!......By the way the"..........I can't identify with the Pn anymore......" is becoming quite nauseating, even on Hi5 we have people telling us how they can't identify with Gonzi...........i hope its not for the same reasons as Mr.Woods ( the new MLP hero)......anyway Mr.Balzan well said about montesin ........and keep up the good work........and I very much identify myself with a Party who believes in me!!
02/15/08 11:48 PM, Guzeppi Grech
My namesake says it all :)And I concur right down to the "liberal by conviction" term.
It must be a DNA thing!
02/15/08 7:49 AM, Joseph Grech
Yours is the only paper I have the patience to read nowadays. The Times and the Malta Independent have dropped their masks and have become bluer than in-Nazzjon. We deserve the goverments we are getting because we seem to enjoy being treated like morons. I am what one might consider a floating voter and a liberal by conviction. What is certain is that I can no longer identify with this Gonzipn.
