Deus ex machina

I was about to put to bed my riposte to an opinion, when the PC flared and simply switched off. And no matter how hard I tried I simply could not retrieve my venomous article.

So here is an unabridged version.

Deus ex machina as I prefer to call her has made it her mission to defend George Grech; the disgraced Police Commissioner who has managed to put even the badly dubbed soft porno Aurora to shame.

She stands by George but discredits Isobel, whom she has called a slag and a trashy woman in her latest article. Now, I wonder what would be the consequences of someone calling Deus ex machina a slag and trashy woman. What would she say?

But really and truly, this is beside the point.

The point is that Deus ex machina has always had strange and inconsistent ways of hitting out at people.

The question one has to ask is why is she doing this?

Why does she depart from her usual hysterical feminist attitude towards male sex machines when it comes to George?

Elementary:
George Grech is a Nationalist, was appointed by a Nationalist government and his downfall will have ramifications on other sensitive cases!

Here is a person who pours scorn on the whole world but cannot come to terms with being criticised herself.

Deus ex machina thinks she is an untouchable.

Perhaps she was, but no longer.

She has unkind words for everyone, she bad mouths people at social functions, including the editor she writes for, the editors of the other English speaking newspapers, and of course the undersigned.

In her articles she issues fatwas on what is right and wrong but does nothing to replicate them in her private life.

She decides what is personal and what is not, when to character assassinate, when to be a woman or a man basher. If we were to take her at her word she is a reincarnated Greek goddess.

We columnists all have an enormous ego but there are some who seem to believe that they are mythological figures beyond reproach.

They are not.

And just to spare her the trouble, yes, I have piggy eyes, yes I am an advisor to the government, yes I like good food, yes I empathise with certain government policies, yes I am critical of certain government strategies, yes I have said that I agree with Alfred Sant when he raised water and electricity bills, yes I have a bundle of parking tickets, and yes I have written some awfully stupid things.

When Deus ex machina had her piece about Alfred Sant’s matrimonial deficiencies printed in a newspaper, an editor, Ray Bugeja was sacked. She privately expressed disgust at the decision but stopped there and continued to write for the newspaper and receive fat cheques.
Better still, the directors who pumped their money into the newspaper considered her indispensable but not the editor.

Deus ex machina believes that she is respected for her writings, she is not.

She is repetitive, predictable and a government loudspeaker.

People can see through her and worse still, they cannot miss all the strings attached to her motions.

It is sad that it has to end this way, but it is true, it is final, the Deus ex machina we knew is no more.