It's a good thing that there are thoughtful voices in the Greek press with the courage to castigate the embarrassing foolishness of the nondescript nonentity playing Speaker of the Greek parliament, who had the nerve to call in the German ambassador to complain about what the German press is writing (!!!) in connection with Greece. How dense can you be indeed... Only goatherds cut off in their mountain gorges and unaware that a world exists beyond the ridge that can be expected to show such grunting imbecility -and goatherds possess a great number of redeeming virtues that render them infinitely more attractive than the pompous nincompoop in question.

Apparently His Asinine Excellency has a conception of journalists such as applies to this country, i.e. either as mindless brutes simply spouting lines fed to them by the press offices of the political parties or as agents in the pay of various business interests and/or the government -or all of the above.

And then there is another minor detail: the content of the German articles that so enraged our good Speaker just happens to be true down to the last t, as the average person in the street here will readily tell you. And indeed it was the common knowledge of these common persons that the foreign journalists culled to present to their readers, who as a result have every reason to be outraged by what happens to their hard earned money once it reaches "the cradle of democracy", the "birthplace of the Olympic Games" etc. etc.

Incidentally, another recent exploit of this insufferable gentleman was to resist by tooth and nail any diminution of the scandalous privileges and astronomical bonuses enjoyed by Parliament employees, whose number exploded to about 1800 (from 600 or so) in the past five years as the relatives of various party hacks to the third and forth degree were inducted to sit around scratching their private parts while drawing salaries of 4000 euros per month. This at a time when the rest of us are asked to make huge sacrifices to put this country right again, while the whole world by now knows that the cause for the present collapse is the hydrocephaly of our public (and anti-social) sector.

But to repeat what I said in my last post: if your aim is to turn German public opinion totally against Greece and thus render politically impossible the rescue plan currently mulled by Merkel, it is in the manner of our Sublime Genius of a Speaker that you should behave.