Are the foreign press liars too?

Recently there seems to be a lot comments made against bloggers. One minister called bloggers liars, then there was the "request" from the PM's Department to all their mouthpiece not to quote blogs in their reporting, which was then followed suit by the Minister of Information. In Parliament yesterday, a BN member of Parliament urged the government to impose laws to curb bloggers as he was in the opinion that "the people believe more in the bloggers than the newspapers... " (gee..i wonder why??)

In today's newspaper, our Defence Minister, Mr. Razak (ehem) refuted foreign reports that he had apologised to Indonesia over the presence of Malaysian warships and aircraft in Ambalat waters in the Sulawesi Sea earlier this month.

A few days earlier, Transport Minister Chan Kong Choy denied foreign reports that Malaysia and Singapore had approved construction of a bullet train which will be built by YTL Corporation. And remember the reports by a local Turkish press that the PM had ordered a luxurious yacht for himself which he later denied?

So..are these foreign press liars too I ask. It seems everybody else is lying....

Liar Liar

This one time carpet bussinessman has put more than a foot in his mouth. A chinese newspaper had quoted him saying:

"Bloggers are liars. They use all sort of ways to cheat others. From what I know, out of 10,000 unemployed bloggers, 8,000 are women."

“Bloggers like to spread rumours, they don’t like national unity. Today our country has achievements because we are tolerant and compromising. Otherwise we will have civil war. "

Firstly, when you accuse all bloggers as liars, you accused me as a liar... I for one am paying your fat undeserved salary as a tax-payer.

Secondly, where the hell did you get the figures that 10,000 bloggers are unemployed and 8,000 of them are women? Do tell us please.

To the people of Putrajaya, please do not vote this second hand minister in again..he is among the 80% of cabinet ministers who are idiots.

Rumours...rumours...

One of my daily routine is to watch the news at 8pm. Not so much of desire to see and hear what's happening in and around the country ( i get the real news on the net) but to get entertained by the bafoonery of our politicians and the standard of broadcast journalism. A couple of nights ago over on TV3, the Prime Minister was asked on the news circulating on the net that he had gotten married. With a broad cheeky smile the PM answered " Rumours..rumours..rumours lah..rumours". I thought it was a bit funny that he wasn't angry and stern in his answer. I would have thought that if it wasnt true he would have been pissed off. But Pak Lah seemed smitten by the question. We know its a rumour but Pak Lah didnt say the rumour is true or not. At least we all understood when Siti Nurhaliza says " No kor-men"

Lembik

Not the kind of response i was expecting...

(Reuters) - Malaysia's prime minister responded to the biggest crisis facing his three-year-old anti-corruption drive on Monday by dismissing 85 percent of graft allegations as baseless.

On another note, I'm kinda wondering how the police got to know of the website which accused a Deputy Minister of corruption. I would have thought it would be one of Malaysia's influential bloggers like Rocky, Jeff Ooi or Raja Petra. Having seen the website, turns out to be annonymous. The whole thing looks politically motivated to me.