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Be a 'jantan-man'... brabus!

Or so the circus starts, with Minister Mohd Nazri Abdul Aziz clowning in, using the lobby at the Parliament as his grandstand.

He declared it is now an open war with Mahathir. Via Malaysiakini:

“If he continue to remain in the party, he would be like the opposition. It’s better for him to be a ‘jantan’ (man) and leave the party,” said Nazri in a heated 45-minute press conference.

Nazri also defended Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi’s influential and ambitious son-in-law Khairy Jamaluddin (left), who is Umno Youth deputy chief.

“An 81-year-old man wants to quarrel with a 31-year-old young man. Better to pick someone his own size.”

Meanwhile, when contacted by Malaysiakini Malay Edition, the PM's son-in-law adhered to his father-in-law's 'elegant silence' and declined comments on his being implicated in Mahathir's tirades.

'Intra Malay/Umno Conflict'

On Saturday, Dr Mahathir reminded us to revisit Hang Tuah's concept of 'Ketuanan' -- "Di mana titah, patik patuh." (Read Chandra Muzaffar's 1979 Ph.D thesis on this Malay psyche.)

And Hang Tuah went on to kill his friends, Jebat et.al., apocalypse-like with money-back guarantee and no question asked.

Meanwhile, political scientist Dr P. Ramasamy, who was 'forced to retire' from UKM in 2005, holds the views that the Mahathir-Abdullah conflict goes much more deeper than the four issues that the former Prime Minister has raised for the attention of the government.

Essentially, Ramasamy said in a Malaysiakini Op-Ed piece, the conflict represents an intra-Malay/Umno conflict over the access to resources, business opportunities and power.

To better understand the intrigues of the conflicts between the benefactors and beneficiaries of the system, Ramasamy suggested a words, a political economy approach to dissect the malaise that shows the subtle linkages between politics and economics in the country.

Only such a methodology will be able to provide better and more realistic assessment of the basis of the present nature of conflict and how race, religion and nationalism have been invoked to hide the clamour for wealth and power between two power bases in Malay society.

Umno politics in general have become much more materialistic in the last few decades or so. Gone are the days when difference of ideology took a centre stage in the domain of Malay or Malaysian politics.

The struggle in Umno all in the name of religion, God and race is invariably related to acquisition of material wealth and the need to maintain this wealth by seeking access to politics or political patronage.

While money politics was outwardly shunned as the evil that would destroy Malay unity, it has proved impossible to dismantle the operation of money politics. In fact, one could argue that without money politics, Umno would have fragmented a long time ago.

Is there any wonder that Nazri wanted to cast the first stone and be damned?

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I think it would be better instead for City Hall to send the government ministers for social etiquette and manners training.

These are ministers, appointed to help manage the country, and these are the kinds of words that spew out of their mouths?

Reminds me of the childish vulgar hand sign that the Pahang MB showed the PAS election workers once.

Simply amazing, these uncouth vermins.

the man is taking on the Pak lah, the whole XXXL cabinet and couple of Oxford graduates at one go!! is that not jantan enough for Nazri? why is he defending KJ? can KJ stand up for himself?

Nazri needs to learn some menace and deal with the issues and not hood wink us with man hood.It is about the brains lah Nazri? BTW if you are jantan, sack Dr.M from UMNO? Apa macam jantan tulen Nazri?

Yo rocky,

"...BTW if you are jantan, sack Dr.M from UMNO? Apa macam jantan tulen Nazri?..."

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Nazr's brains? Hmmm he is sitting on it.

That's the reason he's been talking sh.t!!

To this particular 'Botak', I would like to remind him this: JANGAN KURANG AJAR.

I can't imagine the kinds of words that spew out of this Nazri Aziz. No wonder The Reader’s Digest survey rated Kuala Lumpur as the third-worst city in terms of courteousness.

In June 2005, this Nazri also caused controversy when he shouted the phrase "racist" and "perkauman" (or variants of it) 40++ times in Parliament.

Is the cake become smaller? Or some people become greedier?

Wow, this IS indeed shocking. Betul betul lawan taukeh , ah this Nazri fellow. YgArif (my main man...how are you?) took the words right out of my mouth....KURANG AJAR! Now, Nazri is being a kacang yang lupakan kulit....
Nazri should examine himself and see if he has all characteristics brought about by the XY chromosome before asking The Tun to behave like a jantan.

In fact, it is embarassing indeed for Nazri to sya something like that to The Tun. Speaks volumes about his upbringing.

When both parties not willing to sit down and take a more rational approach, this is what going to happen. Nazri should pee and take a look of his own reflection first before open his smelly mouth. Why is he fighting a 81-year old man?

As I said, never mind what TDM did over the last 22 years, there are good and there are bad. He is still one of our former PM and an old man now, give some respect no matter what he said. As it is said, real gold does not scare of fire (direct translation).

By the way, it is so smelly with all these ass licking acts.

/// Or so the circle starts, with Minister Nazri Aziz clowning in... ///

You mean, let the circus begin? A cricle has no starting point or ending point. Then again, you might be right unwittingly - this circus has no beginning and no ending.

JEFF OOI says: Sorry, my bad. It should readcircus, intead of circle. Thanks for correcting the mistake. I will update it ASAP.

joejak,,,

right on...a**licking is the correct word to describe that joker.

Tun must be feeling STABBED in the back, because this young brat who owe his existence in the cabinet to Tun can do have so little respect for Tun.

The best he could do was shut up as the spat is really between AAB KJ vs Tun.

Nazri want to play hero...because of the gravy train that KJ has ????.

A** licker....hahaha

Tomorrow morning,I am going to have my roti jantan and teh tarik komtar and check out the news in the mainstream newspaper and see the spin goes. It it getting interesting, this country is going down the dump...at double the speed.

shoe shine boy only knows how to serve the current master. whoever can gv goodies then support who. everyone looking after their own hide first. forget abt manners. forget abt gratefulness. surprisingly it is nazri again to open his filthy mouth and shout again. reminded me of peter in the Bible. His mouth surely moves faster than his brain cells.

Now will be a good time for KJ and his other Kris wagging bum boys to show their skill in the art of self defence.

If I look at the picture right, it seems like someone is not jantan man enough to pecat TDM from UMNO....

though, the fruit you eat today are from the tree you plant yesterday, a whole generation of political gaming rules and the foundation to the highest ruling machinery of a country is not being shaped or built over night.

I haven't seen much intellectual act from that whole group of people before, that's probably why all it takes is a Oxford graduate to manipulate the rules and pull the string of the massive puppets towards his intented direction.

Folks

Nazri is trying to butter the right side of the bread. Now the old man is gone, so he feels he can kick the old man in the butt and then spit at him. His bread with with Pak Lah now,so now he goes angkat bola big time.

The guy is a no-brainer. The fact he is given a cabinet post goes to show the shallowness of UMNO's candidates to run the country. At the other extreme, UMNO has an Oxford graduate, but he made himself OVERCLEVER, and now being treated like a small brat caught with his pants down.

What is more scary to me, is the total lack of principles of Nazri. He is very willing to be the ultra hatchet man for the power of the day. That would mean if the PM tomorrow is unhappy with non bumis, you can count on Nazri to up the stake by organising a rally or initiating a progrom. But they whats new, after all, the DPM Najib did the same thing.

wow..things getting really exciting now..much more exciting than the World Cup..

People like Nazri is appropriately called 'leleng' thats english sounding pronounciation of lalang...bend to the sides of blowing wind...This Datuk Leleng make so much money from taxi permit that it can last a few leleng generations and having he has no qualm about ringgits that his crony took from the poor taxi driver....all of the sudden ,he became the savior for the rakyat .When he started to 'ibliskan'(demonised) TDM ,he must have forgotten that he is already one ...so Datuk Leleng please dont try act like a superhero ...TDM is not ur match...please use your tongue and lips for everones good for once ...shutup

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