Haniff makes sense
Corporate figure and former IGP Haniff Omar, who sometimes lives in my USJ neighbourhood, makes a strong point in his Sunday column, urging the media to prepare the right atmosphere for a curtain-close to the Mahathir barbs on Abdullah's administration. Quote:
Then Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad surprised everyone by giving his now historic interview to his erstwhile enemy, Malaysiakini. Looking hard again at that interview, I find that he skirted Malaysiakini’s two attempts to make him pass a judgement on Pak Lah himself... It is clear to me from this interview on May 26 that Dr Mahathir did not at that stage want to take his unhappiness into the personal domain.[...]
Various newspapers have reported Dr Mahathir’s unhappiness and the reasons thereof in slightly different ways and nuances. I would suggest that, to get to the heart of the problem accurately, there should be no second-guessing what questions Dr Mahathir wants answers to.
Reach out to him now for a list of his questions so that the answers can be directly to the point, giving him no reason to be able to say that he has not been adequately answered.
Star's Wong Chun Wai also makes a reference to the media which play batu api (flintstone) and has resorted to political posturing and ignore rumblings on the ground:
There may be pockets of unhappiness against Abdullah, judging by comments posted on various Malay websites, some of which are said to be linked to certain Umno personalities. But generally, the majority of Umno leaders have sided with Abdullah.
Many of those who posted their views online expressed their unhappiness, if not disgust, at Umno leaders who run down Dr Mahathir now when they previously praised, and even curried favour, with Dr Mahathir.
These views may not be an accurate assessment of the feelings of the Umno grassroots but they do provide an indication of the sentiments of some Umno members who have been ignored by the media.
Indeed, the media should stop the political posturing. Unless there are parties who want to stoke further to cause the retak to rebah (causing cracks to to total collapse).
If that happens, the country will be wasting time and resources on the wrong pariorities.
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Jeff,
Allow me to venture a guess here.
Since former IGP Haniff Omar was,as I remember vividly,also involved in the trial of former DPM Anwar.
Therefore I would like a venture a guess here:TDM was utmost UNHAPPY with AAB as the latter did not or failed to ensure that Anwar was loacked up for life for the benefit of TDM,as Anwar is his nemesis.
Of course I would not suggest that TDM would ever dare to bring this unhappiness to the public arena,which would then suggest that judges could be DIRECTED as he has been very consistent that judges are free to make their decisions,as are all voters.
So the official four questions,Proton,crooked bridge,etc are all side shows and hence whatever there is no way AAB could make the Tun happy now short of putting Anwar back into the cell.
It is my humble opinion that former IGP Haniff Omar is widely off the mark!
No?
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June 18, 2006 01:45 PM
No way will AAB put DSAI back to jail.
Remember the despatch boy who brought the passport to DSAI?
Without AAB's blessing, will the son-in-law dare to pull such a stunt?
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June 18, 2006 03:19 PM
Exactly,so how can TDM forgive?
Can we expect Anwar to side with AAB?I do not think so,to each his own.
never trust politicans,be they fr East,West,North,South or central!
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June 18, 2006 03:31 PM
One way to prevent "despatch boy" to ascend the throne too early is to put an age criteria to UMNO VP post...
Since UMNO Youth is for those below 40, UMNO VP can be reserved for those above 40...
That will slow down a lot of Young Turks...
Only those who have contributed for a long time and has enough grassroot support can contest the VP...
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June 18, 2006 05:10 PM
Someone help me out here - I'm up at 2am and have half an hour before the next brazil match and I'm confused reading this blog entry.
What's the connection between WCW's article (refer especially to the quoted paragraph in bold) with Tun Haniff's call to the media to avoid "second-guessing what questions Dr Mahathir wants answers to"?
The way I read WCW's article, he did not touch on the media's method of reporting as Tun Haniff did. WCW's only reference to the "media" is found in the third para quoted by Jeff:
"These views may not be an accurate assessment of the feelings of the Umno grassroots but they do provide an indication of the sentiments of some Umno members who have been ignored by the media."
I'd agree that WCW did imply that the media "ignore rumblings on the ground". But to further say that WCW "also makes a reference to the media which play batu api (flintstone) and has resorted to political posturing ..." is quite imaginative and truly out of the box lateral thinking. Does anyone else get the message that WCW is saying these things about the media?
As I read it, Jeff is quoting these 2 writers to support his point viz "Indeed, the media should stop the political posturing". And I'm sure all of us know who that's aimed at, don't we?
This may be a moot point to a lot of us. And forgive me for thinking so critically about what's written. But I really fail to see the need to quote WCW and to make it sound like he implied batu api and political posturing.
That's all for now, gotta go watch delayed Brazil Australia ... :)
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June 19, 2006 02:29 AM