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UPDATED VERSION. Some interesting developments to the broad-stroke by Shaziman Abu Mansor, Dr Lim Keng Yaik's deputy at the ministry in charge of Communications, who called anonymous bloggers 'penembak curi'. He also challenged the faceless bloggers to come to the fore to debate current issues they hold dissenting views to.

Unfortunately, idiots at Berita Harian newsroom gave a spin to the headline, erroneously implying that the deputy minister had meant all bloggers are snipers. The evidence is here:

SOURCE: Berita Harian August 23, 2006

Journalist-blogger A Kadir Jasin, who blogs with a full-blown identifiable public face since Day One, threw the first-term deputy minister a challenge befitting his portfolio within Keng Yaik's breathing distance.

Mengambil maklum hujahnya, saya, sebagai orang yang lebih tua daripada Datuk Shaziman, dengan ini menjemput beliau berbahas dengan kita di dalam blog ini -- blog yang bernama dan tidak tembak curi.

In the end, on the same day his broad-stroke went to press, deputy minister Shaziman obtained AKJ's contact via former NST News Editor Ashraf Abdullah, and telephoned the Datuk Blogger for a meal of nasi daun pisang.

And AKJ took the opportunity to rub it in: "Nasi daun pisang tiada masalah, tetapi saya ingin juga bercakap dengan pemimpin muda seperti beliau mengenai masa lalu, masa kini dan masa mendatang."

So much so, AgendaDaily has come out with an exclusive of uneasiness over this Shaziman broad-stroke. That's the reason why our ministers are often times misquoted, and politicians misunderstood.

Nevertheless, Rocky's Bru has been thrusted into the the gang of "Gentleman/Responsible Blogger", if Shaziman's definition of bloggers is of any good.