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Jeff,

Living in a small town where I see most people rely on news from the newspapers, I note that the majority of them believe what's published as gospel truths. I had heard the same comment too about 'a blogger asking readers to SHOOT TO KILL a journalist'. The papers are simply going all out to demonise bloggers for they know that the majority of people don't read what's on the net. Remember how Mahathir was worked up when Rupert Murdoch controlled a media empire? The question is, which mainsteam newspaper will come to your defence?

Doesn't the usage of double quotes signify an extraction of statements or remarks verbatim?

I seem not to recall "shoot to kill" ever being uttered/written/typed by the comment in question.

What I see is a writer who didn't bother to check up his facts and simply went with what he thought (in his gut) was what was said. Sort of like the game where you pass a sentence along a chain of people and it gets all minced up.

cheers

Since the NST quoted the honourable [ DELETED - peep peep ] minister and until the stupid minister Fu once again comes out to accuse the NST of having "misquoted" him, Jeff, you unfortunately stand accused of having allowed a poster to have "SHOOT TO KILL" posted on your blog.

I think it is about time we got a professional, like a lawyer, a liguist, a language expert etc to step into this and guide our politicians about how not to make asses of themsleves. We all know that you got to be stupid to be a Malaysian politician. And your got to have even more stupid people to advise you, as otherwise they'd be the politicians and you'd be the advisor....so really its such a stupid situation isn't it? I only write this because he holds a Ministerial position and I got to respect that..as for him...hey can I fart on his face? He is so funny? Shoot on one foot not enough, he shoots now on a nother!!!

But then again these [ DELETED - peep peep ] are so used to getting away with saying anything. Being quoted the next day. And the folowing day denying having said it and blaming the media of having misquoted them. Then the media just shuts up. So his accusation that the media had misquoted him stays.

But hey idiot, don't you know bloggers don't play dog for you? You say Jeff misquoted you and you expect him to keep quite...but he is no dog is he? He comes back with a bite. Woof! Woof!

So now it's from "shoot this" to "shoot to kill"...

Bummer...

Double bummer...

Interestingly the Deputy Minister did not complain of Jeff Ooi's sly play with his name, like getting Fu-ed.

I think it was beyond him and his intellect anyway. Luckily his initials just one letter off. Fu AK.

O.k. what if hypothetically speaking Jeff or any other blogger gets a fact wrong or "misquotes". Can he rely on precedent in this country where when the mainstream media are accused of misquoting or misreporting they just maintain an "elegant silence" by not rebutting the politicians escape from such blunders? This politician needs to be asked why he did not report to police or any other body why he failed to take action against all those mainstream media who misquoted him?

Anyway, this Fu is probably such a big [ DELETED - peep peep ] that all these dicourse here would be beyond his limited mental development.

i would rather yab fuak was correctly quoted - that the laws will be amended - that the laws will be made clear on what is and is not right; let us admit that malaysia have no press freedom, instead of some supposed freedom bound by some catchall phrases that are untested in a fair court. at least then we will know exactly who is punished for what and vice versa.
instead, the gov is saying: no, we are not changing the laws, we have press freedom, but if someone reports you as “abusing” that freedom on the internet, you may be investigated and/or prosecuted.
as we have witnessed in pepper-spray-gate, where the police lodged a report against malaysiakini, the gov can be the complainant, the investigator, the prosecutor and the executioner (until proven otherwise, i'll give the judiciary the benefits of doubt that they will uphold justice, even though they are widely believed to have failed us during the previous administration).
so, anyone can lodge a complain against you to the polis. you may be invited to coffee with the polis or sb. after a few such visits, no matter the taste of the coffee, the like of jeff ooi will quickly become the most influencible bloggers in malaysia. of course, you can lodge counter-reports but if you are familiar with the concept of "selective prosecution" and its practice in malaysia, you will soon realise that's futile.
in my book, hearing mistakes, misrepresentation, bs, ignorance from both sides is infinitely better than hearing from one side only. after all, that’s what freedom of press is all about.

lol pwn3d!

/// Interestingly the Deputy Minister did not complain of Jeff Ooi's sly play with his name, like getting Fu-ed.

I think it was beyond him and his intellect anyway. Luckily his initials just one letter off. Fu AK. ///

CSH - that was the first thing that came to my mind when I read Jeff's "Fu-ed".

But I gave Jeff the benefit of the doubt -- it could mean "Fooled" or it could mean "Fcuked".

Jeff - your double entendre is really making me see double.

Jeff,

Foo Fighters is a very popular rock outfit in the good US of A(http://www.foofighters.com)

You are now an official Fu Fighter.

Who the Fu"A K" is this guy? Oh...just a deputy minister.

i have always known that MCA members in the cabinet is just to make up the numbers....nothing more..oh and maybe sometimes say stupid things and SHOOT themselves in the foot.

if you remove all the MCA ministers in the cabinet...the govt will still work.

heh, don't just focus on mca. lky of the other chinese majority party also said his generous share of kok. i think umno can still form gov without these two parties.