Kit Siang: Utusan garbage in, garbage out
Published: Jun 5, 2011 2:51 PM | Updated: Jun 5, 2011 3:08 PM
Lim Kit Siang has laughed off what he calls Utusan Malaysia ’s latest “garbage” on how DAP had allegedly influenced the outcome of this week’s PAS muktamar, as too “preposterous” to warrant a rebuttal.
Fresh out of spinning the Christian conspiracy,
Utusan
has left the DAP supremo in a ‘laugh or cry’ situation with its PAS muktamar conspiracy.
Lim Kit Siang has laughed off what he calls Utusan Malaysia’s latest “garbage” on how DAP had allegedly influenced the outcome of this week’s PAS muktamar, as too “preposterous” to warrant a rebuttal.
“Should I gnash my teeth and pull my hair out in anger and frustration at Utusan Malaysia’s ‘garbage of all garbage’ write-up accusing me of being a mastermind in PAS party elections?
“Or should I just dismiss it with all the contempt which all calumny, lies and falsehoods deserve?” said Lim (right) in a statement today.
The Umno-linked Malay daily’s column by Awang Selamat, a collective pseudonym that Lim said its editors was “hiding behind”, published a commentary on the PAS ulama’s poor showing at the party muktamar, putting the blame squarely on opposition partners DAP and opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim.
“Awang has repeatedly written that the most powerful person in PAS is really Anwar. Nik Aziz Nik Mat comes second, and only then its president Hadi Awang,” read the Utusan article, weaving their conspiracy theory that external forces had influenced the party polls.
The article titled ‘Siapa paling puas?’ (Who is most pleased?) put a predictably negative spin on the muktamar issue, along the way seething over the Islamic party’s refusal to be dragged into the Carcosa sex video scandal and open show of cooperation with Umno’s arch rivals.
The latest diatribe, said Lim, has outshone Utusan’s fantastical expose on the so-called DAP Christian conspiracy.
“They don’t deserve any detailed rebuttal except contemptuous dismissal,” said the DAP veteran, adding that it was a sign of BN’s desperation.
“The saving grace is that Utusan’s editors and their real masters are preaching to a diminishing audience (swiftly taking Umno down the slippery slope to bankruptcy, both political and financial with plummeting circulation ) – which probably explains their screaming desperation by the day,” he said.
At the PAS muktamar yesterday, the non ulamas swept the deputy and vice president posts and won the majority of the 18 central committee seats.
The newly elected leaders said the new lineup was a signal that PAS was committed to working with its Pakatan partners to launch an aggressive assault on the BN as the general election looms.
“Should I gnash my teeth and pull my hair out in anger and frustration at Utusan Malaysia’s ‘garbage of all garbage’ write-up accusing me of being a mastermind in PAS party elections?“Or should I just dismiss it with all the contempt which all calumny, lies and falsehoods deserve?” said Lim (right) in a statement today.
The Umno-linked Malay daily’s column by Awang Selamat, a collective pseudonym that Lim said its editors was “hiding behind”, published a commentary on the PAS ulama’s poor showing at the party muktamar, putting the blame squarely on opposition partners DAP and opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim.
“Awang has repeatedly written that the most powerful person in PAS is really Anwar. Nik Aziz Nik Mat comes second, and only then its president Hadi Awang,” read the Utusan article, weaving their conspiracy theory that external forces had influenced the party polls.The article titled ‘Siapa paling puas?’ (Who is most pleased?) put a predictably negative spin on the muktamar issue, along the way seething over the Islamic party’s refusal to be dragged into the Carcosa sex video scandal and open show of cooperation with Umno’s arch rivals.
The latest diatribe, said Lim, has outshone Utusan’s fantastical expose on the so-called DAP Christian conspiracy.
“They don’t deserve any detailed rebuttal except contemptuous dismissal,” said the DAP veteran, adding that it was a sign of BN’s desperation.
“The saving grace is that Utusan’s editors and their real masters are preaching to a diminishing audience (swiftly taking Umno down the slippery slope to bankruptcy, both political and financial with plummeting circulation ) – which probably explains their screaming desperation by the day,” he said.At the PAS muktamar yesterday, the non ulamas swept the deputy and vice president posts and won the majority of the 18 central committee seats.
The newly elected leaders said the new lineup was a signal that PAS was committed to working with its Pakatan partners to launch an aggressive assault on the BN as the general election looms.
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