THE TRUTH ABOUT THE 8 MARCH, 2008 GENERAL ELECTIONS:
…THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA TURNED LEFT TO GIVE SEATS TO PAKATAN FOR THEM TO MARCH BACKWARDS.
By Mansor Puteh
‘Musuh dalam selimut!’ (Enemies in the mosquito net!) This is what the mainstream media had become.
The editors of the mainstream media were made to feel sorry and guilty for having their own political agenda by the opposition and other not-so-well-meaning NGO officials, who charged them for not supporting the freedom of the press, and who fell into their trap to allow the opposition to reap benefits in the elections.
The last general elections seemed too surreal to be true. Many age-old political theories crumbled with them with the new ones seem to sit on shaky grounds.
So you and the other political analysts know what happened in the last 12th General Elections. No, you don’t. Your guesses are all wrong – dead wrong. They are purely based on what they want to happen, which did not happen and will never happen.
Many have given their comments; but most, if not all were wrong in their assessment of things. One of them said he cried upon hearing the fall of some of the Barisan states to Pakatan. He cried for the wrong reasons. He will soon cry even louder if he reads this.
The only good part is how the old goats in Barisan had been trounced by the voters who simply had had enough of them. Yet, they do not seem unfazed by it, and insist that their party still wants them.
But the old goats in Pakatan seem to be there still trying to graze the same old political grounds which they had already cleaned.
The party members are not the ones who vote. The non-party members who are not Indians and Chinese, too, vote. And they have shown their displeasure at some of them by not voting for them. Now they have become political has-beens.
Some cynics charge that it spelt the end of the Malay Right and Might; they are too self-serving and too manipulative. Most likely, their judgment of the matter is wrong.
While the others say, it was a test of the non-Malay Mettle, an assessment which is truer to reality.
Actually, it’s how the Malays want to find out if ‘we can trust them or not?’ Now many of the Malays believe that ‘they simply cannot trust them anymore’ after looking at what they had done with the majority win in some states.
The signs were not right with them when the first things they did was to place road signs in Mandarin at some strategic places, which did not go down well with the majority Malays who thought they were giving the wrong signals.
Some of them were arrested under the ISA and similar actions ceased. So the putting up of the additional road signs was not correct, otherwise, they would have gone on to do the same elsewhere.
It had to take the ISA to teach them some lessons in politics.
And the Malays who had given them their votes blindly are now made more aware of what they had done, by voting anyone who is not in Barisan, so as to teach the Barisan higher-ups a lesson. Now the Malay voters are the ones who have learnt something from the unfortunate debacle.
Fortunately, one of the Pakatan states is back in the fold while the others they control do not seem to be in their hands, but at the tip of their fingers.
What the temporary DAP state government of Perak had done was downright rude. They only had a slim majority in the state; yet, they started to behave abnormally like they were bent on change the very face of the state.
This reflects what their true intentions were which many Malays who had voted for them by mistake started to feel angry with them.
What if DAP takes over the federal government in consort with their Pakatan allies? Can we expect to see similar or worse things from them? Selangor may have gone to Pakatan, but in all respects, the state is very much under Barisan dominance. Barisan is everywhere while Pakatan simply controls the state administration office and state assembly.
The photos of the ‘menteri besar’ and some other senior Pakatan officials that they have managed to hang everywhere, do not make it look like they are indeed controlling Selangor.
Whatever it is, there is no reason for anyone to cry so soon because the real change to the political scenario in the country is still ongoing. The 8 March general election results are not the final ones; they are just a reflection of what’s to come in the 13th General Elections.
This is the worse of what could have happened. And it did happen in such a dramatic way.
Unless, if the mainstream media still insist on behaving like Leftists and allow the March to the past be allowed to continue.
But the truth is, the mainstream media have been left in the cold with some of their prominent personalities having been replaced by a new group which are basically a reconditioned one.
The truth of the matter is that Barisan lost because the mainstream media turned Left. They crumbled when being tricked by the Leftists and other opposition opportunists, who charged them for not observing the freedom of the press.
And under such intense pressure, the mainstream crumbled and they immediately made a detour and turned Left.
And no wonder, the few months prior and especially during the campaign period, the mainstream media including the television stations became too supportive of the opposition without realizing that they had fallen for their tricks.
One by one, the small and unknown Pakatan leaders became important figures with national prominence. And no wonder many of them who had no prior experience in national politics became the unlikely members of parliament and the state assemblies, where they exhibit their amateurism by not saying much.
One of them happens to be a part-time and amateurish video cameraman working only with his cellphone. And he can’t even speak in Malay properly. And now he is supposed to be looking after a large constituency which has a Malay majority.
I would be offended if such a person is a Member of Parliament or state assemblyman for my area.
Unfortunately, in my area, two of them were relatively unknown persons. They had not bothered to visit this area to campaign so we do not know how stupid they are. And they have also not been known to be the champion of any social or political issue before. And till now they have not said anything intelligent.
But their photos are now at more places than ever before. This is their way of saying they are here. But unfortunately, only their images are but not their own selves.
The mainstream media had become crazy because they felt they had not been fair. And they covered all the events of Pakatan and highlighted their leaders and candidates.
Whereas the Pakatan media had not bothered to embrace the freedom of the press and continued to publish materials which are only on them, without feeling unabashed about it.
Pakatan will lose big in the next general elections. It is contrary to what many of their officials have said, about the last general elections as being the one that showed how they have been accepted by the masses. They haven’t because they have not shown that they deserved to be so.
What had happened in Pulau Pinang is another case for not trusting Pakatan and its component party, the DAP. The reason being they did not trust the local people from the state to become its new chief minister, and chose instead someone who has been described as an ‘exile from Melaka’, with his senior staff comprising of those from Selangor. DAP also made a blunder in this regard.
Why should the people of Pulau Pinang trust this party which has not bothered to appoint one of their own kind to be their new chief minister? Having someone from Melaka tells a lot about how much they care for the sentiments of the people of Pulau Pinang.
There is no other state in the country where their ‘menteri besar’ or ‘ketua menteri’ is from another state.
Barisan is always mindful of this fact and has appointed those from the states to be the ‘menteri besar’ and ‘ketua menteri’ of the states they control. But not the DAP and Pakatan who seem to be oblivious to this fact.
The people of Pulau Pinang have taken this note, and will share their feelings in the next general elections and send the DAP ‘chief minister’ back to Melaka where he belongs and where he can never win any seat for himself.
He has so far moved his official residence away from the official residence to a rented bungalow, because the ‘fung shui’ expert he had consulted told him the official residence which was once occupied by his predecessor had bad ‘fung shui’.
But what the chief minister of Pulau Pinang is not aware of is that ‘fung shui’ is what’s driving him not just to the rented bungalow, but to Melaka later where he had been shooed away from.
By Mansor Puteh
‘Musuh dalam selimut!’ (Enemies in the mosquito net!) This is what the mainstream media had become.
The editors of the mainstream media were made to feel sorry and guilty for having their own political agenda by the opposition and other not-so-well-meaning NGO officials, who charged them for not supporting the freedom of the press, and who fell into their trap to allow the opposition to reap benefits in the elections.
The last general elections seemed too surreal to be true. Many age-old political theories crumbled with them with the new ones seem to sit on shaky grounds.
So you and the other political analysts know what happened in the last 12th General Elections. No, you don’t. Your guesses are all wrong – dead wrong. They are purely based on what they want to happen, which did not happen and will never happen.
Many have given their comments; but most, if not all were wrong in their assessment of things. One of them said he cried upon hearing the fall of some of the Barisan states to Pakatan. He cried for the wrong reasons. He will soon cry even louder if he reads this.
The only good part is how the old goats in Barisan had been trounced by the voters who simply had had enough of them. Yet, they do not seem unfazed by it, and insist that their party still wants them.
But the old goats in Pakatan seem to be there still trying to graze the same old political grounds which they had already cleaned.
The party members are not the ones who vote. The non-party members who are not Indians and Chinese, too, vote. And they have shown their displeasure at some of them by not voting for them. Now they have become political has-beens.
Some cynics charge that it spelt the end of the Malay Right and Might; they are too self-serving and too manipulative. Most likely, their judgment of the matter is wrong.
While the others say, it was a test of the non-Malay Mettle, an assessment which is truer to reality.
Actually, it’s how the Malays want to find out if ‘we can trust them or not?’ Now many of the Malays believe that ‘they simply cannot trust them anymore’ after looking at what they had done with the majority win in some states.
The signs were not right with them when the first things they did was to place road signs in Mandarin at some strategic places, which did not go down well with the majority Malays who thought they were giving the wrong signals.
Some of them were arrested under the ISA and similar actions ceased. So the putting up of the additional road signs was not correct, otherwise, they would have gone on to do the same elsewhere.
It had to take the ISA to teach them some lessons in politics.
And the Malays who had given them their votes blindly are now made more aware of what they had done, by voting anyone who is not in Barisan, so as to teach the Barisan higher-ups a lesson. Now the Malay voters are the ones who have learnt something from the unfortunate debacle.
Fortunately, one of the Pakatan states is back in the fold while the others they control do not seem to be in their hands, but at the tip of their fingers.
What the temporary DAP state government of Perak had done was downright rude. They only had a slim majority in the state; yet, they started to behave abnormally like they were bent on change the very face of the state.
This reflects what their true intentions were which many Malays who had voted for them by mistake started to feel angry with them.
What if DAP takes over the federal government in consort with their Pakatan allies? Can we expect to see similar or worse things from them? Selangor may have gone to Pakatan, but in all respects, the state is very much under Barisan dominance. Barisan is everywhere while Pakatan simply controls the state administration office and state assembly.
The photos of the ‘menteri besar’ and some other senior Pakatan officials that they have managed to hang everywhere, do not make it look like they are indeed controlling Selangor.
Whatever it is, there is no reason for anyone to cry so soon because the real change to the political scenario in the country is still ongoing. The 8 March general election results are not the final ones; they are just a reflection of what’s to come in the 13th General Elections.
This is the worse of what could have happened. And it did happen in such a dramatic way.
Unless, if the mainstream media still insist on behaving like Leftists and allow the March to the past be allowed to continue.
But the truth is, the mainstream media have been left in the cold with some of their prominent personalities having been replaced by a new group which are basically a reconditioned one.
The truth of the matter is that Barisan lost because the mainstream media turned Left. They crumbled when being tricked by the Leftists and other opposition opportunists, who charged them for not observing the freedom of the press.
And under such intense pressure, the mainstream crumbled and they immediately made a detour and turned Left.
And no wonder, the few months prior and especially during the campaign period, the mainstream media including the television stations became too supportive of the opposition without realizing that they had fallen for their tricks.
One by one, the small and unknown Pakatan leaders became important figures with national prominence. And no wonder many of them who had no prior experience in national politics became the unlikely members of parliament and the state assemblies, where they exhibit their amateurism by not saying much.
One of them happens to be a part-time and amateurish video cameraman working only with his cellphone. And he can’t even speak in Malay properly. And now he is supposed to be looking after a large constituency which has a Malay majority.
I would be offended if such a person is a Member of Parliament or state assemblyman for my area.
Unfortunately, in my area, two of them were relatively unknown persons. They had not bothered to visit this area to campaign so we do not know how stupid they are. And they have also not been known to be the champion of any social or political issue before. And till now they have not said anything intelligent.
But their photos are now at more places than ever before. This is their way of saying they are here. But unfortunately, only their images are but not their own selves.
The mainstream media had become crazy because they felt they had not been fair. And they covered all the events of Pakatan and highlighted their leaders and candidates.
Whereas the Pakatan media had not bothered to embrace the freedom of the press and continued to publish materials which are only on them, without feeling unabashed about it.
Pakatan will lose big in the next general elections. It is contrary to what many of their officials have said, about the last general elections as being the one that showed how they have been accepted by the masses. They haven’t because they have not shown that they deserved to be so.
What had happened in Pulau Pinang is another case for not trusting Pakatan and its component party, the DAP. The reason being they did not trust the local people from the state to become its new chief minister, and chose instead someone who has been described as an ‘exile from Melaka’, with his senior staff comprising of those from Selangor. DAP also made a blunder in this regard.
Why should the people of Pulau Pinang trust this party which has not bothered to appoint one of their own kind to be their new chief minister? Having someone from Melaka tells a lot about how much they care for the sentiments of the people of Pulau Pinang.
There is no other state in the country where their ‘menteri besar’ or ‘ketua menteri’ is from another state.
Barisan is always mindful of this fact and has appointed those from the states to be the ‘menteri besar’ and ‘ketua menteri’ of the states they control. But not the DAP and Pakatan who seem to be oblivious to this fact.
The people of Pulau Pinang have taken this note, and will share their feelings in the next general elections and send the DAP ‘chief minister’ back to Melaka where he belongs and where he can never win any seat for himself.
He has so far moved his official residence away from the official residence to a rented bungalow, because the ‘fung shui’ expert he had consulted told him the official residence which was once occupied by his predecessor had bad ‘fung shui’.
But what the chief minister of Pulau Pinang is not aware of is that ‘fung shui’ is what’s driving him not just to the rented bungalow, but to Melaka later where he had been shooed away from.
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