Badawi The Happy Hypocrite

Spotted in today’s Straits Times newspaper (The Singapore Straits Times, not NSTP): Abdullah Ahmad Badawi smiling and laughing and showing the world his public (international) face at the Forbes Global CEO Conference in Singapore, and then going back home and doing something else altogether. A choice selection of quotes from the article:

“…Datuk Seri Abdullah also sounded a word of warning to the private sector: If you fail in your projects, don’t expect the government to come running to your rescue…”If you have built this, and it doesn’t work… I am not bailing you out. You may need the money, but we are not bailing you out.“”

Uh-huh. Oh that’s right… I forgot, the RM4.6bil of public money poured into Port Klang Free Zone is a ‘soft loan’, not a ‘bailout’;

and

“…When Mr. (Steve) Forbes asked Datuk Seri Abdullah about apparently prevalent cronyism in Malaysia, he replied: “I don’t understand this word cronyism now. Everyone has a chance…”

In other words: saya tak tahu. Again. What DO you know, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi?

Hot steaming crap.

Click to enlarge the article below:

See also Jeff Ooi’s post here on how Singapore’s Business Times found some glaring discrepancies in the 2008 Budget. Tsk Tsk.

Obviously the Budget calculations must have been done by the illustrious Economic Planning Unit (EPU) of the Prime Minister’s Dept, the same unit that notoriously plucked equity figures out of thin air late last year to contest the ASLI report that the 30% NEP equity target had already been exceeded and used par value instead of market value to value equity.

You, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, are a hypocrite.

Batu Burok Clashes; PM Spins Like a Top on LSD

[ UPDATE ] 0253 . 12 Sept

BERSIH has posted a media statement on the Batu Burok incident here.

[ ORIGINAL POST ]

After 2 days of claiming that only one shot had been fired during the violence at Batu Burok, Terengganu police chief SAC I Ayub Yaakob has finally admitted that the police officer who discharged his firearm fired not one but FOUR shots, seriously injuring two men.

Meanwhile, Dewan Rakyat Speaker Ramli Ngah Talib has once again abused his office and blocked all Parliamentary debate on the riots, saying “It is just a riot and the police are investigating. Therefore I find the matter is of no urgency and I reject your appeal to discuss the matter now in this proceeding” and thus allowing the police to investigate the police over Batu Burok. Uh-huh. We all know where that ‘investigation’ is headed.

Of course, the Speaker’s political master the reliably irresponsible, irrelevant and delusional Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (who is also the Minister for Internal Security) has no such constraints, allowing him to flippantly blame the violence on opposition party PAS, saying — I quote: “…the opposition…prompted the riot after not being able to bring development to the state for the five years it was in power…”

Ah… media spin. Black turns to white, the dead are resurrected and hot steaming crap becomes a gourmet spread once seen through the lens of the Malaysian mainstream media. Or coming out of the so-called PM’s mouth.

Hot steaming crap.

You have to read it to believe it.

Excerpt from Malaysiakini:

Click on the link below for the full article:

msk-070912-pm-blames-pas-for-kuala-terengganu-riot.pdf

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