Mission Interlok: The cloning of Ridhuan

When American teen sensation Miley Cyrus (who gained celebrity for playing Disney’s Hannah Montana) parodied the slit-eyed Chinese, there were howls of protest. She apologized. ‘Sepet’ is scattered throughout Interlok like birdshot but its author Abdullah Hussain remains unapologetic. Yet writing in The Malaysian Insider, Sen Tyng Chai bemoaned the widespread “wave of blind criticism” … Continue reading

Media ‘masturbation’ by Pakatan

The BN-PR ongoing media war sees the blame game being played. ‘State PKR secretary and Penang assembly speaker Abdul Halim Hussein blamed the Umno-controlled media for the drop in Malay support. He specifically said the Malay-language dailies have created the impression that Penang is led by a DAP Chinese government bent on marginalising the Malays.’ … Continue reading

Challenging Teo Nie Ching’s ardent fans

What a waste of a perfectly good chicken… ‘DAP MP gets threat note, bloody chicken’. Reporting that the ‘jihad’ note is believed to be linked to Teo’s mosque controversies, Insider quoted her personal assistant Mohammad Firdaus Babh as saying the CCTV had recorded two young men in the act. [Firdaus] described the men to be … Continue reading

Ridhuan Tee at it again / Utusan on Sunday outsells Star

By Hartal MSM Uppercaise and Sakmongkol in their Jan 16 postings updated respectively on the newspaper circulation numbers and kind of readership. We’re adding our 2 sen here on the Icker factor. uppercaise blogged: ‘Metro, Sin Chew are tops, NST bottoms below 80,000‘ Citing the Audit Bureau of Circulation, uppercaise posted a list of the Top … Continue reading

Nazi Celup Ala Malaysia

by Eyes Wide Open Merely 2 days after Ridhuan Tee’s Nazi-flavoured anti-Christian rant was published, Utusan Malaysia delivers yet another Nazi-flavoured rant. This time about the controversial appointment of the Selangor State Secretary. In his column, assistant editor-in-chief Zaini Hassan called on Malays to zealously defend their sovereignty in the country, declaring: “Do we Malays … Continue reading

Nazi-uan Tee Strikes Again!

by Eyes Wide Open “Christmas celebration sometimes looks as if they form more than 50 per cent of the population. Out of respect for religious freedom, no restriction has been imposed, although it should be celebrated moderately as they are less than ten per cent of the population.” “…jika tidak ada arahanpun, sepatutnya pihak gereja … Continue reading

Anwar wanna take on Kuan Yew, sure or not?

Yesterday, Keadilan Daily reported Anwar Ibrahim’s lawyer Sankara Nair as announcing that the PKR de facto leader intends to sue several media as well as Dr M for defamation regarding the Wikileaks on his alleged sodomy. Keadilan Daily reported today on Anwar challenging Lee Kuan Yew: “Dia ada bukti (tentang tuduhan terhadap saya)? Saya akan … Continue reading

Ka-pow!! Wan Azizah shoots own foot

Utusan had a field day with the PKR weekend congress, splashing ‘PKR semakin parah’ on its Saturday front page and ‘Anwar anugerah Tuhan’ on its Sunday’s. Today (Mon.) Utusan carried responses by Muhyiddin, Ezam and Nallakarupan, also blurbed on front page. The starry-eyed wife Wan Azizah had apparently said, “… Anwar is an outstanding human … Continue reading

Beyond the traditional ‘bad news sells’

Pix: HECTOR RETAMAL, AFP/Getty More often than not we’ve been critical of Star. However, today we’ve something positive to say in that the paper has recently been giving coverage to Haiti. Even Utusan has. It’s good that our local MSM are doing this after their disproportionate focus on Gaza. However, most of what they’re reporting … Continue reading

Here’s one way to tackle Utusan

[For story behind the cartoon above, please ref. CIF Watch.] UK’s the Guardian newspaper is anti-Israel, as is its Comment is Free (CIF) online facility for readers. Pro-Israel commentators have been banned from commenting in Guardian’s CIF section for nothing even approaching what the pro-Palestinian commentators are allowed to get away with. We’ve ourselves noticed … Continue reading