The Enigm@ Chronicles

New UMNO Information Chief Muhammad Muhd Taib is apparently as clueless as they come nowadays. It would seem that the various roles and responsibilities of a leader is a foreign concept to him when he actually goes on the record to defend PM Abdullah Badawi. Muhd Taib also goes as far as to plead unfairness of it all for Badawi to be cited with the brunt of the blame.

It would seem that expecting the party leader to shoulder the leadership responsibilities - both the good and the bad - are a concept foreign in UMNO. Then again nobody would actually expect Muhd Taib to brazenly come out against his own boss more so since the new lease of life in politics that he has been recently granted.

This is in reference to the following report published on Malaysiakini, Muhammad Muhd Taib

Mat Taib jabs Dr M, defends Pak Lah

Defending his party president during a press conference at his Rural And Regional Development Ministry in Putrajaya, Muhammad said people should stop pointing fingers at Abdullah.

“What Mahathir and people are doing now is very, very wrong. It is not fair to point fingers at one person when everybody knows there were many contributing factors.

“It is very unfair to dump the blame on the PM. This is unfair and done in bad faith,” he said.

Muhammad was referring to “unfair” comments from Mahathir made at a forum yesterday on how Abdullah was shameless in refusing to resign for Barisan Nasional’s biggest election setback last month.

‘Not a level playing field’

He pointed out that there were also other contributing factors to BN’s performance including the role played by bloggers, news portals and short messaging service (SMS).

“It wasn’t a level-playing field (between the BN and opposition). BN did not use the portals, SMS and ICT (information and communications technology) to the fullest,” he said.

Muhammad noted that the BN lost in the “virtual elections” while opposition had cashed in on using video CDs showing temple demolitions which caused the swing of Indian voters.

And Muhd Taib doesn’t stop there. He even has the audacity to say that there wasn’t a level playing field between BN and PR - citing the oppositions’ use of blogs, news portals and SMS to spread their stand. Apparently a ‘level playing field’ in the dictionary of UMNO is the situation where the following hold true:

1. UMNO hold all the card

2. UMNO deals out all the ‘party favour’ exclusively

3. BN shackles the MSM into a blatantly pro-establishment propaganda machinery

I say good job to the opposition for utilizing new media to spread the truth. I say damn great job for spreading the information of the temple demolitions that were virtually blacked out on the MSM’s. I say thank god we don’t live in the totally unrealistic world of Muhd Taib’s delusions anymore.

He can shift the blame to bloggers, news portals and SMS as much as he want to but we Malaysian have long known the truth behind UMNO’s lies and propaganda. All he has managed to do is to show us that he is talking without thinking things through.

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