My original posting that caught the Lowyat eye was titled, that their trolls should be “taught the Bung Moktar lesson”.

The lesson they need to be taught is to have some manners even if it means confronting their mengganas attitude.

It’s not to prevent anyone from voting DAP. After all, practically every Chinese I know will be voting oppo.

The leadership by example of Papa and Mama Dapster fosters the gangster attitude among their followers. That’s where I make the connection.

Yes, Umno’s behaviour

- such as Hisham waving the keris at 3 consecutive Umno assemblies, condoning BTN-like attitude and racial slurs (cowhead demo in Shah Lama) as well as the moral silence of Umno on Ibrahim Ali’s bible-burning threat

- has bad had a toxic effect on the fortunes of MCA and Gerakan. Pity MCA and the difficult position it finds itself in.

(i) Malaysian journalist killed in freak accident while on holiday in Lebanon

(ii) Woman spurned by pub singer lover

(iii) Claudia’s death latest in a series of misfortunes for family

(iv) Teen sisters fail to come home

(v) Wives for hire in comfort of home

* Stories (i) and (iii) refer to ex-Malaysiakini reporter Claudia

The Most E-mailed articles from today’s Star Online are:

(vi) Do you dream of early retirement – when you are still young?

(vii) Lee: No hidden agenda, decision to terminate and refund in the best interest of CHGS investors

(viii) Japan’s Dai Nippon Printing to invest RM170.5m in Johor plant

(ix) Student killed by lightning while playing football in school

(x) K-pop sensation Psy to perform at state BN open house

Got pro-BN meh in the 10 headlines above?

Except for maybe (x) but not directly so, unlike the alternative media articles screaming ABU, ABU, ABU and “why I will return home to vote for Pakatan”, or like the Malaysiakini columnist who recently wrote about why he would be voting Pakatan.

If The Star had taken the trouble to challenge and counter the Firster rhetoric instead of the paper itself choosing to peddling the evangelista cult the last 5 years, MCA would not be in the doldrums that the party finds itself today.

However in a post-Lowyat posting (the one I did on the hounding of Anas by the Dapsters, and querying the word ‘Umnoputra’), I attempted to define the Dapster terminology.

Dapsterism = gangsterism.

Simple. Just look at the amount of news that are pro BN in today’s edition, and also the past issues.

By doing a simple count and comparing, you’ll find majority of stuff in that rag is pro BN, pro MCA. Simple standard 1 kid also know laa…

This simplistic assumption is no more logical than claiming since 80% Chinese are sympathetic to opposition, and MCA is entirely Chinese, therefore MCA members are pro-DAP.

Don’t forget that the Indian & Malay readership of The Star is also significant

The funny thing is that on Cari, pro opposition Malays are a strong faction there, and snide remarks about Umno & Perkasa are common. As for the lowyat-forummers, some of them expressed amusement on their forums when they were accused by you of being pro DAP.

Now can you dispute that the paper is pro-DAP in those instances that I’ve recorded?

My theory allows room for both biases to co-exist, i.e. that when the political bosses crack the whip and explicit orders are handed down from the top, then The Star is pro-BN. But when the middle management and rank-and-file reporters are left to their own devices, then the Star stories slide to pro-Pakatan.

See (screenshot below) what happens when a Star reporter makes a list of political Twitter personalities. All the names, without any exception, are Pakatan.