Pengarang kumpulan The Star menyelar sikap “rasis” sesetengah pihak

Pojokan pengarang kumpulan dalam The Star pasti sedap dibaca peminat-peminat Firster evanglistanya hari ini.

Dalam rencana bertajuk ‘Unifying Gimmick‘, Wong Chun Wai menulis tentang seorang penyanyi Melayu bergelar Hilmi yang telah menghibur rakan-rakan Kristian si penulis itu di sebuah gereja.

Hilmi yang berasal dari Kampung Datuk Keramat, KL, pada lazimnya akan memulakan persembahan beliau dengan mendendangkan lagu Kantonis berjudul ‘朋友’ yang dipopularkan oleh bintang Hong Kong Alan Tam. Beliau juga mampu menyanyi lagu Bollywood Hindi serta lagu dalam bahasa Tamil.

Chun Wai menceritakan bahawa penyanyi tersebut biasanya akan memberitahu para hadirin bahawa orang Malay­sia, tidak kira kaum, adalah pang yeow (bermaksud ‘kawan’ dalam bahasa Cina) semua, and orang Malaysia harus tidak mengendah segala bising (“all the disruptive noises”) dan kecoh yang dibuat ahli-ahli politik.

Bagi Chun Wai, Hilmi ialah seorang Malaysia contoh yang berasa cukup selesa apabila mengambil bahagian dalam program keramaian yang melibatkan peserta pelbagai kaum (“genuinely comfortable in a multiracial gathering”).

Chun Wai menulis:

“Now, what has made this entertainer [nama pentas: Hilmi Gimmick] so outstanding is that he is able to bring the message of unity, love and peace in one evening more effectively than what our politicians can do in their lifetime.”

Chun Wai menceritakan tentang satu persembahan makan malam mengutip derma untuk Gereja Emmanuel Methodist yang dijayakan Hilmi pada minggu lepas. Acara sumbangsih itu telah diadakan di SJK (C) Yuk Chai di Petaling Jaya.

Pengarang kumpulan The Star itu berkata: “Although he [Hilmi] is a Muslim, he told the audience that he has no problem performing at a church event.”

Tambah Chun Wai lagi:

“Turning to the cameraman, he jokingly challenged him to upload the clips on YouTube, as he loudly proclaimed that those who make racist remarks should have their heads examined.

“He [Hilmi] certainly struck a chord among us when he said it was more important to think and do good. A good heart, he declared, is what matters the most.”

Nampaknya Chun Wai membayangkan bahawa sesiapa yang dianggapnya mengeluarkan kata-kata berbaur rasis sebenarnya orang yang berhati busuk.

Rencana nukilan Wong Chun Wai diletakkan sebagai tajuk utama di Star Online hari ini

GAMBAR ATAS: Pengarang kumpulan The Star teruja dengan Hilmi yang sanggup mengenakan kostum Cina ala Hakim Pao (seorang watak mashyur dalam sejarah Cina) apabila menyanyi lagu tema Wong Fei Hong (wayang kung fu).

Chun Wai juga hairan kenapa pendekatan hidup yang diamalkan Hilmi – “such an inspiring approach to life” – yang begitu mesra nilai-nilai Cina seperti menhormati talian kekeluargaan (“filial piety”) tidak mendapat sambutan di kalangan orangramai secara lebih meluas.

Sebaliknya Chun Wai merintih “we have allowed divisive and pointless political talk, which only serves the selfish interest of the politicians, to take control”.

Terus mengutuk lagi, Chun Wai melenting:

“Malaysians want to hear more stories of unity after a bruising general election. It is time to heal and not to hurt further. IT IS TIME TO SHOW RECONCILIATION, NOT RETRIBUTION.”

(dihuruf-besarkan oleh blogger ini)

Sekali lagi Wong Chun Wai cuba memujuk agar rakyat yang berbilang kaum di Malaysia berbaik semula serta bersatupadu.

Ini selepas kejayaan DAP mengganyang MCA dengan diiringi sorakan “ABU, ABU, ABU, ini kali lah!“

Saya rasa apa yang dicakapkan bekas pengarang kumpulan Utusan Zainuddin Maidin adalah bertepatan sekali.

Bercakap tentang sumbangan The Star yang cukup besar, Zamkata (21 Mei 2013):

“The Star bukannya berusaha untuk membantu memantapkan keyakinan rakyat kepada kerajaan yang telah dipilih dengan sah tetapi menggunakan kuasa beritanya untuk membantu pembangkang menimbulkan keraguan rakyat kepada semua institusi kerajaan.

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“Dan dia [Wong Chun Wai] cuba membodohkan Datuk Seri Najib dengan bermain wayang kulit dengan menonjolkan usaha untuk pemulihan keyakinan dan perpaduan.”
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Persahabatan sulit DAP dengan The Star

Untuk membaca selanjutnya tentang bagaimana The Star “tidak lagi dapat menyembunyikan kecendorongannya kepada pihak yang disokongnya”,

dan bagaimana “sebelum pilihanraya 2008, Star lah yang secara bijak memenipulasikan berita berita yang dapat membantu pembangkang dan menimbulkan perasaan anti kerajaan di kalangan masyarakat Cina”,

sila ke blog Zamkata (10 Mei 2013) — ‘Sikap prejudice ketua pengarang akhbar The Star terhadap Utusan Malaysia‘.

Zamkata Cina pulaukan pimpinan Melayu, Melayu pulaukan barangan Cina, salahkah?

Mengikut blogger Syed Akbar Ali:

“You can see very, very clearly that the Pakatan Rakyat has won the popular vote in those States with large Chinese populations ie Penang, Perak and Selangor plus WP Kuala Lumpur.”

# Black505 rally at Amcorp and their demands

Three main reasons for holding the # Black 505 rally in PJ today are:

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• to call for the resignation of the Election Commission (EC) leaders
• to demand re-election in constituencies where fraud has taken place
• to support Bersih’s tribunal to probe allegations of vote rigging

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Source: Malaysiakini (25 May 2013)

Alahai! Begitu dashyatnya BN digunting

Cadangan pemangku presiden Gerakan agar BN digabungkan untuk menjadi satu parti sedang diberi pertimbangan serius oleh Umno.

# Black 505 rallies dominated by Chinese who hate Utusan

Lim Guan Eng and his wife Betty Chew are currently in London while their rallying supporters here are getting more and more hysterical as well as getting arrested.

Bekas hakim Mahkamah Rayuan yang menyebut tentang ‘backlash’ orang Melayu

Sedutan daripada ucapan bekas hakim Mahkamah Rayuan Datuk Mohd Noor Abdullah tentang ‘Perpaduan Melayu Dari Perspektif Perlembagaan’.

Ucapannya disampaikan di ‘Wacana Kepimpinan Survival Ummah’, anjuran persatuan alumni UiTM dan Gabungan Pelajar Melayu Semenanjung (GPMS) pada 12 Mei 2013, di Menara MARA, Kuala Lumpur.

Sedition crackdown and the warm-up for tomorrow

The breaking news is that the “dragnet” on several Pakatan leaders is tantamount to an Ops Lallang-type “crackdown”.

What a bloody joke!

They were all out to kill the BN and then they ask the victors to be “magnanimous”?

The Star Group Editor Wong Chun Wai penned the following piece of remarkable advice – ‘GE13: Don’t ignore the Chinese voice’ – in his column on May 7, the day after the election results were known.

Sah tsunami Cina dan ia menguntungkan PAS

Pertama sekali, kawasan-kawasan Parlimen yang dimenangi pembangkang telah menunjukkan tahap komitmen yang teramat tinggi untuk keluar mengundi.

Vote swing: Chinese one way, Malay/Indian the other

GE13:

Preliminary analysis based on Sungai Siput experience

By Dr Jeyakumar Devaraj

(MP for Sungai Siput)

It was 8.00pm on 5 May 2013, polling day, and we were at the main counting centre. Our tally of the 100-odd Form 14s that our counting agents had brought back showed that we had won with a majority of about 2,600 votes.

But there was none of the elation that accompanied our 2008 win over Samy Vellu. We were feeling down because the Form 14s were showing that Malay and Indian Malaysian support for us had declined when compared with the 2008 general election. It was the overwhelming swing of Chinese Malaysian voters towards Pakatan that had propelled us to the win.

Chua Soi Lek denies MCA asset-stripping allegation

In The Star today, ‘MCA not selling assets, says Chua‘.

KUALA LUMPUR: MCA has denied all allegations that the party is selling off its assets.
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DAP will end the BN “racism and extremism”

National unity: The Star‘s proud-to-be-Christian guest star

“Well look at our ethnic unity champion….. Likes ‘Proud to be a Christian’… wonder what happened to Malaysian First and Bangsa Malaysia?” — Calvin Sankaran

Odikal

Disyorkan baca blog Syed Akbar Ali hari ini, ‘The best ways to national unity : A Zoo With No Elephant’.

Why the Pakatan popular vote advantage is nothing to shout about

Pakatan have gone to town shouting that the 5,623,984 votes or 50.87% it won for Parliament nationwide makes them the more legitimate winner of GE13 than BN which won a total of 5,237,699 votes or 47.38%.

In other words, Pakatan candidates nationwide collected 386,285 more Parliament votes than did their BN opponents

However the fact of the matter is that Teresa Kok alone had 51,552 votes more than her MCA rival in Seputeh.

The business of Pakatan winning the popular vote

The Pakatan people asked Malaysians to vote them by urging “Ubah Ubah Ubah”, saying if voters later find that we do not like the change, we could always change back after 5 years.

The DAP autonomous region

The Pakatan ideology is being spread over the social media like wildfire.

One indication of this widespread dispersal of Pakatan memes is the number of clicks on the ‘Share’ button.

Apa lagi Cina mahu? Cina mahukan Kuala Lumpur

Asakan demi asakan dikenakan oleh DAP.

Setiausaha organisasi DAP Selangor Lau Weng San menuntut kerajaan persekutuan supaya menyerah balik pentadbiran Kuala Lumpur kepada kerajaan negeri Selangor yang dikuasai Pakatan.

‘Colour blind’ is the last thing that DAP is

Doctor (PhD) Ong Kian Ming is living up to his reputation of “DAP SuperCyber Bully”.

About the purported blackouts on polling day

Below is a press statement issued by the MCA Youth Strategic Planning Bureau.

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By Neil Foo

Pakatan leaders continue to call for clean and fair elections but in reality, they have misled Pakatan supporters by SPREADING MISINFORMATION, repeatedly sending out the same baseless allegation via social media so that netizens will believe them,

Cina buat tuntutan lagi !!

Apa lagi Cina mahu?

• 7 dulang hati nyamuk
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• 7 tempayan airmata anak dara Puteri Umno

Berani buat tapi tak berani tanggung

Dalam wawancara dengan Malaysian Digest – ‘PCM echoes Utusan, asks Chinese what more do they want’ - timbalan presiden Parti Cinta Malaysia Huan Cheng Guan berkata Perdana Menteri Najib Razak sudah banyak memenuhi tuntutan kaum Cina.

Namun masyarakat Cina tidak menghayati perpatah ‘Orang berbudi kita berbahasa, orang memberi kita merasa’.

Pasukan peronda DAP membentuk bridged wanita pula sekarang

Lim Guan Eng mengumumkan bahawa Bridged Wanita akan ditubuhkan ekoran “rekod kejayaan kerajaan negeri menubuhkan Pasukan Peronda Sukarela”, mengikut satu laporan Buletin Mutiara beberapa hari lepas pada 15 Mei 2013.

Walau bagaimanapun, dia tidak menjelaskan secara terperinci mengenai fokus utama pasukan baru itu ditubuhkan selain berkata bahawa bridged tersebut akan diletakkan secara khusus di bawah pejabat Ketua Menteri.

Can you see the problem here with The Star?

A story run by the MCA-controlled newspaper today — ‘DAP MP says sorry to voter‘

Doctor (PhD) Ong Kian Ming is the same person who had previously raised a ruckus over an alleged “3.3 million problematic voters”.

Why is Najib alienating the Sarawakians?

“Angry SPDP members have called for the party leaders to pull out of BN over its exclusion from the federal cabinet despite delivering four parliamentary seats.” — see FMT report (17 May 2013)

Tsunami Cina: Baling batu sorok tangan

Orang Cina sudah tunjuk belang dan tunjuk taring. Akan tetapi sekarang ini DAP yang telah menang besar dengan ehsan undi masyarakat Cina pula mahu menafi bahawa ada berlakunya “tsunami Cina”.

Quick! Pakatan people sell your house and car

By i hate n’sync

BN politicians are particularly slow on the uptake on many fronts, especially the really stupid lies peddled by some PR supporters.

Apa lagi Cina mahu?

Cina mahu Umno mati.

Itu saja.

GE13 proves that BN don’t need Chinese to form govt

From Syed Akbar Ali’s blog — ‘Ponder an Umno PAS unity government‘.

SAA wrote:

“At the end of the day it may come down to Malay-Muslim unity. If the BN does not get enough seats, 

Analysis of the MCA wipe-out (results chart)

My apology for the delay in comment moderation. My blog is still under attack.

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The MCA contested 127 Parliament and state seats combined in the general election. It lost a total of 108 of them. The party’s failure rate in GE13 is 85 percent.

BN rules

Update: Final tally BN 133, Pakatan 89

Did the Star reporters vote for MCA?

I did.

I  voted MCA for both DUN and Parliament.

It was a last minute decision prompted by Wong Chun Wai’s column today singling out a certain “pro-Barisan” woman blogger (see previous posting).

It’s to do with “might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb” (English idiom).

The Gods of Gelang Patah

Kit Siang wins Gelang Patah.

DAP – 37,718
BN – 21,960

Majority: 15,758

Gelang Patah is the game changer

Excerpts from Joceline Tan’s column today, ‘GE13: The mother of all battles‘

Why it’s now or never (‘ini kali lah’) for Chinese voters

The bar chart below shows the ethnic breakdown of the electorate in the 12 states of the peninsula.

The attack on my blog has intensified!

The DDOS attacks have put a huge drag on my pace of work.

Below is a screenshot of the posting that I’m presently working on. As you can read in the pink message box, I have “lost connection with the server, and saving has been disabled”.

Pakatan’s “Hitlerite Blackshirt tactics” — Hindraf

OPEN LETTER

By P. Waytha Moorthy

Historic opportunities arise when certain defining events converge for a while in history. The minority Indian Malaysians have such a historic opportunity on their hands right now.  It behooves all Indian Malaysians to be able to perceive this window of opportunity, so the right decisions can be made and the historical circumstances utilized to the best advantage for all of future.

The Dacing (the Pakatan/Barisan Dacing) hangs in delicate balance one day before the elections.

Haris Ibrahim’s ceramah — a Christian reporting

For an account of a recent inspiring ceramah by Haris at Taman Tun Dr Ismail, read ‘Pray like you’ve never prayed before‘ (FMT, 3 May 2013)

MCA will hit rock bottom on Monday morning

By Anak Jamil

I find it kelakar for Star to bitch about it now since they’ve sold their soul to the devil like years ago. Best part, bukan pasal realisation that the nation can be musnah binasa but because the Red Bean Army starts attacking them. How’s that for conscience and integrity?

Is it fair? No it’s not but Star, has my sympathy the way I sympathize peragut being bashed up: which is none, nada, zilch, yilek!

Time BN sets up counter cyber terrorism unit

By Calvin Sankaran

Helen, finally the Star woke up and front-paged the threat of DAP cyber army that is a day after the NST’s report — ‘Beware of DAP’s cyber troopers‘.

In meantime my letter on Pakatan’s politics of hate remain unpublished by them.

Is this photo for real? (Updated)

Updated: Annie’s comment that the venue can accommodate 30,000 — read Annie’s blog here. — 12.45pm, 3 May 2013

Dr M on Gelang Patah / OMG mega, mega DAP rallies in Johor

Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s column in the NST today is headlined ‘An end to kongsi if Kit Siang wins‘.

Dr M wrote:

“Johor is a Barisan National bastion. If it is broken, then he [Lim Kit Siang] could put an end to MCA’s cooperation with Umno under the old kongsi or sharing concept.” [...]

“A win for Kit Siang … will spell the end of good relations in Johor between the races.”

Finally, The Star admits giving DAP evangelistas the VIP treatment

Do the other BN components receive such flattering service from The Star as well?

Regarding the enigma of The Star bending over backwards for the DAP evangelistas, below you hear from the horse’s mouth.

Offering to the spirits of the sea

Came across an Anon comment in Syed Akbar Ali’s blog that tickled my fancy. It’s regarding what to do with people who rock the boat — just throw them overboard.

Can Pakatan rule any better than BN?

Dapsters whinge non-stop that they’re discriminated by the Umno-dominated BN.

For a change from the perennial finger-pointing at the BN government’s wrongdoings and shortcomings, let’s put the shoe on the other foot and ask if Pakatan can do any better.

Politikus wanita DAP: Sebabnya kita harus amat takut kepada mereka

Jessie Ooi, calon MCA untuk kerusi DUN Kuala Kubu Baru membuat laporan polis beliau dicederakan oleh lawannya calon DAP Lee Kee Hiong (bekas setpol Lim Kit Siang).

Haris yang mengamok dahulu

Haris Ibrahim melemparkan tuduhan yang amat serius terhadap Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

Pelopor ABU tersebut telah memblog semalam:

• “This sinna pambu (small snake) is acting at the behest of the peria pambu (big snake) from Kerala, Mamak Kutty.”

Mood orang Cina masa kini

BAWAH: Gambar-gambar rapat umum yang diadakan semalam di sekolah swasta Han Chiang di Pulau Pinang — dicedok dari pelbagai sumber.

Haris menjolok sarang tebuan lagi

Serangan ke atas blog saya masih berterusan.

Dunno lah, tapi apapun pasti ia tetap salah Umno juga

Blog saya masih lagi mengalami gangguan sambungan talian.

Siapa yang konpius?

Cuba tengok pada rencana The Star hari ini (screenshot bawah). Tajuk berita ialah ‘GE13: Stop confusing the people, Boo urges Fernandez‘.