Hypocrites
2 separate events. But very telling in how each reacts to it.
One, Lim Kit Siang and his order to the 18 assemblymen of DAP Perak not to attend the swearing in ceremony. I thought it was very silly of him to handle it in that fashion but the resultant hue and cry was instructive. It WAS disrespectful for Mr Opposition to handle it in that manner. But, he publicly apologised. The point though is that this Hue and Cry came from BN members, UMNO especially.
Two, the Terengganu crisis and how our “elected Emperor” is standing firm in an apparent “stalemate” and an apparent “impasse.” Joceline Tan’s words. For someone who is supposed to be a journalist of some standing, it’s a “political melodrama.” It isn’t “disrespectful” or “rude” or maybe even “hypocritical.” What she wrote is not untrue, but a spade has become “an implement to dig earth with.”
In reports of Lim Kit Siang’s utterances they were, in the words of the mainstream press “disrespectful.” In the case of the same thing being done by our lame duck PM, it’s a “stalemate” and “Idris has been an outstanding Mentri Besar.” And our Prime Minister, perhaps still delusional that he has the power to stand up to the current Sultan (Agung) is calling the stand “unconstitutional.”
Hypocrisy is obviously a trait which has been taught well and which is learnt by our present leaders and by the mainstream lapdog press.
No matter how you slice and dice it, when you hold someone to one standard and then excuse it in yourself in another instance, it’s “hypocrisy.” From Answers.com
n., pl. -sies.
- The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.
- An act or instance of such falseness.
[Middle English ipocrisie, from Old French, from Late Latin hypocrisis, play-acting, pretense, from Greek hupokrisis, from hupokrīnesthai, to play a part, pretend : hupo-, hypo- + krīnesthai, to explain, middle voice of krīnein, to decide, judge.]
PS; I love the fact that our previous PM is keeping Mum! 
