APRIL 23 — Some time ago someone said 70 per cent of what RPK said are lies, not true. Seventy per cent of what RPK says cannot be believed. In other words, RPK is a phony and a charlatan with a beret. Now a beret and a pair of Harry Potter spectacles.
Now it seems even a morsel of truth depends on whether RPK says so. Why should Umno people believe what RPK says if we know that 70 per cent of whatever he says is “auta”?
So when RPK says that he did not say Najib was this and that, why should be believe him? He may be lying or that portion of his statement, gleaned from an interview he made when we don’t know, does not fall within the 70 per cent crap portion?
Umno people should be the first to dismiss RPK. The probability of what he says about Najib, despite Najib’s eagerness to feel relieved that finally the truth is out, to be NOT true is higher that it being true. In any case, the truth of anything shouldn’t be made dependent on what RPK says. The truth is still out there, Mulder.
Why should Umno lend credence to RPK?
It follows then that what RPK says about the plan about Tengku Razaleigh being complicit in some imaginary plot to block Najib becoming PM has a higher probability of NOT being true.
How did RPK arrive at that conclusion? He alluded to a meeting of some 30 bloggers at Tengku Razaleigh’s house some time ago. RPK WASN’T at the first meet. I use the term meet because the meet was proposed by a number of bloggers, Umno bloggers mostly.
Some people wanted to meet up with Tengku Razaleigh and the latter consented to the request. As to why Tenglu Razaleigh agreed to play host can be attributed to a variety of reasons, none of which run afoul of the law. A politician would like to patronise a group of luminaries who could prove to be advantageous in future. There’s nothing sinister about that.
At the first meeting, the main and only agenda was to discuss about what to do with Pak Lah. It wasn’t at all about Najib. We know some of the prime movers behind the 30 bloggers who wanted to meet up. They actually wanted some legitimacy for their own agenda to kick out Pak Lah. Actually they wanted to borrow the credibility of Ku Li. They want to stab another with a borrowed knife!
If Umno people really want to get to the truth of who wanted to block Najib, then they should ask those people who went to Ku Li’s house trying him to persuade Ku Li to stand as Umno president and Muhyiddin as deputy president.
Those who supported the idea included a former much-adored PM and the faithful man-Friday of a former senior minister.
At that time, everyone was convinced that Najib was a spineless leader and made no mention of him being in the scheme of things. Actually, it was a ruse by these people, to goad Najib into coming out to dump Pak Lah. We all know that after that Najib came out to say he was willing to assume leadership. Of course, he said he was willing after much groundwork by a diverse set of operatives who had gone around making it impossible for Pak Lah to do anything but to say, “Uncle I quit”.
So why should we succumb to RPK’s invitation to us to believe this cooked-up story. Umno leaders do all kinds of political infanticide that makes this allegation by RPK a walk through the park. It’s a non-issue.
RPK may have his own personal reasons for dragging in Ku Li. And Umno people should not dismiss their own thinking that Ku Li is way past his prime to be of any serious threat to Najib. Look elsewhere for the source of threat, people.
As to the growing chasm between RPK and his one-time MCKK colleague, the colourful Anwar Ibrahim, he has his own personal reasons. Maybe because Anwar didn’t want to support his MCLM. Maybe Anwar didn’t lend a helping hand at all to a man on the run. Maybe its 1,001 reasons for RPK to say what he is now saying about Anwar. Or maybe he now believes Anwar is the culprit behind all those sex scandals.
But even these, we find hard to attach any credibility without dismissing our own beliefs that RPK is a charlatan. Seventy per cent of his being, that is. — sakmongkol.blogspot.com
* Sakmongkol AK47 is the nom de plume of Datuk Mohd Ariff Sabri Abdul Aziz. He was Pulau Manis assemblyman (2004-2008).
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