Umno supreme council member Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi complained that the Opposition’s ‘relentless efforts to destabilise the government’ had smeared the image of the country via the international media.
A New Straits Times report quoted him as saying that ‘foreigners tended to believe that the government was weak because of “political conspiracies” concocted by the opposition’.
Is Zahid trying to suggest that most, if not all, of the international media organisations can be so undiscerning as to be easily ‘duped’ by parties critical of the federal government?
And the ‘foreigners’ are so gullible as to swallow hook, line and sinker whatever they read or hear of Malaysia and Malaysian politics especially in an era of advanced ICT and borderless world?
Modern communications technology offers readers, home and abroad, a variety of news and information that can enlighten them on issues of the day. Or at the very least, provide them with various perspectives on a particular issue for them to mull over.
Anyway, who are these seemingly naive ‘foreigners’ who, as he claimed, ‘tended to believe that the government was weak…’?
Perhaps it would be useful for Zahid to ponder whether it’s possible that at times the antics and verbal expressions of certain politicians especially from the ruling coalition can make – or had made – Malaysia a laughing stock of the world.
