The Man who made a bald-faced LIE

On 16 August 2018, Azmin Ali said it was simply PM Mahathir’s prerogative to keep the CEP beyond the previously stated 100 days.

Azmin argued Mahathir made it clear he needs more time as there were many issues when Pakatan took over Putrajaya.

Azmin was responding to concerns Mahathir wanted the CEP to continue beyond its stipulated life span of 100 days.

Speaking to reporters, Mahathir was reported saying, “They think they have come to the end […] but I haven’t decided. I never said it is 100 days […] no, I still need their services.”

Note how he denied the promised life span of the CEP was only to be 100 days, originally promised because the CEP was not elected yet wield so much power to many's concerns. And we can't blame those concerns because of Mahathir's notorious past he exhibited when he was PM from 1981 to 2003.

Anyway, Mahathir insisted he never said the CEP was to be only for 100 days.

This brought Malaysiakini reader Mark Lall Shimpi to write in to Malaysiakini - an extract of his letter as follows:

First, let us call a spade a spade: Mahathir had, in fact, stated on May 12 that the term of the council would be for 100 days: “This council will only be around for 100 days,” he said at a press conference after chairing Pakatan Harapan's presidential council meeting.

Dr M’s statement at the time was also in-line with the press release issued, which read: “The team will assist in shaping up policies and programmes to achieve the 100-day promises that Pakatan Harapan had made to the people. Thus the lifespan of this team will be 100 days."

Given the above, Dr M, let's not mince words; the truth of the matter is you did announce a time horizon for the council. To today claim otherwise is at best a failure of memory and at worst, a bald-faced lie.

should be "your" and not "you're", wakakaka

Omigosh, for a new PM to be accused of making a BALD-FACED LIE has to be a censure of the most shameful sickening stricture. Most Western political leaders would have been compelled to resign whilst their Japanese counterparts would have committed seppuku, but of course I know that Mahathir won't - he's so thick-skin he couldn't be bothered.

Having unbridled power and his own ways are what matters, not useless public approval or personal shame. None of his political colleagues except Daim Zainuddin has the guts, balls and spine to tell him he was wrong, thus turning his arrogant declaration into a BALD-FACED LIE.

Why only Daim? Read on guppies, wakakaka.

Then, today the MM Online reported in its Daim: CEP no longer needed (extracts):

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 20 — The Council of Eminent Persons (CEP) has fulfilled its task and is no longer necessary, Tun Daim Zainuddin declared today.

Daim, who leads the council, made the suggestion despite Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad previously saying he still needed its services.

“As far as I am concerned, the 100th day is over and the last day was yesterday,” the former minister said to a packed press conference that lasted almost an hour.

A re-iteration - We have just talked about Daim Zainuddin saying: “As far as I am concerned, the 100th day is over and the last day was yesterday”.

100 days. Over yesterday.

If that doesn't convince you Mahathir had made a BALD-FACED LIE on the 100 days' life span of the CEP, nothing will.

It doesn't matter whether the CEP should continue or not as that's not the issue being discussed here, but that Mahathir has NO compunction about making a BALD-FACED LIE.

I hope you know the meaning of the word 'compunction' which I have highlighted in green above and here.

The dictionary defines 'compunction' as 'a feeling of guilt or moral scruple that prevents or follows the doing of something bad'.

So tell me, what does 'NO compunction' mean?

Doesn't those two words, to wit, 'NO compunction' mean Mahathir has NO feeling of guilt or moral scruple that prevents or follows the doing of something bad', like making a BALD-FACED LIE.

In which case, shouldn't we be now asking whether he will give way to Anwar Ibrahim after two years as he has "promised"?

Not that we will believe him or his words at all, unless of course you're one of those gullible guppies, wakakaka.

Related:

(1) Mahathir's old tricks to stay in power.


(2) Mahathir unsheathe his velvet gloves to show iron fist.

(3) The abandonment of Anwar Ibrahim.

(4) The Godfather story & Anwar Ibrahim.