Dr M and Murdoch: Twins separated at birth?

Malaysia Post - by Mariam Mokhtar : Dr Mahathir Mohamad. You either love him or hate him. In his latest blog, he taunted the western media for their self-righteousness and gloated over the telephone hacking scandal caused by the News of the World, one of Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers, which rocked the UK.

In his latest posting on Aug 2 entitled ‘The telephone hacking scandal II’, Mahathir described how western journalists freely condemned our failure to respect the rule of law, our injustices, our poor human rights record and our corruption.

He then said that the western media was equally contemptible and that they (the western press) would just as easily cheat, abuse the trust placed on them and would ignore human rights. They were guilty of the dirty things they allege we had committed.

‘Ku Li was Razak’s protege, not Dr M’

Malaysian Post

Author and former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad speaks of a house divided in one of the chapters in his recently published memoir. He is opening up old wounds when the time now is of reconciliation.

The memoir indirectly serves to elevate the status of Umno stalwart Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah since Mahathir acknowledges he is prime minister material.

“He could have been if he ( Razaleigh) was patient,” notes Mahathir.

How can we know what went on or what motivated people who were close comrades to go against one another?

Certainly we have to listen to both sides. In his memoirs Mahathir tells his side of the story.

Ku Li hits out at Dr M’s political lying

Malaysian Post - PETALING JAYA: Veteran Umno leader Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah has hit out at former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad over the latter’s recollection of events as stated in his memoirs which was published earlier this week.

The long-time Gua Musang MP and once an Umno vice-president, Tengku Razaleigh, also fondly known as Ku Li, said Mahathir was wrong in accusing him of breaking up Umno in 1987 during the party leadership crisis.

“Again I am accused of bringing the party to court. I am also alleged to be involved in money politics during the 1987 party contest.

“I do not have that sort of money. I have no cronies.

“In fact, I am against money politics. As Allah is my witness, I have not done all those things. Yet I have always been returned every time I stood in Gua Musang,” Razaleigh said yesterday.