The quality of our Minister: I'm ashamed and you?

See Vedio Clip...A Minister!! at General Link

By Amdee Sidik

Of lately I have heard loud and clear, about the general impression of Malaysians towards our country's Minister of Information- Zainuddin Maidin.

His style of answering questions posed by Aljazeera- an international TV interview, downgraded him from a status of statesman to a mere ketua kampong or perhaps even less . (Watch the clip at U Tube).

A man who is known to have journalistic background, who I thought could provide young Malaysians a fine example, by portraying skill in language, tactful and skillful in answering political questions. However, found to be no superior.

'No standard lah-cakap lintang pukang!' some said.

I would also assume a journalist turned politician could be far able to handle his public image i.e., being exposed to media’s strategy and should be far at ease when facing questions off hand, less panicking, unless of course one is lying.

In another video clip Zainuddin was seeing pointing fingers to a local journalist behaving erratically, apparently upset and angry. He is obviously having difficulty in controlling his emotion.

With this quality, if he is my wakil rakyat, I would be looking for different person next time round.

I would rather choose a person, not the political party. A political party has no soul, the souls of political party are people, without good people inside there is no such thing as good political party.

What makes the interview looks bad was Aljazeeza is Muslim owned TV Channel, which is sensitive, and equally proud to propagating Islamic cause. Malaysia appeals to them, this Muslim country may have something to offer, and that is why it chooses to have its sub station in this country.

When the minister replied by saying Aljazeera knew nothing on the ground and gave bias reporting of the event organised by a group called BERSIH, Malaysian public is far from sympathetic to the minister, instead, some began to ask who voted this man to office? What kind of voters does his constituency has. Surely, the credibility and the quality of country's minister as this one is below our standard of expectation