Mr. Chua Soi Lek pompously pronounced today “Some politicians practise the politics of hate, whereby there are attempts to make people hate each other.This does not augur well for the nation.”
He well fits Samuel Johnsons definition of a hypocrite as "him that expresses zeal for those virtues which he neglects to practice".
Coming on the heels of his gratuituos fear and hate-mongering in the Tenang by-election, one is compelled to wonder what could have possesed him to draw attention to his own failings in such a graphic manner. Clearly, he is a follower of the credo that offense is the best form of defense.
His petty harpings on the PAS candidates wearing of gloves was one of the low points of the Tenang campaign. Unless he particularly wanted to shake her bare hand (which less charitable Malaysians may consider a distinct possibility); his only motivation was to cynically incite xenophobic emotions and paranoia because the opposing candidate was 'different'.
He the went on to out-do himself by insinuating that Malaysia would become an Islamic State if the electorate voted for PAS in the Tenang by-election.
Throughout all this, he remained criminally unmindful of the long-term impact that such negative electioneering could have on Malaysias race relations and unity.
His motive in going to such extents in an Election that BN could not lose was purely self-serving. To induce the Chinese electorate to vote for BN, and thereby legitimising himself. In this, at least, he failed. Miserably.
Some may be tempted to believe that Mr. Chuas statements prove that he is just plain stupid. You would be wrong. He thinks you are.
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