Just feel like posting this video clip again just in case you guys missed it. I got the transcript from Kennysia. To be honest, I couldn’t understand what Zam was trying to say until I read the transcript. Really lousy Engggrish~
Transcript of Malaysia’s Information Minister’s interview with Al Jazeera News on the Bersih Protest.
Minister: I commend yo-yo-your journalists trying to project… to exaggerate more than what actually happened. That-that-that-that’s it. We are not the-the and I-I congratulate your journalists behaving like an actor, that-that’s it…
Reporter: As you say that, sir, we’re watching scenes of protesters being sprayed by chemical-filled water!
Minister: YA! I am watching! I’m here! You’ve been trying… trying to do it this - to do this everywhere but in Malaysia people are allowed to, you know? We know our police head our colleague… Police have whatever allowed the procession to go to the Istana Negara, you know? Do police, first police, like, they handle them, they attack them, they… the police don’t, don’t, don’t fire anybody?
Reporter: Our correspondent came back to the office, sir, with chemicals in his eyes!
Minister:You-you-you-you are here with the idea, you are trying to project, what is your mind! You think that we Pakistan, we are Burma, we are Myanmar. Everything you-you are thinking! WE ARE DIFFERENT! We are totally different!
Reporter: Well unfortunately when you refuse to let people protest, it does appear so.
Minister: Ya ya we are not like you! You-you have earlier perception, you come here, you want to project us like undemocratic country. This a democratic country!
Reporter: So why can’t people protest then, if it’s a democratic country?
Minister: YES, PEOPLE PROTEST! People do-do… of course they protest. We are allowing them protest, and they have demonstrated. But we just trying to disperse them, and then later they-they-they don’t wanna disperse, but later our police compromise. They have compromised and allowed them to proceed to Istana Negara! Police, our police have succeeded in handling them gently, right? Why do you report that? You take the opposition, someone from opposition party you ask him to speak. You don’t take from the garment, right?
Reporter: Why did you not break up these protests…
Minister: Pardon? Pardon? Pardon?
Reporter: Why did you not break up these protests more peacefully?
Minister: I can’t hear you! I can’t hear you!
Reporter: Why did you not break up these protests more peacefully?
Minister: No we-we are! We… this protest is illegal! We don’t want..this… the… NORMALLY…
Reporter: OK, so let me return to my former question. Why is this protest illegal?
Minister: YA! It’s a illegal protest because we have the erection in Malaysia. It’s no-no point on having a protest! We are allowing to every erection… every five years never fail! We are not our like, like Myanmar, not like other country. And, and you are helping this. You Al-Jazeera also is helping this, this forces. The, you know, these forces who are not in passion, who don’t believe in democracy!
Reporter: Alright, many thanks for joining us.
Minister: I don’t, ya, you, Al-Jazeera, this is, is Al-Jazeera attitude. Right?
Look at some of the comments in Youtube.
for all international viewers here, i am going to take this oppurtunity to apologize on behalf our really stupid minister. His behavior does not represent the real mentality of Malaysian. We have made a big mistake by voting him on our last general election. We promise to get rid of him on our next election which is expected to be on april 2008.
Man, he sounds worse then a standard one year old kid !! Very embarassing, even more embrassing as he is speaking to the outside world …. Oh Malaysia ku, where are you heading ….
This is so shameful! This man cant even speak proper English! and he is a Minister of Information! He represents Malaysia where English is the Second language! He speaks like a Pak cik from the kampung! Shame! Shame ! Shame!
Even my 10 yr old nephew speaks better english. They should elect my nephew to answer their interview questions. I am very sure that he will do a much better job than sta-sta-stammering like a fool…
I reckon he’s on tongkat-ali gold b4 he went for the interview.. hence the “erections” he had
Now you should understand why the government are trying to take action against socio-political bloggers and naively wanted to shut down youtube? Because blogs and youtube expose all their lies and ignorance to the whole world.
Zam also alleged that Uncle Kit posted racist comments and personal attact in his blog. In actual, that was only a comment left in kit’s blog. Zam argued that if you are the editor of the newspaper, you should be responsible for all articles published on the papers and he claimed that Uncle Kit should be responsible for all the comments in his blog. What nonsense is this? The comments in blogs appear in real time, unless the blog owner choose to moderate all comments before published it(which will pissed off many readers). All the comments posted should be the view of the readers but not the blog owner!!!
Say that you go kopitiam and make some racist comments. Are you the one who is responsible for the comments or the kopitiam owner?
Zam, Can’t you understand this simple reasoning?
