Spin masters, philosophers spoil Umno’s image

Umno, described as 'an overweight past-its-prime Sumo wrestler', has given new meaning to the term 'sub-contracting'.

How Umno deals with many issues is possibly symptomatic of a bigger shortcoming. The minds of Umno people are no longer keenly applied to solving problems.

Umno has given a new meaning to the term “sub-contracting”.

It sub-contracts the thinking of policies, of spreading information, of building up the principles of struggles to consulting companies, to substance-less journalists and to philosophers who fail to realise that our tasks is not to interpret the world but change it.

Case in point is the sex video. This was a grave mistake. The story is brought on by discredited people.

For Umno to raise a moral issue, and to make a stand on that, it must come with clean hands.

But clearly, Umno doesn’t have a pristine image.

In the end, the whole sordid affair by which (former deputy prime minister) Anwar Ibrahim could have been caught by the balls literally, was seen as some staged act directed by Umno.

When the video came out I suggested that the government formed a royal commission of inquiry (RCI) quickly and empower them to call in expert witnesses from the FBI, Interpol and others.

That would immediately put a stop to all the spin and politicisation of the video.

But Umno is an overweight-past-its-prime Sumo wrestler.

The lethargic and uninspired response was perhaps also compounded by a not so attentive Umno president Najib Tun Razak who lacked the political finishing touch.

So we, the Umno people, are left wondering of what constitution is Najib made of.

Something as godsent as this was allowed to be authored and managed by a group of controversial and wretched persons.

With the involvement of these less than pristine persons, Umno by default and self-induced forgetfulness borne perhaps out of arrogance and conceit had forfeited an opportunity to kill off its opponent.

This is the price Umno is now paying for listening to the commissioned public relations consultants and writers-for-hire.

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