Mahathir – fan of Spain football team?

4 years ago in the Korea/Japan 2002 World Cup, when Spain was eliminated by South Korea on penalties, Mahathir weep in the UMNO assembly announcing his resignation as the UMNO president and Malaysia’s Prime Minister. The next day, all mainstream media reported this news and Mahathir’s photo of crying in front of thousand UMNO delegates is on the newspaper cover.



Today, when Spain was knocked out by France in Germany 2006 world cup, Mahathir was sitting alongside PAS leaders in a forum/dialogue organised by Malaysia Today, criticizing the government’s policy. However, we do not read any news about Mahathir this time. Thanks to Mahathir’s contribution to the government’s control over all the mainstream media during his 22 years of administration. Now, the government’s control over all mainstream media is used against him. A few days earlier, our current PM, Abdullah had a conversation with all the newspaper chief editors in Putrajaya. He “advised” all the editors to make extensive coverage on the ninth Malaysia plan that is going to implement very soon, adding that newspapers should not report on issues that would not bring any development to the country. The message is clear, report anything about Mahathir and your printing license would be suspended!



Anyhow, with the help of internet, Mahathir’s accusation during the forum is still wide spread.

Some of Mahathir's quote during the dialogue :

"Pakar-pakar tertentu akan memberi nasihat supaya itu dijualkan kepada orang ini..beli ini...ini semua nasihat yang baik.
"Mereka mempunyai pengalaman,pelajaran..dapat ijazah dari Universiti Oxford...saya tak pi...saya pi juga Universiti Oxford...pi situ sajalah..saya tak belajar di Oxford...siapa tak belajar di Oxford Universiti...di Cambridge Universiti...semua bodoh-bodoh,"katanya sinis sambil disambut tepuk gemuruh para hadirin.
Dr Mahathir juga menyebut istilah ' kepakaran tingkat empat' ( iaitu tingkat dibawah pejabat Perdana Menteri).
"Tingkat empat ni boleh telefon siapa saja dan nasihat untuk buat benda yang baik.Sebab tu hari ini kita tengok semuanya baik-baik belaka...tingkat lima Perdana Menteri duduk...lebih berkuasa dari tingkat lima....sebab dia lebih pandai...tingkat lima tak pi Oxford,"

He pointed out that Abdullah is a half past six PM as all his decisions come from an Oxford graduate (hinting at Khairy Jamaludin, the PM’s son-in-law). When we do not read anything about Mahathir’s accusation during the forum, the next day, Minister in the Prime Minister Department, Nazri hit back at Mahathir challenging him to quit UMNO.

Nazri added: “The opposition is not causing us any problems. He is causing us problems. The opposition is down at the moment but he is giving all the opposition.” Nazri also said that it is not fair for Mahathir to drag deputy UMNO Youth chief Kairy Jamaluddin into the current dispute.
Isn’t this weird? When we do not read any news about Mahathir’s accusation, the next day, someone come out and tell the whole world what is actually going on! The same thing happened a few months ago during the nude squat incident. Nor Omar said in a press conference “Kalau (Chinese tourists) rasa polis kita kejam, tak payah datang ke Malaysia”. This news was banned from all the newspapers. A few days later, Nor Omar apologized for giving out such a statement. When we do not read (in the papers) what Nor Omar had said earlier, we came across the news of his apology!

Mahathir said that he will go around the country and give speeches (just like what Anwar had done when he was sacked by Mahathir) to the people and let everyone knows what is going on inside the government. I wonder whether he will come over to Sungai Long. If he does come here, I will definitely go and meet him cos i have 22 groups of questions for him to answer. Right now, Lim Kit Siang has a blog, Anwar recently came out with a blog. Perhaps it’s time for Mahathir to start his own blog.

Four years later, in the 2010 South Africa World Cup, when Spain is eliminated (once again), perhaps Mahathir would be in power (once again). That time, maybe our PM would be Nik Aziz and Mahathir would be our country’s lifelong advisor (like Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore). Nik Aziz as our country 6th PM also fulfils the RAHMAN theory.

R = Rahman
A = Abdul Razak
H = Hussein Onn
M = Mahathir
A = Abdullah
N = Nik Aziz

If you think that we will not have any pork to eat after Nik Aziz becomes our PM then you're wrong. This is because PAS does not rule as a sole party. There will be a PAS-DAP-Keadilan collaboration. Who knows, Lim Kit Siang might be our Housing and Local Government Minister and Karpal Singh might be our Work Minister. Seems impossible for Nik Aziz to be our PM? Think again! A few years ago, when David Beckham transferred to Real Madrid from Manchester United, he said a very classic quote “never say never”. The same thing applies here.

Is Mahathir a fan of Spain football team? Only he himself knows, but Mahathir is certainly not a fan of My Team which Khairy Jamaluddin is the executive producer.