[UPDATED VERSION] March 8, it’s International Women’s Day, an occasion marked by women’s groups around the world.
On the similar day itself, called this plain insensitive or mere coincidence, Tourism Minister Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor condemned bloggers as liars and was quoted as saying that 80% of bloggers are unemployed women.
(SOURCE: Sin Chew Daily, 8 March 2007)
Click here for the translation by blogger Jeremiah Foo.
Tengku Adnan: Bloggers are Liars
80% are Unemployed Women
updated:2007-03-08 20:11:32: MYT(Kuala Lumpur) The Tourism Minsiter Tengku Adnan lashed out today (Mar 8, 2007) that all bloggers on the Internet are liars, out of which 80% are unemployed women.
"All bloggers are liars, they cheat people using all kinds of methods. From my understanding, out of 10,000 unemployed bloggers, 8,000 are women."
Tengku was addressing the media at the 2007 Malaysia GP Sales when he was asked about allegations made on a blog by a female TV presenter. The guests present were shocked at first, but burst into laughter.
The female TV presenter is Nila Tanzil, happened to be the colleague of Jakarta-based Malaysian blogger Unspun. Immediately. Unspun highlighted Nila’s bad experience when she was in Malaysia to cover the opening of Floral Festival 2007, through invitation by Malaysia Tourism Board.
I picked up the entry and highlighted the case in this blog. Subsequently, The Star’s Deputy Group EIC and blogger Wong Chun Wai highlighted the case in his weekly column too. He warned that after so much efforts being poured into the VMY 2007, the last thing the Tourism Ministry needs is poor execution from low-level officials and called upon officials to rectify problems while getting feedback from reporters as well as bloggers from time to time.
As for myself, while my questions remain unanswered, not only shows that Tengku Adnan doesn’t take the complaint seriously, worse, he went as far as to condemn woman bloggers based on his observation?
"Don’t you even have a heart? Weren’t you taught manners and etiquette in school or at home?," another blogger Elizabeth Wong asked.
But really, something is really not right here. Then again, like it or not, this is the kind of people that you’ve chosen to sit atop and …..
Related Links:
- Jeff Ooi | WIWA… Malaysia at 50
- Rocky | Tengku Adnan’s "dead"
- Jeremiah Foo | VMCC: New Disease Found
- Marina Mahathir | And just when we thought we were getting somewhere…
- Elizabeth Wong | IWD: Tengku Adnan whacks women bloggers
- Susan Loone | Malaysia’s Tourism Minister is a "dimwit"
- Nuraina A. Samad | Lying Women Bloggers
- Zorro | Another look at the Dimwit Boozo
Related posts:
I’d like to know where he got his sources from.
can we sue him for defamation, against bloggers and especially women. the press can sue bloggers, so can the bloggers sue the gaomen orang and gaomen la. its a baseless and serious accusation. if he can say like that i also can say gaomen orang all corrupt and 1st class conmen le. greatest liars. he dont know how to die ah, play play with woman
another rubbish talk
agreed with dddd.
So disappointed for what they said.
[...] Tengku Adnan: Bloggers are liars! [...]
So I guess I’m the only one who found this whole thing immensely hilarious? A high-ranking minister in the Federal Government having a very public meltdown must surely be the most entertaining (if surreal) thing to watch.
[...] Tengku Adnan: Bloggers are liars! [...]
i cant help but join the fun too haha….
even marina M cant take this crap.
[...] called this plain insensitive or mere coincidence, Tourism Minister Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor dropped a bombshell, condemning bloggers as liars and was quoted as saying that 80% of bloggers are unemployed [...]
[...] by the way, welcome back to be part of gang of liars [...]
[...] in case if you’re wondering whether she is part of the group of liars, she is not. She features on Singapore famous film-maker Jack Neo’s latest film Just Follow [...]
[...] their ages, but young at their hearts. Unlike Malaysia ministers who have blogophobic and labelled bloggers as liars, we’ve veteran people around who’re bold enough to embrace the digital evolution and do [...]
[...] is definitely less smarter than the minister who called bloggers as liars, who had set a bad precedence of generalizing bloggers due to a few dark spots among the blogging [...]
[...] the new people’s power that is Alternative Mediam, after calling bloggers lying females, unemployed good-for-nothings, karaoke singers, goblok, and [...]
[...] come when we write blogs about real things we are called lying females, unemployed good-for-nothings, karaoke singers, goblok, and monkeys, but gahmen bigshots can quote fake blogs in International [...]
[...] in the past repeatedly dismissed bloggers as karaoke singers, goblok, monkeys, lying females and unemployed good-for-nothings - used an image from a blog as evidence in the ICJ [...]