Samy Vellu is out. Palanivel is out. Sothinathan is out. Koh Tsu Koon and the whole Gerakan team are out. Sharizat Abdul Jalil is out. Aziz Shamsuddin is out. Zainuddin Maidin is out. Donald Lim is out. Chew Mei Fun is out. Kayveas is out.
Barisan Nasional has taken eight states. But the rest - Kelantan, Penang, Selangor, Perak and Kedah - have fallen into opposition hands. For the first time in Malaysia's 51 years of history, the Barisan is also denied a two-third majority in Parliament.
The final score at our 12th general elections: 140 to 82.
Parliament is going to get very, very interesting from now on. Bet nobody’s ever going to catch forty winks ever again while a session is running.
The only problem is now that almost all the cyber-journos have joined politics, who’s going to give us the unbiased news? It’s no good looking at the mainstream papers and TV stations; they’ve all been either bought, beaten up or muzzled ages ago and are about as honest, gutsy and impartial as a judge on the take.
The alternative media?
Well, can we really trust journalists who are also part of the let’s-carry-banners-and-shout-political-slogans crowd? Too much emotions involved, no objectivity. Some perhaps are even as rabid and sycophantic as an NST editor, if not more, except for the fact they’re pro-opposition.
I blame the Barisan. They started all this. Partisan journalism. Now even Jeff Ooi and his gang have been suckered into the trap. Goodbye, bloggers; hello, politicians.
Damn.
Anyway, here's something for a good laugh. From the Comedy Court duo Allan Perera and Indi Nadarajah:
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