{"id":4040,"date":"2013-02-20T17:55:58","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T09:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=4040"},"modified":"2013-02-20T17:55:58","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T09:55:58","slug":"bn-will-have-to-tell-a-thousand-lies-to-cover-up-the-original-lie-about-najibs-yee-sang-fiasco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/bn-will-have-to-tell-a-thousand-lies-to-cover-up-the-original-lie-about-najibs-yee-sang-fiasco\/","title":{"rendered":"BN will have to tell a thousand lies to cover up the original lie about Najib\u2019s \u201cyee sang\u201d fiasco"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Lim Kit Siang<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Although the Penang police chief, Datuk Abdul Rahim Hanafi produced the SMS to the police on the death threat to South Korean K-Pop superstar Psy by his manager, he really did not explain the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib\u2019s \u201cyee sang\u201d fiasco at the Penang Barisan Nasional Chinese New Year Open House on the second day of the CNY eight days ago.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, Rahim showed reporters the SMS which Psy\u2019s manager sent to the police on Feb 10 at 8.30 pm which said: \u201cWe have received some serious death threats that have said they will stop PSY at all costs in airport and hotel in Penang.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Penang police chief said the police tightened security by assigning 11 officers to ensure the Korean superstar\u2019s safety on his arrival the next morning on Feb. 11.<\/p>\n

However, why had the Prime Minister, former Prime Minister Tun Abdullah and Cabinet Ministers have to undergo the public embarrassment and indignity of having to wait forlornly at the stage for over five minutes for Psy to join them in the \u201ctoss yee sang\u201d ceremony, only to sheepishly leave the stage when the \u201ctoss yee san\u201d ceremony had not been completed \u2013 which is regarded as a bad omen by many?<\/p>\n

The death threat, if genuine, were directed at Psy at the airport and hotel, but not at the Han Chiang school grounds \u2013 and the fact that nothing had happened at both the airport and hotel raises the question whether the \u201cdeath threat\u201d to Psy was credible, genuine or just a crank or prank joke. Did the police ever investigate the credibility of the death threat to Psy in Penang?<\/p>\n

However, the manner the Prime Minister, former Prime Minister and Cabinet Minister left the stage without the completion of the \u201cyee sang ceremony\u201d with all of them looking more shame-faced for having to wait publicly in vain for Psy for five minutes to join them, rather than in panic mode because of police alert of any \u201cdeath\u201d or \u201csecurity\u201d threat has only turned the episode into a public joke, as they are all caught on video uploaded on YouTube.<\/p>\n

Originally, Najib\u2019s \u201cyee sang\u201d fiasco was explained by the Penang BN organisers as having been caused by the MCA Tourism Minister Datuk Seri Dr. Ng Yen Yen who messed up the arrangement and caused the BN leaders to be \u201cred-faced\u201d because she unilaterally told the emcee \u201cad hoc \u201c to invite Psy to join the \u201cyee san\u201d ceremony although it was not in the programme.<\/p>\n

Then there was a second version contradicting the first version, alleging that Najib\u2019s \u201cyee sang\u201d fiasco was because there were attempts on the lives of Psy and the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n

Rahim said yesterday that there was no death threat to the Prime Minister. There was also no evidence of \u201cdeath threat\u201d to Psy at Han Chiang.<\/p>\n

Why then did the BN organisers hurriedly ushered Najib and other VIPs off the stage even before the completion of the \u201cyee san\u201d ceremony?<\/p>\n

The Penang BN organisers are only proving the veracity of the saying that you have to tell a thousand lies to cover up one lie. -The Rocket<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Lim Kit Siang Although the Penang police chief, Datuk Abdul Rahim Hanafi produced the SMS to the police on the death threat to South Korean K-Pop superstar Psy by his manager, he really did not explain the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib\u2019s \u201cyee sang\u201d fiasco at the Penang Barisan Nasional Chinese New Year Open […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}