Is Mahathir Playing The Devil's Advocate ?

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It amazes me to see some so-called writers, reporters, journalists and politicians in this country who have little understanding of "tongue-in-cheek" statements, sarcasms, metaphors, acerbic wits, or if you may, a "figure of speech" that they have taken the meaning literally, which the more initiated would not take at face value.

There was the PM wannabe daughter Nurul Izzah who literally translates Mahathir's metaphoric statement "better the devil you know" than ''the angel you don't" as Mahathir truly referring to Najib as the devil and his party a devil's empire. Now, everyone in the oppositions jumped on the bandwagon to deride Mahathir of his evil conjectures. 

Here, an ex-UMNO man, in a new political vehicle, went on a rampage in his "Politik Parti Iblis Dan Syaitan" extrapolating his former party devilish past and foreseen future and expounding the legacy of Mahathir's evil empire. A sorehead with an axe to grind with Mahathir and Najib for whatever wrong they have done him when he was in UMNO. 

What these people failed to see or too dim-witted to understand is that Mahathir is playing the "devil's advocate" to see what are the responses to his platitudes, dishes of sarcasm and "tongue in cheek" 

Mahathir is a master of innuendoes.......his emphatic poem of "Melayu mudah lupa" had riled up some Melayus, who misunderstood the gist of the message. 

Below is the message, literature or polemic, is left to one's interpretation.

Melayu mudah lupa
Melayu mudah lupa
Melayu mudah lupa
Dulu bangsanya dipijak
Melayu mudah lupa
Dulu bangsanya retak
Melayu mudah lupa
Dulu bangsanya teriak
Melayu mudah lupa
Dulu bangsanya haprak
Melayu mudah lupa
Dulu bangsanya kelas dua
Melayu mudah lupa
Dulu bangsanya hina
Melayu mudah lupa
Dulu bangsanya sengketa
Melayu mudah lupa
Dulu bangsanya derita
Melayu mudah lupa

Dulu bangsanya kerdil
Melayu mudah lupa
Dulu bangsanya terpencil
Melayu mudah lupa
Tiada daulat
Tiada maruah
Tiada bebas
Melayu mudah lupa
Melayu mudah lupa
Melayu mudah lupa
Sejarah bangsanya yang lena
Tanah lahirnya yang merekah berdarah
Ingatlah
Ingatlah
Ingatlah
Wahai bangsaku
Jangan mudah lupa lagi
Kerana perjuanganmu belum selesai

Another mishap here by an overzealous writer who run the gauntlet of literal moronic dispersal of Mahathir's thoughts.

Quote.... He mentions Mubarak, Hitler, Marcos, Ceausescu, Mussolini, Gaddaffi and Saddam Hussein – all dictators of ill repute, notorious and certainly of dubious prominence but may I humbly suggest to Tun Mahathir that maybe he might be aiming a tad too high when linking himself to these dictators...... Unquote

Hahaha! Is Mahathir that stupid to equate himself with such abominable names?