Batu(?) Bru's Kucing Kurap: Stoned, Skinned & Bagged

Is Rocky Bru leading a media onslaught against Najib? Are Hishamudin Hussein and Muhyidin Yasin ganging up to push him out? And whatever else. What's my take on these?


At this moment, I don't really care. But what I do care right now is when anonymous cowards make malicious attacks that are often also vicious and personal. That's especially so when these are against friends. And to me at least, Rocky is a friend: a decent guy who is most likely a much better person than those hurling these accusations and insinuations.

If you regularly follow his blog, and the cultured and gentlemanly manner in which he responds to the various comments, you should already have realised this, of course. And if you have been reading this blog, you should also know that `cultured' and `gentlemanly' aren't the way that I would reply to nasty comments - not here, not elsewhere. No apologies about that: if some cretins want to engage at gutter level, that's where I'll go down too.

Have a look at the readers' comments here: Rocky to lead media onslaught against Najib? (plus the blogger's inaction: to me, silence means consent; simple as that). And Ada Batu (Rocky) Dalam Selimut; at the content, tone and the accusations and insinuations that reek out of the writers. By the way, `Rocky' isn't `batu' lah, ngok!

Let's see what these people are: I'll go into the content of the posts later. This `Cat in the Bag' claims to be this:
"I am the civil servant in Putrajaya, the consultant in PMO, the fly on the wall everywhere…"


Really ah? With a direct line to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, and from Harvard to boot probably. But one thing is for sure: this is someone with a grudge against Rocky; someone seething with resentment. Plus something else, based on this:
"Rockybru, the self-proclaimed tai ko of SoPo bloggers organised a full on assault against sleepyhead," the cretin writes.

LIAR; for anyone who follows the SoPo blogosphere can tell you that Rocky had never proclaimed himself as the said tai ko. It is the bloggers - or at least many of them - who acknowledge him as such. And it is this that creates the jealousy and resentment among those who do want to be the tai ko. Unfortunately, they simply just don't cut it.

If s/he had lied about this one, you can bet that there are other lies and half-truths elsewhere. And "old newspaperman" Uppercaise chooses to use someone of this level of credibility as a source against a fellow journalist! Therefore, is it wrong to assume that the blogger (and similar) aren't really after the truth... that they'd focus on something only because it might help towards the ultimate goal: replacing the Umno-led BN with a new government where it is the DAP that calls the shots? Like in Penang and Selangor, and Perak too once?

Ah, the bile in some people! Here's an example from someone called "charleskiwi":

"If you are writing a blog don’t even attempt calling the shenanigan Mahathir for what he really is, a pariah or the grand son of a pariah, the posting will be deleted for certain. A sad day really it is for true journalism especially with a journalist like Rocky around that is if you can call him a journalist at all. He is really Satan in disguise !" 

Notice these cowards: they never dare to use their real names - or their usual Blogger/Wordpress profiles - when they show themselves for what they really are. I can accept that many people wish to remain anonymous when online. However, I detest the deceitful double-faced kind: when in public, they'd put on an act of being "open and fair minded", "polite", "cultured and intellectual". But when hidden, their true selves are revealed.

Here is another comment from the typical cretin: "There are prositutes, and there are prostitutes. And of course, the mother of all prostitutes – Rocky." -- [Dei, check your spelling before sending!] People tend to unwittingly reflect themselves when they make abusive comments against others. This imbecile keeps on repeating himself all over blogosphere, including at Rocky's blog. A political prostitute: this is what this imbecile and cretins like charleswiki secretly wish they could be . But they are only of the "Lorong Haji Taib" category for they don't have it: someone with the skills, networking reach and depth, highly respected status and wielding a lot of influence among peers and the public... something that Rocky is. And they resent this.

As for the content as alleged by Catty, and insinuated by Uppercaise: it's not a secret that Rocky is planning to launch an online news portal for he had mentioned it at his blog/s on various occasions. So where's the "revelation" and "exposure" by these bloggers? And this alleged and insinuated plot against Najib: it is simply based on their imagination - creating things out of thin air with the intention to forment suspicion and hate. Which means those who say so are either one or the other of the following: mistaken at best, or... LIARS. Well, so much for "neutrality", "apolitical", "fair-minded" and similar chest-thumping.

Why not hear it from Rocky himself for only he would know. If and when he does, then readers should re-read those blogs again and evaluate: are those bloggers worthy of being trusted again? Or do they, as so often, have and are an Udang di sebalik batu?