The Prime Minister can only convince Malaysians that Utusan Malaysia does not enjoy full legal immunity and UMNO disagrees with Utusan Malaysia for printing dangerous lies of a Christian conspiracy to set up a Christian state by replacing the editors and reporters involved

Media statement by Lim Guan Eng in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, 12^th May 2011:

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak can only convince Malaysians that Utusan does not enjoy full legal immunity and UMNO disagrees with Utusan Malaysia for printing dangerous lies of a Christian conspiracy between DAP and Christian pastors to set up a Christian state by:-

directing Utusan Malaysia to withdraw and apologise for the false report;
replacing the editors and reporters involved in such dangerous lies that can burn 1Malaysia

Utusan appears to enjoy legal immunity from printing such evil and malicious lies because Utusan is both owned and working fully under the direction of UMNO. National Union of Journalists' President Hata Wahari had exposed this in an online interview, that Utusan's editorial directives were set by the Umno political bureau which reportedly sits every Monday night to discuss the paper's agenda for the week.

Those present are the president Najib Tun Razak, deputy president Muhyiddin Yassin, the three vice-presidents - Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, Hishamuddin Hussein and Safie Apdal - secretary-general Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor and information chief Ahmad Maslan.

According to Hata, the agenda is then communicated to Utusan Malaysia's editor-in-chief via the prime minister's office. The paper will run an issue for three days before dropping it completely unless it receives strong public support from top BN ministers. Hata said this is a clever strategy because by the third day the other media would have snapped it up to continue milking it, which would leave Utusan Malaysia free to start the ball rolling on another issue.

But while most urbanites can see right through Utusan Malaysia's thinly-veiled propaganda, its rural readership remains staunch believers of Utusan's lies. For that reason, any failure by Najib to act against Utusan will only confirm Hata's revelation that Utusan's lies of a Christian conspiracy to set up a Christian state or appoint a Christian Prime Minister was sanctioned by UMNO to entrench UMNO's rural Malay support.

DAP challenges MCA, Gerakan or SUPP Ministers to bring up in Cabinet and demand stern action against Utusan. Should they fail to do so, then MCA, Gerakan and SUPP are merely playing the UMNO double-faced political sandiwara of saying one thing to the non-Malay community in the Chinese papers but doing differently to the Malays in Utusan Malaysia.

*Lim Guan Eng, DAP Secretary General & MP for Bagan