Abdul Karim Hamzah slams DAP for being so patronising as to think Sarawakians can only understand issues via the medium of cartoons.
PETALING JAYA: An animated video by the DAP that has made the news in the run-up to the Sarawak election has been slammed by PBB strongman Abdul Karim Hamzah as “tasteless, pathetic and condescending.”
In a statement he issued last night, Abdul Karim said the 4:53-minute video that mocks what appears to be the prime minister and his wife was not only childish to the core but glaring proof that DAP was utterly clueless about how to tackle the delicate subject of politics in Sarawak.
He also described the video as an outright insult to all Sarawakians as DAP used the medium of a cartoon to communicate its message of change to the people.
“What are they trying to accomplish through the video? Do they think Sarawakians are unable to comprehend issues that they have to present their arguments in the form of cartoons?” said the Asajaya assemblyman, pointing out that the message the video was sending was also fallacious in its content.
“Sarawakians are not simpletons, we are not illiterate. DAP should not be so patronising to think Sarawakians can only understand issues through cartoons.”
The PBB Supreme Council member said the animation showed that DAP was devoid of ideas on how to take on Sarawak Barisan Nasional and its popular chief minister Adenan Satem.
He said DAP had failed miserably in countering any of Adenan’s numerous achievements in Sarawak, and being bankrupt of any intelligent response, had resorted instead to “importing” cheap political fodder from West Malaysia.
The state Assistant Housing Minister said that if the DAP was serious about striking a chord with the people, they would have confronted instead the many issues affecting Sarawakians rather than pulling primary school stunts like the animated video.
“But then again, maybe I am expecting too much of them. They just do not understand Sarawak and the needs and aspirations of its people.
“It is all so pathetic, they are scraping the bottom of the barrel that I almost feel sorry for them.”
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