"I'm shocked - shocked - to find that gambling is going on in here!"

– Captain Renault (Casablanca)

COMMENT | I hope rational Malaysians understand that Khairy Jamaluddin was wrong when he said it was amateur hour on both sides of the political divide.

These people are not amateurs. These people are professional charlatans. Madani does not have its head buried in the ground; it is just that they do not care about these corruption allegations.

All you have to do is refer to how Madani handled the Sabah corruption scandal, and you will understand that the average Joe Rakyat, for whatever reasons do not care and, in some cases, votes these professional charlatans back in. BN played this card for years until an aberration in the system caused the fall of Umno.

And the opposition is not stupid and incompetent, but merely going to use as a blueprint what Madani is doing now if they ever gain political power. The opposition is not...