Communications and Multimedia Minister Salleh Said Keruak has pointed out that by Lim Kit Siang's standard, politicians the world over would be considered stooges.

“If standing up for your party and defending your party against lies, slander and attacks, makes one a stooge, then every politician in the world would be a stooge of his or her own party,” he said.

Salleh was responding to Lim branding him and fellow Sabah Umno leader, Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Abdul Rahman Dahlan, as “Umno's two stooges.”

The minister also asked if DAP had not given the boot to members who failed to toe the party line...