Rehman Rashid’s ‘rectum’

I guess they’ve asked Rehman Rashid to write this piece so they’ll get us bloggers to read The NST again:

Read also Rocky Bru and Marina Mahathir.

Here’s an abstract on his piece in the NST titled “Broken down in the barnyard of free expression” .

I have decoded them for you in simple, plain, English language:

“There is now a place called the “blogosphere”, touted by its denizens as a Utopia of freedom of expression.

In my opinion, what they’ve really done is prove why freedom of expression was a really bad idea. In this country, a host of folk who never had a hope of getting published are now proving why not.

(Read: Bloggers gave freedom of speech a bad name. Bloggers, who could not get their stories publish anywhere else, now can do it on their own)

The local blogosphere is the domain of life-challenged grumblestiltskins and disenfranchised pundits whose asinine maunderings only show why they should never have had day jobs in the first place.

(Read: Bloggers are grumblers, outcast of society, makes ridiculous ramblings like an ass. Go get a life. Not even fit to work in a proper job)

Rumour, innuendo, half-truths and damned lies are their stock- in-trade, and previously sacrosanct standards, principles and ethics are now laughable.

(Read: Ala – T. Adnan -Bloggers are liars, cheats, rumour-mongers. It’s their profession)

Are they not entitled to their opinion? Of course they are, as much as everyone else is entitled to ignore them. I would venture, however, that everyone has an opinion and a rectum, and not that many seem capable of telling one from the other.

(Read: Let them talk. Ignore them. Their opinions are SHIT!)

But no, it’s all good. Let a hundred thousand million flowers bloom; let all voices be heard, in however fractured language, whether or not they have anything pertinent to communicate or any information worth more than spittle to offer”.

(Read: Let them SHIT as they have nothing important to SHIT, anyway).