Halting a press conference to end it is unstatesman-like and rude.
He could have simply provided a reply, rather than avoid responding by turning the question back at the reporters, acting short of hearing by repeatedly demanding to know, “Is there any other question?”
The heated exchange between the big guns in both DAP and PAS is further indication of mud-slinging and imminent permanent breakup of Pakatan, whereby their so-called united triumvirate was conveniently hatched merely to garner ballots.
There never was anything concrete or united in terms of policies or future directions - be it at the state or national level.
So dire is the clash between DAP and PAS that PKR supremo Anwar Ibrahim has needed to step in to advise a ceasefire.
It should also be pointed out that in 2012, Lim had threatened 86 Chinese primary schools in Penang that he will stop giving funds to them if any of those schools had continued to subscribe to Utusan Malaysia and Berita Harian.
He even barred the said newspapers - along with the New Straits Times - from covering press conferences chaired by him.
Likewise, journalists from the said agencies were given the cold shoulder when they tried covering press conferences held by Lim, other state exco members, or when they tried to cover proceedings during the Penang state assembly sitting.
When reporters had inquired about the DAP secretary-general’s alleged relationship with an ex-political aide, he lashed out and threatened to sue them.
DAP should just own up that they have been hoodwinking voters all this while with their emotional, rhetoric-filled push for democracy, when they are the least likely to practise such freedoms.
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