PFP chairman James Soong (
Taiwan is entering a red-hot election campaign season. Candidates are coming up with stunts of all kinds to grab attention, so some exaggeration is to be expected. However, when a man clearly guilty of gross fabrications -- for example during the Chunghsing Bills Finance scandal to cover up his embezzlement of KMT assets -- starts talking about how the President has offered to delegate military command to him and so forth -- one could be forgiven for being incredulous over his claims. A person would have to have a very low intelligence quotient to believe such a tale.
Clearly, Soong has yet to kick his old habit of telling tall tales. He apparently failed to learn the error of his ways after last year's presidential election, when the voters rejected his presidential bid. He apparently wants to tell one lie after another in order to cheat himself back into public office.
Unfortunately, Taiwan is brimming with shameless politicians. After last year's presidential election, New Party lawmaker Elmer Fung (
How vicious to tarnish a former first lady with such fabrications. Certainly, the PFP's Soong and the New Party's Fung preside over the biggest rumor mills in the country. The people of Taiwan need not dance to their tune; they can simply dump these liars at the polls on Dec. 1.
Certainly, these folks dare to be so brazen because they have Taiwan's pro-unification media acting as their hired guns. A media group eager to serve as a politician's mouthpiece is a pawn in the conspiracy to sell out the interests and welfare of the Taiwanese people. These media groups believe they can stretch and bend reality at will, flouting journalistic ethics and professionalism.
Whoever embraces such a distorted understanding of journalistic ethics will eventually reap the whirlwind and lose the trust of the nation, only to be dumped onto history's dustbin.
Politicians who have no qualms about lying believe that politics is the highest form of skulduggery. In the long run, only politicians who value credibility will win the support and sympathy of the Taiwanese people.
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