Question: when is a person defensive?
Answer: when everything that happens to them are caused by someone or something beyond their control
So it is with Coordinating Minister for People’s Welfare Bakrie. Bakrie of Sidoarjo was last seem blaming Mother Nature for Lapindo (see Bakrie blames Mother Nature for Lapindo). Now Bakrie of the Slums — so called because he once ventured into the slums in the wake of President SBY’s inspection of flood affected areas (and thus acquiring a deep understanding of how poor flood victims feel) — is now blaming the media for creating the false impression that flood victims, especially those who’ve had their houses flooded out, are anything but happy.
Not understanding the mindset of flood victims, reader DR sms’d Unspun this morning in a huff. The Minister, he reported, had just old SCTV in an interview about the flood situation that:
“banjir ini di besar besarkan oleh media, seakan akan dunia akan kiamat…lihat saja banyak pengunsi yang masih tersenyum…”
The translation for this gem of a quote is:
“[the impact of] the flood has been exaggerated by the media, as if the world is coming to an end…just look, many of the flood refugees are still smiling.”
Unspun is aghast and speechless at such penetrating insight into the psyche of flood refugees. Shicks, if Unspun had his house flooded out, and had to camp out hungry and shivering in the wet and cold, Unspun‘d be smiling too. But since Unspun is not so fortunate the only thing Unspun can do is award this posting a shit-for-brains tag.
Unspun 
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