Historian Barbara Tuchman wrote about this phenomenon in her book The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam. When Unspun was younger we used to speak of it as Foot-in-Mouth Disease.”It” refers to situations when otherwise sensible and intelligent people act in ways that go against their own best interests.
Now Abdullah may not be very intelligent but he’s usually quite sombre if not sensible, so what possed the man to agree to opening a shop of his daughter’s called — wait for this — The Emperor’s New Clothes?
This earns ABB and his advisors a shit-for-brains tag in Unspun’s blog. Way to go Badawi!
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So? Call us swindlers, we don’t care. As long as we can make a few million Ringgit…