At the Kuala Lumpur launch of Kee Thuan Chye’s “Lim Kit Siang — Malaysian First — Volume II” at Sogo this morning, I was asked by the press about former Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad’s podcast where he said he used DAP and that the DAP used him too.

I denied Mahathir’s statement and said: “I won’t say that. We never used Mahathir. We thought he had changed and was for good governance, the rule of law and clean government.”

The reply was mistakenly understood in some quarters as: “I won’t say that we never used Mahathir. We thought he had changed and was for good governance, the rule of law and clean government.”

There was a pause in the first two sentences, which give a totally different meaning if there had been no pause.

(Clarification by DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang in Penang on Wednesday, 15th November 2023)