I refer to the Malaysiakini report Q&A: 'It looks like me, it sounds like me' .

‘Ka-rect, ka-rect, ka-rect’ and now it's ‘Looks like me, sounds like me...’

Can you get anyone with worse antics than this sycophant, a Mr Tag-Along and a denizen of the legal fraternity with a magic wand that can influence the appointment of judges? He was so powerful he could actually tell the ex-prime minister who to appoint to the bench.

In the controversial videotape, he described the ex-PM as: ‘Being the old man, he is 76 years old, he gets whispers everywhere, and then you don't whisper, he gets taken away by the other side. But, now the PM is very alert he because every time he gets letters from Tan Sri Dzaiddin, he calls Tengku Adnan, he says discuss with Vincent, come and discuss’.

Who is Vincent? Was he a special rapporteur officially appointed by the government to advise the ex-PM on the appointment of judges?

If what he said about the ex-PM was true, than it is most disgraceful and a shocking news to the nation. Judges are appointed to dispense justice to all and sundry and not to be subservient to anyone in particular. Judges have no masters, they are masters of their own. They are expected to adhere to the rules of justice and listen to their conscience, not to anyone else - including the prime minister.

Was Vincent Tan a close confidant of the ex-PM? It looked obviously so if we go by what that bragging power-broker revealed in the video. For the ex-PM to tell Tengku Adnan to discuss state matters of the highest importance with a man who has nothing to do with matters of government, one can only assume such relationship did exist, unless Lingam was name-dropping just to impress his audience.

It was no coincidence that in 1993, Lingam was Vincent Tan's lawyer in a law suit against MGG Pillai , a journalist who has since died. Tan brought a defamation suit against him and was awarded a substantial amount, unprecedented in the legal history of defamation suits in this country. It was also no coincidence that the damages awarded by the Federal Court was presided over by a team of judges headed by Eusoff Chin.

In the latest episode, the 'Ko-rect, Ko-rect, Ko-rect' and 'Looks like me, sounds like me' has manifested into 'I cannot recollect'.

He told the commission, ‘Without looking at the video, I cannot recollect the occasion. After looking at the video, I do not recollect. It has happened so long ago. Looking at the video, there are bottles of wine, whiskey or brandy and 7-Up. I would have had one too many drinks. That was a drinking session, a celebration, a party. I must have had one too many (and) it is more than six years ago. I cannot remember’.

‘It looks like me. You can ask the question 100 times, I will still give you the same answer’. He must have assumed that the commission members are idiots to be able to take this kind of nonsense coming from him, a man void of any dignity and shame.

This man has turned the commission into a circus and is trying to fool everyone with intoxicated lapses of memory as his excuse not to remember whom he spoke to on the phone.

His folly will eventually put a noose around his own neck. Is this the kind of man that our leaders kept company with?