COMMENT After a period of quiet - a tell-tale sign he's not sure what to make of the play - Dr Mahathir Mohamad on Monday ended his silence on Bersih 3.0 with comments that show how deep in Josef Goebbels' debt he often is.

The Nazi propaganda minister was an exponent of the "big lie", a tactic that holds that the more brazen the lie you deploy the harder it is for the target to deny it.

Just as the humanist is often baffled by the deliberate will to evil, so are the honest frequently befuddled by the bare-faced mendacity of others.

In remarks made at the launch of the Bahasa Malaysia version of his memoirs ‘A Doctor in the House', Mahathir claimed that Bersih was out to foment revolution ...