An April Fool’s offensive by the mainstream media against Lim Kit Siang has not left the DAP parliamentary leader amused.

Lim said he first thought it was an April Fool’s joke when he saw a report in the New Straits Times today titled: ‘Kit Siang pretending to be elected leader’ with a second headline reading ‘Only those who are blind and naive cannot see that the DAP adviser is a Dictator’.

“I realised that this was not a April Fool’s Day prank, however, when the other Umno/BN-owned and controlled mainstream media also carried the same story.

“Clearly, this was deadly serious business - part of a massive propaganda psy-war against me,” he said in a statement today...