It is perhaps unfortunate that the people our prime minister employed to manage and control the information that was disseminated out of his administration were so good at what they did. So good were they that he started to believe that his country was in good hands, and he continued to administer the nation with the somnambulistic confidence that he had become accustomed to.

That the hands in charge were his own was secondary to the primary fact that he was told every day, with painfully blatant headlines, that he was doing a fantastic job as the commander-in-chief.

Surely the first rule of spin-doctoring must be for one no to be misled by one’s own spin?

What is more disconcerting is that the clowns in the administration's PR circus have continued to entertain despite the fact that the audience left to vote in elections that produced record losses for the ruling coalition.

The results however have done nothing to stop these clowns from continuing to perform their lame tricks, with the prime minister seemingly the only excited spectator.

Since March 8, various government controlled newspapers have shamelessly claimed that Pak Lah remains the right man to lead the country. They insisted that the record defeat at the polls means nothing as the ruling coalition still held a simple majority.

The loss of four states plus the failure to win back Kelantan has been pushed to pages 5 and 6 with the first four pages dedicated to the importance of ‘continuity’.

And when there were voices of dissent, the reports were spinned to such an extent that the dissenters became supporters. Mukhriz Mahathir's press conference where he asked the PM to do the right thing is a prime example of this.

‘Do the right thing’ since you lost five states was interpreted to mean ‘I support you’. Really now, the discussions that took place in the editorial rooms that lead to this interpretation must be beyond the realms of anybody's sanity.

Its time the lies stopped. The spinning has failed desperately. Nobody is buying the lies and neither are they buying the newspapers. Even Goebbels had to kill his own children when the spin petered out.

So, please stop entertaining us with the low quality propaganda and start reporting with your heads.