By now, just about every Malaysian has watched the most-lampooned political video on YouTube since VK Lingam's ‘correct, correct, correct’– a full-grown deputy minister crying uncontrollably because he was left out of a weekly meeting of top MCA leaders.

This was MCA Youth Chief Wee Ka Siong is. Don’t forget the fact that many of the videos on YouTube are tagged as ‘Comedy’ and have been used to elicit laughter from patients suffering from depression.

Let's forget the fact that the skillful execution of political theatrics was blown when the ‘producers’ even placed a blue box of ‘Premier’ tissue in front of Wee before the press conference commenced (you can verify this from the various YouTube videos).

Crybaby Wee and his Wanita counterpart Chew Mei Fun was just putting up a show for Umno. The rabid Chinese media has already reported that just minutes before the Nov 18 press conference, he was seen laughing heartily when Kelantan Senator Alex Wong cracked a joke about DAP MP Fong Po Kuan's new hairstyle.

Well, the ‘show’ paid off as the delirious Sin Chew group of newspapers went into a tailspin portraying MCA President Ong Tee Keat as the worst dictator since Gengis Khan. Immediately, Sin Chew alerted the press corp covering deputy prime minister in Rome who launched a tirade attacking Ong from several time zones away. The next day, Wee and gang got what they have been yearning for - the PM confirmed that he's stepping in to resolve MCA’s problems.

(As BN chairman, PM Najib Abdul Razak has every right to show his concern since he's been pressing most of the right buttons to win back support in time for the 13th general election. But some MCA leaders have other devilish ideas.)

Why do MCA's Liow Tiong Lai, Wee Ka Siong and Chew Mei Fun want Umno to step into MCA’s affairs? That's because that is the only way they can get instant promotion in MCA.

The thing is, Wee and gang had wanted to get rid of Ong without dragging in Umno. After the Oct 10 EGM, Wee (through Liow) thought they had staged a coup when they got 23 MCA central committee members to sign a letter asking Ong to resign,

But the number of pro-Wee Ka Siong CC members has, as of last count, dropped to 10. That's when Wee asked Liong to lead a delegation of nine MCA MPs to see the PM and threaten that they would quit to join Pakatan Rakyat unless Ong was removed.

They had wanted to harp on Ong not keeping to his word about quitting but realised that they, too, have not kept to theirs about resigning if the EGM did not favour Ong. Besides, Ong can only be removed if two-thirds of the EGM wanted to remove him. The plan to see the PM failed miserably when only four MPs committed.

Caught on a back foot, Wee decided that the next best thing is by playing the victim and portraying Ong as a villain who has lost control of the MCA. Hence, the ceaseless calls for fresh polls and pushing for the unlawful EGM. Then, Umno has now the justification to stick its nose in.

How do you trust a man who would resort to using extra-party (Umno) and unconstitutional (EGM) means to topple a leader after exhausting all legal and internal avenues? Would such a man not be subservient to Umno?

Could anyone even imagine Liow thumbing his nose at Umno if he were handed the MCA presidency on a silver platter? Can such a man stand up and be counted on by the Chinese community? Didn't Liow already agree to the MCA ‘Greater Unity Plan’ on Oct 20 but changed his mind after Wee and Chew returned from Geneva?

Can anyone even come near to Ong Tee Keat - despite his erratic character - in the way he stood up to the powerful forces in Umno by taking on the RM12.5 billion PKFZ scandal? Could they afford not to seek psychiatric treatment whenever the PM throws dirty glances at them when Ong himself had been censured not once, but twice by the Cabinet in the past?

And speaking of PKFZ, where was the MCA Youth chief when Ong was in the firing range while getting to the bottom of the scandal?

It is very telling just what kind of substance Wee is made of if he can shed buckets of tears just because he's been left out of a weekly meeting (actually, he could attend as an invited member but he chose to ignore that fact).

That being the case, MCA (the political party) and the Chinese community should be the ones crying bucket loads if Wee is elevated. And their tears will be genuine, not like his crocodile ones.