Agreeing that the rebuttal in Parliament was “harsh”, MP Charles Chong noted that Mr Tan didn’t “brag” about how expensive the trip was in the article. “Maybe it made lesser mortals envious and they thought maybe he was a bit boastful. Would people have taken offence if his wife (a senior investment counsellor at a bank) had paid for everything ?”
Source: TODAY
EDITORS’ NOTE:
We take extreme offence at Mr Charles Chong’s indiscriminate denigration of Mr Tan’s critics as “lesser mortals”.
Will Mr Chong please clarify what he meant by “lesser mortals” ? If we are ‘lesser mortals’, does Mr Chong regard himself as a “greater mortal” ?
Does he define Singaporeans who has less earning and spending power than Mr Tan as “lesser” human beings who deserve little respect from him ?
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http://wayangparty.com/2009/01/20/p...er-mortals-are-just-envious-of-tan-yong-soon/