Anwar and the softporn clip.

A journalist from Star called me. I assumed she is. She asked for my reaction to the portion of the Anwar video that has been put up. Earlier today, a former PKR stalwart sent me an sms message. Video is up. Watch it now.

So I watched. Because it's up. I have my own take on this. First reaction: it is Anwar. But then, after years of reading Sherlock Holmes, I sensed something is not right.

Back to the journalist. So, how do you defend Anwar now she asked? Huh? I have never defended him regarding his private life. I have written about the way his case is handled and about the supporting cast in the video starring Anwar.

So I answered, why should I defend him? I have never defended him I protested. In my first article about this thing, I write about the issue of loyalty. Even among thieves there is honor. I find it farcical and hypocritical for this Eskay fellow to suddenly receive a blinding flash of enlightenment to claim, national interest overrides everything else. Its called patriotism he says. Saving the country from a sex maniac. Maybe we can coin a new term- sextriotism.

In another time, people who read Lee Kuan Yew will remember his admiration for Tanaka having so many mistresses. That, says LKY may not be a bad thing.

I wasn't defending Anwar at all. But I lament the death of loyalty. Especially from someone whom you have showered so many business opportunities. When I wrote that the only way Anwar can regard Eskay is like a friend he brings to the house, but later goes to bed with the host's wife. Some people got riled up about this description.

If I were to defend Anwar as asked, I will say this.

It's a fake. I will humor you since you asked me how I would defend him. Of course I am conscious of the way journalists play their exclusion game. You are one of us if you subscribe to our ways; you are our enemy if you as much mention some reservations about how we describe things as they are. You know the pretentious world of journalists- they think they rule the world.

Look at the video. What's the white bar at the bottom doing there? Is this a production in Thailand? If so, then the film was done with respectable technical panache, but the post production bit is Jinjang quality.

It seems to me, there are at least 3 video recorders. One to record the movements of the director, who looked like Eskay, has Eskay's physique but it may not be him. Bur Eskay said he was in the video. So it must be him.

Two, a video recorder of Anwar undressing. This may be taken on any other occasion where Anwar was less modest such as in the company of male friends.

Three- another recorder taking pictures of a lady- Chinese? Thai perhaps?

It could be a recoding done in December. Another done in January. Another done in February. The director comes to fuse them together to make it seem a seamless recording. Why would a director be around? To signal the cues. Such as to direct where Anwar's eye contact was; to direct where the woman's eye contact should be. To place every scene on cue.

But then Eskay is no film director. He is just a masseuse. That would explain the Jinjang quality.

It seems to me to be 3 or more recordings cascaded or piled onto one another. Hence Eskay the director appeared larger than average. Maybe he's in the latest video. Anwar is in the second recording. Eye contact between Anwar and the lady tramp never matched. Anwar wasn't looking at a lady positioned as the lady in the video was. The man resembling Anwar appeared to be walking past and through the lady as though she wasn't there. The man resembling Anwar appear bigger suggesting that a different camera is used to show Anwar in the foreground. Anything nearer to the camera appears bigger. The lady is always in the background. She appears smaller. You can impose clips from one camera on top of each other so that , the one on top will appear bigger as it is in the foreground nearest to the camera. The male figure appears disproportionately larger than the female figure when the two embraced.

So you asked how I would defend Anwar. I have given you a hypothetical scenario. Go dispute it. Convince me. I am not defending Anwar. I am reacting to your cynicism. When you called, you are like saying- take that you bastard.