Keng good fellow or a goodfella?
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TV host Wuttitorn "Woody" Milintajinda will be courting more controversy tomorrow night when he interviews Pheu Thai MP Karun "Keng" Hosakul.
The much-criticised MP for flooded Don Muang was the “viewer’s choice” in Woody’s online poll, and Keng was happy to oblige.
“I decided to be on ‘Woody Talk’ to speak the truth, not give excuses,” Keng says on the show, which was pre-recorded. It’s beaming out on Modernine at 10.30pm tomorrow.
Accused of running his constituency like a Mafia boss, Keng tells Woody he needn’t pull any punches in his questioning. “You don’t have to help me because you’re not on my side anyway.”
His critics need to understand him the same way Don Muang residents do, Keng says. He’s the son of a poor somtam vendor who instilled good values in him. “If I wanted to be a bad guy, I would have gone that way a long time ago.”
Woody asks him about a Facebook page dedicated to giving Keng a kick in the shins (or elsewhere). You could set up the same kind of page criticising Abhisit Vejjajiva, Keng points out.
The MP gets emotional and sentimental at times, but he does indeed sound tough when Woody asks for a promise that he won’t shoot him. Keng agrees, almost too matter-of-factly.
World’s a stage
Filmmaker Pen-ek Rattanaruang rates Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra a poor actress. “If she were a good actress she’d be able to hide the fact that she doesn’t know what she’s talking about,” he said on Thai PBS on Wednesday night.
To be fair, though, “She had no ambition to be prime minister so she wasn’t prepared. It would be more or less the same if you made me PM.”
Pen-ek said Thai politics is a great show these days. “You can sense that it’s all acting and bluff.”
He noted, though, that even in the worst movie, no one actually dies. “And this isn’t a movie, so no one should be merely acting.”
