Partly Facetious: Opposition's media doing a good job

"Proverbs lose their relevance over time."

"I don't quite agree - proverbs basic premise is human nature and that has not changed over centuries....and...wait...we still hate, love, are jealous, are angered, are..."

"The lexicon defines a proverb as a saying backed by a perceived truth or common sense or experience."

"Where perception comes in there is room for doubt. I mean The Khan's perception is different from the perception of opposition leaders and who is to say who is right! I mean I certainly am not relying on the likes of The Khan's media team or the opposition's media team's to become convinced..."

"The opposition's media team incidentally has a lot more experience; see I can't understand why The Khan got experienced people not loyal to his party for other ministries, but not for this critical ministry..."

"He is onto his third minister of information who I reckon will not remain as his attacks have not assumed the pungency that The Khan desires."

"I suppose we need a school for spin doctors because The Khan's media team attacks are so unrealistic....just like the conditions that Hafeez Sheikh and Reza Baqir agreed with the International Monetary Fund."

"Ha ha anyway going back to the definition of a proverb where it is backed by common sense then there are certain professions which are automatically disabled."

"I propose a constitutional amendment to make it unconstitutional to verbally attack members of parliament..."

"Never gonna happen because they attack each other."

"Hmmm what about experience, I mean a proverb is also backed by experience..."

"Ah that's a difficult one. What if you have experience but you use it to prove that all your earlier mistakes were not mistakes.....now Nawaz Sharif sahib has a history..."

"And then you have those with no experience!"

"If you are referring to The Khan let me remind you that Zardari sahib's appointees Gilani and Raja Sahib had no previous experience as head of government and neither did Zardari sahib."

"Hmm anyway the proverb which has lost its relevance today is a famous one: it's the economy stupid - now in the US it is the pandemic which does have a major impact on the economy but still I reckon the major vote gainer or loser may be Trumps handling (or not) of the pandemic...."

"The pandemic has led to subordinating the importance of the economy to containing the pandemic true but in Pakistan the powers that be seem to be ignoring the state of the economy and simply refusing to acknowledge that the narrative is not enough any more because we all are suffering a major erosion of each rupee we earn."

"Give it a couple of weeks and all will be well...''

"I have been hearing that for a while - two years and three months later the honeymoon period is over...and the mother in law has come for a long visit."

"Don't be facetious."

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