According to Inquirer.net (which may or may not be notoriously awesome), Malaysia’s information minister compared Internet bloggers to off-key karaoke singers.

Ladies and gentleman, for the sake of full disclosure: I am a karaoker first, and a blogger second. That being said, you don’t come into my house (the Internet, in this case), and kick my dogs (bloggers everywhere, in this case). The so-called “minister” doesn’t sound like he is was being very pious or holy when he made those comments. Do some people who sing karaoke suck? Unquestionably yes, they do. But do the overwhelming majority of professional karaokers rock your socks off? You bet your horse! So, even if the “minister” meant what he said about bloggers, I’d have to say, “Well then, Mr. Holier-than-thou Minister, they must be pretty good!”

It is amazing that in 2007 we still have this level of ignorance about karaoke that it is better left to the drunks and the barmaids. Once that “minister” gets off his high horse and puts a mic up to his mouth with the instrument-only track of The Fray’s “How To Save a Life,” then he will know what it is like to karaoke fo’ real.

And maybe when he gets home, he’ll blog about his experience. Too much?