President Rodrigo Duterte issued a declaration just a few days ago: That Rappler CEO Maria Ressa is a fraud. As if the whole world—and that’s including her play-acting allies—did not know that fact for a while now. Maria Ressa is a fraud. And no amount of awards given by highly questionable award-giving bodies and unlimited…
Trust Rappler to plumb the depths of bad taste just to find any semblance of legitimacy to their complicity to oust former chief justice Renato Corona and create an illusion of truthfulness to their libelous article that merited a conviction for both their CEO and reporter. On its Facebook page, it shared a post by…
Aside from that conviction where she cannot even come up with a single believable rebuttal against the complaints filed against her by a private person—relying instead on technicalities—Maria Ressa cannot even debunk allegations about her citizenship and the shady business practices of Rappler often reported in a small sector of mainstream media. For the longest…
Just take a look at any of the mainstream media organizations in the Philippines and abroad and 8 times out of 10 you’ll see or read articles that make a martyr out of convicted felon Maria Ressa. From opinion makers to straight “news” stories, they always paint the libelous American as some kind of fallen…
Back in the recent franchise hearing for ABS-CBN, Rep Rodante Marcoleta alloted a significant portion of his time to call out Atty Mike Navallo, a reporter for the network. Apparently it was over a news item that the latter released without sticking to the agreement that the representative would be included in it to have…
Maybe it’s just me being an old creepy and joyless old man. But I just saw an image of Angel Locsin with all that heroic Mother Theresa hype with it and realized I’d trust a venomous snake sooner than I would trust her. I can’t shake the nasty suspicion all of that woke slash activist…
Leave it to my idol Teddy Casino to provide some much-needed entertainment on Twitter whenever boredom strikes. On a recent exchange of insults with a “troll”—the term of endearment of the opposition and its allies to any living person who does not toe their narrative—named @TishaCM on Twitter, the controversial communist seemingly got “burned” (another…
Apparently it’s in bad taste to post signs of wealth and opulence in your personal social media space considering the skewed way the planet deals out massive amounts of unfairness to everyone on a daily basis. Someone like Heart Evangelista maybe? She who constantly posts the finer things in life in all of her social…
The usual clucking of hens are louder these days. One, because of certain “heroic” types equating garden-variety whining to legitimate dissent who are still engaged in protracted efforts to lend a semblance of legitimacy to that moronic call for mass testing without any vaccine or cure to address any results. And two, the shrill Martial…
A recent tweet by ANAKBAYAN UP Diliman did not even bother with subtleties when it issued a strong opposition to the Anti-Terrorism Bill prepared by the government as a response no doubt to the terrorist groups that include the CPP-NPA. Just step back and take a look at the kind of glaring disconnect this little stunt…