Presstitution

An intellectual prostitute just sold off the whole Filipino nation for a chance to write in the eminent New York Times (NYT), which in turn is a common outlet for yellow or liberal democratic journalism.

“The opinion piece was an enumeration of the failed campaign line of the Otso Diretso which failed miserably with the voters.

The headline in the opinion piece of Vergel Santos said it all: “Philippines Just Became More Authoritarian, Thanks to the People, Rodrigo Duterte got another endorsement — and more power — in midterm elections.”

The whole piece was an indictment of the voters in the just held midterm elections for picking the majority of senators from the administration slate.

None of the yellow mob’s eight candidates in a coalition called Otso Diretso made it to the 12 senatorial seats, while only a handful of Liberal Party (LP) local bets made it through.

Santos said, “Filipinos have just gone through another election, apparently unchastised by a past too ignoble, too repetitive and too recent to be forgotten: They endorsed the repressive presidency of Rodrigo Duterte by voting in all of his candidates to the Senate.”

The first obvious lie in the article is that all administration candidates made it to the Senate, since nine bets who got votes were administration bets while three were not.

Santos’ view was similar to the aspersions thrown by the yellow mob and its Otso Diretso bets on Filipinos who cast their ballot, calling them “bobotante.”

Santos said for decades, Filipinos have time and again “brought on themselves leaders who promised quick reforms but ended up exploiting them,” citing the terms of Ferdinand Marcos and Joseph Estrada who were both deposed through mob rule in disregard of the voting process and the Constitution.

The two Edsa revolts catapulted the yellow mob for it to have a tight grip on government that has all practically been cleansed off when President Rody Duterte took over, thus the chafing of yellow sentinels such as Santos.

To make his absurd, hypocritical hypothesis about Philippine elections stand, he then falsely claimed that Rody is “a provincial mayor known to deal justice by death squad.”

“Since becoming President, Mr. Duterte has waged a war on drugs estimated to have produced more than 5,000 extrajudicial killings as of late December, mostly by police forces. At the same time, the President’s inner circle has been accused of maintaining links to major drug traffickers — an allegation that gains some credence from the fact that no big fish has been caught so far,” Santos went on a roll in his accusations.

The charges against Rody were the same ones peddled by the pawns of chief detractor Sen. Antonio Trillanes and members of the emaciated LP.

The LP was totally discredited in the last polls because the Otso Diretso wannabes it supported, led by Mar Roxas, did not offer any tangible plan that voters can hold on to.

Instead the Otso bets merely dwelled on attacks against Rody and his uncompromising campaigns against drugs and crime that the people had already dismissed based on surveys previously released.

The public instead approved of Rody’s programs as resolute and a show of political will which were both lacking in previous leaders.

Santos’ claims of the administration of Rody having “persecuted his critics, be they journalists (like a founder of the news site Rappler, where I work) or even sitting senators” are patent lies.

Rappler has been in trouble with government for violating the anti-dummy law and for cyberlibel filed by a private person. Rappler founder Maria Ressa and some other officials and staff of the online news outfit were served arrest warrants based on those charges.

Rappler continues to operate independently, contrary to Santos.

“Mindanao, the largest of the country’s three main islands, has been under martial law for two years, a state of exception repeatedly extended after an initial conflict between local terrorists and state security forces. Mr. Duterte has cozied up to China, ceding to it access to the resource-rich West Philippine Sea, partly in exchange for loans, despite the risk of being trapped by debt,” he said.

The opinion piece was an enumeration of the failed campaign line of the Otso Diretso which failed miserably with the voters. It appears now that, as the practice of the yellow mob, the vile would now be offered to the foreign media market which is too receptive for anything which is anti-Duterte.

Santos condemned the democratic process which is the only equalizer for the poor and intellectual prostitutes in having their say in running the government.

All that for a piece of the action at NYT.

https://tribune.net.ph/index.php/2019/05/26/presstitution/amp/?__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=IwAR28k6iGeviidt2j5jzbZFV5UGFvvGPkbCzhBUUd0GmMjDHYu60fLvsAlZo