This is no longer funny.
This is not another shallow movie wherein the leading man gets to toy, again and again, with the hysterical values of poor over-emotional fans.
The censors board has no jurisdiction over this obscenity.
But it’s the turn of the gullible public to stand up and be counted.
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You owe it to yourself to preserve self-respect by rejecting this idiotic self-advertisement.
Last heard of, actor Bong Revilla was seen rallying poor residents in a metro community to support him in his defense of the plunder case filed against him and two colleagues in the Senate, Juan Ponce Enrile and Jinggoy Estrada.
A front page item in the Inquirer on Monday said Revilla “is making the rounds of communities to defend himself in the face of allegations that he plundered his pork barrel allocations.”
Revilla explained that his tour of communities prior to his arrest would allow him to validate Malacañang’s “new media team’s findings that 99.93 percent of netizens had a negative reaction to his privilege speech on June 10,” the report added.
“Our countrymen still love me even if a lot of minds have been poisoned in this pork barrel controversy,” Revilla said.
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Enough is enough.
So what does Revilla sell this time around, after he has been wholly exposed as a fraud, a false hero who had won votes riding on stolen heroism and borrowed biographies?
Has he, for example, done something noble?
Does he own a speck of genuine heroism he could honestly peddle to the public?
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Look, if it’s, say, Manny Pacquiao doing this wooing of the masa, the boxing superhero would have no problem.
As has been noted, Pacquiao is the real thing, a self-made hero who did not have to rely on false side burns and rented heroism to be adored by the public.
Pacquiao did not have to poison poor people’s mind with shameless lies.
He won acclaim and adulation through blood, sweat and tears, risking his life and limb in foreign arenas to bring honor to the country.
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Bong Revilla, sorry about this, is an exact opposite.
Not this time, again.
You’ve fooled the public more than twice.
Not this time around, please!
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PACQUIAO TAX PLEA DENIED: Veteran newspaperman Jun Ramirez reports that the Burea of Internal Revenue has rejected the appeal of world boxing champion Manny Pacquiao to “either reduce or dispense with the P4.9 billion surety bond imposed by the Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) for the lifting of the BIR’s freeze order on his bank deposits.”
According to lawyers, the report continues, the surety bond may be reduced if the litigant is indigent or incapable of paying the bond.
Based on his 2013 Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (SALN), the report says, “Pacquiao is the richest Congressman with a total net worth of P1.4 billion.”