The big bang today is the backing out of VP Binay from a debate with Senator Trillanes set for November 27 after Trillanes reportedly commented that Binay has an advantage because he is a lawyer. As Binay explained in an interview:
“Huwag na natin ituloy. Ayoko na kung ganyan sinasabi niya (Trillanes)... Pangit naman yata na 'di pa nag-uumpisa, meron na agad paliwanag,” pahayag ni Binay sa ulat ng GMA News TV's News To Gonitong Martes. ……Ayoko ng ganun na lalabas na parang sinasamantala ko ang aking advantage bilang abogado. Ang advantage ko lang dito, pag-uusapan namin ang facts.”
His attribution on Trillanes could very well apply to himself. Hindi pa nga nag-uumpisa ang debate, meron na agad siyang paliwanag.
“Huwag na natin ituloy. Ayoko na kung ganyan sinasabi niya (Trillanes)... Pangit naman yata na 'di pa nag-uumpisa, meron na agad paliwanag,” pahayag ni Binay sa ulat ng GMA News TV's News To Gonitong Martes. ……Ayoko ng ganun na lalabas na parang sinasamantala ko ang aking advantage bilang abogado. Ang advantage ko lang dito, pag-uusapan namin ang facts.”
His attribution on Trillanes could very well apply to himself. Hindi pa nga nag-uumpisa ang debate, meron na agad siyang paliwanag.
A few weeks back, in a speech before the Boy Scouts of the Philippines. VP Binay declared that he was fighting Goliaths. But now, he is impliedly saying that he is the Goliath to Trillanes’ David. The refusal to face Trillanes in a debate which Binay himself called for is also an implied apprehension that despite his being a lawyer, Trillanes’ shots may just fell him down. Goliath at least faced David in battle.
In another report, Binay is supposedly amenable to have the debate provided that it is not covered by television. Bakit kaya? Mas pabor pa nga sa kanya kung covered ng TV dahil mapapanood ng buong taumbayan ang galing niya bilang abogado.
Binay spooksman Atty. JV Bautista said that “I do not see any gain coming from that debate. That debate won’t bring forth any clarity or solution because it is not the proper venue for the parties involved.” That is the problem. Sila ang pumipili kung ano ang proper venue. Pero sa debate nga e si Binay naman ang pumili, kaya bakit hindi proper venue ito. At hindi naman si Bautista ang sasagupa kay Trillanes.
On another venue, these past two or three days, posts under the name JOJO BINAY have appeared on fb, containing messages apparently intended for fb’rs. Since the page is not that of any movement or group, the implication should be that the posts were made by Jojo Binay himself. But, considering the heavy schedule of Jojo Binay, even going to place where there might not be sufficient internet signals, it is rather obvious that the posts were made by somebody else but made to appear as his. There is a criminal aspect in this since one form of falsification punishable under the law is by making it appear that a person did an act when in fact he did not. The posts were apparently puro paganda, but going by the adverse comments that follow them, netizens saw through the make ups and make overs. At bigla na lang nawala ang posts kasabay ng pag-urong sa debate.
Di ba may kanta ang Beatles tungkol kay Jojo? Nakalimutan ko na title at lyrics.
In another report, Binay is supposedly amenable to have the debate provided that it is not covered by television. Bakit kaya? Mas pabor pa nga sa kanya kung covered ng TV dahil mapapanood ng buong taumbayan ang galing niya bilang abogado.
Binay spooksman Atty. JV Bautista said that “I do not see any gain coming from that debate. That debate won’t bring forth any clarity or solution because it is not the proper venue for the parties involved.” That is the problem. Sila ang pumipili kung ano ang proper venue. Pero sa debate nga e si Binay naman ang pumili, kaya bakit hindi proper venue ito. At hindi naman si Bautista ang sasagupa kay Trillanes.
On another venue, these past two or three days, posts under the name JOJO BINAY have appeared on fb, containing messages apparently intended for fb’rs. Since the page is not that of any movement or group, the implication should be that the posts were made by Jojo Binay himself. But, considering the heavy schedule of Jojo Binay, even going to place where there might not be sufficient internet signals, it is rather obvious that the posts were made by somebody else but made to appear as his. There is a criminal aspect in this since one form of falsification punishable under the law is by making it appear that a person did an act when in fact he did not. The posts were apparently puro paganda, but going by the adverse comments that follow them, netizens saw through the make ups and make overs. At bigla na lang nawala ang posts kasabay ng pag-urong sa debate.
Di ba may kanta ang Beatles tungkol kay Jojo? Nakalimutan ko na title at lyrics.