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Will the #BabaeAko feminist “movement” support Gretchen Fullido?

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Nobody seems to be holding their breath waiting for the Philippines’ monopoly feminist “movement” #BabaeAko to raise a stink over embattled ABS-CBN News anchor Gretchen Fullido. Fullido recently filed sexual harassment charges against several ABS-CBN execs in a move that rocked a bastion of Opposition media propaganda. The trouble with the community of #BabaeAko “activists”…

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The Yellowtards have taken down Mocha Uson, but are they able to set someone up to win?

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It is easy to call upon one’s constituents to reject or condemn an enemy personality in politics. But it is harder to set someone up to compete in a popularity contest. At the end of the day, democratic politics is a popularity contest. The candidate who wins the most votes gets to be in power….

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Here’s why the Yellowtards are so obsessed with “fake news”…

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The Opposition led by the Liberal Party (a.k.a. the Yellowtards) would like Filipinos to believe that they are also on a crusade to “protect” the public from “fake news”. Their real agenda, however, is to be seen to be the singular authority on what to see/hear and what not to see/hear. Thus, under the guise…

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Rapplerette @PiaRanada editorialises maliciously in “report” on Cagayan officials’ visit to Malacanang

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It seems Rappler “reporter” Pia Ranada is bent on not only maliciously mixing facts to skew her “news reports”. She also injects inappropriate inuendos in these. Writing about a visit to Malacanang by some Cagayan local government officials, Ranada opines… The Cagayan local chiefs enjoyed their Malacañang trip as their province was placed under Storm…

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Why Raissa Robles’s “apology” for mocking the Visayan accent is insincere and self-serving

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Evidently Raissa Robles was on the receiving end of widespread outrage over an offensive tweet she issued meant to mock the Visayan diction of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte… …otherwise she wouldn’t have gone on to write this apology. It is by no means unconditional as Robles goes to lengths to spell out the terms of…

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How can one trust the reporting of Rappler when reporters like @margadeona are already biased before the fact?

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This, coming from a Rappler “multimedia producer” Marga Deona who tweets… whenever you feel like your job is a dud, remember that mine requires me to watch duterte (at least) thrice. first, the live broadcast. second, to scrub for soundbites for relevant/related stories. third, the final preview before publishing. You wonder, then, how someone who…

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