Normally, when one gets mentally-bankrupt or runs out of valid issues to raise or defend himself with, he resorts to gutter language or below the belt tirades.
This, pathetically, is what the group “One Manira” has already resorted to, in the desperate attempts of those behind the said social media account to spread lies, misinformation and black propaganda against those sitting at the helm of the local government of Manila.
While it comically brands the news outlet in which this column gets published as “bogus,” its kilometric rant says otherwise. It shows how sorely affected those behind the “One Manira” account are by our columns which are written in a professional manner and always, with basis.
Nonsensically, those behind “One Manira” went to the extent of taunting my being a stroke victim, saying I could not even hold a pen, in apparently questioning my columns.
Obviously, they are not aware that as a City Administrator and even previously as Secretary to the Mayor, I have been signing thousands upon thousands of documents on a daily basis and of course, I use a pen in doing so.
Besides, when it comes to producing documents like letters and this column, for instance, dictations can be made, can’t they?? Unless our detractors have heard of bosses composing their own letters and the like in their computers.
This cheap attack is a clear sign that those behind “One Manira” have run out of legitimate issues and that Manilans are not sold on the falsehoods they peddle.
Another thing, it branded this newspaper ‘bogus’ and yet made it very obvious that those behind the said account are piqued or more aptly, very, very angry. Heheheheh.
As I have stated time and again, I will not lend my name to this paper if it were not legitimate. A duly-registered media entity cannot be called ‘bogus.’
I have my full identity— complete name and with matching picture—appearing in this paper so there is no way that the word ‘bogus’ could come in, in the given situation.
By definition, bogus means ‘fraudulent,’ ‘having a misleading appearance’ or ‘phony counterfeit.;
These descriptions best fit the social media account ‘One Manira’
I dare those behind it to also come out in the open and identify themselves as the ones who have been engaging in black propaganda against the sitting local officials of Manila instead of hiding behind a social media account which falsely claims to be a news and media website, when all it attempts to do is deceive the Manila residents into believing their smear campaign against Mayor Honey Lacuna and her city administration.
By the way, I am, indeed a ‘Godfather’ of Mayor Honey Lacuna and I am proud of what she has achieved, without having to resort to dirty tactics, something that her political rivals continue to do while nearly all defeated politicians have already moved on with their lives post-elections.
I pity these people and hope they get a life.
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