For instance, in his address, Aquino says: The delivery of food, water, and medicines to the most heavily affected areas is at the head of our priorities. We have tasked barangays to deliver and distribute these vital needs; 24,000 family food packs were already distributed in Tacloban yesterday; and these efforts are centralized in the eight largest barangays there. Right after those statements, TV news comes in again, showing footage of stunned victims in Leyte towns on the roadsides begging for food and being interviewed complaining through their tears that they’re starting to die of thirst and hunger. Wouldn’t most people instinctively exclaim, after hearing the president and then seeing the video clips: What a liar? A more analytic audience would immediately wonder: He’s boasting of 24,000 food packs when TV says at least 500,000 are now scrounging for food and water? And then you have the President looking so irritated when Tacloban businessmen and even his own officials told him how bad the situation is right after the typhoon struck. A Tacloban businessman in that meeting related his harrowing experience that he was shot at by a looter. Instead of being disturbed by such breakdown of law and order, the President of the Republic retorted: Buhay ka pa naman, di ba? (You’re still alive, aren’t you?) Really, just gag him. Better for him and this nation’s morale during this crisis that try everyone’s souls.
Posted on: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 19:10:27 +0000
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