‘Best communicator’

Of all the shameless lies Harry Roque has been dishing out to the public, this one must surely take the cake: President Duterte is the “best communicator… He has no lapses in his way of communicating” (“Roque asked: If Duterte ‘good communicator’ why do you have to explain him?” (Inquirer.net, 8/10/21).

A “good communicator,” indeed, whose vocabulary practically revolves around the word “kill”? Well, come to think of it, with tens of thousands already killed under his regime, can anyone still doubt Mr. Duterte’s “communication” skills?

How the heck can Roque, the former human rights lawyer whose heart used to “bleed” and eyes “shed tears” for the downtrodden, live with those atrocities?

How he would worm his way back to the UP academia to teach young idealistic students after Mr. Duterte is gone would be one eyebrow-raising spectacle to watch.

DINO M. CAPISTRANO
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