Binay’s mental bankruptcy

The spinmeisters of the Binay propaganda machine never cease to insult our intelligence. “Binay: I told the President not to become a Marcos” blared the headline of an Inquirer news report (Front Page, 8/5/15). Hearing Vice President Jejomar Binay mouth the latest inanities to divert attention from the corruption charges standing in the way of his presidential ambitions, we wonder how far propaganda “experts” will go to make fools of themselves.

Supposedly in reaction to Malacañang’s take that Binay had remained silent during all the time he was in President Aquino’s Cabinet so who is he to start talking against them now, the Vice President’s camp countered that he did in fact tell P-Noy to back off from the impeachment case against then Chief Justice Renato Corona. He said he warned that it might be seen as the Chief Executive’s attempt to control the judiciary as the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos did! He added that he also expressed concern that P-Noy was entertaining some ideas about staying longer in Malacañang, just like the wily Marcos!

Are these people idiots? Can they not hear themselves actually babble a mouthful against their own man? Corona was impeached and convicted for falsifying his statement of assets, liabilities and networth to conceal his ill-gotten wealth in the hundreds of millions of pesos.

Binay himself is now facing plunder charges for having allegedly amassed ill-gotten wealth in the billions! Was Binay concerned really about “judicial independence” being trampled upon or just about his own much greater greed being exposed? No MBA credentials required to unlock the mystery there!Who was in fact doing a Marcos, that is, obsessively desirous of remaining in power? Have not the Binays kept a tight grip on the City Hall of Makati for decades? Was it not the Vice President who said just recently he wanted all term limits on public office eliminated (obviously, to allow his family to keep their monopoly on political power “up to sawa”)?

Instead of wasting his saliva on empty rhetoric, the Vice President should be man enough to answer point-blank the serious corruption charges against him and his power-hungry family. Pulitika lang yan is such a broken record it’s time Binay should discard it. The mental dishonesty or bankruptcy is already getting so annoying.

Seriously, just listen to that guy: He is warning us about the evil things that Marcos did, while at the same time seriously considering a Marcos clone (Bongbong) as his running mate (“Binay eyes Bongbong as VP bet,” Second Front Page, 7/26/15)?! He must really think the Filipino people are that obtuse!

—GEORGE DEL MAR,gdmlaw111@gmail.com