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Rigoberto Tiglao: Super-Fraud

August 25, 2011

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A personal commentary

By Raissa Robles

Tiglao pic Inquirer

Rigoberto Tiglao: Super-Fraud

In his Philippine Daily Inquirer column today, Rigoberto Tiglao wrote that “the real fraud in the 2004 elections was the attempt itself of a celebrity, FPJ, to be president.”

By writing this, Rigoberto Tiglao justified the massive cheating instigated by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her cohorts that apparently included Rigoberto Tiglao. [UPDATE: JULY 31, 2014 – To read Tiglao’s piece on this, click on this link. ]

It wasn’t cheating, Rigoberto Tiglao said, because it was meant to combat “the real fraud” – the fielding of “Ang Panday” action movie hero Fernando Poe Jr. as the presidential candidate by the political opposition. This, says Rigoberto Tiglao,  was the real “conspiracy to cheat democracy.”

He writes today:

Worried that he would spend the rest of his life in prison if Arroyo won, former President Joseph Estrada exploited the postmodern phenomenon of celebrity politics created by movies to subvert democracy by deploying FPJ, for whom people would vote not for his qualifications, but because they confused fantasy with reality, and hallucinated that they were voting for “Panday” even if the ballots would be for Ronald Poe. FPJ could have rejected this conspiracy to cheat democracy by engaging his rivals in a debate, and to be truthful to voters to say that he was not “Panday” but simply a loyal friend who just wanted to see his buddy released from prison. He didn’t.

Now I want to explain why I am so enraged as a Filipino citizen and as a journalist by what Rigoberto Tiglao has just written.

For a long time now, I had imposed on myself this silence about Rigoberto Tiglao. When I wrote last month this piece – Why I believe Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo cheated in the 2004 elections – I did not name him as the close aide of Arroyo whom I had asked what the Hello Garci tapes were all about and who had replied to me: “You want Fernando Poe Jr. to be President?”

I did not name Rigoberto Tiglao, not because he had put what he said off the record. Not because he had asked me not to attribute him as the source. But I guess just out of friendship dating back to the good old Business Day newspaper days when he was a senior reporter and I was a newbie.

Today’s Philippine Daily Inquirer opinion column by Rigoberto Tiglao now puts all in proper context his reply on what the Garci Tapes were all about – “You want Fernando Poe Jr. to be President?”

A closed-in circle around Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo felt justified in 2004 to cheat Fernando Poe Jr. at any cost because by running for President, Fernando Poe Jr. was committing a fraudulent act against democracy.

Democracy had to be saved even if in the process, it was warped beyond imagination.

Democracy had to be saved from the ignorant masses.

Rigoberto Tiglao, you should be ashamed of yourself. You think you’re still a journalist but you’re not. You’re just a hack.

I heard you once e-mailed an online local publication and berated the editor about a story questioning your ambassadorial activities in Greece. The clueless editor pulled the story, which turned out to be correct.

You can no longer bully people around on the basis of your journalism credentials because you no longer have any. You’re just a hack. And a has-been at that.

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Comments

  1. marc says

    May 13, 2016 at 10:10 AM

    tiglao’s hypocrisy is his most important qualification

  2. myMelody says

    August 31, 2015 at 8:19 AM

    On INC issue..saw a statement (i could hardly believe and it was written by Tiglaol.)

    Had to google him to know his credibility.

    Now thanks for the info. :)

  3. zastava888 says

    August 2, 2015 at 9:36 PM

    “Hack???” On behalf of the world’s hacks I must say I take umbrage at this insult to hacks everywhere. “Has – been” you say? No. More like a “never was.” “Hack”you say? Nay! He is beneath us!

    What happened exactly in Greece? Too much ourzo? One souvlaki too many? Double-dipping the tzatziki?

    Cheers!

  4. Mpw2penn says

    August 2, 2015 at 8:40 PM

    Daily, we are swimming in a sea of public opinion and comments that ranges from the ludicrous to the absurd. But that is us: Pinoys. We love politics and allow ourselves to be victims of the indecisions by the Bobotantes because in actuallity democracy is the “rule of the mob”. Who are the mob? The Bobotantes on the bottom and the oligarchs on the top. all of us are squeezed in between. Roberto Tiglao is not welcome in our region as he dsiapkyed his arrogance by calling Philippine Ambassador to the U.S. Jose Cuisia as “Aquinos part-time Ambassador to the U.S.” BTW, all these blurred visions for a political future of our country is based on the reality that the Bobotantes cannot separate a dream from reality enjoying the “Sampaguita-Viva” scenario in our politics. Look what kind of government we have.

  5. Danilo Adorador IIII says

    August 2, 2015 at 10:17 AM

    Among journalists, Tiglao is a FRAUD, and Raissa is doing us great service to point the obvious.

  6. rolling stone says

    September 1, 2014 at 5:22 AM

    Is this not a simple case of a paid hack earning his keep? There are a number of them in media, some paid by the article. I guess Tiglao is in a long-term contract.

  7. Kawawangbayanko says

    August 20, 2014 at 8:53 PM

    https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/leyte-southernleyte/conversations/messages/1342

    Billy’s article on ronnie’s involvement. Ronnie is consultant in upcoming election.

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