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By Raïssa Robles

Senator Vicente Sotto III apologized – sort of – after Kerry Kennedy confirmed on Facebook that her letter urging him to apologize was genuine.

 

You can see Kennedy‘s post by clicking on this link: https://www.facebook.com/KerryKennedyRFK

Sen. Sotto said on the Senate floor:

If it upsets the Kennedy family, then I’m sorry.

Then he proceeded to insult Miguel Syjuco, who had initiated the move to solicit a comment from a Kennedy:

It appears that the Kennedy family has been misinformed to get them to say something about me.

In an attempt to exculpate himself, Sotto added that “copying is the highest form of flattery.”

But he also said, according to GMA News, quoting his privilege speech where he mentions the Kennedy family: 

Wala po akong inangkin so papaano po ako mag-a-apologize ng plagiarism eh wala po akong plinagiarize… sinabi ko ngang hindi akin… para hong pinagpiplead guilty ako sa murder eh ang dapat charge physical injuries. [I did not claim any authorship so how will I apologize for plagiarism when I did not plagiarize anything….I did say those (words) weren’t mine….it’s like I’m being made to plead guilty to murder when the charge should be physical injuries.]

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Maliwanag po doon sa tatlong turno en contra speeches ko [na] ilang ulit ko pong sinabi and the journal will bear me out wala po ako sinabi dun na akin yun. [It is very clear in my three turno en contra speeches, I said it several times and the (Senate) journal will be me out, I did not say anything that those were mine.]

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Sinabi ko na lahat ng sinabi ko sa mediko, agham at kung saan-saan ay hindi galing sa akin eh ang plagiarism to steal and pass off ideas or words of another as one’s own without crediting the source. [I said that everything I cited about medicine and science and all sorts of sources did not come from me, and plagiarism (means) to steal and pass off ideas or words of another as one’s own without crediting the source.]

That’s right, sir. Without crediting the sources by name.

But let’s assume that Sen. Sotto was telling the truth. If all those ideas and words weren’t his, whose speech was that he had uttered on the Senate floor if he is now disowning authorship of most of what he had said?

What did Congressman Rudy Fariñas say during the Corona impeachment trial? PALUSOT.

Using Sen. Sotto’s argument that copying is the highest form of flattery, we should also simply junk the Optical Media Board because “copying is the highest form of flattery.”

A commenter on my site posted this video he had made from clips taken from an Optical Media Board advertisement against “piracy”. Remember that Sen. Sotto had made going after film pirates one of his senatorial crusades.

It took a Kennedy to make Sotto apologize

If the Honorable Senator is really sincere about his apology to Kennedy, he would also apologize to the three bloggers whom he had blatantly copied from without attribution. And on top of that insulted them as “just bloggers” whom he said he would not dream of copying from.

I was of course initially skeptical that a Kennedy would take the time to write a letter about Sotto’s “theft” from the late Robert Kennedy’s speech. And so I waited to see if Miguel Syjuco would really be able to get a Kennedy to react to something happening on the other side of the world.

When Syjuco did get a letter signed by Kerry Kennedy, I knew it was genuine.

Someone asked me to join in the filing of the ethics complaint against Sen. Sotto but after thinking about it, I realized that my work is to stay in the sidelines and watch all sides of the story.

I have been asked why I’ve been spending an inordinate amount of time on Sen. Sotto’s plagiarism. I’m doing this for several reasons.

First, it strikes at the heart of my chosen profession. It’s a mortal sin in my line of work.

Second, a senator is accountable to the people. Senator Sotto’s attitude and manner of reasoning are strikingly reminiscent of the attitude of  officials during the Marcos dictatorship. Officials can do no wrong.

Third, we should expect more from senators, given their stature, the number of staff members they employ and the amount of money for research at their disposal.

Fourth, they are role models in society. What they do is – well, COPIED.

If Sen. Sotto can get away with plagiarism, why, everybody else should be given a pass.

Soon after Sotto’s apology, an MA student sent this text message:

Can Senator Sotto be my thesis adviser?

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Comments

  1. Sen. Sotto is a tragedy of contrast. He professes his Christian values for being a staunch anti RH Bill advocate. Yet, Christian values has a different take on copying. I grew up in a Catholic school were my teachers would constantly remind us that copying is a sin and the work of the devil because you are claiming what is not yours. Yet he claims that this is the highest form of flattery? I could understand that Sen. Sotto was used at plagiarizing. I still remember his early days at Student Canteen were he and his cohorts Joey de Leon and Vic Sotto would plagiarize pop songs, change their lyrics while maintaining the tune. But he was an artist then. Now he is a Senator of the Republic were public accountability is higher and demands more moral decency. If he wants to maintain a lifestyle of plagiarism, then he should just resign as Senator. It’s the most noble thing to do. Or perhaps he just wants to be an idol for the youth, that copying is alright and flattering. Shame on you Tito Escalera!

  2. Sotto’s not yet finished. He sent reporters a text about the alleged plagiarism of JFK in his 1961 inaugural speech. Read it in Inquirer.

    Ha ha ha ha ha Why should I believe him? Blogger lang yan… ha ha ha
    Peanut butter defense again, spreading the blame…”we are all sinners” palusot ….ha ha ha

    “You are no Jack Kennedy”- Sen Lloyd Bentsen, VP candidates debate, vs Dan Quayle

  3. “Now, Sotto hints JFK is a plagiarist”, so writes Cathy Yamsuan in today’s issue of the Inquirer.

    According to Yamsuan, Sotto sent to the Inquirer a link to a atory written by a Daniel Bates in the dailymail.co.uk suggesting that JFK “lifted the quote “Ask not what the country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country” from his former headmaster in Choate, a boarding and day school in Wallingford, Connecticut.”

    Yamsuan notes in her article that, “It is not difficult to guess what prompted Sotto to direct attention to the story.”

    Are we ever going to see an end to the senator’s nincompoopery? Had he or his staff bothered to do a bit of research, they would have found that the famous line from Kennedy’s 1961 inaugural address has actually undergone several reincarnations all the way back to 1884, according to US columnist and publisher Lindsey Williams.

    Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., former Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1884 speaking as a Union veteran in the Civil War first said,

    “Stripped of the temporary associations which gave rise to it, it is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.”

    LeBaron Russell Briggs, an American educator, also wrote in 1904:

    “As has often been said, the youth who loves his Alma Mater will always ask – not ‘What can she do for me?’ but ‘What can I do for her?'”

    Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the U.S. , in a 1916 speech before the Republican National Convention then said:

    “In the great fulfillment we must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it, and more anxious about what it can do for the nation.”

    Even the poet Kahlil Gibran has his own retelling of the line in a piece titled “The New Frontier”:

    ‘Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first then you are a parasite; if the second then you are an oasis in a desert.’

    So now Senator Sotto, who plagiarised who in this case?

    And does your bringing it up absolve you of your own Indiscretion? At the very least, it simply confirms once again your small mindedness and intellectual laziness.

    • “Nincompoopery” I had to refer to the Humpty Dumpty New World Dictionary on that one, as it is new to me. The definition:

      Nincompoopery, noun, the business of being a ninny by composing blames and excuses that are composed mainly of poop. Commonly found in senatorial chambers among those bereft of ethical values.

      • He is trying his best to “divert” the attention on him but it keeps coming back to him! He has no more sleeping nights. His nightmares are in the day times. It’s eating him! Sooner or later he’ll be “terminated.”

  5. Now, Sotto hints JFK a plagiarist
    By Cathy C. Yamsuan
    Philippine Daily Inquirer
    12:01 am | Saturday, November 17th, 2012

    Senate Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III had to drag the dead in an effort to win an argument, calling attention to a news article insinuating that John F. Kennedy plagiarized an oft-quoted portion of his 1961 inaugural speech.

    Sotto sent the Inquirer a text message bearing a link to the website http://www.dailymail.co.uk that when clicked would direct the reader to a story by Daniel Bates alleging that the slain US president lifted the quote “Ask not what the country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country” from his former headmaster in Choate, a boarding and day school in Wallingford, Connecticut.

  7. Senator Sotto is so pig-headed. Fire your speechwriter and apologize for the blatant abuse of your position. Do not hide behind privilege speech and provision of the Constitution. What had transpired on the Senate floor when he made his speech may not be illegal but it was and still is very wrong to all who value decency.

    • His speech writer is “laughing” at his back every time he give the speech…hahaha. Yea, fire the speech writer!

  8. Sotto believes he has senate immunity and cannot be sued wherever and whatever. Even if he goes to the moon, he can still be accessed there via cyberspace! He’s aggravating his situation in this. To plagiarize Robert Kennedy’s article erroneously and without attribution can never be covered by any Philippine senate immunity in the US of America!

    The liability for plagiarizing is always “PERSONAL” and never “official” like being a senator. Otherwise the liability will be of no use or effect for imposing it. USA have different laws on the matter, etc.

    And Sotto cannot remain a senator forever! One day ka lang a-antayin ni Kerry K or her heirs, et al. Even our Senate here, once he’s stripped of that immunity for plagiarizing, he’s in for a lot of trouble already. Stripping him is a reminder for subsequent acts to observe the rules particularly to be honest, etc.

    Stop aggravating it. Apologize correctly to the satisfaction of Kerry K., and retract all opposite defenses made on it.

    Don’t forget the saying the downfall of a man was the wrath of the woman!

    .

    • My wife reminds me of that all the time.

      I think Senator Sotto walks in many ignorances, one of which is an understanding that the internet exists.

      • Yup! @Joe Am… Before it was said to be so difficult to look for a pin in a haystack. Now, with internet in cyberspace use of a computer, the farthest galaxies can be pinpointed already! Sotto, you are just around internet users!

        Anything you think you can hide, is seen in many pc monitors 24/7 ! Maybe to look for a haystack in a pin is ?

      • I got this from my former Kiwi boss: “Happy wife…happy life! For me…so far so good. :)

    • “Downfall of a man was the wrath of the woman.” Agree. Look at Gen Petraeus’ fall from grace. Out of topic, but so fitting for the saying. :)

      • @zamera…applicable yan to him….Kerry K! Bigat! Eh, kung si MarCoy na pa-alis sa kalaban ng woman…CORY A…si Sotto pa! Heed the lesson. History loves to repeat itself!

  9. At #63

    CBCP is a Joke, here is why:

    JoeAmerica: my wife got me to believe in Catholicism
    johnny: why
    JoeAm: until I married her, I did not believe in Hell

    JoeAm does not believe Johnny that Filipinos are “Atheists”
    He swears that they are mostly Catholics because he just donated an overprice roof to their church. Many Filipinos on TV, roaming the malls, beauty parlors, clubs are “bakla”, calling everyone “Ate” while CBCP bishops insist that filipinos are poor and they want to increase their numbers with ProLife. Therefore they want the Filipinos to keep sacrificing, “Ati-is.
    Bakla plus poor Filipinos = Atheist

    Johnny: JoeAm, how do you know your American priest loves children?
    JoeAm: how?
    Johnny: He has a nursery in his rectory!

    JoeAm: do you know how you could make a nun pregnant?
    Johnny: No, how?
    JoeAm: turn her into an altar boy!

    Johnny: how do priests have daily fun
    JoeAm: Nun

    One evening, JoeAm and Fr. Bong(suspended Cubao pastor) were overheard with this conversation
    JoeAm: Father, I’m amazed with your commitment, celibacy. don’t you envy me, Filipinas are very pretty and loving wife, serving too and I have to go the Philippines to settle down
    How do you you pass your time everyday?
    Fr. Bong: prayers, brother, lots of prayers. Mass on waking up, prayers to the sick in the hospital in the morning, Baptisms at noon, funeral prayers to the departed in the afternoon, Rosario at night
    JoeAm: ahh, you mean reciting the daily rosary at night
    Fr. Bong: (shouting) Rosario, prepare our bed now, it’s getting late!

    • I cant wait for a filipino priest to stand up for what is right, and encourage the church leadership to stop meddling with politics like the priest from dublin.

      I will attach this documentary video from CBS 60 minutes regarding the archbishop who did what is right eventhough he might irritate the vatican leadership.

      http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7418638n

      I hope someday Archbishop Diarmuid Martin will be a Pope he should be the one in the vatican leading us catholics.

      I encourage everyone to watch this video katoliko ka man o hinde. Salamat po.

    • I remember the short quoted passage “Religion is the opium of the people” (Mao Tse Dung). Ironic, he was raised and initially educated in a Catholic school in China. Thus, he came to know many things.

      @johnny lin…I like your script and the dialogue! It’s happening!

      • The quote is from Karl Marx : “Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people”.

    • @johnny Lin serving? that was before johnny. speaking from experience, only when we were newly married, trying to impress him what a good pinay housewife is like. i discovered that they are more loving (more serving than me serving him. he brings the trash out, help household works, help fix things at home) and i give him good food and a clean home, maligaya na siya.

      • @pelang
        The only proven deterrent to divorce and separation is to serve two things to your man. Daily good sex and meals. Everything else is served by the man to you. Clean home could be hired service anywhere on a weekly basis.

    • @sir johnny lin, akala ko seriouso kayong tao heheheheheh may pagka street boy din pala kayo. hehehhehehe marami talaga akong natututuhan sa blog ni raissa. mula sa panahon ko hanggang ngayon ganun pa din ang mga jokes na nakakaaliw pero may hampas sa tinatamaan. heheheheh yan ang HAMPAS SA KABAYO LATAY SA TAO. HEHEHEHE MAINTINDIHAN KAYA NI SOTTO ITO?ay sigurado intindi nya ito.

  11. Kerry Kennedy says that using his father’s words to deprive women of their rights is twisted. Senator Tito Sottowisted does not admit having plagiarized Robert Kennedy’s speech because it was in Tagalog. So, he did not copy it “in toto” but “in tito”.

  12. The good news:

    5 big business groups came out to support RH Bill in a Summit on Family Planning in the Business Sector hld yesterday;i.e. the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), Employment Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP), Makati Business Club, Management Association of the Philipppines, and the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP).

    The business groups signed a manifesto of support and expressed their willingness and commitment to use their own resources to implement family planning programs for the poor.

    Yes!

    The call to action:

    Benjamin Diokno called on PNoy “to be more passionate in pushing for the passage of the arH Bill”. He said, “I hate to say this but it is in (Mr. Aquino’s) hands. If he is as passionate as he was in the impeachment of Chief Justice Renato Corona, he could have this done”.

    Yes!

    The eye-popping CBCP response:

    The CBCP-Episcopal Mission on Family and Life, Executive Secretary Fr. Melvin Castro responded by pointing out to the businessmen “that having a large consumer base and work force would be in the country’s interest “in the long run.”

    He added, “A large population means a large economic base and a large consumer base”.

    And more, “A fairly large young population ensures a productive labor force.”

    Huh?

    • Mind boggling, truly, that Castro fellow. You know, those CBCP people are hopeless. And the Legislature is useless. It is good to know that some have the will to go around them as if they were irrelevant.

      • “….that some have the will to go around them as if they were irrelevant”.

        Hopefully, the President takes his cue from the businessmen.

      • Joe, [email protected]

        Hope the big business could make those legislators really irrelevant. According to them they successfully eradicated or minimized incidents of polio, leprocy and malaria in the Philippines. Below is the continuation of Cha’s post on “Big Business Backs RH Bill”.

        “The labor code requires companies that employ at least 200 people to provide family planning services to its employees, but Herbosa said the business community’s commitment to family planning was very significant.

        “The magnitude of the challenge on family planning is too great for the government to address alone,” Herbosa said.

        He noted that private sector participation was instrumental in combating polio, leprosy and malaria in the Philippines.

        “We eradicated polio in this country with a partnership with Rotary International. We actually eliminated leprosy with the use of free drugs from a private family and we actually have one of the lowest incidence of malaria cases with the help of Global Fund and the Pilipinas Shell Foundation,” Herbosa said.

        “So, this partnerships have all led to previous successes, especially in infectious diseases. I see no reason why we will not be able to succeed in the area of family planning and reproductive health,” he added. With reports from Cathy Yamsuan and Leila B. Salaverria

        • “We have the lowest incidence of malaria”

          Because we denuded our mountains, reduced our rain forest all over the Philippines facilitated by dirty politicians and greedy businessmen. Even without support by Global Fund and Pilipinas Shell Foundation, Anapheles mosquitoes carrying the infective Protist Plasmodium would not have survived in the absence of their natural habitat in the jungles.

          He he he!

    • “A fairly large young population ensures a productive labor force.” – Fr Melvin Castro

      True, but only if they are healthy and properly educated. But since the Catholic Church doesnt bear any responsibility for it, it’s easy for them to say this.

      They dont pay any taxes, and their schools charge very high fees. Sure, they have scholarships but these are very few.

      Clerics who involve themselves in economics and development issues ought to be met with healthy skepticism.

      • @Andrew……..I still believe that Curches especially the Roman Catholic Churces should PAY TAXES irrespective to where the MONIES came from , in that way they will be helping directly our Government before it goes to the VATICAN. Or a thorough RATIONALIZATION in taxing religious congregation against all incomes including Donation , the inflow of which were only monitored IN HOUSE.

      • if that melvin castro is going out on the streets and still doesn’t see the current situation, then i can say that he is as ignoramus as a boy.
        we do have quantity of people and say, workforce. but the quality is so downgraded.
        see our OFW teachers that went to hongkong as domestic helpers, nurses becoming caregivers, fitters/plumbers becoming scaffolders, to name a few.
        street children are everywhere. snatchers, illegal vendors roam even in rural areas, mendicancy is rampant. even associations/organizations are using a mendicancy style of soliciting help.
        yes, let us tax the churches. they can generate money to help our marginalized sector.

    • @cha…a large hungry population with prolific gov’t corruptions ensures a large exploited bases profitable to the Churches and the corrupts in the government!

      He’s diokening!

    • @ cha……that’s true ..more population means more consumers. ……? insurance of productive labor force ( how to do if every program by our government to alleviate the poor to have a good education or learning or training then and now were failures because of uncontrolled population explosion ) I disagree since population growth overcomes evrery programs the Govt. had.

      Not productive labor force means lower economic base. Then more population means more consumers and SCARCITIES of anything to CONSUME , except if CASTRO was equating more population to more oof their invited flocks to donate monies to the churches he he still it’s not a quality donation because of lower economic base.

      mam @cha….. Our further stay in Australia was extended tell Feb. 28,2012. When do you want us to meet in Sydney? I am scheduling our return ticket to RP on January 6 or 8, 2013.
      Thanks

      • @victin,

        Good for you! I’ll be in and out of Sydney for the next couple of weeks. Would you like to give your email address so we can get this conversation off Raissa’s site? :) Sorry, Raissa.

  13. “Except dun sa mga binanggit ko, galing sa akin ito,” Sotto said.

    He told Sen. Jinggoy Estrada that his speech Wednesday was entirely his.

    “A oo. Baka ho na naman imbes na sagutin nila yung mga sinabi ko baka daanin na naman sa plagiarism o pinlagiarism yung mga isyu kaya ko ho Tinagalog. Kaya Pilipino na ginamit ko para hindi na magbintang itong kung sino-sino,” he said.

    He said he did not use a disclaimer except for material wherein he clearly cited the authors. “Except dun sa mga binanggit ko, galing sa akin ito,” Sotto said.

    Sought for comment, Sotto laughed off allegations he merely translated Kennedy’s speech to Filipino without attribution.

    Sotto said he wasn’t aware the passage came from Kennedy. He said a friend texted him the passage, and finding it beautiful, he had it translated and included it in his speech.

    From:

    Jinggoy mum on new Sotto plagiarism
    By Ryan Chua, ABS-CBN News
    Posted at 09/06/2012 4:24 PM | Updated as of 09/06/2012 4:24 PM

    (Note: The web page of the article “Sotto cure to plagiarism: All-Filipino speech” was already taken down. The article also contains Sotto’s remark of owning Kennedy’s idea, “Except dun sa mga binanggit ko, galing sa akin ito.”)

  14. Punto por punto from ABS-CBN:

    http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/video/insights/11/15/12/punto-por-punto-sen-sotto-dapat-bang-managot-sa-isyu-ng-plagiarism

    Natawa ako duon sa palusot ni atty. macalintal, sayang hindi ginamit ng admu Dr. claudio yung arguement ni macalintal regarding fake dvd’s. So ibig bang sabihin nun that madaming fake dvd’s its okaysince its the highest form of flattery? – according yan kay sotto ha.

    And the reason i think bakit biglang bumaliktad si JPE is because he and sotto already achieved their main goal. That is to delay or not let the RH bill reach the voting period in the plenary.

    Yes they succeeded in filibustering the bill along with FOI (Both houses).

    Sinasabi ni Macalintal na anti-RH siya pero bakit hindi nila pagbotohan na? so people will have the knowledge who will they vote for this coming election. At isa rin yun sa dahilan kaya ayaw ng congress at senate na pagbotohan since they will surely lose vote either from anti or pro.

    Sana lang yung mga researchers ni sotto alamin muna kasi ang stand ng mga democrats regarding women’s rights. This is the 3rd time na baligtad yung stance sa RH bill nung mga kinopyahan ni sotto. (Sarah pope, Kennedy, Dr. Carmen Enverga-Santos)

    Note:
    Here is the link for Dr. Enverga-Santos who according to her daughter will surely support RH-bill (parang si kennedy lang).

    http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/270956/news/nation/sotto-s-wife-s-obstetrician-would-have-supported-rh-bill-mdash-doc-s-family

  15. Ma’m Raissa, nawala po yong reply ko kina pinay710, parentony at Sir Baycass.
    anyway, good news.. hehehe… kerry kennedy not happy with tonto sotto’s apology.l She wants sotto to acknowledte his plagiarism. Kudos to Ms. Kennedy.
    thanks.

    • [email protected]

      Here is the news article.

      Kennedy to Sotto: Acknowledge you plagiarized dad’s words

      from a report by Nadia Trinidad, ABS-CBN North America News Bureau chief
      Posted at 11/15/2012 11:20 AM | Updated as of 11/15/2012 5:15 PM

      MANILA, Philippines – The daughter of the late US Senator Robert Kennedy said the apology of Senator Vicente “Tito” Sotto III is not enough.

      In an interview with ABS-CBN North America News Bureau, Kerry Kennedy said the apology, while befitting, lacked one important element.

      “All he had to do was acknowledge that these are Robert Kennedy’s words.”

      Kerry Kennedy earlier wrote Sotto a letter demanding an apology for the latter’s use of the words of her father in his turno en contra speech on the controversial reproductive health (RH) bill. The letter went viral.

      She said it was an “unethical, unsanctioned theft of Robert Kennedy’s intellectual property.”

      Sotto eventually said sorry, but added that “copying or imitation is the highest form of flattery. If it upsets the Kennedy family, I’m sorry. But that is not the intention that we have.”

      ABS-CBN sought Kennedy at the Human Rights Awards ceremony in Washington, DC on Wednesday. Before the news team could start to ask, she already said: “I can imagine what you wanna talk about…The senator who plagiarized my father’s words.”

      Sotto is now facing an ethics complaint before a committee at the upper chamber of Congress. Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, Sotto’s ally, insisted the Senate does not condone plagiarism.

      Kerry said there also one important issue that bothered her. “The more important thing is the issue that he is talking about-I mean, using Robert Kennedy’s words to stop women from having rights is really very twisted.”

      Enrile and Sotto are both anti-RH bill.

      • copying or imitation is the highest form of flattery? owwws…..baka naman….

        COPYING IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF FLATULENCE

      • Unethical and unsanctioned theft………….of the intellectual property of the late R.Kennedy’s …………… KAPAL MUKHA BA @[email protected] ………THEFT si SOTTO ………he he Hindi flattery comments lang ….. He he kayo naman………..Majority Floor Leader of the Philippine Senate…….THEFT na PLIAGRARIST pa daw………. KAYO naman HONORABLE si SOTTO at magaling ang AUSTRALIA ay part daw ng ASIA… He he…..He should be the Senate President next….

      • The way he “apologized” is so callous. Perhaps he couldn’t accept how he got exposed again with his copying spree? One can imagine how he might be wallowing with what ifs and what could have been now that Ms Kennedy had actually spoken to media.

        Hay…there’s a reason why pride is one of the deadly sins. Had the senator lowered his pride and said mea culpa, his reputation would have been still alive and well :)

      • noong araw, bilib ako kay atty. mac. this time, ewan.
        mga atty nga naman, pag sa kakampi, babalutktutin ang tamang katwiran.
        sabi ni atty, nabatikos na yan, sobra na, hindi ba tayo pwede magpatawad?
        ah ganoon, eh di wag ka nang mag atty sa mga kaso atty. mac at magpatawaran na lang. calling cpmers. kong may alam kayo na pwede nating kopyahin o gawin kay atty. mac, let’s do it, tutal magapatawad naman siya eh, di ba?
        sinabi ni sotto copying or imitation is the highest form of flattery. eh di inamin nya din. kaso, ayaw tanggapin ang pagkakamali at naninindigan pa. letse. ang pinag-uusapan lang naman dito ay dapat na-quote nya yong sources ng mga speeches nya. hindi naman daw nya ina-angkin na sa kanya ang mga salitang ginamit, pero ang hindi nya pag quote sa source ay di ba gusto nyang palabasin na siya ang original sa mga salitang ginamit? Yon ay kong hindi nabuking! Kaso nabuking! Kaya ayon, di matanggap na nabuking kaya kong mag sorry, siya pa ang galit.
        Di ba ang natural na reaksyon ng isang taong hindi alam ay isang bagay na ginawa ay mag sorry? Pero si sotto, di daw nya din daw alam, pero imbis na mag sorry, pinanindigan na lang dahil sa kahihiyang inabot. tama and nakalap na report ni @Cha from WHO-ICD. Your (dis-)honor, you are out of order, ay disorder pala.