Villar camp dispels 'fake Havaianas' rumor
MANILA, Philippines - Another rumor has been hurled at Nacionalista Party (NP) standard-bearer Manuel "Manny" Villar and his camp -- that they allegedly handed out fake Havaianas flip-flops to a group of tabloid reporters.
An email with the subject "Villar gives fake Havaianas to tabloid reporters" was sent to several e-groups and was forwarded to abs-cbnNEWS.com on Monday. It claimed that Avic Amarillo, Villar's media handler, bought the fake flip-flops from Divisoria for tabloid reporters assigned to cover the NP standard bearer.
Reporters for broadsheets and top television networks, on the other hand, allegedly got original pairs of Havaianas flip-flops as pasalubong (gifts) from the Villar camp's campaign sortie in Hong Kong, the email read.
"We felt stupid. Just because we write for tabloids they would give us fake slippers," the email read, quoting a so-called female tabloid reporter.
"What Amarillo did was she bought fake Havaianas in Divisoria. Hello, of course reporters know how to distinguish between fake and original. Many got angry," a so-called mole in the Villar camp added.
Havaianas, a Brazilian brand, is very popular in the Philippines. A pair of plain rubber flip-flops costs P700 to P800, while those bearing different designs and patterns may carry price tags of over P1,000.
Height of propaganda?
Amarillo, however, strongly denied the rumor surrounding her and the Villar camp.
In a text message to abs-cbnNEWS.com, she made it clear that no Havaianas flip-flops were distributed to reporters assigned to cover the NP standard-bearer's campaign sorties.
"Di ko kinaya to. [This one's] at the height of propaganda. Ako ang nasa black propaganda na ito eh. Wala na talagang distinction between imagined and real? (This is too much to bear. It's at the height of propaganda, and I'm the one in it. Is there really no more distinction between imagined and real?)," Amarillo said.
Amarillo added that she was not even present in Villar's Hong Kong sortie as the email claimed.
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Seeing orange. Villar and his team in a campaign sortie in Hong Kong. |
For her part, Mira Gadil, another media handler of the Villar camp, laughed off the said rumor.
"Grabe nakakatawa na iyan ah. May fake Havaianas ba talaga? Akala ko chika at biruan lang iyang negative texts na iyan. (That's really funny. Are there really fake Havaianas? I thought all those negative text messages spreading around are just jokes and gossip)," she told abs-cbnNEWS.com in a text message.
Villar's 'mansion'
Just last month, an email entitled "Who owns a house like this?" was sent to several e-groups and news desks. It showed various pictures of a mansion in Salt Lake City with lavish Victorian-style interiors, which was allegedly owned by Villar.
"While Filipinos starve and die because of abject poverty and while Sen. Villar brags that he had poor beginnings and he had helped his poor countrymen over and over again...but look now...he and his family live like this, his greed kills his poverty-stricken fellow Filipinos," the email read.
abs-cbnNEWS.com checked the Snopes.com website, however, and found out that the email has been circulating as early as 2008 -- the mansion was first linked to Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe. The website added that the mansion is in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles, not Salt Lake City.
Snopes.com specializes in investigating urban legends and forwarded email rumors.
For his part, NP spokesman Gilbert Remulla downplayed the latest attempt to besmirch Villar's reputation.
"The campaign being waged by Villar's opponents reaches record lows every day, starting with the false accusations of 'Villaroyo.' It only shows that his opponents are insecure and desperate. We pray that they campaign on platforms and capabilities rather than mudslinging," Remulla told abs-cbnNEWS.com in a phone interview last month.
Villar was widely rumored to be President Arroyo's "secret candidate," something that the NP standard bearer vehemently denied. -- Karen Flores, abs-cbnNEWS.com
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Villar was never a Tondo poor boy
Please allow me to post this article taken from the link
http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/letterstotheeditor/view/2010...
Villar was never a Tondo poor boy
THE MARCH 7 ARTICLE ON Manny Villar’s house along Moriones Street in Tondo confirmed the belief that he was never poor, never spent his Christmas on the street and never swam in a pool of garbage. In the early 1960s, if you had a three-story house in a 60-square-meter lot in the business district of Tondo, you were considered an aristocrat.
Not too far from that Moriones house were shanties leading to the pier where children went to the nearby public schools for education. Such was not the case of Villar: he went to Holy Child Catholic School for his elementary education and to Mapua for high school. Coming from Moriones going to Mapua, Villar had to pass by three outstanding public high schools: Jose Abad Santos High School, Arellano High School and Teodora Agoncillo High School, and public schools in the latter part of the 1950s and 1960s were at their best.
But not for the Villar children. Because their father was a white-collar employee and they had a businesswoman for a mother, Manny and his siblings were able to study in the best private schools nearby. They had corned beef for breakfast (as told in Villar’s ad with Boy Abunda) and I am pretty sure suahe and other seafoods for lunch or dinner.
During the times that Villar claimed he was poor, his family actually belonged to the AB and upper C economic strata or the top 10 percent of the population. As in the C-5 controversy, in the conversion of agricultural land in Iloilo, in the landgrabbing of the Dumagats’ land in Norzagaray and his questionable use of socialized housing funds among many others, Villar shows a penchant for covering the truth.
I hope television’s investigative journalists can dig deeper into this, so the poor people who are being used will find out the truth.
—ELEN FRANCISCO,
PepengWalangHiyangAgimat
PepengWalangHiyangAgimat para sa iyo ito, kopyahin mo at palitan mo ng pangalan katulad ng dati mong ginawa. O sige ito na. Ha, ha, ha. .
M – Magnanakaw, at
A – Alam na alam kung paano gagawin, kaya
N – Nalustay ang kaban ng bayan, kasi
N – Numero unong corrupt, at
Y – Yumaman sa pandarambong
V – Violator si Villar ng good ethics, ito ang kaso niya sa Senado, kaya
I – Iwasan nating iboto itong magnanakaw na Villar, na
L – Liar of all Liars, kaya
L – Lalo tayong maghihirap, kasi
A – Arroyo’s secret candidate si Villar, na
R – Responsable sa ating paghihirap
BATIKUSIN natin si Villar kasi mali ang ginagawa . PURIHIN natin si Noynoy kasi tama ang ginagawa – hindi Magnanakaw. TIGILAN na ni Villar ang pagnanakaw. Walang buti itong idudulot sa ating bayan.
Di ko alam yan
Hindi kasi ako marunong tumingin ng orig na Havaianas na yan...Laking Spartan ako...
PROWEBA
PSYLOM NAGHAHANAP KA DATI NG PROWEBA NG GINAWA NI NOY PERO WALA AKONG NAKITA PROWEBA NA GINAWA SI NOY PERO SI MONEY VIL-LIAR MO MARAMING NGA GINAWA NAKITA KONA.. AT ITO BASAHIN MO..
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VILLAR TRYING TO BUY PRESIDENCY - IS IT FOR SALE ?
FACT --- VILLAR HAS A MINIMUM OF 40 TV SPOTS A DAY AT A COST OF P10
MILLION EVERY DAY THE PAST 5 MONTHS FOR A TOTAL COST OF P1.5 BILLION - AND
THAT IS NOT COUNTING HIS EXPENSES ON RADIO, DOLPHY, WILLLIE REVILLAME ETC
ETC AND THE ELECTION OFFICIAL CAMPAIGN PERIOD HAS NOT EVEN STARTED - THEY
SAY HIS BUDGET IS P20 BILLION AND ALL FOR A JOB THAT PAYS P200 THOUSAND A
YEAR!
QUESTION - ----HE SAYS HE IS A GOOD BUSINESSMAN - AND IF HE IS, I
WONDER WHERE HE EXPECTS TO GET HIS RETURN ON HIS AT LEAST P20 BILLION
INVESTMENT > > WHAT KIND OF RETURN WILL VILLAR EXPECT - - ---GIVEN THE
HIGH RISK OF THIS UNDERTAKING, HE PROBABLY EXPECTS A GOOD RETURN - MAYBE
DOUBLE OR TRIPLE HIS MONEY IN SIX YEARS SAY TO P60 BILLION
WHERE CAN HE GET THAT RETURN ---- TOTAL ESTIMATED BUDGET OF THE
GOVERNMENT OVER THE NEXT 6 years IS P10 TRILLION WITH ABOUT P1 TRILLION
DISCRETIONARY - IF VILLAR MAKES C5 AND TAGA ON THE P1TRILLION OF 20% -
hmmmm THATS P200 BILLION ON AN INVESTMENT OF P20 BILLION - HMMM VILLAR IS
ONE SMART BUSINESSMAN
WHAT'S THE IMPACT ON THE POOR? - P200 BILLION THAT WILL
CONSERVATIVELY BE LOST TO CORRUPTION AS A PAYBACK TO VILLAR's CAMPAIGN
EXPENSES CAN PAY FOR 40,000 CLASSROOMS TO SOLVE THE SHORTAGE PLUS, CREATE
A MICRO LENDING FUND THAT CAN GENERATE 3.2 million jobs - CORRUPTION IS
THE CAUSE OF POVERTY!
Dagdag:
from Catalino Arevalo
NOW THE CAT'S OUT OF THE BAG....
MANNY VILLAR IS THE SECRET CANDIDATE OF PRES "GMA" ... MIKE ARROYO HIMSELF MET WITH MANNY VILLAR AT THE HOUSE OF MIKE DEFENSOR LAST JAN 7.... VILLAR SECRETLY AGREED TO MAKE GMA AS SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE AND PROTECT HER SHOULD VILLAR WIN THE PRESIDENCY.... VILLAR AGREE TO GMA'S OFFER OF MASSIVE LOGISTICAL SUPPORT IN GMA'S COMMISSIONERS IN THE COMELEC WHO WILL ASSURE VILLAR'S VICTORY ...
PLEASE PASS... PARA DI TAYO MALUKO ULIT.
WAG MABIGTANG, HWAG MANGHUSGA
NAKITA MO BA WITH YOUR OWN 2 EYES NA NAGNAKAW SI VILLAR. NAKITA AT NARINIG MO BA NA NAGSINUNGALING SI VILLAR. RIGHT NOW ONLY GOD KNOWS. MALI ANG MAGPARATANG SA ISANG TAO NA DI MO NAKIKITA AT NARINIG LANG. NARINIG LANG SA BALITA AT USAP USAPAN TAPOS I -PLUG MONA DITO. ANONG KLASENG TAO TO, NABUBUHAY SA HININGA NG IBANG TAO. HWAG NYONG HAYAAN MAGKASALA SA DYOS DAHIL YUN PINAGTATANGGOL NYONG SI NOONOY DI KAYO IPAGDADASAL NON. HINDI BANAL SI NOONOY, YAN ANG TOTOO. LAHAT TAYO MAY KASALANAN. HWAG MONG IPAHAMAK ANG YUN KALULUWA SA ISANG TAONG DIKA KILALA AT DI MATUTULUNGAN KUNG NAKAUPO NA SYA.
WALA TAYONG KARAPATAN MAGHUSGA
ITONG TAO NA ITO WALA NA ATANG ALAM KUNDI I-PLUG YUN TANGI NYANG ALAM. WALA NA BA SYANG BAGO? WALA NA BA SYANG NALALAMAN. ANONG KLASING PILIPINO ITO. NAGHUHUSGA BASE SA ISIP NYA LANG? HE'S BECOMING A NUISANCE INSTEAD OF BECOMING INTERESTING. I TEND TO BELIEVE NA LONELY SYA AT MISERABLE ANG BUHAY NYA. ITO LANG ANG TANGI NYANG ALAM PARA MAGING MASAYA. SANA MAGDASAL SYA, PARA MALINAWAN NYA ANG IBIG SABIHIN NG PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH. KUNG NANINIWALA SYA NA MABUTI SYA THEN SAY YOUR CRITICSM WITH JUSTIFICATION.
Ito si Manny Villar
Ito si Manny Villar
M – Magnanakaw, at
A – Alam na alam kung paano gagawin, kaya
N – Nalustay ang kaban ng bayan, kasi
N – Numero unong corrupt, at
Y – Yumaman sa pandarambong
V – Violator si Villar ng good ethics, ito ang kaso niya sa Senado, kaya
I – Iwasan nating iboto itong magnanakaw na Villar, na
L – Liar of all Liars, kaya
L – Lalo tayong maghihirap, kasi
A – Arroyo’s secret candidate si Villar, na
R – Responsable sa ating paghihirap
BATIKUSIN natin si Villar kasi mali ang ginagawa . PURIHIN natin si Noynoy kasi tama ang ginagawa – hindi Magnanakaw. TIGILAN na ni Villar ang pagnanakaw. Walang buti itong idudulot sa ating bayan.
SINUGGALING
Magka alaman na kung sino sinuggaling. VILLAR tanggapin mo ang hamon ni Dick Gordon to undergo LIE DETECTOR. Tingnan natin ang apog mo if you are a true or fake Tondo barako. If you are afraid to accept the challenge then you are a LIAR, so stop talking garbage yung mga alipores mo.
Never naging mahirap si Villarroyo!
Meron bang mahirap na 3 story ang bahay nila sa Tondo? Sa private school nag-aral at blue collar job ang trabaho ng ama sa government at meron negosyo sa palingki ang nanay. Yan si Villarroyo fake na mahirap para maloko ang mga tanga!
Tanga ka Psylom!
Wala kang pinag-iba sa amo mong si Villarroyo!
Matino lang ang nakaka-intindi sa mga ginagawa ni Villarroyo na pangngurakot. Wag na natin sabihin o isali ang C-5 scandal nayan, kahit yung mga pang-aabot nya ng pera ay may bahid at ang tao namimigay para iboto ay walang magandang idodolot ito Halos lahat nalang sa kampanya ay nilalabag ni Villarroyo at siguro maliit na bagay lang pero dyan natin makikita na kahit maliit na paglabag yan ay may naka-ambang na mas malaki pa dyan.
Wag kang bobo Pylom at ang hirap ng trabaho mo ano ang mag protect
sa corrupt na tao.