Presidential aspirant Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday mocked former Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas II, calling the Liberal Party standard bearer “crazy” for claiming that he is all work and no drama in his latest political advertisement.
He’s claiming he’s no drama, but if he is not crazy, he ate rice in a cup. How stupid can you get? A cup is for water, a plate is for eating rice, Duterte said in an interview.
If he does not really engage in drama, he should not be in that commercial to begin with, he added.
Roxas’ latest political advertisement departed from his previous one that employed several show business personalities.
“I am Mar Roxas. They say I didn’t grow up poor. That I don’t have a dramatic story. But the elections aren’t about me. It’s about you and your family. I won’t give you drama. I’ll focus on creating jobs for you. That’s what I know. That’s what I can do,” Roxas said in the 30-seconder advertisement.
In another advertisement, Roxas appeared to take a shot at Duterte, saying he is not a bully.
The Davao mayor, who placed second in a recent presidential survey, recalled how Roxas resorted to drama in delivering ‘‘onologues days after the Super Typhoon ‘‘Yolanda’’ hit the country in 2013.
“What is he saying that he’s not up for drama? I was there on Day 2 of Yolanda. He was there during the storm but Mar, at that time, was not in his element. He looked like a zombie who didn’t know what to say, so he made monologues all the time, he said.
The problem with the former Interior Secretary is he’s tormented. I could just surmise that he’s very scared [during Yolanda] so what he did there all the time was to do monologues,” Duterte added.
Netizens had earlier poked fun at Roxas’ new political ad, result of the photos that are heavily edited just to put the administration stalwart in a bad light, even repeatedly “reporting” the video posted in Facebook for being “offensive.”
Akbayan Rep. Barry Gutierrez, Roxas’ spokesman, said people are free to react to the advertisement, however, way they want as netizens took to social media to mock the administration standard bearer.
“What we’re saying is that in social media, haters are gonna hate. The propaganda against former Secretary Mar are not true,” Gutierrez said in an earlier interview.
“They cannot throw any substantial issue against Secretary Mar so they resort to making up fantastic stories,” he added.
Gutierrez denied that Roxas used a cup for eating rice and a plate for drinking water, claiming that these photos were “photoshopped.”
