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MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) – An entertaining show.
This was how most netizens described the privilege speech of Senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. on Monday, January 20.
Months after the pork barrel scam exploded, Senator Ramon ‘Bong’ Revilla Jr finally took the Senate floor to address allegations linking him to the biggest corruption scandal that rocked the nation. (READ: Bong Revilla’s biggest battle)
In his privilege speech, Revilla denied all allegations thrown at him. “For the record, I have nothing to do with this scam, Napoles and those whistleblowers.”
Revilla also disclosed how President Benigno Aquino III, Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas and Budget Secretary Florencio Abad used their power to convict former Chief Justice Renato Corona. (Read: Revilla hits Aquino for crooked justice)
Rappler did a sentiment analysis of social media reactions to the speech. During the speech, the feedback was mostly negative because netizens didn’t buy into the senator’s arguments.
Bong Revilla’s speech are like his movies… Bad and unbearable.
— Gabriel (@twitnigab) January 20, 2014
Washing dirty linen in public! Nice move Sen. Revilla but unfortunately I hate you even more for that!
— Natasha Monsod (@natashiatweets) January 20, 2014
Later in the evening, the sentiment changed to positive after memes of the senator started to come out comparing the speech to a movie or TV show.
Yung speech ni Sen. Revilla pang KAP’s Amazing Stories.
— Inday Banat™ (@IndayBanat) January 20, 2014
How about you? What do you think of Revilla’s speech? Share your comments below.
– Rappler.com
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