Responding to Netizen's Comment

Netizen Comment: What do you mean when you said: "to walk the talk" when you were advising that high school drop out to stay away from using below-the-belt comments like BOBA, especially to a target who obviously was successful and more especially to a vice president. Can't anybody say anything anymore?

Response:

Walk the talk means putting your words into action - showing that you mean what you say by actively doing it yourself.  It is another version of the everyday phrase, "practice what you preach." So if you preach "Thou shall not steal or kill, be sure you are as lily-white ... unblemished and uncorrupted.

Something is really off when you see a HS dropout going on a rampage and say the VP is BOBA and he looks straight into your eyes and doesn't even blink.  Is he even believable? What is wrong with that picture? If he paints his prey the worst canvas ever (to Michelangelo's consternation and surprise) he has to make sure he is a good match and is even with the person he is critiquing.  Otherwise, people will get turned off and will dismiss what his saying as empty and shallow. 

Of course, there is another person who has the penchant of calling everybody BOBO (even those he does not even know) and he is no other than the bobo heckler himself Larry Gadon. Gadon is on preventive suspension even in the danger of disbarment, but what do you know he promised to continue his routine (SOP) of calling his opponents and their supporters bobo. But at the time when his proficiency and competence matter, he falls short of being a genius when he showed up at the SMNI debate. What a lackluster performance. And what an irony.  So when he started telling their supporters in a BBM rally " na hindi kayo bobo at ang mga bobo ay nasa rally sa Pasay (obvious he was referring to the mammoth Leni and Kiko rally) there was an eerie silence and his words were met with too much suspicion and distrust.

The other day, I received a message and I was happy to share that somebody has the same sentiments as me. This email came from a friend who is a BBM supporter but she just doesn't feel right when somebody unleashes below the belt diatribes without looking at herself in the mirror. She said:

"Ma-dumb daw si VP Leni Robredo. Sabi ng friend ko na nasa lowest section noong high school tapos hindi pa ako sure kung makapag-college." Why can't they just make their mouth shut ... and how entitled are they for saying such. Kailangan ba talaga magsalita?

My reply to her? Yes everybody has the right to say anything they want.  This is a free country. But first thing first. Examine yourself first before you attack and let loose those acrid remarks.  For self-respect lang and delicadeza. You will never know when the dose of your own medicine will come back to smack you para mahimasmasan ka.