Prayers For Cory

[Devastator]

R.I.P. Tita Cory.

I hope no group will make a political statement during the funeral...especially the "presidentiables" including Erap.

Geez, I hope not. Who can forget Erap's speech during the late FPJ's eulogy which he practically threatened the gov't with an uprising? Anyway, I'm sure they won't out, since Madam Cory is the reason why we got our democracy back from a dictator.

[rai711]

Im not pro cory pero but with respect sa namatayan condolence po.

[vito corleone]

late last friday evening, pagbalik ko sa sasakyan ko in the parking lot, naasar ako kasi natanggal yung yellow ribbon that i took from a tree along katipunan ave weeks before and tied to my radio antenna. . .andun lang naman yung ribbon sa pavement just beside my car so i was able to reattach it beside the already faded yellow ribbon that i had since just before august 21 last year. . .i thought somebody who passed by pulled it so natanggal. . .

it was the next morning that i realized there was a reason why that yellow ribbon fell down from where it was. . .

goodbye, tita cory, maraming salamat po. . .

[donbuggy]

Cory had a lot of guts to take on a dictatorship. The Marcoses were very powerful. They controlled the military, the judiciary, the Batasan, the big corporations and the mass media. She went against them and brought them down. For that we Filipinos should be grateful.

When Cory restored democracy you'd think that Filipinos would be united. But no. The communists, the rightist (coup plotters), the Muslim militants, the Marcos loyalists, even some journalists in the now the free press were against her. Even her cabinet members, the brightest minds in the country, couldn't get along with each other. So sad.

[beatlejuice]

thanks for this

[Zeus]

Coup leaders admire Aquino’s bravery


By Jocelyn Uy
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 04:57:00 08/03/2009

MANILA, Philippines—Twenty years ago, he took part in one of the coup attempts, the bloodiest of them all, to unseat then President Corazon Aquino, the nation’s first woman leader who swept away a dictator in the 1986 Edsa People Power Revolution.
Now, detained Marine Col. Ariel Querubin, regrets never having the chance to meet and shake the hands of the woman who “braved the dark of the night” and heeded his call for a peaceful protest in 2006.
Over the years, Querubin said he learned to admire Aquino’s bravery and courage, even up to her final moments early Saturday morning when the former President succumbed to colon cancer.
“It is no secret that I was one of those who led the coup against her administration in 1989 and I am glad that 20 years then, the wounds brought about by that exercise have begun to heal,” Querubin said through his spokesperson, Martin Loon, Sunday.
“At this time of national grief, and in her honor, I give my former Commander in Chief my snappy salute. Farewell, Mrs. President,” Querubin said.
He said he wanted to personally thank Aquino for responding to his call for a peaceful protest during the Marine standoff at the Fort Bonifacio in 2006 but he never got the chance to do so.
Aquino had wanted to join the nuns and the people gathered in prayer near the Marine headquarters at that time but was stopped about a kilometer away by a police barricade.
“It is my regret that I never had the chance to meet her personally or even just shake her hands in this lifetime,” said Querubin, who is detained at Camp Aguinaldo for alleged involvement in plots to unseat President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo three years ago.
Expressions of gratitude
Small expressions of gratitude had come in the form of a bouquet of yellow flowers and a message of prayer that Querubin sent Aquino on Mother’s Day in May, wishing for her recovery, Loon told the Inquirer.
But instead of sending flowers to Aquino’s wake at the La Salle Green Hills gymnasium in Mandaluyong City, Querubin said his wife Pong and three boys would show his support to the former leader’s family in his behalf. His children dropped by La Salle on Saturday night while his wife personally conveyed his condolences Sunday night.
Loon also said Querubin had the opportunity to make a phone call to Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III on Saturday night to extend his sympathy to the family.
Young Officers Union
The bemedalled Marine officer was among the leaders of the Young Officers Union that staged the December 1989 coup attempt where 50 soldiers and civilians were killed and 570 others wounded.
Then a captain, Querubin was among those who laid siege on the military’s general headquarters at Camp Aguinaldo.
He was detained in the coup aftermath but was released and allowed to return to the military service in 1995 after the government granted a general amnesty to all coup plotters, including the leader of the 1989 coup, then Lt. Col. Gregorio Honasan.
It was in his “uneasy history” with Aquino that another detained military officer, Army Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim, realized her “sterling qualities” as the nation’s leader, he said.
In a short statement sent to the Inquirer Sunday night, Lim described Aquino as a woman who had “quiet but steadfast faith in God” and conveyed a “simple yet powerful message of hope to a nation she led.”
Lim, like Querubin, was a captain when he led young officers in the 1989 coup.
“We may have lost her physical presence but never her spirit—the same spirit that now lives within you and me,” said Lim, who is detained at Camp Crame for allegedly taking part in plots to overthrow Ms Arroyo in 2006.
“To our people, while we grieve her passing, it is incumbent upon us to preserve the freedom which her husband, Ninoy, had purchased with his blood and the blood of thousands of Filipinos, and which Tita Cory had spent her life nurturing,” he added.
His family and the Magdalo, a group of soldiers that tried to stage two mutinies against the Arroyo administration in 2003 and 2006, were one with the entire nation in mourning Aquino’s death, Lim said.

Pati si Rex Robles, umiyak at nag sorry kay President Aquino sa TV Patrol kanina

[Monseratto]

Which would you rather watch...? ABS-CBN looked like it was in a bind whether to show Wowowillie's cheap thrills fest or a unfolding historical event... I guess this pissed Herr Willie.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdL3GusXgWk]Willie Gets His Way[/ame]

[chua_riwap]

^^ He-he! Ch 2, Gayahin niyo na lang kasi yung sa 7. Madalas may News Flash. Isinisingit yung coverage kay Cory.

Napagalitan pa tuloy layo ni Menyek........

[_Cathy_]

This guy's ego is off the roof.

1:36 "Pagkatapos ng show ipakita yung gusto niyong ipalabas" - this statement really inflamed me. His show should have been pre-empted in the first place. What an a&*hole!!! He makes it seem like ABS CBN news was disrespecting Cory by showing the live feed alongside his inane noontime show, but if you read between the lines, you'd get the drift that the Cory Aquino feed was disrespectful to him. He was short of saying "don't steal my thunder"

Unbelievable. I cannot even watch that guy for more than 5 minutes. He sounds like Sylvester the Cat with a speech defect.

[leonleon]

R.I.P. Tita Cory. Thank you for all you've done.

Cory had a lot of guts to take on a dictatorship. The Marcoses were very powerful. They controlled the military, the judiciary, the Batasan, the big corporations and the mass media. She went against them and brought them down. For that we Filipinos should be grateful.

When Cory restored democracy you'd think that Filipinos would be united. But no. The communists, the rightist (coup plotters), the Muslim militants, the Marcos loyalists, even some journalists in the now the free press were against her. Even her cabinet members, the brightest minds in the country, couldn't get along with each other. So sad.

Not only Marcos, she took on Erap and even stood against GMA until it was almost unpopular to do so. She really fought for what she believed in, and her courage puts to shame the other politicians out there who profess to be fighting for the good of the country.

[leonleon]

Which would you rather watch...? ABS-CBN looked like it was in a bind whether to show Wowowillie's cheap thrills fest or a unfolding historical event... I guess this pissed Herr Willie.

All I can say is though he may have a point, he could have said it in a better way. Guess his "kanto boy" upbringing got the better of him.

[ghosthunter]

Which would you rather watch...? ABS-CBN looked like it was in a bind whether to show Wowowillie's cheap thrills fest or a unfolding historical event... I guess this pissed Herr Willie.

Willie Gets His Way

Obviously, he wouldn't want anything, even a historical event in the making to intrude into his multi-million income. He still has his mouth to feed at the end of the day.

[Cult Zero]

my wife and my aunt saw her in makati yesterday. And their reaction was "nakakakilabot". watching it on tv nakakilabot talaga lalo na nung pinakitang side by side yun events in 1983 and kahapon.

we pinoys feel like we've lost a member of the family. kadalasan when we refer to previous leaders we just call them by name Estrada, Ramos, Marcos or ex president so and so. siya lang ang tinatawag na tita.

RIP Tita Cory

[marco624]

RIP..Tita Cory

[vito corleone]

This guy's ego is off the roof.

He was short of saying "don't steal my thunder"

exactly. . .and since his show is raking in tons of money to the station, abs-cbn had to let willie have his way kahit na napakalaki ng utang na loob na tinatanaw nila ke cory for bringing back the station to the lopez's control 29 years ago. . .abs-cbn news should have made it clear to him beforehand. . .that show is the junk food of the entertainment industry, anyway. . .it won't matter to the public if we removed it from the supermarket shelves, but will surely hurt the money-making people behind it

malaki na ulo ni willie boy!

[woohoo]

All I can say is though he may have a point, he could have said it in a better way. Guess his "kanto boy" upbringing got the better of him.

He could've called an "OFFICIAL'S TIMEOUT" a la PBA and told them off the air.

But he had to SHOWCASE his "SPRITE" (magpakatotoo ka) self on air, to get the applause from his gullible fans (all 279 of them ), like he always does.

[Monseratto]

GMA 7 did a better job of just cutting in between programs rather than showing the whole event 24/7.

[wowiesy]

He could've called an "OFFICIAL'S TIMEOUT" a la PBA and told them off the air.

But he had to SHOWCASE his "SPRITE" (magpakatotoo ka) self on air, to get the applause from his gullible fans (all 279 of them ), like he always does.

I see 2 angles here...
...
on Willie's point of view.. oo nga naman.. nagsasaya sila and then sa sidebar eh naka feature yung kabaong ni Tita Cory... medyo awkward nga talaga... the best thing he should've done.. as earlier mentioned is let the production staff know of that off air... base nga sa sabi nya.. mahihirapan sya magpasaya ng tao kung nakikita nya sa monitor naka sidebar yung kabaong... i agree.. he did it in bad taste... pero sabi na rin nga nya..a. paka totoo lang sya...

2nd angle...

ang mas key dapat dito ay even before the show ay dapat the production staff discussed this w/ willy and the executives of abscbn... i wasn't monitoring the TV at nakabukas lang teleradyo sa office and I was monitoring through audio streaming so i do not know if the other programs before wowoweee were already preempted... pero dapat nga ay all or nothing to... either fully show wowowee. or preempt na lang nila.. considering the "joyous" nature of wowoweee...


overall i think hindi rin palalakihin ito ng aquino family... shempre kapamilya si willy kaya they would also help each other out...

[Monseratto]

WowoWillie didn't get away with it after all...

Willie Revillame apologizes for Cory remark

MANILA, Philippines—Controversial noontime TV show host Willie Revillame found himself in the hot seat again on Monday, beset by furious comments from bloggers and social networking websites. The reason: He objected, on air, to the insertion of a video of former President Corazon Aquino’s cortege on his show, “Wowowee.”

“It’s the most insensitive thing I heard today,” read a comment posted on Facebook. “Iba ka talaga Willie. Kakaibang paggalang kay Cory ’yan,” said another.

“He should raise the issue behind the scenes ... but I guess that’s too much to ask [of someone] who hurts women, exploits poor people’s stories ...,” another Revillame detractor said.

On Tuesday, Revillame apologized to his viewers, to the Aquino family and to the network (ABS-CBN) management “for hurting their feelings.” He added that his request to stop the inserted video was really “a sign of love and respect for Tita Cory.”

“Salamat, President Cory,” which aired on Monday, was the special coverage of the transfer of Aquino’s remains from the La Salle Green Hills gym in Mandaluyong City to the Manila Cathedral in Intramuros.

The TV special was cut shortly after the cortege reached the Ninoy Aquino Shrine in Makati City, to give way to the live telecast of “Wowowee.” When the noontime show started airing, ABS-CBN inserted a portion of the Aquino cortege.

During the show’s “Willie of Fortune” segment, Revillame said: “’Di po maganda. Nagsasaya kami dito habang nagluluksa ang sambayanang Pilipino. ’Di ko magagampanan ang pagpapatawa habang ipinapakita ang libing ng dating presidente.” (“It’s not good for us to have fun here while the whole country grieves. I cannot make people laugh at the same time that this part of the funeral of our former president is being shown.”)

When Revillame’s reaction found its way to YouTube, it was met with a huge wave of negative reactions.

On Tuesday, Revillame explained: “Ang feeling ko hindi magandang ipinapakita ‘yon habang kami’y nagsasaya. ’Wag kayong magagalit sa akin ... ” He said he was willing to give way to the airing of the TV special, but that his bosses instructed him to do the show live.

Prior to asking to have the inserted video removed, Revillame said, he had made the same appeal to Entertainment Production head Linggit Tan during a commercial break: “When it was showed again, that’s when I reacted.”

Inquirer Entertainment tried to reach Tan for a reaction, but she declined to comment.

[innoBOB[09JmtG]]

oks na sana ung kahapon na libing ni madam president, kaso andun si Jamby! parang napanis na