So what’s wrong with Boy Abunda?
You cannot blame the public having been with showbiz personalities in the government like Lito Lapid, Bong Revilla, Joseph Estrada and a host of other showbiz blunders. Fact is, showbiz personalities going into politics is met with a very negative perception. It’s automatic for the public to scoff at showbiz personalities going into politics.
Unfortunately, it’s a reality that showbiz people have to deal with. It’s an stereotype that is already attached to showbiz personalities. It’s even worse for gay people having been maligned by both the Church and the Comelec. Important government position will be very difficult for gay people to have.
Who’s at fault for the very negative public perception and the stereotype? It’s the Church. It’s the Comelec. It’s the showbiz people. And yes, it’s the public for buying the nonsense.
But showbiz people have some work to do. It’s they who should clean up their acts also and not use their popularity into politics. Remember Ara Mina with her disaster interviews? Remember Richard Gomez with his Presidential vs. Parliamentary debate blunder answers? At least Ai-Ai is doing her assignment. Will that change the public perception? It’s too early to say but let’s see.
THERE’S NOTHING WRONG with appointing a show biz celebrity to a Cabinet position, according to Gabriela Rep. Liza Maza.
Maza came to the defense of television host Boy Abunda, who had endorsed the lawmaker in her recent Senate bid, rapping critics who scoffed at the idea of an entertainer becoming a public official.
“Mr. Abunda deserves respect and not below-the-belt criticisms. Branding him as a mere entertainer incapable of doing serious government function is an unfounded and disrespectful remark,” Maza said in a statement.
Source: Inquirer
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reynz is one Uragon and a Filipino-American, has many years of public accounting & auditing, broadcast investments, housing tax credits and equity investments as his background. Based in the US, he maintains his personal and humor blog at reyna elena dot com. A graduate of Aquinas U, he went to GWU and Temple U in the United States.
There’s nothing wrong with him. I would prefer someone with executive experience but on the other hand, it would be refreshing to see someone like Boy in the cabinet who’s not a career bureaucrat and won’t steal.
Would like to share Kristina C. Saragoza comment on FB:
etoy obserbasyon lang… SOME pinoy kasi na nakapag aral sa private school at may natapos na lets say LAW or DOCTOR eh akala nila sila na ang pinaka matalinong UNGGOY sa mundo or sa PINAS!!! nung maliit pa ako ang taas taas ng tingin ko sa mga eto but as I grow older nag-iba na ang pananaw ko.. para sa akin pantay-pantay lang ang tao… swerte ang nakapag-aral sa magagaling na school but it doesn’t mean na mabango na yong DUMI nila or di mabaho bunganga nila paggising nila sa umaga!!! ya MGA LAYWERS nga sila ang iba graduate pa ng HARVARD or ibang bansa pero MAGALING ba sila??? i don’t think so… puro lang sila YABANG!!! minamata nila si BOY dahil sa takot… takot na baka yong trabaho nilang hawak ay mahihigitan ng isang ENTERTAINER lamang!!! palibhasa hanggang yabang lang sila ng mga DIPLOMA nila at kung saan sila nagtapos!!!!
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