From The Daily Tribune
Link: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100412hed2.html
As his numbers rise in the surveys, Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino (PMP) standard bearer former President Joseph Estrada said the media are again demonizing him.
Estrada, in an interview during a campaign rally in Malabon on Friday, accused GMA-7 of kicking off a demolition job on him when it came out with a report about his Statement of Assets Liabilities and Networth (SALN) a few days ago.
“They have started the smear job against me, about my SALN. It was all too sudden after my rating at number three started to go up,” he said.
Estrada expressed apprehensions that the media would again ruin his image similar to when he was ousted in 2001.
“My ratings have started to improve and the demonization scheme was started by Channel 7
yesterday,” he said. He added that despite such efforts from media his supporters had not left him.
“Inspite of the demonization of the media when I was incarcerated, the people has not left me. To prove that, Dr. Loi, my wife, and my son, Jinggoy, were elected as senators even if I was incarcerated. They were elected as senators when I was behind bars. That goes to show that the masses have never left me inspite of the demonization of the media against me,” he said.
Estrada also compared to his past movies where he has portrayed the role of the underdog who later on always won his fight in the end, his bid for the presidency.
“Like in the movies I have always been an underdog, but in the end I always win,” Estrada told reporters.
Estrada, reacting to reports that he is trailing behind the presidential race in a three-cornered fight between him and senators Benigno Aquino III of the Liberal Party and Manny Villar of the Nationalista Party, said that he is taking his chances.
“I’m a risk taker ok, I am a risk taker...” he said in an interview that was incessantly interrupted by campaign jingles of his partymates who were delivering their pieces on the stage set up in the middle of a road in Malabon.
Estrada also said that nobody can stop him from pursuing the presidency that was forcibly taken away from him in 2001.
“Nobody can stop me and nobody can make me withdraw. Only death can make me withdraw,” he said despite offers for him to withdraw from the race and despite the party’s meagre resources.
As his numbers rise in the surveys, Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino (PMP) standard bearer former President Joseph Estrada said the media are again demonizing him.
Estrada, in an interview during a campaign rally in Malabon on Friday, accused GMA-7 of kicking off a demolition job on him when it came out with a report about his Statement of Assets Liabilities and Networth (SALN) a few days ago.
“They have started the smear job against me, about my SALN. It was all too sudden after my rating at number three started to go up,” he said.
Estrada expressed apprehensions that the media would again ruin his image similar to when he was ousted in 2001.
“My ratings have started to improve and the demonization scheme was started by Channel 7
yesterday,” he said. He added that despite such efforts from media his supporters had not left him.
“Inspite of the demonization of the media when I was incarcerated, the people has not left me. To prove that, Dr. Loi, my wife, and my son, Jinggoy, were elected as senators even if I was incarcerated. They were elected as senators when I was behind bars. That goes to show that the masses have never left me inspite of the demonization of the media against me,” he said.
Estrada also compared to his past movies where he has portrayed the role of the underdog who later on always won his fight in the end, his bid for the presidency.
“Like in the movies I have always been an underdog, but in the end I always win,” Estrada told reporters.
Estrada, reacting to reports that he is trailing behind the presidential race in a three-cornered fight between him and senators Benigno Aquino III of the Liberal Party and Manny Villar of the Nationalista Party, said that he is taking his chances.
“I’m a risk taker ok, I am a risk taker...” he said in an interview that was incessantly interrupted by campaign jingles of his partymates who were delivering their pieces on the stage set up in the middle of a road in Malabon.
Estrada also said that nobody can stop him from pursuing the presidency that was forcibly taken away from him in 2001.
“Nobody can stop me and nobody can make me withdraw. Only death can make me withdraw,” he said despite offers for him to withdraw from the race and despite the party’s meagre resources.
