The Gospel of P-Noy

I have a simple unsolicited advice for government agencies, private companies, organizations and educational institutions that will observe anniversaries or milestones in the future: Do not invite President Aquino as guest speaker.
If recent events are any indication, it is very likely that these entities will be at the receiving end of an uncalled for reprimand.
Just recently– in a, span of six weeks– Mr. Aquino was the guest speaker at the 25th anniversary celebration of TV PATROL, the popular ABS-CBN primetime television news program.
With the network’s top officials in attendance– Chair Geny Lopez, CEO Charo Santos-Concio,   news anchors Noli de Castro, Korina Sanchez, Ted Failon– the President jolted the audience when he unleashed a vitriolic tirade against the program for highlighting negative news stories and ridiculed Noli de Castro’s trade mark greeting “Magandang Gabi Bayan.”
Naturally the entire ABS-CBN community was greatly embarrassed and the people were  left  squirming in their seats. It was a stinging slap on the faces of the people  behind  the news  program. P-Noy simply threw propriety out the window.
Civility requires a guest to show respect to the host. No matter how high is one’s place in society, one has no license to brush aside right manners and good conduct.
Mr. Aquino’s rebuke of what displeases him is an unmistakable display of moral ascendancy with dash of arrogance.
I am inclined to believe that P-Noy is not a social illi­terate. Maybe, he is  just flexing presidential  muscle to exact positive response and obedience to his political Gospel of matuid na daan.
And few weeks ago, at the Bureau of Immigration anniver­sary program, trigger happy P-Noy dampened the holiday spirit of the occasion by spewing his displeasure over the bungled jobs of BID officials. Moreover, he vowed to use an iron hand in dealing with incompetence.
So there you are. Inviting P-Noy as guest speaker is a risky proposition. One is bound to hear a sermon, instead of a speech that inspires.
Now, here’s another advice: Do not invite senators and congressmen and other politicians as guest speaker. Most of them don’t fully understand the true essence of plagiarism and, therefore, are prone to plagiarizing.  They think plagiarism is simple speech tool that helps deodorize rhetoric.
There is some amount of truth in saying that we cannot expect inspiring messages and nuggets of wisdom to come from the pork barrel-conscious minds of politicians.
For one thing, some other guys write their speeches. For another, they themselves don’t mean what they perorate.
They mouth ideas fed to them by their speech writers. And they pass these as their own.
In the sense that they are not the authors of their speeches, they are innocent, if not ignorant, plagiarists.
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Politicians are addressed as “honorable”. Question: Is it honorable to steal?