AFTER more than five years of laboring under a government led by a man who somehow manages to display diffidence and arrogance at the same, one would think we, in the media, would have had time to become inured to his outrageously offensive complaints of “sensationalism” nearly every time he perceives the press to be reporting bad news only to cast him in an unfavorable light. But President BS Aquino is truly one in a million, and continues to astonish us with his insensitivity and rude self-importance.

In Malaysia on Sunday, on the eve of the sixth anniversary of the Maguindanao Massacre, Aquino used what little time was made available to speak to the Philippine media gathered to cover the just-concluded Asean summit to complain about the “tanim-bala” or bullet-planting extortion scheme at Ninoy Aquino International Airport, a story that dominated the headlines for a couple of weeks prior to the APEC summit, and an issue his government has yet to satisfactorily resolve.

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