THE Yellows' intense campaign last week to propagate their view that the martial law era was all black and that the strongman Ferdinand Marcos was the devil incarnate backfired on a nearly catastrophic scale.

I estimate some 300,000 comments deluged posts by Marcos bashers, among them the University of the Philippines' (UP) "Dambana ng Gunita" series, Bam Aquino, and even the tiny opposition social club 1Sambayan's "roundtable discussion on bridging generations."

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