Tag: Joel Pablo Salud

2022 elections a chance for Filipinos to remove communist vermin from public office

October 24, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 5 Comments

Joel Pablo Salud is one of my “favorite” editors in-chief, the other being his mentor Inday Espina Varona. He is very proud of his lack of formal education, yet constantly on the prowl for validation with social media postings of his vast book collection. He asks in his latest PhilSTAR piece: What would you ask…

Crime, Politics

Maria Ressa’s Nobel “Peace Prize” award part of a desperate Opposition strategy to INCITE social unrest as 2022 elections approach

October 11, 2021April 21, 2022 Ramon Ortoll 11 Comments

Opposition “thought leaders” keep echoing recently-crowned Nobel “Peace Prize” laureate Maria Ressa’s dubious assertion that there is a “war on truth” perpetrated by the government of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. One such parrot is PhilSTAR lifestyle columnist Joel Pablo Salud who, in a Facebook post, wrote about, you guessed it, “ongoing repression of press freedom…

Politics

Toni Gonzaga’s Bongbong Marcos interview a reminder that the Yellowtards have become IRRELEVANT

September 16, 2021September 16, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 4 Comments

How many times do you need to hit these “journalists” for them to realize that Toni Gonzaga is not a “journalist” who is supposed to ask Bongbong Marcos (BBM) the tough questions? In his PhilSTAR piece “Walking on landmines: Toni Gonzaga’s Bongbong Marcos interview”, Joel Pablo Salud admits that Gonzaga, while not a journalist, but…

Media

PhilSTAR journalist Joel Pablo Salud wants F. Sionil Jose’s national artist distinction REVOKED just because their opinions differ

August 26, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 7 Comments

Fair-weather friendship is what PhilSTAR lifestyle writer Joel Pablo Salud exhibits in his recent Facebook post where, to highlight how close a friend he was to national artist F. Sionil Jose, writes about how he had “spent a night in his home in QC, tasted Tita Tessie’s cooking, and enjoyed untold number of hours listening…

Media

Opposition “journalists” dishonestly liken situation in Afghanistan to that of the Philippines

August 18, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 2 Comments

This is a bit of a stretch. Joel Pablo Salud in his piece “It’s perfectly fine to sympathize with the Afghan people, but…” published on Licas News writes that “Afghan people and Filipinos today share one thing in common: both find themselves at a crossroads. Both must decide their people’s fate. And while Afghans are…

Politics, Society

Martial Law Crybaby Joel Pablo Salud insults Holocaust victims in arguing with Fr. Ranhilio Aquino

September 13, 2020September 13, 2020 benign0 10 Comments

A certain Joel Pablo Salud recently launched into yet another one of those Martial Law Crybabyist treatises on the chi chi platform Medium. His piece “Marcos, Derrida, and a priest who should know better than to side with executioners”, is essentially a temper tantrum over a tweet issued by Fr. Ranhilio Aquino… Aquino’s tweet had…

Politics