Monthly Archives: November 2017

Beauty, International, Politics, Social Media

Miss Philippines Mariele De Leon Says She’ll Do Her Best Not To Win Miss International Crown

November 4, 2017 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

TOKYO, Japan (The Adobo Chronicles, Tokyo Bureau) – We have beauty queens, and we have outspoken beauty queens. Miss Philippines International 2017 Mariele de Leon is among the latter.

She has taken to her social media accounts to express her strong personal opinions about developments in her home country. Netizens reacted most to her post criticizing the appointment of Mocha Uson as Assistant Secretary of the PCOO.

In another post (see photo), she also made clear that above all else, country is more important. Yes even more important that a beauty pageant crown.

We caught up with de Leon during one of the rehearsals for the November 14 Miss International finals and she confirmed to The Adobo Chronicles that she will try her best not to win the crown, currently held by another Filipina Kylie Verzosa.

Asked to elaborate, she said: “As I’ve said in the past, the crown is less important than my love for my country. So just to spite those who criticize me for speaking my mind, I will give the dumbest answers to the Q&A and fake a stumble on stage to ensure that I don’t win the crown. Mine will be the last laugh.”

Wow, we have a real beauty with (or is it without?) brains!

Good luck, Miss Philippines!

Trillanes Accepts Columnist’s Apology; Trillanes Apologizes To Adobo Chronicles; Pinoy Ako Blog Apologizes To Thinking Pinoy

November 4, 2017 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – It’s been a whirlwind of apologies in the last 24 hours.

Senator Antonio Trillanes has accepted the apology of PhilStar columnist Al Pedroche for a narrative which the latter included in an opinion piece alleging that U.S. President Donald Trump called the Filipino lawmaker ‘lil narco.’

In return, Trillanes has apologized to The Adobo Chronicles for tagging the satire site as “fake news” in a social media post.

Then, in a surprising turn of events, Pinoy Ako Blog’s Jover Laurio also apologized to Thinking Pinoy for erroneously naming The Adobo Chronicles as his source for the supposedly fake news about Trump and Trillanes.

One of the three apologies mentioned above is definitely NOT fake news!

(Editor’s note: For this post, we’ve omitted are usual fact check meter as to which is fact and which is fiction. We don’t want to be a spoiler!)

Senator Trillanes Accepts PhilStar Columnist Pedroche’s Apology, And Now The Waiting Game Begins

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MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Senator Antonio Trillanes says that he has accepted the apology of PhilStar columnist Al Pedroche for his opinion piece that claimed U.S. President Donald Trump called the Senator ‘lil narco.’

In a statement, Trillanes said:

“Nag-apologize na si Mr. Al Pedroche ng Philippine Star Ngayon/philstar.com sa pagsulat nya sa kolum nya ng fake news tungkol diumano sa sinabi ni President Trump laban sa akin.”

“Tinatanggap ko ang kanyang apology at nagpapasalamat ako sa kanya sa pagtaguyod ng kanilang Code of Ethics bilang journalist,” the senator added.

Trillanes also said he is waiting for R.J. Nieto, a.k.a. Thinking Pinoy and another PhilStar columnist Mary Ann Reyes to do the same.

“Ngayon, inaantay ko sina RJ Nieto a.k.a. (not) Thinking Pinoy at Ms. Mary Ann Reyes ng Philippine Star kung kailan sila mag-a-apologize sa paggamit ng parehas na fake news na ito,” the senator said.

In a related development, the publisher and editors of The Adobo Chronicles, are also waiting for Trillanes to apologize for tagging our satire site as “fake news,” as seen in a social media account which seemed to be owned by the Senator.

”Satire is so different from fake news,” the publisher said.

The waiting game begins…