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Miss Philippines Grabs Spotlight From President Duterte For Hitler Comment

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MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) –  Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has been criticized for recently comparing himself to Adolf Hitler (although it was actually Ex-President NoyNoy Aquino who first did).

Well, the heat is off Duterte.

A Filipina beauty queen has taken over the spotlight for her comment about Hitler.

Imelda Bautista Schweighart, who is competing in Miss Earth 2016, made the comments about President Duterte during a pageant video posted on social media.  She compared her country’s president to Hitler for the way he is trying to eliminate drugs.

While posing with Austrian counterpart Kimberly Budinksy, Ms Schweighart asked her if Hitler was from Austria.

“That’s a bad question because we normally don’t really talk about Hitler. But yes, he is,” Ms Budinsky answered.

Schweighart replied, “No offense meant. I’m half German so I just wanted to make sure that Hitler was really Austrian and not German.”

End of story.

The Miss Earth Pageant will be held in Manila on October 29.  Stay tuned.

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Beauty, International, Politics, Social Media, Tourism

Miss Universe Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach Challenges Filipina Women Petitioners To A Fist Fight

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imageMANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Reigning Miss Universe Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach of the Philippines has challenged an elite group of Filipina women who have signed a letter to the Miss Universe Organization to cancel the pageant in the Philippines to a fist fight.

The letter is petitioning that the upcoming Miss Universe pageant not be held in the Philippines in January as scheduled.

The petitioners cited the current political atmosphere in the Philippines as well as what they perceived to be an anti-women stance of the Duterte administration as among the reasons to cancel the pageant in the Philippines.

But Wurtzbach  is not taking this issue just sitting down.

In a post on her Facebook page, she assured the beauty pageant-loving Filipinos that she will take care of making sure the popular international beauty contest will be held in the Philippines as scheduled.

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She also challenged the petitioners to a fist fight if it comes down to that.

“When I won the Miss Universe crown, I said that I want to be “confidently beautiful with a heart.”  My heart goes out to the Filipino people who take pride in being the host country for this popular international beauty pageant,” Wurtzbach said.

What a fighter our Miss Universe is!

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Beauty, Government, International, Politics, Social Media, Tourism

Filipina Group Wants Miss Universe Pageant In The Philippines Cancelled

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MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – An elite group of Filipina women has asked the Miss Universe Organization to cancel the January 2017 beauty pageant scheduled to be held in the Philippines.

The letter signed by more than 150 individuals (as of press time) claims that the current political atmosphere in the country is not conducive to holding a prestigious international beauty contest like Miss Universe.

The co-signers of the letter-petition are the very same people who celebrated the crowning less than a year ago of Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach, the reigning Miss Universe who is from the Philippines. It is rumored that majority of them were first runners-up or  “thank you girls” in various local beauty pageants.

All of the netizen comments on the Facebook page which posted the letter to the Miss Universe Organization were critical of the group and accused the co-signers of having the so-called crab mentality, referring to people who want to denigrate and pull down their own group or country.

Some netizens questioned the group if they would discourage their own relatives from visiting the Philippines as balikbayans or encourage women-owned businesses in the country to take their companies elsewhere.

Ironically, the petitioners are quiet about another international beauty pageant, Miss Earth, which will be held in the Philippines this month.

That’s right, pick and choose.

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