MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – An opinion piece published by Rappler, the least-trusted news brand in the Philippines, argues that (rice) importation is the wrong prescription for the disease that ails Philippine agriculture. It goes on to say that it is the only medicine that President Bongbong Marcos can think of to solve the country’s problem on rice supply and prices.

But where was Rappler when Republic Act No. 11203 was passed and signed by former President Rodrigo Duterte?

The law, authored by businesswoman and trader Senator Cynthia Villar, liberlizes the importation, exportation and trading of rice, lifting the import restriction on rice.

So why blame Marcos for the mess created before he became president?

And, in case Rappler editors and staff weren’t listening, Marcos is doing more than importing rice. He is is making sure that the government’s (NFA’s) buying price for palay will be fair and beneficial to the country’s farmers.

Oh, and did the investigative reporters of Rappler cover the distribution by the president of confiscated hoarded and smuggled rice to poor people in Mindanao?

We don’t think so. It doesn’t fit with their biased narrative.