“It’s not the first time Ca-randang was caught with his foot in his mouth… Hicap added: “Please allow us to set the record straight. The Left has rebuked China’s arrogance in dealing with the Spratlys… On both points, Carandang turned out to be wrong and his network bosses compelled him to issue an apology. “
BY DAN MARIANO
“Another Palace official who seems determined to make more enemies than friends for his boss is Secretary Ramon Carandang, head of the Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office.
Better known as Ricky in his previous career as a TV news reader, Carandang reportedly scored leftist groups for what he described as their “silence” on the Spratlys dispute with China.
In a report posted on a TV news website, Carandang was quoted telling reporters last Monday: “May mga grupo d’yan na, you know, mabilis mag-reklamo. Bahagi naman talaga ng demokrasya natin ‘yon, ang pagrereklamo. Pero dito sa isyu ng West Philippine Sea, parang wala kang marinig na hinaing sa kanila.” Here’s a rough translation: “There are those groups that, you know, are quick to complain. That’s really a part of democracy, complaining. But on the issue of the West Philippine Sea, it seems like you don’t hear any protest from them.”
A leader of one of “those groups” Carandang took a dig at has come out to accuse the Palace official of ignorance.
Fernando Hicap of the Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) said so-called “leftist” groups have already made clear their stand on the territorial dispute.
Hicap reportedly said, “Either Mr. Carandang is not reading the newspapers handed to him every day or he is not browsing the Internet regarding the Left’s position on the Spratlys dispute.”
Hicap added: “Please allow us to set the record straight. The Left has rebuked China’s arrogance in dealing with the Spratlys.”
It’s not the first time Ca-randang was caught with his foot in his mouth.
At the height of the presidential campaign last year, while he was still a TV news reader, Carandang erroneously described newspaper columnist Dick Pas-cual as an appointee of then-President Gloria M. Arroyo to the board of a government-owned corporation—a misidentification that Carandang nonetheless invoked to “explain” Pascual’s alleged pro-GMA stance.
On both points, Carandang turned out to be wrong and his network bosses compelled him to issue an apology. Observers wonder if he was already part of the Aquino campaign while was still reading network news.”
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