While a furious Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago was delivering her privilege speech Wednesday, December 4 entitled “Navigating the Crimes of the Plunder Mastermind”, a disinterested-looking Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile who sat directly across the lady senator had the time in the world to play with his tablet.
Photos immediately circulated over social media sites showing the senate minority leader playing a famous tablet game called Bejeweled.
*Photo courtesy of InterAksyon
Santiago’s privilege speech was her official statement in response to Enrile’s previous speech last month.
On November 27, Enrile delivered a privilege speech – in response to earlier attacks by Santiago. He called her a “cuckoo, inane and bitter mind,” “the grandmama of all falsehood fabricators,” and a “spiteful and bitterly hostile mind” for blaming him of being the multi-billion peso pork barrel scam mastermind, a murderer, and for supposedly funding the Zamboanga City obstruction.
Now that it was Santiago’s turn, she dismantled Enrile by calling him a “psychopathic hypersexualized serial womanizer,” as well as “the icon of shameless lying,” “incorrigible liar,” “the prince of darkness,” “gambling and smuggling king,” and “the drama king of corrupt politics.”
As Santiago was burning with anger in the course of delivering her speech, the other senators were intently listening to her while the main object of her address was observed to be just sitting coolly, periodically shaking his head and grinning occasionally.
In a speech minutes after Santiago’s, the former Senate President meanwhile denied the accusations against him. In an interview with the members of media, the former Senate President jokingly said "is it my fault that I am good-looking?
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