Filipino congressmen lash out at Americans over Desperate Housewives
Some of our congressmen are taking advantage of the media hype created by the season premiere of Desperate Housewives where Teri Hatcher’s character insulted the Philippine medical community.
Congressman Bienvenido Abante said that not even 15% of Americans go to college and that you can buy a diploma in the US for 50 dollars. Congressman Roilo Golez, on the other hand, said that 20% of Americans cannot find the United States on the World map and that’s how ignorant they are, he concluded. Both Congressmen Abante and Dan Fernandez mistakenly called Teri as Teri Thatcher confusing her with the former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher. ABC Studios already issued an apology to the Philippine medical community and now we think that these congressmen owe the American people an apology for calling them ignorant and for calling Teri as Teri Thatcher.
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October 5th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
I think flips should take jokes as jokes. Jokes abound in the Philippines, too. A convicted drop-out former president who’s been the brunt of jokes take jokes in stride in his palatial jail - similar to Escobar’s self-made jail in Colombia. That’s right guys. Flips imprison corrupt government officials in palaces - so that the incumbents if convicted with similar charges get to chose their palace jails, too. Going back to this convicted president, this guy reportedly replied when his doctor said he will apply local anesthesia to his wound, “Money’s no problem. I can afford imported anesthesia.”
Where in the world doctors would downgrade themselves as nurses just to get to the US? Where in the world med students have to re-take board exams even if they passed the first one? Where in the world medical board toppers surprisingly come from low-end diploma mill med schools? Only in the Philippines because of money and corruption. Money really gets you around in the Philippines. It’s not what you know but whom you know (you can bribe).
A mother brought her child to a Flip pedia. “What wrong with the kid?”, the flip doc asked. The mother says the kid’s not been eating. The flip doc replied, “… maybe he’s not hungry.” - as his findings.
You can’t blame Flip docs and nurses if they see their American patients as zombies or cadavers they used to dissect at their low-end med schools. It’s green bucks they’re after, you know and nothing more. They’re just like any US migrant who would do anything in their country just to get to the Big Apple or anywhere in America.
Anyway, ABC’s apology is merely a marketing ploy and they’re laughing their hearts out of this brouhaha.
October 6th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
Jokes are just jokes but that does not erase the impresion Desperate Housewives has made on the Philippine Medical community. OK Iget the joke hahahaha. but still, it is a very derogatory statement.
Philippine is a very problematic country. If there is anyone that should be ridiculed about is our POLITICIANS. Trust me, you could insult them with every filipino backing it up.