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TexasTowelie

(112,217 posts)
Wed Aug 10, 2016, 03:57 AM Aug 2016

Philippines President Lashes Out at US Ambassador: That ‘Gay’ ‘Son of a Bitch Annoyed Me’

The president of the Philippines has called the United States’ ambassador to the country a “gay” “son of a bitch” that “pissed” him off.

Reportedly intending the remark as an insult, Rodrigo Duterte lashed out at Ambassador Phillip Goldberg in an address to his nation’s troops.

International Business Times reports:

Duterte told the soldiers he and Goldberg disagreed during the campaign after Duterte made a joke about the rape and murder of Australian missionary Jacqueline Hamill during a 1989 Davao City prison riot. “I am OK with him,” Duterte said of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, before adding, “I quarreled with his gay ambassador. I am pissed with him. He meddled during the election, giving statements here and there. He was not supposed to do that.”

He also added, according to Yonhap news agency: “That son of a bitch really annoyed me.”


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Philippines President Lashes Out at US Ambassador: That ‘Gay’ ‘Son of a Bitch Annoyed Me’ (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 2016 OP
The President is a sexist pig. riversedge Aug 2016 #1
Is Goldberg even gay? Behind the Aegis Aug 2016 #2

riversedge

(70,239 posts)
1. The President is a sexist pig.
Wed Aug 10, 2016, 04:20 AM
Aug 2016


.............As IB Times noted before, the remark that Duterte made to set off the war of words between him and Goldberg was about the rape of an Australian missionary. Said Duterte of the rape:

“What a pity. What came to my mind was, ‘They raped her, lined up for her.’ I was mad because she was raped? Yes. That’s one reason. But she was so beautiful. The mayor should have been first.”


Duterte was the mayor of the city where the woman was raped.

Goldberg condemned those remarks at the time, saying, “I can only agree with the colleague from the Australian Embassy. Any statements by anyone, anywhere that either degrade women or trivialize issues so serious as rape or murder, are not ones that we condone.”

Goldberg’s response incensed Duterte, who said Goldberg “should not interfere with our national election.”
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Behind the Aegis

(53,959 posts)
2. Is Goldberg even gay?
Wed Aug 10, 2016, 04:22 AM
Aug 2016

He has never publically identified as gay, so this seems to be another "fag" smear, because as we all know it is OK to call people "gay" to indicate they are 'weak" or call gay civil rights "boutique issues", so this shouldn't be a big surprise that heterosexual privilege exerts itself again from a misogynistic POS.

BTW, Duterte's "joke" about the murdered Australian missionary Jacqueline Hamill made while he was mayor of that city:

The "joke" that Duterte was criticized for making came in April. At the time of the attack on Hamill, Duterte was mayor of Davao City, where the crime took place. "What a pity," he said. "What came to my mind was, They raped her, lined up for her. I was mad because she was raped? Yes. That’s one reason. But she was so beautiful. The mayor should have been first." source


I would say he is a pig, but I actually like pigs and they are very intelligent animals, so I will not insult them.
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