PRESIDENT-elect Rody Duterte has counseled us, the media, not to believe him when he utters outrageous things. He says when he utters incredible things he means those statements to be treated as jokes. “Huwag ninyong patulan ‘yun,” he seems to have actually said or we imagined to have heard him say.

We knew his words about jet skiing to the Spratlys and planting our flag on an island there belongs to this genre of DU30 jocular statements. Which is why we wrote a tongue-in-cheek editorial about it.

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