After one long month of trying to ignore the multisectoral call on President B. S. Aquino 3rd to step down, Malacañang and its propagandists last week finally began to do some “damage control.”

This came after the Times ran my last column on the Oct. 1 Cebu assembly (“An alternative government”?) as its Oct. 3 banner story; after former Vice President Noli de Castro discussed it on ABS-CBN; and after an avalanche of commentaries followed in the social media and several independent radio stations.

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