THE latest controversy from Malacañang – President Rodrigo Duterte’s supposed “confession” to the “sin” of extra-judicial killings – has, again, predictably created a stir among the media, including a number of international news outlets.

But his legions of supporters have quickly come to his defense, saying that as a non-native Tagalog speaker and whose mother tongue is a Visayan dialect, the President’s informal talk among his local people must not be taken in the context and meaning of the standard Filipino language.

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