Janet Lim-Napoles Senate hearing: Guide to the showmen in the Senate

“theoretical discussants” on television have been repeating the entire two weeks  that Janet Lim-Napoles will just invoke her right against self-incrimination in the Senate, and the “task” is how to get around that.

      So corny.

        sweetie, brush up on practice: Here it is… (free download):

     After preliminaries….

       Browbeating…

      “I don’t know, your Honor…. Uuhmmm…hindi ko ho… masyadong matandaan iyan… (I don’t remember, your Honor)

      I don’t seem to…recall, your Honor…

“hindi ko ho alam …” (i don’t know that…)

   “wala ho akong matandaan na ganyan…” (i don’t remember anything like that whatsoever whomsoever, eyver and eyver)

Hindi ko ho alam yan… Hindi ko ho alam ang ginawa nila… (i don’t know that… I don’t know what they did…)

hindi ho…. Wala ho….” “I don’t know… I don’t remember… I don’t know to you, este, I don’t know … no sir.. none…. I didn’t know what they were doing…”)

    ….A teardrop will fall.

    A glistening, slow-moving droplet will slide on her erstwhile diamond-peeled skin….

followed by sniffles…

sighs….

suppressed coughing….and…

uncontrollable sobbing….

sobbing… hu-hu-hu….turning to  wailing…

      And then…there will be difficulty in breathing….

 a sharp increase in blood pressure…

rising to 280 over 300…. chest pains,

 heaving, fainting spells…

    And…..cue music.

     Right against self-incrimination? Wal-ley!

     Medic!!!! I need a medic here…. Somebody help… Medic!!!!

       And off she rides into the sunset….

(there’s a technique for handling the usual i-don’t-recall-i-don’t-remember sort of answer… how to turn it around… but i guess you know how to do that because…  your middle name is dazzling-showman-senator…)