Kris, after all, is not called the Queen of All Media for nothing. The next six years should prove interesting. Do not believe her when she promises to shut her pie-hole forever. She always does that on a regular basis it's almost like the calm before the storm. It's only a promise of some bigger, juicier scandal to come.
Granted, trumpeting marital problems to the world may not be as grave as coddling murderous warlords and engaging in multi-billion dollar scams. But these things have their effects on the national psyche are about as damaging. Little children will grow up thinking that such behavior is acceptable–because, "look, she endorses corned beef, bread, iced tea, malls, and all the nice stuff in the world."
Her brother ran on the slogan of "Kung walang corrupt, walang mahirap." Now that the corrupt has been swept all the way to Lubao, Pampanga, maybe it's time for an update. Maybe they should consider: "Kung walang madaldal, walang gulo."
Having a sister who likes giving people a piece of her mind is both a blessing and a curse. (Well, maybe more of the latter than the former.It's dangerously pathological: maybe she'll have seizures in the event of a failure to divulge anything about her personal life. Maybe she'll have massive internal bleeding, her optic veins will burst, and her muscles will immediately atrophy. It's a dangerous disease: the desperate need to be in the center of attention all the time. In the hands of personalities like this, Twitter is an evil piece of technology worse than nuclear warheads in the hands of North Koreans. She will always defend: but the people have the right to know. True. But some people also have the right to be spared crap from like this. To decide for yourself to purposely stay away from showbiz talk shows and the tabloids is simply impossible. As we've said before, it's her world–we only live in it. When she opens her mouth, the ground cracks, mountains move, animals raise their heads in fear, and TV ratings and blood pressures soar. It's so easy to keep quiet. But that's only applicable to us mortals.
I know I had promised myself not to write about her anymore, but that's like ignoring the presence of oxygen and sunlight–an inappropriate metaphor but you get the point.
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