HYPOCRACY
Finally, as anticipated, the noises of righteous indignation coming from assorted personalities posing as moral guardians of the country has driven U.S. Ambassador Thomas to offer an apology of sorts for a statement he made sometime recently that 40% of male tourists coming to the Philippines do so for sex. He admitted, as also expected, that he did not have the concrete data to support his assertion. It is not clear whether this lack of concrete data refers to the fact that many male visitors include sex in their tour, or only to the percentage of those who do, but we will not read any naughtiness in the Ambassador's apology by pursuing this point. Anyway, the apology appears satisfactory to our moral guardians who seem to have now calmed down and may not pursue anymore their threat to have Ambassador Thomas declared persona non grata. Hopefully, the whole incident is now over with a lesson left for Ambassador Thomas to be not so reckless in what he says in the future abo