{"id":55525,"date":"2015-07-13T20:59:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T12:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=55525"},"modified":"2015-07-13T20:59:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T12:59:16","slug":"lacierda-to-binay-you-cant-handle-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/13\/lacierda-to-binay-you-cant-handle-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Lacierda to Binay: &#8216;You can&#8217;t handle the truth&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12611\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12611\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Edwin-Lacierda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12611\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Edwin-Lacierda-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Edwin-Lacierda-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Edwin-Lacierda.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12611\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda hits back on Vice President Jejomar Binay saying he can&#8217;t &#8220;handle the truth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTell them it\u2019s not personal. It\u2019s a truth campaign and the vice president cannot, with all due respect, cannot handle the truth,\u201d Lacierda said in a text message to reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re addressing all the lies of the Vice President against the President ever since he started his presidential run with lies, lies and more lies,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Joey Salgado,\u00a0the media affairs head of the Office of the Vice President, responded to this adding that the Palace is engaging a &#8220;campaign of lies&#8221; rather than of &#8220;truth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we have is a campaign of lies against the Vice President and the Secretary is in the thick of it, owing to his active involvement in the communications team of his real boss, Secretary Roxas. Perhaps it\u2019s time for the good secretary to tell the truth and stop using the Office of the President to obscure his involvement in the Roxas campaign,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil now, Secretary Lacierda has failed to make a decently coherent reply to the issues raised by the Vice President, particularly the lack of jobs despite economic growth,\u201d Salgado said in a separate statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda hits back on Vice President Jejomar Binay saying he can&#8217;t &#8220;handle the truth.&#8221; \u201cTell &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":12611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}