Simple Dinner

The $20,000 dinner spent by GMA and company at Le Cirque Restaurant in New York has spark an outrage.

The palace got its spin doctors trying to justify the obscene amount. Press Secretary Cerge Remonde said it was a simple dinner.

Let's see: Note: this is a theoretical breakdown of the bill according to the blog of Manuel L. Quezon III.

Simple indeed. Here I thought the fried bangus and tinola I had for dinner was simple. I guess those food are now poor man's food. I should probably be setting my standards higher and eat caviar more often and chug Krug like beer.

GMA's people have of course pointed out that the media is mistaken in taking a theorical computation for a fact. This is how hard they work in making sure GMA has a clean image.

Whether theoretical or not, whether the bill is $10,000 or $30,000. We all know that amount is obscene in light of the fact that 3 million Filipinos are going without food. The mere fact that $20,000 can feed 3,000 families 3 meals a day shows how insensitive GMA and the rest of the Philippine government is to the people.

As they try to spin this, they can't even make up their minds who paid for the dinner. Cerge said that this was "just like any other working dinner". They went from 15 to 20 people to 50 people to make the unit cost go down. Then they said the entourage included the Secret Service agents which would actually make them criminally liable for accepting perks.

Cerge even said that no one had fun and that everyone wolfed down their food in an hour. Riiigghhht..... I take an hour to eat food with my friends and we're only having fish and chips. Did he expect anyone to believe that someone would actually go to a 5 star restaurant and order caviar, lobster and steak with $510 bottles of champagne to just wolf them down and not have fun? Gimme a break! If I was in that restaurant I would have spent at least 3 to 4 hours if I'm going to be spending that much money.

Who are they trying to fool?