~ A body of work usually speaks eloquently of the person making claims of being such and such an achiever. In the case of a Voltaire de Leon, the self-professed tarsier, he name-calls and badmouths others to lift himself. He mentions a “whorenalist” without knowing it fits him to a T. He claims having written for Balita only because the publication has emerged as Toronto’s largest and no. 1 Filipino newspaper. It’s self-promotion by association! But what do we know about Voltaire de Leon? Read on and find out.
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Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. Woe unto you … for ye make clean the outside of the cup and platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. – (Matthew 23:24-25)
TORONTO – When the petty commentator named Voltaire de Leon, alias Vulture de Tarsier, referred to an unidentified “whorenalist” in his uneducated hit piece, I knew right away that he was projecting himself.
It was a profound characterization of a nobody wanting validation for something long gone and unnoticed. Years and years later, he pops out like a weed, attracting attention to his wretched life and spreading malice.
Voltaire de Leon tries to make us believe that he is a model of integrity and honesty by deflecting his own affliction and, to conceal it, resorts to the classic tactic of “the pot calling the kettle black”.
Who is the “whorenalist” but himself? He proffers to write – write what? – and when refused for lack of basic credential as a writer and an understanding of journalism at the maximum, he attacks, whines and runs to what he calls “left-wingers or commies”.
The question of his morality was not in the equation until he raised it himself. Being a “whorenalist” would necessarily invite inquiries. That’s where he fails, and fails miserably.
He never denies that he’s the person masking as balitaboycott who’s trying to pressure advertisers to pull out, then go and patronize his left-leaning publishers. Isn’t it “whorenalism”?
Voltaire de Leon begs Tess Cusipag, publisher and editor of Balita, Toronto’s largest Filipino newspaper, to “please don’t go there” after she asked about his past.
An informant had told the paper that Voltaire de Leon “was charged by his employer for stealing a computer from work, then subsequently fired, reason he could not get a good secure job for years”.
The information was a good lead to pursue and Balita has begun uncovering the case just to prove the point that some, if not all, of the individuals or groups of persons sniping against the paper had no moral grounding to cast aspersions on its campaign to expose the crooks and criminal elements in the community.
I was personally tasked to dig deep into the case. “We are investigating,” Ms. Cusipag informs Voltaire de Leon in an email.
A customary response would have been to deny it. But a few days later, however, probably after much soul-searching, Voltaire de Leon practically admits to it in a roundabout way.
He explains it himself, thus: “As for the incident of theft that you (meaning Ms. Cusipag) referred to, that happened in the distant past”.
“For your own sake,” he tells Ms. Cusipag, “please don’t go there”.
“Besides,” he adds, “it has nothing to do with the issue at hand”.
His statement that the record of thievery had nothing to do with the discussion deviates from the whole point of the controversy that he himself generated.
In essence, Voltaire de Leon was “the pot calling the kettle black”, i.e., a situation where an individual criticizes another for a fault he has himself.
That brings us back to the original question: who is the “whorenalist”?
I can only surmise. Whoring could be his favorite pastime, specially these days that a partner had slipped to the great beyond, leaving him unshackled from the bedposts that had been his cage for years.
How he came up with such a gem of dirty thought is attributable to his relationship with like-minded friends who could not see through the prism of good and evocative writings and were merely confined to x-rated materials to whet their sagging manhood.
They defile the community’s mind with their impure thoughts – byproducts of ignorance and a lack of respect for niceties of clean living. They are the community’s “whorenalists”.