Ernesto Maceda and the Standard Today tag teamed in insinuating that Noynoy Aquino is autistic.

Last Tuesday, Maceda headlined his Mr. Expose column in the Daily Tribune – “Autism on the rise.”

His first sentence was

“Suddenly, autism is the hot topic in coffee shops and beauty parlors.”

Suddenly it is the talk of the town because Maceda said so? Did he hear it in the coffee shops and beauty parlors he frequents?

By the way, about a year or so ago I saw him coming out of Fitness First in Greenhills. A friend told me he exercised there regularly. Fitness First is the place where a lot of young buff males go to work up a sweat.

Anyway, in the next three short paragraphs of his column, he cited a couple of experts and statistics on autism, to make his reader think he was really concerned about the problem.

But his last sentence revealed his true purpose

“Autism is the talk of the town because of indications that a major national candidate is autistic. In the last mayoralty contest in Manila, such talk damaged the chances of a candidate for mayor.

He was planting seeds.

A few days later, Standard Today asked Aquino if he thought he was the one Maceda was talking about.

PRESIDENTIAL aspirant Senator Benigno Aquino III complained yesterday that critics and political rivals were spreading malicious and baseless claims that he was suffering from autism.

Aquino nearly blew his top when Standard Today asked him to react on talk in political circles that he was the unnamed presidential aspirant with autism that former Senator Ernesto Maceda had written about in his “Mr. Exposé” column in the Daily Tribune Tuesday.

A weasel makes an innuendo in his column in one newspaper, another newspaper raises it with Noynoy Aquino and reports it as news. Now you see how black propaganda works?

Well, at least Standard Today printed Aquino’s response

“Do I have to answer something like that?” Aquino shot back yesterday.

“To be honest, I have a degree from a very prestigious university in this country.”

Aquino, an economics graduate from the Ateneo de Manila University, said: “I am responding to something I don’t know I can be alluded to in any manner, shape, form whatsoever. And if these are the questions that you and your paper will propound to me, I would rather not talk to any of you anymore. Thank you.”

He then returned to his seat.

Now I don’t usually criticize Noynoy; but this time I will.

If I were Noynoy, my response to the question of the reporter from Standard Today would have been – “IF I AM AUTISTIC THEN ERNIE MACEDA IS NOT GAY!”

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