Making contact with my ‘angel’

The courtroom drama at the Senate where hugs and kisses were exchanged between the Coronas and Basas after a 30-year rift did not make Chief Justice Renato Corona any less guilty in the eyes of senator-judges who have already made up their minds.

Corona is being impeached for graft.

The reconciliation between Corona’s wife Cristina and her relatives may have made an impression on the public, but not on the Senate impeachment court.

A family reunion or reconciliation should have been made in private.

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I have finally gotten in touch with my “angel,” the guy who uploaded on YouTube the video on the airport incident where movie personalities Raymart Santiago and Claudine Barretto and their friends ganged up on this columnist.

But my savior, who works at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) wants his identity withheld.

I met his father, a government employee, on Thursday.

The father made me promise not to reveal my savior’s identity.

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I call the guy who uploaded the video on YouTube “my savior” because without that video, I would now have been an ex-columnist and former broadcast commentator.

As I said in my previous column, I would have lost my credibility among my readers, listeners and viewers; and that would have made me resign and retire in my farm at Palawan.

But the Universe continues to have plans for me and so I’m still here writing this column for this paper and Bandera, and hosting my public service program, “Isumbong mo kay Tulfo.”

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When I met my savior’s father Friday at a restaurant in Quezon City, I was given new footage of the incident.

Aired on two TV news networks, it showed which side was the aggressor.

I will leave it to the people and the courts to decide who is to blame.

I will not make any further comments on the incident and let my lawyers, led by Jovito Barte and Vitaliano Aguirre, do the talking for me.

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Some people take advantage of the tight circumstances others find themselves in in the guise of offering help.

A guy named Ruel approached me while I was having a checkup at Philippine General Hospital (PGH) for the wounds I sustained during the one-way brawl.

He said his friend was in possession of the original video that was uploaded on YouTube.

When I said that I wanted to meet his friend as I would like to give him my profuse thanks in person, Ruel said not so fast.

Ruel has apparently seen me substituting for my brothers on TV5’s “T3” program.

“You will have to introduce me first to handsome reporters of TV5 before you can meet my friend,” he said.

Of course, I didn’t take him up on his offer.

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That guy you saw gyrating at Vice Ganda’s show on ABS-CBN on Sunday night was not me.

That was my twin brother.

Ho! Ho! Ho!