New Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte defends murdering journalists, saying: 'You are not exempted from assassination if you're a son of a b**ch'

• Duterte also called bishops 'sons of wh***s' and joked about a rape victim
• His comments do not appear to have dented his popularity in the country
• But president-elect's remarks about killing journalists have sparked fury
• He said: 'Most of you are clean, but do not ever say all journalists are clean'

Philippines' president-elect Rodrigo Duterte told reporters on Tuesday there was justification for killing journalists who took bribes or engaged in other corrupt activities


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Journalists in our country are corrupt though.

They let politicians and oligarch use them and their media power to mind-condition the masses.

I mean did he lie though?

Journalists in mainstream medias of any nationality are all corupt tho.

I literally just read that a journalist here in France was fired for trying to write an article about the ever growing police violence.

Philippines is one of the deadliest countries for journalists. The journalists who are being killed in the Philippines are usually the ones exposing and fighting corruption by government officials, and not the ones that are corrupt themselves.

Isn't this the guy who said he was mad because he should've been first in line in raping an American who went to the philippines?