June 21, 2005
From ring tones to car horns? Only in the Philippines
From ring tones to car horns? Only in the Philippines.
The "Hello! Hello! Garci" sound clip is now a car horn and the Department of Justice (DoJ) can't do anything but blame it on Filipino culture.
"It does not speak well of our culture. What we do is make something ugly, uglier," said Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez upon learning that the audio of the President allegedly talking with an election official is now trumpeted by some cars in Metro Manila.
"If you feel for your country, even if it is not beautiful, you do not make it ugly," he said in reply to a question on whether all these CDs, text jokes and ring tones on the GMA tapes are making a mockery of the administration.
"It's part of destabilization," Gonzalez said of those giving away free CDs of the audio tape.
While Ms Arroyo struggles with a record-low popularity, a simple two-word greeting attributed to her has shot to the top of the charts in this cell phone-mad country.
'Hello Garci' overload.
A website offering a mobile phone ring tone featuring the words "Hello Garci" briefly crashed late last week as thousands of Filipinos clamored to download it.
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