Mind Conditioning Begins BINAY TOPS PULSE ASIA SURVEY; WHY WAS DUTERTE NOT IN THE LIST?

By Manny Pinol

Earlier this week, Pulse Asia, a survey firm which along with the Social Weather Station (SWS) periodically conducts surveys on the popularity and unpopularity of issues and political personalities, released a poll result which showed that incumbent Vice President Jejomar Binay was leading all other presidential probables with a survey share of 40%.

Following Binay in far second was neophyte Senator Grace Poe with all the others, including Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas III trailing far behind.

Having spent over 20 years of my life with the media, first as a 17-year-old cub reporter, then as senior copy editor of Tempo newspaper and lately as sports and political columnist of fhe Manila Times, the survey results immediately caught my attention.

The media are very powerful tools in shaping public opinion and in conditioning the mind of the people into accepting an idea as the truth.

Remember what Hitler’s chief propagandist Joseph Goebbels said about mind conditioning? “A lie repeated a thousand times becomes the truth.”

Was the Pulse Asia survey part of a mind-conditioning campaign to make people believe that Vice President Binay is a cinch to become the next President of the Philippines and there is nobody who could stop him?

Funny but I did not see the name of Davao City Mayor in the list of probable Presidential candidates for 2016.

Funnier is the fact that in this same page a few months back, I conducted an informal survey based on the likes of over 77,000 followers of this page on who they preferred to become the next President of the Republic of the Philippines.

And I clearly remember that Duterte, although he has publicly declared that he is not interested to become President, was way and way ahead of all the other 6 ames I included in the list.

I remember too that Vice President Binay came in the at the tail end of the seven names, even lower than DILG Sec. Mar Roixas who lost to Binay in the 2010 Vice Presidential elections.

Now, the survey I conducted may not be scientific and it could be inaccurate and unacceptable in social survey standards.

But one thing is clear: I had no ulterior motive or hidden agenda, neither was I commissioned by Duterte, in conducting the survey.

Which brings us to the question: Who commissioned the Pulse Asia survey on the leading presidentiables? Meaning, who paid for the survey?

Also, why was Duterte not included in the list of personalities who were subject of the survey of Pulse Asia?

I have nothing against Vice President Binay. He may yet prove to be a good President if elected.

But I hate it when people and groups try to manipulate my mind into believing something as the truth by continuously repeating a lie.

I am not a moron neither am I stupid. So too are tens of millions of other Filipinos who understand the meaning of mind conditioning.