Asshole TV

Di ka namin tatantanan!

If you have no idea who’s that man in the picture above, let me give you a brief description:
He walks into the scene where his team have surveillanced an alleged “double dead” meat vendor. He rages in with his dark sunglasses and suit, points the finger at the store owner and demands them to surrender his “illegal” pork meat. The Filipino-Chinese owner hesitated, claiming that don’t have any warrants for searching. He yelled at him in an instant, ordering him to step out of the store and he would pummel every piece of pathetic human being that he is. Even police authorities never bug him, he had an argument with a hesitant cop so he quickly inquired about his rank. The police answered “SP02”, he immediately rebutted “SP02 ka lang pala eh, mga Kapitan at General nga pinaluluhod ko. Marami ka pang bigas na kakainin!”.

Man! This guy is a total asshole! I like it!

He is Ben Tulfo. His brothers are Mon, Raffy and Erwin…the three has been dropped with charges heavier than the complainant itself, Mike “Fat Bastard” Arroyo. His program is called Bitag. With it's main slogan "Lumulusob. Humaharap. Hindi ito drama...di tulad ng iba!". It's production value and the quality of their footages are very low, but you’re not going to watch it for cinematography purposes anyway. You’ll watch it because this damn egoistic jerk is there slapping his dangling weiner at everybody’s face. Cool!

His program tries to capture and humiliate on camera the common threats of society: abusive policemen, illegal recruiters, malicious government officials, cybersex den owners, con artists, “tupada” operators, you name every villainous scum in the streets of Manila, they have it! I mean, all this type of social trash makes this world a harder place to live in. They deserved to be mauled, yelled, and be humiliated before they end up in bars. Ben Tulfo makes sure they truly deserve it well.

He comes in, metaphorically pisses on the whole place (owning it) and yells at the accused individual. If the latter argues back, he invites him outside for a fist fight. If the victim backs out (which happens 100% of the time), he would receive a major influx of insult: “Bahag ang buntot, walang betlog, sobrang takot na naihi sa saluwal, lukoluko, ulol, tanga, gago, parang asong hinahanap ang amo, kuto na masarap tirisin, hunghang na halang ang kaluluwa” while proclaiming he’s a professional in every right. I look back at the tv screen and say to myself “Man! This guy is my idol! He is such a bad ass and everybody think it’s cool! I wanna be like that when I grow up!”. Uhmmm wait…I’m already a grown-up. Just skip the last part.