Yesterday Sen. Panfilo "Ping" Lacson gave a privilege speech on the Senate floor exposing former President Joseph "Erap" Estrada as having earned millions of pesos in the illegal numbers game or jueteng during his presidency.

This morning in the ABS-CBN program, "Umagang Kay Ganda," Estrada sought to defend himself by saying that Lacson was lying and fooling the people. This is how Estrada endears himself to the masses. He mentions "taumbayan" (the people) several times and then expresses love for the poor. He especially does this best when in front of a camera, since this is his medium. He then makes it seem he is innocent of the charges that sent him to jail.

Lest we quickly forget recent history, we must be reminded that Estrada’s ouster from the presidency was triggered by the revelations of a jueteng lord in the name of Luis "Chavit" Singson. Singson started to sing primarily because of jueteng territorial dispute and he feared Estrada was going to have him killed.

So was Lacson telling the truth? It’s hard to imagine he wasn’t. There’s talk that Lacson himself had his own shenanigans when he was PNP Chief. So, like Singson before him, here is another case of a thief exposing another thief.

After his privilege speech, Sen. Jinggoy Estrada was livid with anger. Of course! When you expose the father, you expose the son. In taking the Senate floor, he promised that he had his own revelations about Lacson.

There and then you can see the character of an Estrada. Jinggoy is not going to dispute Lacson’s revelations. Instead he’s going to throw more dirty linen on the Senate floor. How mature!

Meanwhile, I’m anticipating this and have already bought my popcorn.