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Now that he is a full-fledged politician and in the midst of campaign skullduggery, Manny Pacquiao needs to pull a Richard M. Nixon.
Like Nixon, Pacman needs to compile an Enemies List.
Nixon's list included the political opposition, media types and anyone else who wasn't on the Tricky ****ie Team when he was in the White House.
Here's Wikipedia on the purpose and plan of that list:
The official purpose, as described by the White House Counsel's Office, was to "screw" Nixon's political enemies, by means of tax audits from the Internal Revenue Service, and by manipulating "grant availability, federal contracts, litigation, prosecution, etc."[3]
In a memorandum from John Dean to Lawrence Higby (August 16, 1971), Dean explained the purpose of the list succinctly:
“ This memorandum addresses the matter of how we can maximize the fact of our incumbency in dealing with persons known to be active in their opposition to our Administration; stated a bit more bluntly—how we can use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies.[3] ”
Quick example of those who made Nixon's Hit List:
12. DAVIDOFF, SIDNEY
New York City
Lindsay’s top personal aide.
A first class S.O.B., wheeler-dealer and suspected bagman. Positive results would really shake the Lindsay camp and Lindsay’s plans to capture youth vote. Davidoff in charge.
13. CONYERS, JOHN
Congressman, Detroit
Coming on fast. Emerging as a leading black anti-Nixon spokesman. Has known weakness for white females.
19. PAUL NEWMAN
California
Radic-lib causes. Heavy McCarthy involvement ’68. Used effectively in nationwide T.V. commercials. ’72 involvement certain.
20. MC GRORY, MARY
2710 Macomb Street, Washington
Columnist
Daily hate Nixon articles.
Pacquiao and his henchmen (hello, Chavit Singson, how are the lions and tigers?) could do this themselves but I want to help Manny out here.
I figure he's so swamped battling this demagogue Roy Chiongbian in Sarangani that he doesn't actually have time.
This is the reverse of the FOP (Friends of Pacquiao) List.
So I am stepping up, right now to list the key Pacquiao Enemies, the who, the what and the what for:
1. FLOYD MAYWEATHER JR.: Will he step or step off after beating Sugar Shane Mosley in what could be a dreary showing on May 1. If all Mayweather does is flick, run and shoulder roll and Mosley responds by double clutching and other hugging tactics, the snooze alarms will be need to be set before Round One. Mayweather's already got his convenient excuse for NOT fighting Manny, the random blood testing canard. His real fear? Getting KTFO'd and having a slight blemish on his precious pro record.
2. ROY CHIONGBIAN: This guy and his cohorts are throwing rocks at opponent Pacman but then hiding their hands. No one wants to identified as a sleazeball slinging mud at the Pinoy Idol. I'd have more respect for Chionbian and his fat cat cronies if he or they said, "Training under Freddie Roach at the Wild Card Gym hardly qualifies you to represent the people of Sarangani in the halls of Congress. Popularity isn't a qualifier for public office." Instead, Chiongbian's Dirty Tricks Posse slimes Da Pacman under the cover of night. Pacman, meanwhile, is trying to keep it realtively clean like so:
“Hindi ito dapat igaya sa boxing dahil tao ang nagdedesisyon dito. (We should not equate this campaign to a boxing bout because in this case it's the people who decide.) We offer our services to them. Hindi kailangan ang siraan, dapat ipahayag ang magandang intensyon. Iba ang pulitika at iba ang boxing (We don't need mudslinging, just present your good intentions. Politics is different from boxing)," he said.
3. JOE CALSLAPPY AKA CALZAGHE: He's been driving the Night Train, high on *******. He told tabloid reporters masquerading as potential sponsors (who sponsors a retired fighter and for what?) that Ricky Hatton, whose massive popularity has always made Joe jealous, that Hatton has "no punch resistance" and "got knocked out by a nobody." Pacquiao is a nobody, Joe? He's on the Pound for Pound throne that you never won universal acclaim for. Now put away the Bolivian Marching Powder and wipe the blood off your nose, son. Manny has beaten down icons named Morales, Barrera, Marquez and de la Hoya...now name one icon you ever defeated? Ah, the sounds of silence reverbating through the room. Instead of slamming Manny, Hatton. Amir Khan and Lennox Lewis, be happy if Queen Elizabeth does not confiscate your CBE and OBE trinkets.
4. TRAVIS TYGART, US Anti Doping Agency: He's all but convicted Pacquiao as a durg cheater as he sucks up to Mayweather. Trust me, I know a suckup when I see and hear one, I really do. Tygart is supposed to be a neutral party but his lust for the scalp of icon Pacquiao has overcome his objectivity...if he ever had any. Tygart wants Pacman;s head, he can taste it the way that Brother Tyson tasted Brother Holyfield's earlobes. He should just put on his Mayweather cheerleader outfit and wave his pom poms in the air like he just don't care. I think we should do random blood testing on Tygart, how's that?
5. EDWIN VALERO: Big surprise in macho Venezuela. His wife won't press charges against him for her collapsed lung and multiple bruises. Maybe it was a skiiing accident in downtown Caracas. Oh, I see...she slipped on the requisite banana peel and roller skate carelessly left on the stairway. Even her mother in law cosigns this story. Valero has real drug and alcohol issues so let him go to rehab, which it's said he is doing, and get himself clean and sober...Then and only then should he even be slightly considered as a Pacquiao opponent. Personally, I like Valero and his ring style is fan friendly but his pattern of misconduct is pathological. How will Bob Arum clean up this mess? Guess he could say, "Edwin's handwraps have always been kosher."
This just in: Whacky Venezuelan leader Hugo Casto declares: "Under the Unified Rules of Scumbags who pepertrate domestic violence, the three knockdown rule is in effect as to all women and children in my country. You get two free shots, no more."
6. BOB ARUM: Surprised? It may be a bit of hyperbole, which I normally eschew, but these are not normal times. If Uncle Bob does not understand that Pacquiao must fight Mayweather and will be wasting time with Bobby's Bullpen filled with Grade B opposition, Margarito being a prime example, then I give up. I know Bob has not been beset by an onrushing case of senility so I know that you know that he knows that we all know his mission is simple, his mission is Get Mayweather and deliver him on a golden plate to Pacman.
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