Yup, Pinky Webb’s professional hair flip scene while on air is definitely a mood!
CNN Philippines news anchor Pinky Webb has been making waves on social media after her interview with Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque on Wednesday, January 20.
The subtle ‘scene’ started when the spokesman, who is a former UP law professor, asked about honor and excellence in relation to a government move allowing troops inside his alma mater, the University of the Philippines.
In the interview, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque reacted to UP professor Danilo Arao's call for all alumni of the university who are top-level government officials to "denounce" the pact's termination.
(Read: [Editoryal] Ano ang epekto ng pagbuwag ng kasunduan ng UP at National Defense?)
Roque said that he’s asking the DND Secretary and the President of UP to sit down, and he offered my good offices to facilitate this meeting.
CNN anchor Pinky Webb then pressed Roque to give his personal opinion, separate from his role as Duterte's spokesman.
"There’s really no such thing when you are a Presidential spokesperson," Roque replied. "All I’m saying is let’s talk about this, I support the steps of the UP President, and let’s see why a 30-year-old accord should not be continued when it has worked, apparently perfectly well, in the past 30 years."
"I’m not duty-bound by anything that Prof. Areo says," he added.
After a commercial break, Roque told Webb that he needs to highlight the fact that he thought that the question on Arao was unfair and insisted on being duty-bound and follow anything that Prof. Arao says.
The emotions went high and started to ‘attack’ Webb who he thought made it as a compulsory to follow and answer the question.
Webb told him, "Don't get me wrong. I’m not saying you were duty-bound."
"What was the basis for that?" Roque asked, prompting the journalist to reply, "It was a tweet, sir."
Roque then started to cut off the prominent journalist while explaining her point.
"And where is the basis? Tell your viewers now. Where is the basis that I should follow what Danny Arao says? It’s not just you asking for a reaction, you were pursuing, ‘Will you denounce?’” he said.
Webb replied, “Okay then. If you say why should you answer it, and if you answered it that way, sir, then I would have to take it as is. It was just a challenge—"
Meanwhile while listening to Roque’s on the verge of rage, Pinky Webb professionally maintained her composure and gave Harry Roque a ‘hair flip’ as we have seen on the clip,
“Yes, but you’re pushing the point, going beyond asking for my reaction,” quipped Roque. “‘Will you denounce it?’ You said it on record, the TV recorded it. You have to be fair.”
“I am trying to be fair Secretary Roque," the anchor told him. "I was not—”
“You were not,” Roque said, cutting her off again.
Netizens praise Webb for her calmness shown in the situation.
See some reactions below:
Well, it seems like Roque’s not fit for the miss congeniality award when it comes to media—he always makes sure that his sided ‘unforgettable’ scenes with the members of the press will always be a hit.