McKenzie is at it again

[desertscouser]

Scum bag of the highest order.

[CharlieMansonsSquint]

I want him to get cancer of the eyes.

I wouldn't wish this on anyone - but for him I'll make an exception.

[AFII]

He probably got paid for talking s**t like this. I can't imagine that he did it on a free.

[NICKZS]

Filth. He would need killing 96 times over for me to feel any sort of satisfaction

[Jack D Rips]

I should also have told you that the cnut is on BBCs Questiontime panel on Thursday next.

Can anyone make the audience

[AFII]

I should also have told you that the cnut is on BBCs Questiontime panel on Thursday next.

Can anyone make the audience

He will probably be paid for that to.

[Chris]

He's makes me angry like not many other people can and I dont even know him (Thankfully). How this **** hasnt been seen to yet i'll never know.

[Mumsafan]

I remember Dunk once making out he was on Question Time

[AFII]

I remember Dunk once making out he was on Question Time

I remember that one.

[Shaggy]

I should also have told you that the cnut is on BBCs Questiontime panel on Thursday next.

Can anyone make the audience

Never mind the audience, somebody ought to be “waiting” for the c*nt outside. Where is it being filmed?

[Tee]

He is a disrespectful, vile, obnoxious piece of **** that should be flushed back down the sewer. Makes my blood boil reading that ****.

[spud_gun]

Ignore him he'll go away.

[AFII]

The sorry thing is that he won't go away. He will talk as long as someone pay him to do that.

[cadmium]

I remember that one.

Dunk = big time

[AFII]

THE TRUTH: This idiot doesn't know the meaning of the word!

Dec 1 2006

Voice Of The Echo


Liverpool Echo

KELVIN MacKenzie today insulted the victims of Hillsborough by claiming the Sun newspaper's vile allegations against Liverpool fans were true.

The ex-Sun editor made his latest arrogant self-justification by saying Reds fans caused the tragedy that left 96 supporters dead.

Incredibly, only six weeks ago, he gave an interview admitting the Sun's sickening coverage had "turned out to be untrue".

Yesterday, earning cash as a speaker at a business lunch in Newcastle, he said the Sun's reports were the truth.


"I wasn't sorry then and I'm not sorry now," he said.

This was the same man who issued a grovelling apology to the people of Liverpool the day after the Sun's outrageous article.

The accusations, which he claimed were supplied by a Tory MP and backed by former South Yorkshire police chief David Duckenfield, included:

* Fans were drunk and stormed the gates.

* Some urinated on the bodies of the dead.

* Others stole wallets from the corpses.

All of the Sun's pronouncements were exposed as lies by an ECHO investigation and later by the Justice Taylor inquiry into the 1989 tragedy.

Sadly, MacKenzie's pathetic fabrication opens up the agonising wounds for the thousands of people affected by the disaster.

This is a man now trying to hack it as a columnist in the downmarket tabloid he once edited.

It is a paper which has never regained its circulation on Merseyside.

Clearly it is in his commercial interests to stay in the public eye, and he is not bothered how he does it.

Yesterday he told around 100 guests that he had only apologised because the newspaper's owner, Rupert Murdoch, had ordered him to.

His comments came after he was asked by one of the guests at the lunch if he ever visited Liverpool.

"I went on the World at One the next day and apologised. I only did that because Rupert Murdoch told me to," he said.

"I wasn't sorry then and I'm not sorry now because we told the truth.

"There was a surge of Liverpool fans who had been drinking and that is what caused the disaster."

Yet in 2004, in what the ECHO suspects was a blatant attempt to pull back sales on Merseyside, the Sun made a formal apology.

The paper said it was "truly sorry" and that its false allegations were "the most terrible mistake in history."

With its former editor now trying to re-invent the truth the paper may do well to consider dumping the column he currently writes for them.

His words today sparked a furious backlash.

Phil Hammond, chairman of the Hillsborough Family Support Group, branded the comments callous and challenged him to repeat them to him face to face.

Mr Hammond, whose 14-year-old son died in the tragedy, said: "This just shows what kind of man he is.

"It has been proven that the story was a pack of lies yet here he is all these years later peddling his lies on the after-dinner speaking circuit.

"Why doesn't he come and tell the families this to their faces instead of using it as material in a speech to a group of solicitors?

"If he really believed he was printing the truth and stood by what he said then why didn't he walk away when Rupert Murdoch supposedly made him make this apology?"

A spokesman for Liverpool FC said: "Any comment of that nature would be totally inappropriate and hugely disappointing."

Walton MP Peter Kilfoyle said: "His comments just reinforce the fact that he was an unfit person to run a national newspaper.

"Everybody knows he sanctioned that story and he will have to live with that."

Today's outrage is the product of one man's uncontrollable ego that prevents him from separating fact from fiction, that puts a good headline ahead of human compassion and a cheap laugh ahead of a city's dignity.

The worst punishment Liverpool can dish out to the one time beast of Fleet Street is to ignore him.

The truth? MacKenzie wouldn't know it if it hit him in the face.

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