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by **112-1077774096** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 2:03 pm

from todays echo. it deserves its own thread, anyone fancy going to one of these dinners?

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.

by **account deleted by request** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 2:07 pm

He is a first class kunt.

by **Rafa D** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 2:09 pm

Kelvin McKenzie - you horrible little :censored:

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by **Rafa D** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 2:12 pm

This tits company

Just got a load of emails from me to each department, letting them know exactly what I think of their chairman. BELLEND

by **red37** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 2:15 pm

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

No, true.....but he'd know a f**king size 11 bovver boot hovering above it sure enough! - the Bast@rd.

by **67-1161385641** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 2:15 pm

I hope he dies a horrible, slow and painful death.

by **ConnO'var** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 2:21 pm

Slimeball..... scum of the earth....
I hate to sink to his level.... but heaven forbid should he ever cross my path! I'll beat the living daylights out of the S.O.B... to an inch of his life!!!

:angry:

by **Red_lass** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 3:48 pm

Wow..i can't imagine what he say to himself at night so can sleep peacefully.

@rse-hole!! :veryangry

by **joko** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 4:04 pm

how could he say that ?!
totally kvnt! :angry:

by **Woollyback** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 12:19 am

if kelvin mckenzie died in his sleep tonight i firmly believe the world would be a better place in the morning. what an absolute f*cking low-life, wanting to boost his name and presence at ANYBODY'S expense, has he NO SHAME?? :angry:

p*ssing on the corpses of the fallen at hillsborough? i don't think so kelvin you sh*twipe. but every one of them will be queueing up to p*ss on your grave you horrible cunt. let's hope they don't have much longer to wait.

by **skipper** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 1:07 am

Definitely a first class kunt. The world would definitely be a better place without idiots like him.

by **Lando_Griffin** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 2:16 am

Only way to sort c*ckheaded w*nkers like him out.

:angry:

by **RUSHIE#9** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 2:31 am

I've stood in dog turds on the street that are of more value and meaning to this earth than him.

Maybe Rafa-Dodd is onto something by bombarding that company with e-mails of complaint. Knocking him off of a few company boards might just consign this toe rag to the gutter that he came from. :angry:

by **el_stinger** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 2:39 am

You turn your back to your dog when they are doing something wrong. It's bleedin hard to turn your back on nut jobs like this.

The entire media industry should turn their backs on this pr1ck and never, ever offer him a job in the industry.

HE deserves to be mugged and urinated on!! :angry:

by **Kharhaz** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 3:12 am

http://www.davidrowan.com/2003/11/interview-kelvin-mackenzie-talksport.html

At 57, the former Sun editor and current boss of the Wireless Group admits to being "vaguely more liberal" these days. "All that old 'pulpit poofs' stuff was 15 bloody years ago," he says about his days writing gay-baiting and Frogbashing headlines at The Sun (which is "very good these days"). "I'm just older now and I've moved on," he says. "Mind you, I did used to enjoy aggravating everybody..."

Still does it would appear....

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