TT has a lot to answer for, apparently I editted it once, fucked if I remember that.
MoyBlueBoy.
Iām pushing Bob Geldof for the award this year. What a cunt. Was on Reeling in the Years earlier. Was just as much of a cunt back then.
Just want to make sure Michael OāLeary is on here.
I donāt like the man.
[quote=āThe Runtā]Just want to make sure Michael OāLeary is on here.
I donāt like the man.[/quote]
Ever since he gave out about the all bosses in the Big Four practise where he worked he had my respect.
Michael O Leary always struck me as an alright sort, sound man to have a pint with too Iām sure, some day I might add him to the collection.
iād go along with that. the man talks an awful lot of sense
Ruth Dudley Edwards - This woman is pro loyalist super-cunt.
Fucking bitch. 
Iām sure heās already on this, but Bono the cunt is on Oprah now talking in a fookin American accent.
Heās some poxbottle
Kelvin McKenzie - what a complete and utter cunt.
If the phrase Little Englander was invented for anybody, it was invented for Kelvin MacKenzie. Rupert Murdoch adoringly described him as my little Hitler.
When MacKenzie took over from Larry Lamb as editor of The Sun in 1981, the paper, while still a success, was perceived to be on the slide. But within a year of MacKenzie taking over it had been firmly restored as Britains largest seller.
For Roy Greenslade, MacKenzies deputy in his early years as editor, the Sun was the litmus paper by which the rest of the media came to judge the changes in British working-class culture throughout the 1980s. Greenslade believes that MacKenzie was man who, more than anyone, was responsible for what he calls the Wild West period of tabloids.
Theres no doubt that in many ways MacKenzie was a brilliant editor. During his editorship the Sun was simply impossible to ignore. Wanting to offend people is his default position.
MacKenzies first really big controversy as Sun editor came during the 1982 Falklands War when the Argentinian cruiser the General Belgrano was sunk by a British torpedo. MacKenzie actually wrote the infamous Gotcha headline himself, not knowing that many Argentinians had died in the incident, but personally took the decision to change it when news of the deaths became known. But the Suns coverage of that war was relentlessly jingoistic.
When the current affairs magazine Private Eye satirised The Suns coverage with the mock headline Kill an Argie, win a Metro, MacKenzie is said to have responded by saying why didnt I think of that?
He stood steadfastly behind Margaret Thatcher throughout his editorship, through the miners strike, the Wapping dispute, and the Poll Tax riots. In 1985 his attempt to photographically portray miners union leader Arthur Scargill as a Hitler-like figure after Scargill gave a salute to a trade union meeting failed when the unionised workers simply refused to print the story.
But Rupert Murdochs successful seeing off of the print unions in the 1986 Wapping dispute effectively gave MacKenzie free reign to do whatever he wanted from then on. The only person he was answerable to was Murdoch.
The Suns reporting of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, when 96 Liverpool fans were crushed to death, was the absolute nadir of MacKenzies bullying style. On April 18th, three days after Hillsborough, MacKenzie made the decision that would define his career for ever. He decided to run with a front page banner headline entitled simply The Truth, claiming that Liverpool fans had picked the pockets of the dead, had urinated on police officers at the scene, and had beat up police and ambulance workers trying to resuscitate the dead and injured.
Nobody was able to stand up to MacKenzie in his drive to get the story out. It provoked a furious reaction, so much more so because it was proven to be completely false.
The depth of tastelessness of the headline was such that even Rupert Murdoch ordered MacKenzie to publically apologise for it on BBC Radio the next day. Despite MacKenzies ham-fisted apology, The Sun itself never apologised for the story (until 2004 when MacKenzie had long departed) and a boycott of the paper in Liverpool meant its readership there completely collapsed.
Kenny Dalglish, Liverpool manager at the time, described a phone conversation he had with MacKenzie shortly after the story appeared.
āHow can we correct the situation?ā, MacKenzie said.
You know that big headline The Truth, Dalglish replied. All you have to do is put āWe Liedā in the same size. Then you might be all right.
I cannot do thatā MacKenzie said.
Well, Dalglish replied, I cannot help you then.
However in 2006 MacKenzie said: I was not sorry then and Iām not sorry now" about the Hillsborough story. Despite the findings of the official government enquiry MacKenzie said: 'All I did wrong there was tell the truth. There was a surge of Liverpool fans who had been drinking and that is what caused the disaster. He then refused once again to apologise when confronted on the issue on BBCs Question Time in January 2007.
Greenslade maintains that MacKenzie refuses to apologise now because of his loathing of Liverpudlians and how the city has traditionally stood for all that MacKenzie detests trade unionism, socialism, and working class solidarity.
On Wednesday, there was precious little forgiveness in the air at Anfield as 20 years since the disaster were marked. If anything, the people of Liverpool are even more bitter than they were then.
After leaving The Sun in 1994 MacKenzie pursued a string of failed ventures. Initially he moved to another Murdoch company BSkyB, but had an unhappy six months there. His next project wasLive TV, which featured programmes such as Topless Darts, and tried to make the news more entertaining by introducing a news bunny who gave a thumbs up or down according to whether he found the story interesting or not.
If most people mellow with age, MacKenzie seemingly does the opposite. Three years ago he said that Janet Street-Porter, who he had a huge falling out with during their brief time working together at Live TV, would need to pay 4.7million to join him in a night of passion. MacKenzie said Street-Porter would be willing and that he had calculated the figure based on loss of reputation, the negative impact on future earnings etc. For that kind of return I suspect even my nearest and dearest would applaud.
MacKenzie added that if he had one bucket of shit left, he would pour it over fellow ex-Sun editor David Yelland. Of Yelland, he said: I dont really hate him or anything, but I know it drives him mad when I have a dig.
Looking back generally on his time as editor of The Sun, MacKenzie is unrepentant. When I published those stories, they were not lies. They were great stories that later turned out to be untrue - and that is different. What am I supposed to feel ashamed about?
For the last three years, MacKenzie has been back at his spiritual home, as a columnist. He says he is useless at writing his column, which takes him a day and a half to complete. At 21, I stopped writing and started making up headlines and laying out pages. So, I find writing a bizarrely difficult routine.
MacKenzie admits that he thinks his time as editor at had a positively downhill impact on journalism, Discussing his current Sun column, he describes his style as vile, saying I want to get the Lonsdale Belt for being vile and be personally rude to as many people as possible.
And hes certainly back causing controversy. Jim Sheridan, a Scottish MP, accused MacKenzie of āirresponsible and dangerousā journalism after he called Scots tartan tosspots and suggested that the English ābuild Hadrianās Wall another hundred foot higher and start airlifting in Red Cross parcels of Mars barsā. Mackenzies grandfather is, ironically, Scottish.
He says that he now tips his hat off to other column writers. As editor, he treated them like Hitchcock treated actors - like cattle. But he still has no regrets about being a bully. I worked very hard to be unreasonable - I went to evening classes. Look, I am not here to be helpful. I am here to help myself, right, so I have no regrets how I treated some people.
Nominating Tubridy. Heāll be hard bet.
Benny Dunne should be in here after yesterday.
Played against Toome loads of times from u12 to Minor. Brislane and Dunne were cunts of the highest order always. One difference was that Brislane would do you out in front of everyone - No bother, whereas Dunne was a sneaky cunt. In the high pressure situation that presented itself on Sunday, Dunneās default position was to be a cunt.
To be fair to Benny, there was nothing sneaky about how he done it on Sunday!
His natural instinct kicked in!
It must be something in the Tipp breeding, sure didnāt Leahy give a similar kind of belt in Manchester;)ā¦
Pukey takes aim at the Tipp folk on this difficult weekā¦
Thin iceā¦