The Sun suspend Kelvin Mackenzie

[LamieRobertson]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39603942

 

[Shatner's Bassoon]

The bloke's clearly an absolute ********, but the hypocrisy of this from the Sun is ridiculous.

 

[knocky1]

By, and for, his bollocks I hope.

 

[Coldeanseagull]

Whilst I feel Barkley is a bit of a mutton head....as are most footballers who spent their youth playing a game they were good at rather than being studious... the comments of the hack are most certainly out of order and akin to someone who has a stereotypical outlook

 

[DJ NOBO]

Great to see kelvin mackenzie get suspended, great to see the sun look stupid, but i highly doubt Mackenzie was being deliberately racist

 

[vegster]

He is just a despicable piece of lowlife and his rag is no better.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Even if he didn't know he was mixed race, it's very insulting and abusive.

 

[portlock seagull]

Not exactly racist, but let's just enjoy the fact this lowlife is getting his cumuppence

 

[knocky1]

Not exactly racist, but let's just enjoy the fact this lowlife is getting his cumuppence

I like Ross Barkley.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Funnily enough, today's Popbitch email had THIS in:

If you’re one of the remaining
few who can still bear to read
Kelvin MacKenzie’s column in the
Sun, you’ll maybe have wondered
why he’s been mentioning his
price comparison website, A
Spokesman Said, so much. Well,
it’s because he desperately
needs it to take off.

Kelv is facing an expensive
divorce. Remember a couple of
years back we reported that
he was having an affair with
a secretary at the Sun, and
was all set to shack up with
her until getting cold feet
at the last minute? His wife
has finally decided to give
him the boot and is set to
take him to the cleaners.

Presumably the reason he’s
working the self-promotion
angle so hard is that he knows
Rebekah Brooks is aching to bin
his 300K a year column – cutting
costs and helping to detoxify
the Sun’s brand in one easy
move. He’s hanging on by a
thread (thanks to support from
editor Tony Gallagher and owner
Rupert Murdoch) so is almost
literally trying to make hay
while the Sun shines.

 

[Eeyore]

Not exactly racist, but let's just enjoy the fact this lowlife is getting his cumuppence

Yes, anything that hangs that utter scum of a human specimen out to dry is fine by me.

 

[spring hall convert]

The irony that he'll hopefully get his commupance by virtue of something I suspect he wasn't being deliberately racist about is delicious.

It's been a long time coming.

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[catfish]

And yet all those knuckle draggers keep on buying the rag.

 

[Southern Scouse]

He is just a by-product of the s*n. Both should have been drowned down the toilet a long time ago.
At my age there are not many people I would walk up to and give a slap, but that piece is shite deserves it.

 

[Pevenseagull]

Funnily enough, today's Popbitch email had THIS in:

If you’re one of the remaining
few who can still bear to read
Kelvin MacKenzie’s column in the
Sun, you’ll maybe have wondered
why he’s been mentioning his
price comparison website, A
Spokesman Said, so much. Well,
it’s because he desperately
needs it to take off.

Kelv is facing an expensive
divorce. Remember a couple of
years back we reported that
he was having an affair with
a secretary at the Sun, and
was all set to shack up with
her until getting cold feet
at the last minute? His wife
has finally decided to give
him the boot and is set to
take him to the cleaners.

Presumably the reason he’s
working the self-promotion
angle so hard is that he knows
Rebekah Brooks is aching to bin
his 300K a year column – cutting
costs and helping to detoxify
the Sun’s brand in one easy
move. He’s hanging on by a
thread (thanks to support from
editor Tony Gallagher and owner
Rupert Murdoch) so is almost
literally trying to make hay
while the Sun shines.

(Ignoring a few of the players named) ........ 300K per ..... that's not even Leon Best money.

 

[BadFish]

And yet all those knuckle draggers keep on buying the rag.

They should also be suspended

 

[scousefan]

The background to this is the long running feud between the Sun and the people of Liverpool over its Hillsborough coverage. The Sun is not sold in many parts of Liverpool and this article reflects the way in which the Sun despises Liverpool. I am not a true scouser, I was brought up in Sussex, but the depiction of Liverpool in the Sun is and has been a disgrace. I have met Ross Barclay's Dad. It was his grandfather who was from Nigeria. These comments are completely out of order and the worst hack of all has been rightly suspended. I for one hope he gets prosecuted.

 

[Lenny Rider]

Whoever the author is any column in the Sun would go through at least three different members of staff (editor, sub editor and legal department) before publication, therefore there has to be more to this than meets the eye, as alluded to in another post.

Either that or with the Standard being edited by George Osbourne, the Sun have appointed the dog that won BGT as their new editor.

 

[hopkins]

Have we got to the point where each journalist has to check the family tree of the person they are writing about. A grandfather is a touch to far back to be offended. And the drug dealers "joke" is just that, a joke. Everybody is so scared to offend scousers it offends me !

For reference, I can't stand Kelvin McKenzie. But please dont tell me what newspaper I can and can't read

 

[looney]

He had his glory days, sticking it to the left in th 80s, helped break the printing unions bullying tactics.