Get this liar off the air
I was planning to write a blog previewing tonight's game against Portsmouth; about how much I was looking forward to going to Anfield tonight following Sunday's amazing win at Stamford Bridge; about the feel-good factor of being a Red at the present moment; about how much I was looking forward to seeing Peter Crouch given a standing ovation by the Kop; about how much I hoped Liverpool would grab the bull be the horns after going top of the Premier League. Sadly though, an old enemy of our club and city has reared his ugly head yet again.
For anyone who has been on another planet for the past few days, Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand played at best what was an insensitive prank on the Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs and there's been a national outcry about it. Despite the country sliding into recession, the prime minister has even seen fit to comment on the matter.
Whatever your views on Ross and Brand's antics, surely they weren't as bad as kicking a city when it was at its lowers ebb and preparing to bury its dead? Yet that's what Kelvin McKenzie did with his outrageous lies under the headline "The Truth" - lies he's since admitted he stands by. Now the very same Kelvin McKenzie is leading the public out-cry against Ross and Brand. Did Ross and Brand accuse anyone of urinating on policemen? NO. Did they accuse anyone of stealing from dead bodies? NO. Did they accuse anyone of beating a gate down? NO. For McKenzie to protest at their antics is akin to Robert Mugabe preaching about the virtues of human rights.
Yet the same broadcaster who have suspended Ross and Brand give McKenzie air-time to preach his rank hypocrisy, despite the fact that he's never apologised for what he said in 1989 and despite the Taylor Report condemning his filthy lies as exactly that. They're not the only ones - hearing McKenzie's voice on the radio news prompted me to write this piece. (I didn't see the TV piece with him). The very mention of his name makes my skin crawl. The fact that somebody sees fit to pay him money from OUR license fee to air his views is beyond contempt. According to a poster on the Red and White Kop forum, the BBC received 1,500 complaints about Ross and Brand and now they've taken the pair off air. Surely then we, as Liverpool fans, can do the same to get McKenzie off the air?
E-mail the BBC at the following address: http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/complaints_stage1.shtml
Tell them we don't want this hypocrite on television, radio or any other means of media from where he can spout his poisonous views. Tell them it's OUR license fee that pays his wages every time they employ him. And tell them 96 fellow Reds still haven't had justice nearly 20 years on, a fact for which Kelvin McKenzie is at least partly responsible and not in the least bit remorseful.
YNWA
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Strong stuff mate, but i totally agree with what you've said and im surprised that there hasn't been any responses to this.
Here is the response I got from the BBC after complaining:
Dear Mr **********
Thanks for your e-mail regarding 'Breakfast'.
I understand that you object to Kelvin MacKenzie making a guest appearance on this programme and appreciate that your reasons for this lie with how you believe he inflicted further suffering on those affected by the Hillsborough disaster of 1989. I note that you feel an apology needs to be issued on behalf of the people of Liverpool who lost so many of their people during the disaster and that you don't wish to see Mr MacKenzie on our channels again.
I can refer you to the following statement, which was issued by BBC Breakfast after Mr MacKenzie appeared on the programme:
"Thanks for your correspondence.
'Breakfast' has had a wide range of guests on the Ross/Brand story since it broke last weekend. We try to reflect a range of opinion. Kelvin MacKenzie is well known for his strong views. He is also an established critic of the BBC. He has been a former editor of a national newspaper and the boss of a national radio station. We thought he was well placed to comment on being at the centre of a media fire-storm, the media coverage of the story and the way the BBC had dealt with the issue. He appeared along with Will Wyatt, a former managing director of BBC Television, who offered some alternative views to Mr MacKenzie.
Yours Sincerely
BBC Breakfast"
I appreciate the strength of your feeling on this occasion and can assure you that your complaint has been registered on our audience log and made available to BBC management.
Great thinking! That rlealy breaks the mold!
Walking in the presence of gaitns here. Cool thinking all around!