Kelvin McFilth Lying AGAIN

As he promised earlier in the week, former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie returned to the recent acquittal of Neil “Wolfman” Wallis in his column yesterday, to enlarge on his accusations against the hated BBC, and the interview Wallis gave to Evan Davis on Newsnight. Kel had a key fact to tell his readers, but one fact he did not disclose was that his pants were well and truly alight.

“If my friend Neil Wallis’s mauling from Evan Davis is the norm, is it any wonder that nobody goes on BBC’s Newsnight any more?” he asked, seemingly unaware that the show is not experiencing a shortage of guests. There was more. “Wallis, the former deputy editor of the News of the World, had just been cleared of phone hacking and was urged to go on the clapped-out show by a researcher saying he could tell his story of the impact the charge had on his life”. Yes? Yes yes? Yes yes yes?

“The minion added in a throwaway line that Mr Wallis would face a couple of questions of a ‘surely you must have known’ variety”. That is a problem, Kel? “The reality was that Davis, who looks like an emaciated version of the Children In Need teddy bear, concentrated solely on that aspect for the entire interview and appeared to doubt the jury’s verdict because it had taken four days”. Allegedly, Kel. But do go on.

“The jury foreman Tweeted Mr Wallis after the show to explain that it took four days because they methodically went through the hundreds of pages of evidence. The way the audience is going under Davis, there will be more guests than viewers shortly [note that he just contradicted himself]. Who could blame them?”

And, as Jon Stewart might have said, two things here. One, the Tweet that Kel references - yes, it does exist - from Cameron Mercer, who describes himself as “Mr Foreman”, does not support the pundit’s claims. “We thoroughly went through everything, and were happy to see the verdict went the right way. Respect to you Neil” it tells. So there is nothing about “hundreds of pages of evidence”. And it gets worse. A lot worse.

Kel says “The jury foreman Tweeted Mr Wallis after the show”. The Tweet from Mercer to Wallis is marked 0835 hours on July 1. Wallis appeared on Newsnight the following day - the interview was broadcast more than a day and a half later than that Tweet. So not only did MacKenzie lie about the contents of the Tweet, he lied about its timing.

Kelvin McFilth once said, apropos of one of the Sun’s most notorious mistakes, “Basically my view was that if it sounded right it was probably right and therefore we should lob it in”. Well, he’s been caught lobbing it in once more, and once more he’s been caught lying, thus confirming that you can’t trust anything this shower of shit says.

Kel is the Murdoch press personified. That, folks, is all you need to know about it.