JWAC 2,264 Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 She's free, free, free at last markem 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Wilmot's Wedding Brek 299 Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 Why 'support' someone who had to apologise for lying? Got what she deserved. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thewhitesettler 2,712 Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 Spiers said that a Rangers director is alleged, to have told him that another Rangers director, has sung TBB anthem. Who is this director? He should be sacked for speaking to that bastard Spiers! As for the Hag, she's doing now, what she does best, playing the victim. She's a horrible, hate filled, spiteful, bitch. chris182, IainB, Copland bear and 1 other 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMac 1,405 Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 http://www.thedrum.com/news/2016/01/29/nuj-condemns-herald-pandering-mob-mentality-departure-angela-haggerty-and-graham Piece saying that the NUJ condemn the sacking of Speirs and the Hag, which in fairness is the duty of a trade union. However if you scroll to the comment section it appears that the condemnation has been withdrawn. https://www.nuj.org.uk/news/herald-condemned-for-axing-of-columnist/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ChesterPerry 472 Posted January 30, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted January 30, 2016 A spokesman for Rangers FC told HTFP: “There was no legal complaint or legal action made against The Herald on behalf of Rangers. Rangers simply asked if The Herald and its writers could prove the allegations. “The outcome was an apology and the club is entirely satisfied with that.” HTFP is a site for journalism. ritchieshearercaldow, Sparkle, gmcf and 3 others 6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBluebells 6,898 Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 1 hour ago, Gary Wilmot's Wedding Brek said: Why 'support' someone who had to apologise for lying? Got what she deserved. Because it involved us and these 'journalists' believe they have a free reign to simply spout shite. Copland bear 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Bear 15,296 Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 Just spent hours reading all of this, not laughed so much in ages Now that they have got attention outside of Scotland hopefully it wont be long before a real journalist looks into how these bitter and twisted agenda driven pathetic little rodents actually behave. The only mob pandering going on is by those showing support for this pair of cretinous trolls. This should be brought up as much as possible in the interests of journalist integrity of course. ianferguson 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
STEPPS BOY 75,086 Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 Young Will is unhappy at the treatment of Spiers and the Hag.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RFC55 110,238 Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 4 minutes ago, STEPPS BOY said: Young Will is unhappy at the treatment of Spiers and the Hag.. He's a fucking honking wee rat of a boy Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creampuff 22,628 Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 ianferguson and thebluedoo 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
derekweir29 505 Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 Who is this cow, I dont pay much attention to the rags these days. Another one with hatred towards us I suspect. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluedart1952 1,378 Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 Went to bed early again last night as I have been ill all week, had thought all this was just a Dream, but have come on this Morning and its True. This is making me feel a little better, I am so pleased that those 2 scum bags have had a comeuppance, lets hope its the start of a domino effect on all the twisted taig media of Scotland. sonofbear and eejay the dj 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pure_Quality 3,296 Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 1 hour ago, STEPPS BOY said: Young Will is unhappy at the treatment of Spiers and the Hag.. The odious little wankshot (MacGiollaMurdo, not Spiers) had us as a New Club on Thursday. He's worse than the Spiers and Haggerty's of this world as he's meant to be one of our own. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebluedoo 2,652 Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 5 minutes ago, Pure_Quality said: The odibelievelittle wankshot (MacGiollaMurdo, not Spiers) had us as a New Club on Thursday. Yes worse than the Spiers and Haggerty's of this world as he's meant to be one of our own. Seriously, wow that Is really low, how bitter do you need to be to be spouting that pish Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smile 26,622 Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 Minutes silence in memory of her career at the game today. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
B1872 21,122 Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 I was thinking about this last night; is there any journalist apart from Adriam Durham that has a continual go at the paedophile supporters? Just sickens me that we are continuously under attack and it seems to be ok. Yet the scum across the city seem to get away with covering up child abuse, sectarian chanting and singing songs above murdering innocent people, attacking young boys with bottles, setting off flares, throwing bags of shite, attacking Rangers fans and very rarely they get any kind of stick. This whole thing is a campaign by people like Spiers, Thomson, The Hag, McMurdo, English, Collymore, Greenslade, Gordon, Gollum, the pension killer and Spence to destroy us. We should never stop until everyone one of these disgusting cretins are removed from their roles. We've won a few battles with the removal of Collymore from BT, they two nuggets from the Herald, Spence from the BBC. However we're yet to win the war by getting rid of the rest. The biggest challenge will be getting rid of the hate filled journalists in the BBC as this appears to be deep rooted and connected all the way to the top. Ornaybe I'm just being a paranoid Protestant again!!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
derekweir29 505 Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 Had a look through the old tinterne,t and Ill be honest didn't know who she was. Her twitter account was enough. This tweet from a rangers supporter stood out, surely a wind up. No bluenose would write this shit. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BridgeIsBlue 66,654 Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 3 hours ago, Darth Bear said: Look at the fucking state of him trying to drum up a reasonable deflection tactic Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
centenarystand 2,229 Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 If she wasn't such a hate filled spiteful bigot she wouldn't be in this position. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smile 26,622 Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 1 minute ago, centenarystand said: If she wasn't such a hate filled spiteful bigot she wouldn't be in this position. Exactly when all else fails blame all the problems on Rangers. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virtuoso 27,180 Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 McMurdo shows his true colours today. Fucking weasel. Quote Fear And Loathing In The Land Of Despite Whatever your football affiliation, you have to be concerned that any football club could have the kind of undue influence which would cause a respected newspaper to fire two journalists to appease that club. I refer to the recent departure from The Herald and Sunday Herald of Graeme Spiers and Angela Haggerty respectively. Their exit from their positions '" and the manner of it '" is an appalling indictment on the state of the media in Scotland in these times. The Herald has swamped itself with accusations of cowardice and toadying to commercial interests by the removal of Spiers and Haggerty, who are already being elevated to martyr status by fellow journos, politicians and anyone else with a tuppence worth to contribute. My own view is that both have been hard done by. I share the view that they have been thrown under a bus by their former employer but I think the martyr thing is taking it too far. Both Spiers and Haggerty have long histories of provoking Rangers' fans and living on the edge of notoriety when it comes to their views on matters RFC. Victims they may be but they are casualties in a war they heartily engaged in. Spiers and Haggerty's departure is a portent and a warning to us. Yes, it displays a seedy kowtowing to interests that could damage the Herald and Times Group. This in itself shows us how weak Scottish journalism is in standing up to institutional power. This weakness could be said to be a reliance on advertising revenues which, if withheld, could bring severe financial strain to the Herald stable. If so, it is a sad state to be in but it underscores the claims of those who aver our press in Scotland is compromised and hogtied. However, the problem with what happened to Spiers and Haggerty is that it will throw petrol on the fire in terms of the Old Firm divide that blights our society. Celtic fans will see the issue as proof of a pro-Rangers bias in the media while Rangers supporters will crow that two of the club's nemeses have been dealt bloody noses '" fitting recompense for their anti-Rangers prejudice. As I said, there is some truth in this. Both journos are clearly bitter about their own experiences with Rangers and the club's support. Those experiences have included being the subject of vicious trolling and unacceptable levels of abuse, of that there is no doubt. However, both give as good as they get in exchanges. The Spiers/Haggerty matter should concern us because it provides an insight into the real problem facing us in Scotland. That problem is we are consumed with petty hates and narrow-minded ideologies, with an us v them mindset and 'them' are subhuman scum to be abused relentlessly on our Twitter feeds and elsewhere. Whether it's Unionists v nationalists, kafflicks v proddies or Edinburgh v Glasgow, we are more tribal than ever in our thinking. Actually, thinking is not involved much if we are being honest. There are plenty of 'others' to hate. Plenty of Orange bastards and fenian bastards. Let's not forget Muslims '" that's a trending hate right there. Just pick a side and vent your hate. Open a Twitter or Facebook account and let your inner abuser release his/her spite and bile for all the world to see. You can hope the object of your hate dies, gets cancer and is raped to your heart's content. You can revel in the misfortunes of others and get the warm glow that comes from aporoval by your fellow tribe members. That, sadly, is the Scotland we live in. A country riven by tribalism and whose people are polarised by yet curiously bound together by hate. Sadder still is that often our attempts to eradicate hate involve trying to get the specks out of our enemies' eyes while ignoring the beams in our own. Hate springs from fear, of course, and so we must rid ourselves of both. If we only realised that there is nothing we should hate as much as hate itself. We are not defeated or bound by our enemies but by the fear and hate we feel toward our enemies. Our need for someone to hate says more about us than those we hate. The Spiers/Haggerty debacle serves to highlight and perpetuate the hate culture in Scotland, fuelling those on both sides of our polarised community. Whether or not you think what happened to the Herald Two was a gross travesty or just desserts, one thing is certain '" if you could harness the hate generated by those on either side of the argument towards the other and use it as an energy source, we wouldn't need all those wind farms. Rather than looking for an enemy to hate, we should see hate itself as the enemy. Tragically, our politicians have failed to take the lead in this and in fact have been a huge part of the problem. They have told us who to hate rather than not to hate. We are in danger of being consumed by pettiness, spite and hatred. We define ourselves by those we hold in contempt and disdain. What a bitter wee country we have become. Our once delightful country has become the land of despite, where common courtesy and respect are increasingly rare. These basic elements of human decency would be like water on a parched ground but the standard must always be way higher and deeper than mere manners. We must learn to love our enemies. This may seem wildly fantastic but it is still the required standard that we must adhere to and that we must instil in our children. After all, if we are going to seek utopia, we might as well do it right and not accept a bogus version founded on hate. There are plenty bigoted versions of utopia which are based on a Scotland cleansed of the hated 'others' a Scotland where there are no more Protestants, fenians, Muslims etc. Why not aim for a Scotland where there is no more hate? Those who scoff at this should ask themselves one thing: Is our propensity to hate the real reason Scotland is known as the sick man of Europe? If so, imagine what could happen if we had the propensity to love. Perfect love casts out fear. 1JOHN 4:18 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OlegKuznetsov 10,816 Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 I hope this serves as a lesson for those who would put hatred and bias before truth and their own careers. That said, both of them have built their careers upon this hatred, so it's nice to see both of them hoist upon their own petards. In essence, they have become journalistic suicide bombers. The fundamentalists will now glorify them as martyrs, but their "martyrdom" will serve as a warning to those who were otherwise willing to join their propaganda jihad. gmcf and Bears r us 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
markem 7,326 Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 13 hours ago, sandyinroyalblue said: Just seen this one on twitter. Walter Smith legend This is how journalists should be handled... Courtyard Bear, TheBluebells, Blumhoilann and 1 other 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
centenarystand 2,229 Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 6 minutes ago, Virtuoso said: McMurdo shows his true colours today. Fucking weasel. Said many times on here when we turned the corner and things started to look up he didnt have much to say. He's only interested in doom and gloom topics concerning Rangers. That piece is a fucking disgrace. Since the millennium some in the media have upped their game, constantly chipping away trying to harm the club and it aint jolly banter. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmcf 34,666 Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 12 minutes ago, Virtuoso said: McMurdo shows his true colours today. Fucking weasel. Yeah there is a lot of hate , and its fuelled by the likes of the hag and speirs who are given the biggest platform available , the national press , and abuse it to air their own prejudices . Some people don't deserve the platform they were given . OlegKuznetsov 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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